Did I miss something ... or just the usual?I feel embarrassed for these players right now
The usual.Did I miss something ... or just the usual?
Is your company hiring?Well, heading into the last week of the season... Wolves still have an outside chance of claim 1st in the conference... with a little help from our friends.
Games Remaining:
Oshawa - 2 - Kitchener & Sudbury
Mississauga - 2 - Niagara & North Bay
North Bay - 3 - Barrie, Mississauga & Peterborough
Brantford - 3 - Niagara, Kingston & Ottawa
Sudbury - 3 - Barrie, Niagara & Oshawa
Ottawa - 3 - Peterborough, Kingston & Brantford
What Needs to Happen:
Oshawa - L & L
Mississauga - L-W
North Bay - L - L - W
Brantford - W - L - L
Sudbury - W - W - W
Ottawa - W - W - W (only the last game really matters)
Standings Afterwards:
Sudbury
Oshawa
Mississauga
Ottawa
North Bay
Brantford
My Thoughts:
If I made any mistakes, please let me know. I'm doing this at work on post-it notes.
All three games are huge for Sudbury, however the last game of the season is by far the biggest. Thankfully, it could mean nothing by puck drop if the Wolves lose to Barrie and/or Niagara or Oshawa beats Kitchener, or North Bay beat Barrie and Mississauga, etc...
Basically, a lot of wishing and hoping on other teams to lose/win.
Of course, this could all have been avoided if the Wolves played to their potential, but they didn't and we're here now.
Let's hope for the best in the last week! Konyen is back on the 22nd. However, Coughlan is likely to be suspended until playoffs.
LOL, technically it was my lunch break.Is your company hiring?
We'll have a good idea by puck drop on Friday.So Niagara might decide
Thanks for doing that. I was looking at each teams remaining games, but then all the combinations and permutations were making my head hurt, so I gave up.LOL, technically it was my lunch break.
UPL was UPL bfore he got here and was drafted before coming here. The last time a goalie the wolves drafted themselves to the OHL and drafted to the NHL was in 2005 with Kevin Beech i believe. They had long time local Bruce McDougall working with them when happened. He was with them for a bunch of years in the 90s and 2000sit can be both, to be fair, who was the last goalie that papineau drafted and developed? upl was parachuted in, but they cant draft ontario guys if their life depended on it.
Some of the blame can be placed on the coaches for not getting the players to play a 200’ game. Some of the blame should most certainly be put on some of the forwards. Most of the blame is on the GM imo.It's coaching and nothing else, as far as I'm concerned. When the same problems exist on every single player on the roster, including 7 NHL draft picks, 2 2024 prospects, and another 7 who were at NHL camps, I don't think the problem is in the players.
I think a lot of the blame can be put on the coaches and Papineau equally. Like a lot of others, I believe we have the wrong staff but it is what it is, can't do anything about it now but my question is, was Kenny and Papineau on the same page come deadline time? Did the staff voice their needs to the GM? Those are questions we will never know.Some of the blame can be placed on the coaches for not getting the players to play a 200’ game. Some of the blame should most certainly be put on some of the forwards. Most of the blame is on the GM imo.
It was Papineau that decided defense was not important enough to select a D until round four for four consecutive drafts. He could just acquire #1, #2, #4 D. It was Papineau that passed on the oppurtunity to select any goalie the wolves deemed best in ‘22 to select Walton. He could just bring in an import that had no experience in NA rinks and as good a 19 yr old BUG one could expect.
Papineau brought in 9-10 new players to insert at every position this season with 5-6 of those expected to play critical roles. Leadership roles and chemistry would not be an issue.
i get that, whens the last time that sudbury drafted an nhl quality goaltender and developed him in house? why do others seem to do it more often, owen sound has had like 4 in that time period.UPL was UPL bfore he got here and was drafted before coming here. The last time a goalie the wolves drafted themselves to the OHL and drafted to the NHL was in 2005 with Kevin Beech i believe. They had long time local Bruce McDougall working with them when happened. He was with them for a bunch of years in the 90s and 2000s
Not bringing Giroux home was not a real option, and you know it. Otherwise the skaters and goalies are 100% on Papineau.I think a lot of the blame can be put on the coaches and Papineau equally. Like a lot of others, I believe we have the wrong staff but it is what it is, can't do anything about it now but my question is, was Kenny and Papineau on the same page come deadline time? Did the staff voice their needs to the GM? Those are questions we will never know.
Your comment about picking a goalie, they picked Gaulton, he was probably a stretch but a goalie run started early that draft year and they had to jump on a goalie. He may have not been the right pick but like a lot of other players/picks we have, what have we done to help them improve and become OHLers or better OHLers?
I wish Papineau went after the proper D for a run, I still think keeping an OA in Toure wouldve been the smarter move than adding Giroux as we look had enough offence.
I wish it would be easy and we just somehow learn to win low scoring games and play shut down defence for playoffs like the 07 run but I don't think we have the ability to do it with how we are constructed and with how undisciplined our forwards have been all year in our own end, I don't know if it is possible. In O7 we lucked out and had a 3 headed monster in Staal, D'Aversa and McQuiad which helped cover many mistakes as 1 of the 3 were always on the ice at all times during that run but I don't see that with this team, we'll probably have to take our chances as a run and gun and pray we get a few saves and give up less bad goals
Keeping Toure was not an option. Upgrading the OA D made sense as Mayer and Punnett went cheaper than Van Vliet and both players would have gladly came here.Kenny was not on board with Papineau at the trade deadline. He was well aware of the goal tending issues and was expecting a major upgrade at any cost. Giroux was not the answer having to move Toure to make room. Moving Vondras and freeing up a 19 yr old import spot made the most sense hense keeping Toure. Papineau has always been the the laughing stock at the Gm meetings and we can now see why.