Did you hear them last night!!! Awful pronouncing of names all night long. Sorry they just weren't good. Maybe last night was a one off. And I'm surely not saying our home crew is any better. But you are able to disagree all you want. Just thought the Guelph crew was more polished.
Yikes!
Isn't that Panwar something else. Now has 18n points in 11 games since the trade to Hamilton. What a deal! Petes never knew what they had.
After the goal he assisted on when skating by the Guelph bench he taunted them. That doesn't go well with DM and he sat the bench the rest. It obviously motivated Guelph to comeback as seen. There was like 10-12 minutes left in the game when he did it. Love his compete level however you just don't do that on the road. You want to lull the opponent to sleep not wake up the sleeping giant. He will learn from it.
The defence on the team let the wolves down, not Bradsard. It is not a goalies job to steal a win, it’s a goalies job to keep his team in the game so the 5 guys in front of him have the opportunity to win it. Can’t blame the goalie because he didn’t bail out the mistakes made by a defence crew out of position. Watch the reply of this game and start putting the blame on where it belongs.
This team is 16th overall with this defence, you expect this team to have a “shot” at winning next year with the same core of players and defence? Throw in the reality that the wolves have no idea about goaltending. That’s a huge pill to swallow.
Optimism does’t win games. No offence meant. Not sure about you, but there is no reason for a player at 18 years old to run out of gas. I know a couple ex athletes on this post and I’m pretty sure they will tell you the same thing. If a person can compete in an iron man race swimming 3 miles, biking 100 miles, and then run a 26 mile marathon, an 18 year old can play 60 minutes of hockey in a weekend if they average 20 minutes of ice a game. The running out of gas line is pretty much just an excuse. You don’t train for 3 periods, you train for 5 or 6. If teams are out of gas, they’re out of shape or the team is playing with a short bench too often. Just my opinion.
The iron man race is equal for all participants. The OHL schedule is not always equal for all teams in any given week.
Larmand in overtime was on the wrong side of the play which allowed the Guelph player to break in alone with Pharand trying to skate across ice to angle him off. On that OT winner there was three mistakes. Mania going into the boards with the puck. He won't win the puck battle. Larmand as I mentioned. And then Brassard not taking the angle away from the player coming down and also not putting his paddle down covering the low part of the ice which I thought was about all the Guelph player could do is slide it in between the pads.
You used a race where all participants are on an equal playing field as reference. The OHL schedule week to week is not equal for all teams; see the record of home teams on Sunday hosting a team in its third game of the week over as many years as you wish.
That overtime goal is hard to stop, especially with a player coming across the crease that way. He had to follow the play and open up to move. If Brassard didn’t do that, the guy would of scored anyway, if he put his stick down, Brassard leaves the top of the net open. 50/50 on a play like that.
Sound a lot like Chicken Little. The sky is not falling. We now know how to play solid D and we can score, now we gotta learn to properly finish and stay disciplined. Not everything happens at once unfortunately, teams evolve by learning thru mistakes. We get healthy and we take 5 or six points this weekend.
Do the wolves know how to play solid D? The wolves are next to last in GA in the conference, and just lost a game in which they had a 3 goal lead with half a period to go.
I understand giving up a 3 goal lead with 1ins left is bad and would lead you to think that our TEAM D is bad; however,I ask you now to look at the past 15 games or so and look hard at the numbers. Shots against/game is way down (25 or less). PK has been a lot better as well. Mistakes happens and sometimes one mistake leads to many more. But there has been massive improvement over a decent sample size. Lots of excuses can and have been made over yesterday’s loss but bottom line we are not winning every game we play: although that is the goal. Things will get better….
Wolf, look at the shot graphic vs goals scored. The shot count has been reduced by seven shots on average. But they are NOT the quality shots. The goals are being scored from the same spots on the ice that goals were scored on against Ranger and Krawchuck. But interestingly, the odd man rushes have not been reduced. The front of the net is a whole other issue. There are still way to many odd man situations in front of the Wolves net. Very little boxing out players.
I think the team in the covid shortened season was also good. But still thatsxwhat two in 15 years
