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Post by Penguins23® on Mar 22, 2015 9:03:31 GMT -4
So I'm hearing it's still possible for the Cats to start at home. Thursday/Sunday type of deal. That wouldn't be too bad. I'd imagine Irving would have to throw a few bucks Chicoutimi's way for the extra travel expenses. Should have that figured out by today I would assume. I'm not at all upset that Moncton finished 2nd instead of 1st. Gatineau is hot as hell and they dominated us a few weeks ago after we took a 2-0 lead. If they manage a first round upset then Rimouski will have the privilege of playing them. Chicoutimi isn't a terrible first round matchup. They beat us 3-1 in September. Can't put much stock in that one. Box score here.The most recent meeting was in February in Chicoutimi. Chicoutimi scored 2 late goals but the comeback fell short and Taylor Burke's empty netter ended up being the game winner in a 4-3 win. Box score hereChicoutimi is a team that has under achieved all season, I think people expected them to finish higher but they just couldn't get it going. They're playing .500 hockey in their last 10 games. Home record: 17-13-2-2 Away record: 12-19-2-1 They were 21-8-1-1 when scoring first while Moncton was 27-7-0-2. Their PP(18.6%) and PK(76.4%) each ranked 14th in the league. Their leading scorer is Laurent Dauphin, a second round pick of the Arizona Coyotes. Their starting goaltender is 18 year old Julio Billia(Just turned 19 last week).He has a .897 save percentage and a 3.21 goals against average this season. Former Wildcat Reid Halabi is on the team. He lead the league in penalty minutes with 181. I'll wait for the schedule to make a prediction but overall, I'm not too worried about this series. EDIT: Here is the schedule for the series **All Times Atlantic Time** Game 1 - Thursday March 26th 6pm Chicoutimi @ Moncton Game 2 - Sunday March 29th 8pm Chicoutimi @ Moncton Game 3 - Wednesday April 1st 8pm Moncton @ Chicoutimi Game 4 - Thursday April 2nd 8pm Moncton @ Chicoutimi Game 5 - Saturday April 4th 3pm Moncton @ Chicoutimi** Game 6 - Monday April 6th 7pm Chicoutimi @ Moncton** Game 7 - Tuesday April 7th 7pm Chicoutimi @ Moncton** ** If Necessary
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Post by lirette on Mar 22, 2015 9:36:06 GMT -4
Just to comment on Steve's post from the other thread. Yannick Jean doesn't scare me so much where we have Rumble at the helm. He's shown that hes always willing to adapt and change the game plan on the fly , something Flynn just couldn't seem to do against Jeans Tigres 2 years ago when he shadowed Jaskin and played a defenseman behind the net for the dump in. Flynn wasn't entirely to blame on that series but it was frustrating to watch the Cats dump the puck in over and over that series only to have the Victo defenseman take the puck back up the ice
The Cats aren't a dump and chase kind of team anymore. They generally have pretty good success carrying the puck in with Garland/Barbashev and our puck carrying defenseman Sweeney/Tassi/Malatesta/Johnston and even to a lesser extent lately Holwells had good success with it.
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Post by Arnold Slick on Mar 22, 2015 10:40:06 GMT -4
While the Sags didn't have a very good season, they actually did have a winning record outside of their division.
I was reading on the Quebec board that they expect to have Ranger and Paquin-Boudreau back in the line-up for this series. Considering the latter has played all of 7 games this season I'm not sure how effective he'll be.
I don't expect this to be an easy series at all, but as long as Dubeau is ready to go I like our chances. If for some reason he's not...then I don't like those chances so much.
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Post by Penguins23® on Mar 23, 2015 6:32:32 GMT -4
Updated the original post with the schedule.
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Post by catzfan on Mar 23, 2015 9:04:55 GMT -4
How are they going to play Sunday at 7, when the boat show only ends at 5?
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Post by lirette on Mar 23, 2015 9:07:30 GMT -4
How are they going to play Sunday at 7, when the boat show only ends at 5? Im guessing the portion that takes up the ice surface/mezzanine may be torn down early.
