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Post by Slap Shooter on Nov 29, 2018 20:22:03 GMT -4
Would be nice to have a little better coach as well. I don't think Dixon is helping things here. I agree! I wanted to give him a chance but he has proven not to be able to get the most out of this team. Our record last season should have been much better before the Christmas trade then it was. After the deadline I understand why we were bad but the start of this season we have vets and Euros under performing. |
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Post by ysj28 on Nov 30, 2018 8:53:24 GMT -4
Would be nice to have a little better coach as well. I don't think Dixon is helping things here. I agree! I wanted to give him a chance but he has proven not to be able to get the most out of this team. Our record last season should have been much better before the Christmas trade then it was. After the deadline I understand why we were bad but the start of this season we have vets and Euros under performing. I can't see them making a coaching change mid season - unless, of course, there is a coach out there that is willing to jump on board for half a year with no guarantee after that - not ideal. The great Mario Durocher is already taken so there goes that idea  |
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Post by Slap Shooter on Nov 30, 2018 9:57:11 GMT -4
I agree! I wanted to give him a chance but he has proven not to be able to get the most out of this team. Our record last season should have been much better before the Christmas trade then it was. After the deadline I understand why we were bad but the start of this season we have vets and Euros under performing. I can't see them making a coaching change mid season - unless, of course, there is a coach out there that is willing to jump on board for half a year with no guarantee after that - not ideal. The great Mario Durocher is already taken so there goes that idea You are probably right about them changing the coach mid season. I have no idea if Dixon is a good coach or not. The only thing that I have to go on is the play on the ice and the teams record since Dixon took over and neither have been good. |
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Post by yoyomamajoe on Nov 30, 2018 15:05:27 GMT -4
I can't see them making a coaching change mid season - unless, of course, there is a coach out there that is willing to jump on board for half a year with no guarantee after that - not ideal. The great Mario Durocher is already taken so there goes that idea You are probably right about them changing the coach mid season. I have no idea if Dixon is a good coach or not. The only thing that I have to go on is the play on the ice and the teams record since Dixon took over and neither have been good. My issue is, yes, the team is very young and, yes, there isn't much veteran support but the boys were playing relatively better at the beginning of the season than now. That could be because a most of the teams were missing their best players or needed to get used to new players and have improved over the season, but that should, relatively, go for the Sea Dogs too. Unfortunately I don't see progression, I see regression. To me, this comes down on the coach. The only positive I've seen is the powerplay has improved from the beginning of the season. |
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Post by Slap Shooter on Nov 30, 2018 15:33:25 GMT -4
As per Campbellton Tigers twitter
Signing Announcement! The Tigers have signed Forward Dawson Stairs for the rest of the 2018-2019 Season. Stairs is a Top Prospect for the Saint John Sea Dogs. Stairs had 45 Points in 30 games at the Selects Hockey Academy in New Hampshire. (1/2) @themhl @jrnightcanada @sjseadogs
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Post by Jack Bauer on Nov 30, 2018 15:53:21 GMT -4
You are probably right about them changing the coach mid season. I have no idea if Dixon is a good coach or not. The only thing that I have to go on is the play on the ice and the teams record since Dixon took over and neither have been good. My issue is, yes, the team is very young and, yes, there isn't much veteran support but the boys were playing relatively better at the beginning of the season than now. That could be because a most of the teams were missing their best players or needed to get used to new players and have improved over the season, but that should, relatively, go for the Sea Dogs too. Unfortunately I don't see progression, I see regression. To me, this comes down on the coach. The only positive I've seen is the powerplay has improved from the beginning of the season. You have very few veterans with experience. Your 16yr olds will improve but not like the 18/19yr olds on the other teams. It makes perfect sense that you'd look better while everyone else missed key talent and regressed when they all returned to everyone else. You can't dress the max 16yr olds and 2 17yr old imports and expect anything but disaster for the season unless the other 15 or so players are league veterans who can lead the way. Outside of your goaltender you have an overager with 26 games of Q experience all from this season after barely playing last season, a depth guy in Boucher, and not much else in terms of experienced vets. What you are seeing is the price of going all in 2 years ago and going into that 2nd half+playoffs with virtually no returning players. Scotty Bowman or Mike Babcock could be coaching your team and they'd still be having an awful time finding consistency with so much youth and inexperience combined with average vets. |
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Post by aspookyghost on Nov 30, 2018 16:07:45 GMT -4
Cajkovic benched again? How many games in a row has it been. 4-5? That's seems excessive. I'm concerned he will have enough and leave the team.
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Post by toddhgrinder on Nov 30, 2018 16:29:39 GMT -4
Cajkovic benched again? How many games in a row has it been. 4-5? That's seems excessive. I'm concerned he will have enough and leave the team. 2 games. He's back tonight according to Facebook. |
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Post by Slap Shooter on Nov 30, 2018 21:55:54 GMT -4
Big come from behind win for the boys. They needed that! Good game for Burt, nice to see him step up!
