My biggest fear, I have no confidence in him, he is out of his league, sure hope I am wrong
Sudbury Wolves 2023-24 Season Thread (Part 3)
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Forget Poitras, he's in Boston. If they did miraculously send him back, Guelph becomes a buyer.
An OA upgrade can be made up until Tuesday and there are conversations happening around upgrades.
I'm not the biggest Papineau fan, but I don't think he's out of his league. I just think he's traditionally really liked prospects and players in his own system. Maybe he ends up overvaluing some of his own players at the deadline. I don't think that means that he's out of his league, or he isn't an OHL-caliber GM. I'm not 100% sure that's what your saying here but that's how I took it.
That being said he's put together a pretty good roster with lots of assets that could be delt. Hopefully it works out!
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If a GM makes an error evaluating players and this is a consistent issue, it actually does mean he isn’t a good GM.
I don't think it's been a constant issue. If you're not looking for the best possible return for your players; valuing them extremely high you're not doing your job either. If he sells low on guys what does that make him? Out of his league.
His roster is strong and he has assets. Maybe I'm a product of recency bias, but Walton was a steal in round 2. Coughland and Yearwood have been great cheap additions. and sparked the club last year. I didn't like the Thompson deal at first but then he flipped Holmes a year later and made out looking great!
That would make him GM of the Niagara Ice Dogs.
But seriously, I'm not the biggest fan of Papineau but I think more often then not he's won trades, and outside of this year(07s) draft class, I think the drafts have been quite good.
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I said, “error evaluating players.” That means, overvaluing your own players, undervaluing other teams players, making poor decisions on player value at the draft table Etc.
Valuing players is essentially half of the hockey operations job when it comes down to it. The other half being development.
You need to be objectively able to evaluate. It really does come down to that. It is one of the reasons why poorer franchises stay poor and stronger franchises remain strong. They have quality evaluators, developers and a manager that can disseminate the information and align it into a team.
So, hypothetically speaking, let’s say a GM is having a conversation and he is willing to move, for example, Walton for Beck on a Wednesday. Then over the weekend, Walton scores 7 points and the following week he says, “Well, Walton had a very good weekend so that changes things.” I’m not saying that happened, jsut as an example. If the player has a very good weekend, it should not change the parameters of the discussion UNLESS you didn’t evaluate the player properly to begin with.
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He is not. Currently 5 goals on 16 shots.
Starting netminder let in 2 of the goals on first 3 shots before being pulled for Vondras
The defence looks worst than the Wolves ! He didn’t play a single second and now he’s in for a medal. Not smart not giving him one start in the round robin.
You still have to stop the puck, lateral movement is terrible
What a thrilling moment for Vondras ! He’s coming back with the bronze !!
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Congrats to Vondy! Talk about being thrown into a pressure situation having not played at all this tournament until the Bronze medal game. Should be a nice confidence boost for Vondras
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Happy Vondras comes home with a medal, can only be a positive thing, maybe just maybe we see a turnaround in his game.
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Sudbury Wolves vs Brantford Bulldogs
Winner takes sole possession of 1st place in the Eastern Conference.*Bulldogs head coach is former Wolves player Jay McKee*
Friday, January 5th, 2024
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Wolves are on a 4-game point streak and sit tied in 1st place with the Brantford Bulldogs.
Bulldogs are on a 2-game losing streak and sit tied in 1st place with the Sudbury Wolves.
Starting Goalies:
Sudbury - Vandenberg
Brantford - Drobac
| Sudbury 0 @ Brantford 4 (2023-11-11) |
| Brantford 2 @ Sudbury 6 (2023-09-29) |
Notables not dressed:
Sudbury:
Jakub Vondras (WJC) (Bronze Medal Winner)
Dalibor Dvorsky (WJC)
Brantford:
Tomas Hamara (WJC) (Bronze Medal Winner)
Officials:
| Referee I: Andrew Willmetts (2) |
| Referee II: Lacey Senuk (39) |
| LINESMEN I: Ryan Card (83) |
| LINESMEN II: Marco Lizotte (49) |
| Brantford Bulldogs | Sudbury Wolves | |
|---|---|---|
| 17-11-6-1 | Season Record | 18-11-3-2 |
| 5-3-2-0 | Last 10 Games | 5-1-2-2 |
| 0-2-0-0 | Streak | 2-0-0-0 |
| 4-2 L @ North Bay (2024-01-04) Final | Last Game | 5-1 W @ Sault Ste. Marie (2023-12-30) Final |
| 10-4-0-1 | Home Record | 11-4-1-0 |
| 7-7-6-0 | Away Record | 7-7-2-2 |
| 130 | Goals For | 153 |
| 134 | Goals Against | 122 |
| 20/136 (14.71%) | Power Play | 29/156 (18.59%) |
| 11/69 (15.94%) | Power Play - Home | 13/75 (17.33%) |
| 9/67 (13.43%) | Power Play - Away | 16/81 (19.75%) |
| 25/119 (78.99%) | Penalty Killing | 34/149 (77.18%) |
| 10/49 (79.59%) | Penalty Kill - Home | 12/58 (79.31%) |
| 15/70 (78.57%) | Penalty Kill - Away | 22/91 (75.82%) |
| Jake O'Brien (5-23-28) | Leading Rookie | Owen Protz (1-6-7) |
| Noah Roberts (41) | Most Penalty Minutes | Landon McCallum (43) |
| 11.4/35 | Team PIM/GM | 13.4/34 |
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Luv these game preview summaries. Thanks
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Not sure what was wrong about what I said? When I posted, he had let in 5 goals on 16 shots and were down 5-2 at the time.
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In his defense, he did shut the door the rest of the way and his team stormed back to win 8-5.
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