Maniwaki Canuck Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 49 minutes ago, The 5th Line said: ? Elaborate No contract? Is he a poor skater? Bad defender? He had Good point totals, solid +/-, right hand shot, good size, good playoff numbers. What gives https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/generals-ice-dogs-engage-scrum-dangerous-hit/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Monahan Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 4 hours ago, The 5th Line said: ? Elaborate No contract? Is he a poor skater? Bad defender? He had Good point totals, solid +/-, right hand shot, good size, good playoff numbers. What gives I think his skating was probably the issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyoung Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 5 hours ago, The 5th Line said: ? Elaborate No contract? Is he a poor skater? Bad defender? He had Good point totals, solid +/-, right hand shot, good size, good playoff numbers. What gives His skating wasn't making any ...strides? Not great defensively either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeneedLumme Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 14 hours ago, Maniwaki Canuck said: https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/juniors/generals-ice-dogs-engage-scrum-dangerous-hit/ From the way the guy responded, he obviously did not need any help. You made it sound like the guy was being carried off on a stretcher. Looked to me from the amount of energy he showed when Brassard confronted him that he was faking an injury to draw a bigger penalty, which was probably why Brassard confronted him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniwaki Canuck Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 17 hours ago, WeneedLumme said: From the way the guy responded, he obviously did not need any help. You made it sound like the guy was being carried off on a stretcher. Looked to me from the amount of energy he showed when Brassard confronted him that he was faking an injury to draw a bigger penalty, which was probably why Brassard confronted him. 17 hours ago, The 5th Line said: Don't bother. The same people have no problem defending someone like Burrows even though he has done and said terrible things. It's a game, tempers flare and these are kids. "A punch".. he stuck his arm out and barely made contact with the guy, then the guy was ready to throw down and Brassard was like "chill out dude". Some people need to find different sports to watch if something like that bothers them. Hey, think whatever you want. But it was crap judgement on Brassard's part and hurt his team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeneedLumme Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 44 minutes ago, Maniwaki Canuck said: Hey, think whatever you want. But it was crap judgement on Brassard's part and hurt his team. Real crap post on your part. Describing a shove as a punch and pretending he attacked someone who was injured and helpless when that was obviously not true. Truth doesn't mean too much to you, does it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniwaki Canuck Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 The truth, gotta love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeneedLumme Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 6 minutes ago, Maniwaki Canuck said: The truth, gotta love it. How would you know? Maybe you should try it sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 (edited) 17 hours ago, Maniwaki Canuck said: Hey, think whatever you want. But it was crap judgement on Brassard's part and hurt his team. Maybe questionable judgment, but I don’t think he really hurt his team. That game was pretty much decided at that point with Niagara down 6-3, three minutes remaining in regulation, and the Ice Dogs heading to the PK for the remainder (Robertson was getting 5 and a game for the hit on Neumann). Brassard had been playing a really effective agitator role all playoffs. He’d thrown a lot of guys off their games and goaded them into retaliations and penalties. And somehow he managed to sneak in all his nasty work while only putting his team short handed for 4 minutes for the entire playoffs (no small feat considering all the shenanigans he’d gotten up to). No reason for him to stop doing what he was doing. The boos he was drawing from opponent fans all playoffs spoke to how effective he’d been in his role. Maybe it wasn’t a good idea to throw a punch in that moment (especially one that ended up clocking the trainer by accident). But Neumann was giving as good as he got, chirping pretty hard, and clearly wasn’t really all that hurt. Gamesmanship on both sides. And at the time, it really looked a lot like a dive (although the second angle showed it was a really dangerous hit by Robertson and deserving of the match penalty and suspension). But Neumann was clearly ready and willing for a confrontation, and really no reason for Brassard not to indulge him (and then even try to draw a penalty when he got Neumann to drop his gloves). Rat move, for sure, but that’s the role Brassard was playing (and he’d helped his team much more than he hurt them with such antics in previous games). What really hurt Niagara was Kyle Keyser posting a 0.940 save percentage for the Generals. That combined with Dhillon only managing a 0.886 sv% for the Ice Dogs. Lose the goaltending battle by that wide a margin, and it’s nearly impossible to win a playoff series. Edited May 2, 2019 by SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alflives Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 4 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: We got Petey in that draft, so it's a big win draft for us regardless of these two plugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Fred65 Posted June 1, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 1, 2019 On 5/29/2019 at 8:52 AM, Alflives said: We got Petey in that draft, so it's a big win draft for us regardless of these two plugs. They're not plugs. They may not be NHL players of the future but they're young men who have worked extremely hard to become what they have and deserve our respect 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuxfanabroad Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 Meanwhile..we might toss this 28 pg novella onto the burnin' pile. Ain't yesterday's news, today's fish-wrap? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
higgyfan Posted June 4, 2019 Share Posted June 4, 2019 On 6/1/2019 at 11:20 AM, Fred65 said: They're not plugs. They may not be NHL players of the future but they're young men who have worked extremely hard to become what they have and deserve our respect https://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?page=campbell1113 Of all the kids that make it through Jrs, college, EU hockey; only 5% ever reach the NHL. Like you said, years and years of developing their craft and most of them don't even get a whiff at the AHL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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