Sudbury Wolves 2024-25 Season Thread, Part II

[I Loveallsports]

Impressive! Total gut check, high character, no quit in last 2 periods. With QM#27 out this team took over the last two periods. Somehow this loss feels like a win. If you weren’t convinced before tonight’s game, Chucky has arrived!!
Oshawa Announcers are very good but their so called elite top 6 were no where to be found in last 2 periods. Total Homers. At least NB announcers would acknowledge the work ethic and heart of the Wolves players.
If Oster wasn’t in net, we win this game hands down..

That's facts



To be quite honest, I had them on mute a little into the 1st period

 

[Lycanthrope]

Impressive! Total gut check, high character, no quit in last 2 periods. With QM#27 out this team took over the last two periods. Somehow this loss feels like a win. If you weren’t convinced before tonight’s game, Chucky has arrived!!
Oshawa Announcers are very good but their so called elite top 6 were no where to be found in last 2 periods. Total Homers. At least NB announcers would acknowledge the work ethic and heart of the Wolves players.
If Oster wasn’t in net, we win this game hands down..

Nuff said ! I’m sure they saw it.

 

[Fergus31]

 

[I Loveallsports]

My goodness!

Life is so unpredictable

 

[djscooter]

Kudos to Papineau for not moving him, he'll surely get great value now.

The bright side(or dark depending how you look at it), this offence without Musty and Molnar for the long term might end up out of the playoffs which would be good for the draft picks.

 

[NorthernBridge7]

Very unfortunate news

The rebuild is officially on - on the bright side, I always like to see what players can step up and take advantage of an increased role on the team. Lots of room for players like Henderson, Chitaroni, Dean, etc. to play an increased role. I'd really like to see Dean get consistent top 9 minutes - I see a good player there

 

[frontsfan67]

Wolves should’ve traded him after all. Wonder if he comes back the same with the broken hand- could mess up shooting etc?

Kudos to Papineau for not moving him, he'll surely get great value now.

The bright side(or dark depending how you look at it), this offence without Musty and Molnar for the long term might end up out of the playoffs which would be good for the draft picks.

I still can’t see North Bay or Peterborough finishing above you guys even without musty and molnar

 

[djscooter]

Wolves should’ve traded him after all. Wonder if he comes back the same with the broken hand- could mess up shooting etc?


I still can’t see North Bay or Peterborough finishing above you guys even without musty and molnar

Petes will definitely be behind, but I could see North Bay catching Sudbury. Who is scoring goals for the wolves with those two out? After Walton, you've got Pharand who has only scored goals in 5 games this year and Coughland who started the year on fire but has not scored since October. Offence is going to be tough to come by.

On defence McCoy is going to eventually burnout if they keep playing him at his current rate, DeAngelis has already started to show some signs of burning out. Playoffs or not will come down to Krawchuk and Marshall, finishing 6-7-8th is all the same because I think this team will struggle to steal a single game off of Kingston/Barrie/Oshawa, especially with the assumption the wolves sell off at the deadline.

The best part about this though is the young guys getting more ice time, let's see what Dean/Henderson/Clayton/Chitaroni can do.

 

[I Loveallsports]

 

[dirty12]

Wolves should’ve traded him after all. Wonder if he comes back the same with the broken hand- could mess up shooting etc?


I still can’t see North Bay or Peterborough finishing above you guys even without musty and molnar

Yeah, may have struck out looking. I've seen too many players not return nearly the same in the season of broken finger(s), hand, wrist to be willing to make a big offer for Musty without a lot of conditions now. Problem is not many teams that would be interested could afford to tie up conditional picks.

 

[frontsfan67]

Petes will definitely be behind, but I could see North Bay catching Sudbury. Who is scoring goals for the wolves with those two out? After Walton, you've got Pharand who has only scored goals in 5 games this year and Coughland who started the year on fire but has not scored since October. Offence is going to be tough to come by.

I predict Villeneuve and Walton really pick up the scoring with musty out and more added responsibility. It’s inevitable they were going to have to after the deadline anyways. Now Sudbury may as well just trade musty now since he won’t be healthy then and with so many questions about how his health will be after along with still his attitude problems- if someone dangles a high pick 17 year old like Hopkins or a 16 year old FRP that gm needs to be fired.

Probably a mainly picks trade now for musty with lots of conditionals regarding health and production.

The best part about this though is the young guys getting more ice time, let's see what Dean/Henderson/Clayton/Chitaroni can do.

Chitaroni is solid from what I’ve seen and I’ve heard Henderson has been bringing it lately. May be a blessing in disguise for one of those guys with musty out they get more responsibility.