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Post by Penguins23® on Mar 23, 2015 9:09:33 GMT -4
How are they going to play Sunday at 7, when the boat show only ends at 5? I'm a bit surprised by the 7 o'clock start time as well. I was expecting a 8PM start time to give 'em an extra hour of preparation. I was also expecting a 6PM puck drop on Thursday like a few years ago but apparently that's not the case.
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Post by Arnold Slick on Mar 23, 2015 11:45:55 GMT -4
I expect the ice to be pretty "stellar" Sunday.
Also if it goes to OT on Thursday they'll have to play around the boats as they set up. Advantage Cats as it will give Garland some extra decoys to manoeuvre around.
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Post by Penguins23® on Mar 23, 2015 12:37:15 GMT -4
I expect the ice to be pretty "stellar" Sunday. Also if it goes to OT on Thursday they'll have to play around the boats as they set up. Advantage Cats as it will give Garland some extra decoys to manoeuvre around. The Wildcats just tweeted that so maybe they'll start even later than 7 or Irving is pulling out the cheque book to try and get a 4PM start. We'll see. #WhateverItTakes
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 13:43:19 GMT -4
I expect the ice to be pretty "stellar" Sunday. Also if it goes to OT on Thursday they'll have to play around the boats as they set up. Advantage Cats as it will give Garland some extra decoys to manoeuvre around. The Wildcats just tweeted that so maybe they'll start even later than 7 or Irving is pulling out the cheque book to try and get a 4PM start. We'll see. #WhateverItTakes WrestleMania is Sunday night. Can't have a game Sunday night at 7. The boys will want to be home to watch the biggest event in sports entertainment!!!!!
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Post by Penguins23® on Mar 23, 2015 13:47:49 GMT -4
The Wildcats just tweeted that so maybe they'll start even later than 7 or Irving is pulling out the cheque book to try and get a 4PM start. We'll see. #WhateverItTakes WrestleMania is Sunday night. Can't have a game Sunday night at 7. The boys will want to be home to watch the biggest event in sports entertainment!!!!! They can PVR it just like any other soap opera.
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Post by catnut on Mar 23, 2015 17:12:48 GMT -4
How are they going to play Sunday at 7, when the boat show only ends at 5? I'm a bit surprised by the 7 o'clock start time as well. I was expecting a 8PM start time to give 'em an extra hour of preparation. I was also expecting a 6PM puck drop on Thursday like a few years ago but apparently that's not the case. Well, your expectations were correct. Thursday game start at 6:00 PM Sunday game start at 8:00 PM I hope Thursday's game goes into triple overtime (Cats win of course), just to mess with the Coliseum.
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Post by Arnold Slick on Mar 23, 2015 19:01:08 GMT -4
Might as well have just started on the road.
Would have gotten better crowds for 7 PM starts next Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday than this. Heck there was 4,200+ for Game 4 against BB last year.
Likely looking at sub-3,000 crowds for both games now.
Sad.
I hope no one gets hurt because of the terrible ice Sunday...
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Post by Penguins23® on Mar 23, 2015 20:12:34 GMT -4
I'm a bit surprised by the 7 o'clock start time as well. I was expecting a 8PM start time to give 'em an extra hour of preparation. I was also expecting a 6PM puck drop on Thursday like a few years ago but apparently that's not the case. Well, your expectations were correct. Thursday game start at 6:00 PM Sunday game start at 8:00 PM I hope Thursday's game goes into triple overtime (Cats win of course), just to mess with the Coliseum. Now I feel bad. The Wildcats likely didn't think of this until they read my post. Do you know what's worse than at 6PM start time on a Thursday? When you advertise the start time as 7PM on social media with a great big nice looking picture.
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Post by lirette on Mar 23, 2015 20:15:09 GMT -4
Well, your expectations were correct. Thursday game start at 6:00 PM Sunday game start at 8:00 PM I hope Thursday's game goes into triple overtime (Cats win of course), just to mess with the Coliseum. Now I feel bad. The Wildcats likely didn't think of this until they read my post. Do you know what's worse than at 6PM start time on a Thursday? When you advertise the start time as 7PM on social media with a great big nice looking picture. Its still the first thing you see on the wildcats website. I'm sure this wont confuse casuals at all, the same fans that typically ask what time the games are at when theyve been at 7pm for 10+ years
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