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Post by canucklehead on Feb 9, 2008 8:55:31 GMT -4
No need to take a chill pill because the team isn't playing good hockey right now and some people are just recognizing it. The sad part is when ya can't admit they aren't playing like a #9 team the PK has been brutal 3 more goals tonight. I'm not saying they suck never said that at all but I do call a spade a spade and right now they are not playing like they are capable of. They have blown leads and had to hang on against Victoriaville, Moncton, Drummondville, and Val D'or and tonight they got their asses handed to them by a sub .500 team. These are the teams we should not have any trouble with. I'm also not saying games like tonight don't happen cuz they do but it goes beyond tonight I just choose to not wear my rose coloured glasses everyday and the realize our PK is killing us. I'm beginning to wonder if Mayer is losing confidence and this is causing the team to have less confidence as well cuz it seems like they play better when Fullerton is in net. I'm sure Mayer will be fine but he really needs to have a couple big games to get that confidence back because we all know he can play there is no question about it. im not sure anyone else finds this funny but now that gallant unit is gone your our next closest thing to chsb that we have as for you calling a spade a spade (lol) youve made 6 post in this thread 2 about the goaltending 2 about the ref 1 about there legs and 1 about fantasy seems to me like always your rose color glasses are as tight as the game before bottom line we got outplayed we deserved to lose and we did time to move on and learn from this game Yeah your the most intelligent puckbunny wanna be out there MORON! Everytime you post something it's a negative towards me how bout pissing off and getting off my back because you don't like shit I say! |
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Post by Judas In My Mind on Feb 9, 2008 9:28:59 GMT -4
I can't understand why JB has done nothing to change the powerplay. It has been brutal as of late. Personally i feel that Dido is being wasted on the powerplay. He should be playing down low on the powerplays, where he is in his element, and because of the vision he has he will find the open man 9 times out of ten. I was talking to some people who have seen Dido play in the GTHL and they totally agree. Hope this can find its way to JB and maybe he goes back to using him down low like he did the beginning of last year. Like to know what you people think of this. I completely agree with this. Great post IMO. I often wonder about Dido on the point at our games, to the point of screaming during the PP at times. He is our best player. You need your best player in a position to make good things happen for your hockey team. Dido on the point doesn't do that. He pretty much will not shoot from back there. He's content to just feed it to Grant for a one timer, or feed it into the corner, which makes us rely on another forward to make something happen. Dido never seems to even fake a shot from the point to try and get the man on him to go down to block, then skate around him. I doubt a shot fake would work anyway, because everyone knows he does not shoot from there. JB knows more about hockey than I do for sure, so he must have a good reason/theory for having Dido back there. From my view though the only reason I can see so far is that he has Dido playing the point so he can get back and play D when Grant gets caught pinching or has his shot/pass blocked and the opposing team goes the other way. Several times this year Dido has been the last man back on D while Grant and co. tried to play catch up. Dido needs to be down low where he can make something happen. Skate out from the corner and put the puck in the net, or make a defender come after him so he can feed a pass to another open forward for a scoring chance. |
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Post by Judas In My Mind on Feb 9, 2008 9:41:52 GMT -4
I said in December wait until this road trip and see what happens. Nice to see the only comebacks are childish outburst. Talk to me Monday, I hope I am wrong. Netminder still up for grabs. I won't be replying in a childish manner (for once) but Springer you can't really say the "top guns" are all played out. This was our first game on this road trip. We hadn't played since Sunday in Moncton. No way they should have been tired for this game, unless that flu is still going around the room. We always struggle on these Quebec road trips. Rightly or wrongly, it's true. I don't care where we are in the standings, or who we play. If it's in the province of Quebec I expect our boys to have a tough time of it. (see back to that Quebec, Chicoutimi, Baie Comeau trip already this year). Like someone else said, every team plays their top guys a lot. Look at a Pare in Chicoutimi. Ouellet in CB. The list goes on and on. They seem to be keeping their level of play up there, and like I said you cannot blame "overplaying" on a performance like this one against Victo. It was the first game after a 5 day layoff. Part of the problem is "The Sea Dogs Surprise" has worn off. Opponents expect us to be good now and come out to play us hard from the get go. Also, where is the secondary scoring? Leduc and Gauthier seem to have calmed down. Kirkpatrick seems to have slowed since his highly publicized shadowings of Perreault. Stoddard and Anthony? Unseen on the score sheets. We can't expect Dido, Sparling, Hooper and Howes to put up three points or more every game (they'd get 210 points a year if so). The defense has slacked off too. We've been giving up a lot of shots in some recent games. Some of the better scoring chances seem to have gone up too. Our goaltending needs to play better. Mayer definitely, and Fullerton has even had a few games where he came out cold and played terrible and got yanked. That didn't happen with him early in the year. Basically the whole team needs to get it's act together, IMO. To say JB overplaying our top guys is causing this is crazy. For one, every team does it. For two, this was the first game after 5 days off. Nobody should have been tired (unless they had the flu). They came out and layed an egg. The whole team needs to get back on track. There is no one player, or one line, to completely place the blame on here. |
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Post by reddogbluedog on Feb 9, 2008 11:54:30 GMT -4
This is a string of games now where we have not played well. Dido one point in his last four and it wa sjust because he was on the ice when they scored. First we said they must all have the flu but really folks even the flu does nto last three weeks. I see a couple of people stating it is their legs and then a bunch of other just throwing out meaningless insults. I would like to hear people like Litteone, berner etc give their impression of what they think needs to be done rather than insulting others. Major is the only one in here with the balls enough to state the truth. "They are playing brutal and haven't been playing great at all the last month or so." Wake up and smell the coffee people this is more than a minor slump and how do we get out of it?
