steelers Vs Devils - League - 20th Feb 22
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Fair shout that. Even when the light went on we had no idea what had happened or how it went in but you make your own luck. Steelers are good value for their league position and it makes me sick writing that.
Again… still think Crandall and Register are the ones to take this team places. They control everything. They play well, we play well. Yeah I know Register coughs up the occasional puck or three but he’s high risk and high reward.
This isn’t a negative but…. Duggan seems to be quiet lately. Not quite himself but on the plus side the others have stepped up, Brandt being one
Again… still think Crandall and Register are the ones to take this team places. They control everything. They play well, we play well. Yeah I know Register coughs up the occasional puck or three but he’s high risk and high reward.
This isn’t a negative but…. Duggan seems to be quiet lately. Not quite himself but on the plus side the others have stepped up, Brandt being one
great win today well done devils dug deep and never quit.i think if steelers fans think the league is won they're mistaken.belfast are only 2 points behind now having played 1 more game but steelers still have 5 games against belfast with 3 games being in belfast.the league is not over by a long shot.anything can happen now and that 5 game series will decide the winners.
It was a great win tonight and Carruth was fantastic, as he has been for most of the season. He’s a top class goalie in this league, arguably as good as we've ever had for me. You could say it was the perfect road game or that we rode our luck and relied on our goaltending to win us the game. I'm not quite sure where I stand on that at the moment - but I do think that we will have to go for it a little more on Wednesday. We'll need Carruth to be at his absolute best, but I think we can do it again.
Incredibly tense game that was an absolute beauty to win. Sheffield battered us for two periods but the more I see of Carruth, the more I wonder if I have ever seen an EIHL nettie who is better at playing the angles. He is square to the shooter almost every time and that means that although the shots were heavily weighted in favour of Sheffield, most were straight into Carruth's breadbasket.
I loved how we played a red-hot Sheffield team from about 30 minutes onwards, someone mentioned the rope-a-dope strategy and it wasn't far off..... consistently we broke with speed when given half a chance (led by Register who was immense yesterday) but when there wasn't a chance we just played it safe and got fresh legs. Face off wins in key areas were an issue - we need far more, although conversely our key man in that area, Dixon, was an absolute rock all other aspects of the game.
Sheffield fans seemed happy enough afterwards - in fairness the result doesn't massively help us, but does help them - and the game reinforced my view that this team has a great chance in the cup and in the playoffs as in any one off game, they are incredibly hard to beat.
I loved how we played a red-hot Sheffield team from about 30 minutes onwards, someone mentioned the rope-a-dope strategy and it wasn't far off..... consistently we broke with speed when given half a chance (led by Register who was immense yesterday) but when there wasn't a chance we just played it safe and got fresh legs. Face off wins in key areas were an issue - we need far more, although conversely our key man in that area, Dixon, was an absolute rock all other aspects of the game.
Sheffield fans seemed happy enough afterwards - in fairness the result doesn't massively help us, but does help them - and the game reinforced my view that this team has a great chance in the cup and in the playoffs as in any one off game, they are incredibly hard to beat.