sataneight said:
the majority of the team went missing in the big game against giants not just deeds
it should not fall solely on this guy thats the point. the whole D nneds to get nasty and take the body rather than this tipppy tappy play in our end as the puck will drop to a offensive player
Deeds by his very nature will infuriate/ annoy both sets of fans but to call him a joke is unwarranted, I said before to go with olson twice shows he will go with guys who "CAN and WILL fight"
Mark Smith is the only D man taking the body at the moment, he throws himself in front of pucks and blocks shots like no one else, Batch can throw his weight around more but with G on D now, We have 6 D men, (Marsh, K.Smith, M.Smith, Batch, Milam And G) 5 Import D Men? Do we really need 5? Id prefer a more central player for the 3rd line (Ben is not a center) who can work both ends of the ice to help out the D.
Im not saying it solely falls on Deeds Did i? im saying he was brought in to be a tough player who can change games and play, he needed to change that game on thursday (As could of G or Marsh) But they didnt step up either. After maxi's hit this should of shown the boys that playing that way rattled the giants and we continued to play that way.
Didi beats keefe, Keefe is off the ice, we throw our weight around and get in there faces while he is in the box, build momentum, do we concede 3 in 6 minutes in the 3rd? who knows. It would of boosted the crowd for sure and gave the boys a lift to say we wont be muscled off the puck and pushed around,
Didiomete made Olson fight yes? Which is what i said about him doing in the Giants game. Didi is an experienced fighter and knows how to get into them so what happened thursday? He could of gotten keefe to go if he tried hard enough.
Marsh could of stepped up but he also lacked physicality on thursday. My point about his fight is, Didi who may be smaller than most fighters here has over 100 fights to his name in 3 pretty could leagues with tough guys so can handle himself which is why he fought olson and did not do to badly, Fights at a time where we were winning, we were not being bullied around and against a local kid with little/no fighting experience instead of chosing to turn a bigger game with a team throwing dirty hits, who were beating us and who he basically called out over twitter saying it could get rough (or something along those lines), but chose to do nothing,
(im not arguing the fact he will do with anyone but turn the tables, Didiomete is Olson or Hand And MacIntyre is Ben Davies) How would you feel about this miss match?
A win is a win though and hopefully we will see the full works of Blight and Fulks and Stu on bigger ice pads where i feel they will be more comfortable.
but nice to get a win which hopefully gave both the team and fans a bit of a lift.