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Post by juliansteed on Nov 30, 2018 22:29:08 GMT -4
The vets definitely stepped up and were the best players tonight. That was the best I've seen from Burt and Campoli.
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Post by Citris on Dec 2, 2018 2:38:03 GMT -4
You can't dress the max 16yr olds and 2 17yr old imports and expect anything but disaster for the season unless the other 15 or so players are league veterans who can lead the way.Outside of your goaltender you have an overager with 26 games of Q experience all from this season after barely playing last season, a depth guy in Boucher, and not much else in terms of experienced vets. What you are seeing is the price of going all in 2 years ago and going into that 2nd half+playoffs with virtually no returning players. Scotty Bowman or Mike Babcock could be coaching your team and they'd still be having an awful time finding consistency with so much youth and inexperience combined with average vets. It's even worse than that. The forwards are - 2 16 year old rookies 3 17 year old rookies including 2 imports 2 17 year old sophomores with only a half season of Q experience 2 18 year old rando jr A players from ontario you basically have Plamondon who is coming into his own at 18, Burt and Poirier who are decent depth scorers, and Deakin-Poot who is more of a plug at 19... then Boucher. The defense is somehow more of a shitshow 3 16 year old rookies 1 17 year old sophomore with only a half season of experience 1 17 year old cast-off 1 decent 18 year old who may be coming into his own and as you mentioned, 1 20 year old "vet" with no experience at the Major Junior level This team is going to finish with a worse record than Moncton from a few years back.... that's not good for public perception of the franchise. |
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Post by Slap Shooter on Dec 2, 2018 10:44:37 GMT -4
I can understand dressing this lineup every night if we were tanking it and hoping to get one of the top picks in the upcoming draft but Val Dor has that pick.
Hopefully all this losing builds character the same way that it did on route to the other championship teams.
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Post by j3e4 on Dec 2, 2018 21:01:31 GMT -4
I can understand dressing this lineup every night if we were tanking it and hoping to get one of the top picks in the upcoming draft but Val Dor has that pick. Hopefully all this losing builds character the same way that it did on route to the other championship teams. We still have the import pick that it looks like we'll be using as well as the US draft, so at least there's that. |
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Post by Jack Bauer on Dec 3, 2018 10:31:35 GMT -4
I can understand dressing this lineup every night if we were tanking it and hoping to get one of the top picks in the upcoming draft but Val Dor has that pick. Hopefully all this losing builds character the same way that it did on route to the other championship teams. We still have the import pick that it looks like we'll be using as well as the US draft, so at least there's that. The US draft is a gimmick. There's no value in that. If you actually had a high profile American lined up you'd pick them in the midget draft. |
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Post by Jack Bauer on Dec 3, 2018 10:37:09 GMT -4
You can't dress the max 16yr olds and 2 17yr old imports and expect anything but disaster for the season unless the other 15 or so players are league veterans who can lead the way.Outside of your goaltender you have an overager with 26 games of Q experience all from this season after barely playing last season, a depth guy in Boucher, and not much else in terms of experienced vets. What you are seeing is the price of going all in 2 years ago and going into that 2nd half+playoffs with virtually no returning players. Scotty Bowman or Mike Babcock could be coaching your team and they'd still be having an awful time finding consistency with so much youth and inexperience combined with average vets. It's even worse than that. The forwards are - 2 16 year old rookies 3 17 year old rookies including 2 imports 2 17 year old sophomores with only a half season of Q experience 2 18 year old rando jr A players from ontario you basically have Plamondon who is coming into his own at 18, Burt and Poirier who are decent depth scorers, and Deakin-Poot who is more of a plug at 19... then Boucher. The defense is somehow more of a shitshow 3 16 year old rookies 1 17 year old sophomore with only a half season of experience 1 17 year old cast-off 1 decent 18 year old who may be coming into his own and as you mentioned, 1 20 year old "vet" with no experience at the Major Junior level This team is going to finish with a worse record than Moncton from a few years back.... that's not good for public perception of the franchise. What I was meaning was that they went into the season with those intentions. Injuries and other tournaments have caused a shuffling of some bodies. Part of what we're seeing is a dried up FA market and the fact that if you go all in and don't find a way to bring in the right vets then you risk a scenario where youth is left to learn the ropes with little experience to help get them through making the task feel a little tougher to them. And having no 1st means trading other picks to fix the current problem in the short term likely isn't a smart decision as you're still going to finish near the bottom. This team has followed this method since day 1...pick high, develop, go all in...start over. The 2 years or so where the high end picks are matured and winning should offset any hard feelings left from the rebuild. Hard to argue with their method when it's been working for them. |
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