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Post by canucklehead on Feb 9, 2008 12:33:33 GMT -4
This is a string of games now where we have not played well. Dido one point in his last four and it wa sjust because he was on the ice when they scored. First we said they must all have the flu but really folks even the flu does nto last three weeks. I see a couple of people stating it is their legs and then a bunch of other just throwing out meaningless insults. I would like to hear people like Litteone, berner etc give their impression of what they think needs to be done rather than insulting others. Major is the only one in here with the balls enough to state the truth. "They are playing brutal and haven't been playing great at all the last month or so." Wake up and smell the coffee people this is more than a minor slump and how do we get out of it? Ok I wasn't gonna say anything here but I'm alittle confused feel free to correct me your saying you want people to say what they think should be done to right the ship then you say Major is the only one with balls because he said they are playing brutal lol This is certainly not against Major or anything but how is it you agree with that statement which offered nothing in the way of what should be done to fix the problem? Don't take it personal maybe I'm just burnt and I'm not getting it  |
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Post by berner on Feb 9, 2008 15:06:00 GMT -4
This is a string of games now where we have not played well. Dido one point in his last four and it wa sjust because he was on the ice when they scored. First we said they must all have the flu but really folks even the flu does nto last three weeks. I see a couple of people stating it is their legs and then a bunch of other just throwing out meaningless insults. I would like to hear people like Litteone, berner etc give their impression of what they think needs to be done rather than insulting others. Major is the only one in here with the balls enough to state the truth. "They are playing brutal and haven't been playing great at all the last month or so." Wake up and smell the coffee people this is more than a minor slump and how do we get out of it? Oh reddog, come on now, if you found my post insulting I'd hate to see what you would think if I actually DID post an insult. I had a look at the Dogs record since Christmas. 12 wins, 5 losses and a shootout loss to Halifax. Of those 5 losses, two of them were on the Rock which is a notoriously difficult trip. One was against the Foggies the night Howes knocked out Grenache's teeth, where the Dogs had the Foggies reeling and very well may have took that one had Howes not committed that offense. One was in Lewy where the maineiacs dominated a tired, flu-riddled team at the back end of 3 in 4. And the a** kicking they received from Victo on the first of three in Quebec, another notorious trip. And Victo fresh off a coaching change, which tends to get a team fired up at least for a few games. Quebec trips are tough on Atlantic teams, that's just how it is. There are those who will say I'm just making excuses, wearing rosy glasses, whatever... go ahead, I won't change your minds. And I don't care. There will always be alarmists around. And don't forget the 12 wins, some of them in dominating fashion. And the huge effort in Halifax where they lost in a shootout. You know, you can play the part of Chicken Little all you want, but the fact is the sky ISN'T falling. And rather than trying to second guess the coach, I plan to trust him to continue guiding this team to the playoffs. Halifax went 1 for 3 in their recent Quebec trip, and are 3-4 in their last 7 games. Do you think they also are a team in trouble? To me the Herd is still the team to beat in the East. They just lost to Rimouski, can you believe it?!?! A team near the bottom of the Telus, wow the Mooseheads must be crumbling. And RN is 2-2 in their last 4, another team in trouble, right?  The fact is any team in the league is good enough to beat any other team on any given night. There are no sure shots in this league. If the Dogs can take 2 points out of this road trip good on them, if they can get more all the better. In the meantime, I'm sure there will always be those chirping after every loss, and will be saying 'I told you so' at the end of the day unless the Dogs do nothing short of winning the Q. Carry on, if nothing else it tends to get discussions going. |
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Post by habh8er on Feb 9, 2008 15:27:46 GMT -4
The game in Vic. was less than impressive for sure, but like some have said these things are almost expected in a 6 month long season. This team is no different than any other and the playoff push is just around the bend, I personally don't see any reason to sh*t on anyone, rather I suspect that the boys will start to get back on track sooner rather than later. It looks like they may be guilty of getting ahead of themselves and thinking about the playoffs instead of working for the two points every night and finishing strong in the regular season. It's hard for any team to bounce back from a 3-0 deficit in the first 10 minutes, this team has had more than one great comeback this year, but we seem to forget about the positives sometimes.
In the game last night I counted at least a half dozen times when the opposition had position on our defence in front of our net, it looked like the Dogs just didn't have their heads in the game for whatever reason. I know they are better than they have showed in the past 3 games, but I wouldn't consider it a slump just yet. Since the middle of Jan we have 6 wins, 1 shootout loss(Hal.) and 3 regulation losses(fog, lew. and last night)
As far as how to right the ship... as soon as we get our special teams playing up to the numbers they had for the most part this year the rest will fall into place.
Mayer is IMO one of the most unpredictable goalies I can think of, one game he shines, and looks like the team M.V.P. the next he looks out of his element. I don't know how to explain it, but it must be driving J.B. nuts. I'm sure Robert himself is struggling with the length of a Q season as much as any other reason for his game being less than what he expects, but if he intends to have a future in hockey he will have to find his game and or confidence and put a few wins together when these times come. He lost his chance to be the starter on a number of occasions, then only to bounce right back and steal the show. I'm guessing that when given the chance he will pull it off again. GO DOGS GO!!
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