Panthers Vs Devils - League - 19th Mar 25 - FO 19:30
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Someone far wiser than me once said, if you want to be successful, you have to do what successful people do. It is fairly obvious that whilst the Devils managed to get points on the board early in the season, that the Giants, Steelers and Panthers have all upped their game, but in each of the H2H since the Continental Cup, the Devils don’t appear to have learned anything.
Frequent changes of lines - Does anyone know what PR’s go to lines are?
Zero physicality, low Hockey IQ plays, giving the impression that the players have given up on the season already - TK may well be having kittens as this current form may materially affect ST for next season.
Can’t recall feeling this bad as a Devils fan since Brodie DuPont was appointed coach.
Frequent changes of lines - Does anyone know what PR’s go to lines are?
Zero physicality, low Hockey IQ plays, giving the impression that the players have given up on the season already - TK may well be having kittens as this current form may materially affect ST for next season.
Can’t recall feeling this bad as a Devils fan since Brodie DuPont was appointed coach.
Gave up soft goals in the first period with our D slow to react and the a SH goal to top it off.
2nd we were the better team. Grande came up big with needed but managed to get back through Brandt.
Soft penalty on MacWilliam put us 3-1 behind and then frustrations from that penalty boiled over and we headed into the 3rd on the PK again and before you know it it’s 4-1 and the game is gone.
Leagues worst PP against the leagues best PK and look, PP goal after PP goal♂️
Tempers flared in the end. Carruth likely had enough of being hung out to dry by his D and that’s another L in Nottingham.
0-12 away at Nottingham, Belfast and Sheffield this season which isn’t good enough despite our injury troubles.
Do I think we should get rid of Russel? No absolutely not. I think some players are playing half hearted at the moment and treating these games as dead rubber which is frustrating as until it’s mathematically impossible, professionals should keep going till the end.
Injuries have 100% been a major factor this year but there’s a few that shouldn’t be given contracts next season that’s for sure
2nd we were the better team. Grande came up big with needed but managed to get back through Brandt.
Soft penalty on MacWilliam put us 3-1 behind and then frustrations from that penalty boiled over and we headed into the 3rd on the PK again and before you know it it’s 4-1 and the game is gone.
Leagues worst PP against the leagues best PK and look, PP goal after PP goal♂️
Tempers flared in the end. Carruth likely had enough of being hung out to dry by his D and that’s another L in Nottingham.
0-12 away at Nottingham, Belfast and Sheffield this season which isn’t good enough despite our injury troubles.
Do I think we should get rid of Russel? No absolutely not. I think some players are playing half hearted at the moment and treating these games as dead rubber which is frustrating as until it’s mathematically impossible, professionals should keep going till the end.
Injuries have 100% been a major factor this year but there’s a few that shouldn’t be given contracts next season that’s for sure
Something much deeper than age or fitness is wrong with this team in my opinion. it appears that we are just going thru the motions. Something is terribly wrong and it’s very deep, these players ain’t enjoying themselves and by god it’s showing, joey Martin is getting more physical driven I feel by pure frustration, when you really care but others don’t that’s a bummer. Is this just me or what.
I am not surprised, I am not disappointed, I am not even bothered any more!
I came to terms with our new status within the EIHL last season when I found that I had lost interest in attending for the majority of the games even though I had an ST
In fact I’d had an ST since the 80’s but I decided enough was enough and this season I didn’t renew my ST.
Not because we weren’t winning but because there were more reasons not too attend than there were the opposite.
Parking is atrocious, food is poor quality, too many midweek games, but most of all was the poor quality hockey on offer.
I didn’t feel like I was being entertained. All too often I found myself thinking of other things rather than watching the game!
We assembled a great looking team on paper but it hasn’t worked out as planned for various well documented reasons but yet again the style of hockey that I’ve seen by watching the webcasts and hearing from others, Continental Cup Final weekend apart, has not been that entertaining.
Unfortunately though I don’t see this changing as long as the rink continues to sell out with casual walk ups etc.
I also feel we were fortunate before covid in that we had a core of great players and we took Sheffield, and to a lesser extent Belfast by surprise.
Belfast offered a little push back but it took Sheffield a couple more seasons to get their act together and splash the cash, but now they have it’ll be extremely difficult if not impossible for a rink-based team to win the league now that the arena teams have 'awoken'!
The need to spend big to compete was ultimately the downfall of the SuperLeague and what with Fifes’s likely departure from the league the writing maybe on the wall if the disparity within the league is not addressed.
I came to terms with our new status within the EIHL last season when I found that I had lost interest in attending for the majority of the games even though I had an ST
In fact I’d had an ST since the 80’s but I decided enough was enough and this season I didn’t renew my ST.
Not because we weren’t winning but because there were more reasons not too attend than there were the opposite.
Parking is atrocious, food is poor quality, too many midweek games, but most of all was the poor quality hockey on offer.
I didn’t feel like I was being entertained. All too often I found myself thinking of other things rather than watching the game!
We assembled a great looking team on paper but it hasn’t worked out as planned for various well documented reasons but yet again the style of hockey that I’ve seen by watching the webcasts and hearing from others, Continental Cup Final weekend apart, has not been that entertaining.
Unfortunately though I don’t see this changing as long as the rink continues to sell out with casual walk ups etc.
I also feel we were fortunate before covid in that we had a core of great players and we took Sheffield, and to a lesser extent Belfast by surprise.
Belfast offered a little push back but it took Sheffield a couple more seasons to get their act together and splash the cash, but now they have it’ll be extremely difficult if not impossible for a rink-based team to win the league now that the arena teams have 'awoken'!
The need to spend big to compete was ultimately the downfall of the SuperLeague and what with Fifes’s likely departure from the league the writing maybe on the wall if the disparity within the league is not addressed.
I don’t think our netminding has been the issue at all this year.
We were flying before conti. Anyone who thinks our injury trouble hasn’t been a major factor this year is simply wrong.
Yes we’ve got a full line up of bodies now and have done for a couple of weeks but it’s all too late. The league has gone so despite having a full bench it’s hard to judge what this year could have been with a full roster all year.
It is what it is now. I still think if we play how I know we can come play offs then we have a shout. Got to get there first though and we need to start putting some Ws together and go on a bit of a run to build some confidence and momentum.
Would be lovely to start that streak Friday
We were flying before conti. Anyone who thinks our injury trouble hasn’t been a major factor this year is simply wrong.
Yes we’ve got a full line up of bodies now and have done for a couple of weeks but it’s all too late. The league has gone so despite having a full bench it’s hard to judge what this year could have been with a full roster all year.
It is what it is now. I still think if we play how I know we can come play offs then we have a shout. Got to get there first though and we need to start putting some Ws together and go on a bit of a run to build some confidence and momentum.
Would be lovely to start that streak Friday
I miss Reid Duke. At the beginning of the season Shinkaruk looked like he’d be a game changer and a real force to be reckoned with in this league and in fact, regardless of what happens with the team from here on in, one of the main points of sadness I’ll probably feel looking back on this season was the fact that the injury list has prevented me from watching Reid Duke and Hunter Shinkaruk play all or most of the games, win or lose. I just hope we can have a healthy remainder of the season, and new season where, success or no success, we can actually get to watch the team we were supposed to watch play most of the games.