Thunderbirds 2024-25

[ChicagoBlues]

Ellis is now tied for 1st in AHL in save %.

Between those two, my money was on Ellis. Once he out-played the E and started doing well in the A, my attention shifted from Z to Ellis.

 

[execwrite1]

Peca's goal went down as his seventh game-winning tally, tying him for the AHL lead in that category, while Ellis became the third goaltender in T-Birds history to reach 20 wins in a season, joining Joel Hofer and Charlie Lindgren.

 

[PerryTurnbullfan]

Reasons why adding Addison is an unambiguous good:

• Power play specialist. CA pretty much single-handedly had the bottom-feeder Silver Knights clicking at a 20% pp rate.
• He’s 24 and has ~150 NHL games under his belt.
• He adds balance to the lefty-dominated blue line as a righty, allowing our prospects to play their natural positions.

We want SPR to make the playoffs and do well in them. We want Dvorsky and Stenberg and Robertsson and the rest of them to get that experience, and to play meaningfully competitive games against good competition. We want them to have a fighting chance against teams that are likely to be many years older than them. Addison helps all of that. He is a true PP QB from the blue line, and that’s pretty much all he is. But that’s a good thing to have, and we got him for free.

All I’m saying in general is that what happens in SPR is important, and we should be trying to make them better so that our prospects don’t develop thinking it’s ok to lose a bunch of games as long as they do well. That breeds “me-first” play that is a disease for up-and-coming players. It doesn’t take much to keep that from happening, as this acquisition shows, but it is worth doing it.

Kessell will stay up with the big club the rest of the year after Parayko went down, so they needed a righty D. Hopefully, he isn't a turnover machine. It would be nice to have someone on the PP take the attention away from Dvo's one timer.

 

[MortiestOfMortys]

Kessell will stay up with the big club the rest of the year after Parayko went down, so they needed a righty D. Hopefully, he isn't a turnover machine. It would be nice to have someone on the PP take the attention away from Dvo's one timer.

His +/- over the last two seasons is… concerning. I don’t think he eats up a lot of 5v5 time on this roster. But put the man out there for 12 minutes a game and all the PP he can handle (lol), and I think you can come out in the black.

 

[bleedblue1223]

Dvorsky scored.