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GAME 2
Apr 16, 2011 0:56:16 GMT -5
Post by jimc on Apr 16, 2011 0:56:16 GMT -5
dundas 3 losses in 4 games and not a full bench for any of them. pretty poor showing, again, for MLH.
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GAME 2
Apr 12, 2011 12:46:29 GMT -5
Post by jimc on Apr 12, 2011 12:46:29 GMT -5
11 or 12 skaters for an AC game is a bit of a travesty. However, because nobody gets eliminated in the round robin, the result really means very little. It is definitely harder to go through the QF playdown, but not impossible. Hell, half of the McCoys will only end up playing 2-3 games anyways, if they get to the Final, so they shouldn't be tired..plus Dundas get Wed off, which could help.
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Post by jimc on Apr 10, 2011 11:56:46 GMT -5
Powell River are also money on home ice
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Post by jimc on Apr 8, 2011 15:51:59 GMT -5
NO argument about Arnafat being a world class floater, but think it speaks to Sutter's character that he actually had the poor judgement to grab and physically threaten a player....in a public establishment, no less.
I didn't bring up Chi to paint him as a bad Sr coach, but more to illustrate his many flaws...some of strategy, some of character. His performance, overall in Chi, left me with no element of shock or surprise when I heard about his 'handshake-gate' in Sr hockey. let's just say that.
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Post by jimc on Apr 7, 2011 22:28:56 GMT -5
Sutter's last stop in the NHL was in Chicago. He was a complete douche there, and that's when he threatened to fight one of his own players, Tyler Arnason, in a bar in Nashville. He's always been prickly, as a player and a coach, but he crossed the line from prickly to classless long ago. The NHL game obviously passed him by as his performance with the Hawks proves, and reading about him constantly being the centre of attention for the wrong reasons in Sr hockey doesn't surprise me at all. He was despised by his players in Chi, and that's a fact. Fans didn't care for him much either. I guess the car is stuck in the ditch, and everyone has to push it out again...yawn.
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Post by jimc on Apr 3, 2011 17:10:48 GMT -5
I guess folks out West missed the part where Dundas was named Hockeyville this past year?
I guess they were too busty planning their parade?
You know, being as how SR hockey is so much more important out there.
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Post by jimc on Mar 23, 2011 20:46:59 GMT -5
To ask a question, why is all OHA teams (excluding WOAA in western ontario) AAA but everywhere else is choice? Is it to keep a standard of competition at the AAA level ? The Caribous were beat out by the team they are affililiated with...is that correct? I believe the OHA and OHF, along with MLH, have an agreement that any AAA team in he OHA territory has to play in MLH...and conversely must be accommodated by MLH if a realistic and proper application is submitted. I DO know that no team in the OHA region is eligible to independently declare AAA and pursue the Allan Cup w/o joining MLH. If any tams in SW ON want to compete for the Cup, it has to be as a member of MLH...that's a coup for the OHA, because they now control all AAA Sr hockey. This was done in conjunction with Hockey Canada, to prevent the 'outlaw' league (Elora, Palmerston, Shelby, Petrolia, etc) from trying to declare AAA and competing for the Cup. Kind of an insidious agreement between an inept organization (Hockey Canada) and a corrupt one (OHA)...which totally benefits the MLH. The other Ontario regions, as far as aI know, do not have this restriction, because there are no leagues, outlaw or HC sanctioned, in which potential AAA teams could participate...and no little emperor like Brent Ladds trying to rule over them.
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Post by jimc on Mar 21, 2011 22:28:02 GMT -5
I thought they already did, Ron? Donnie has affiliated with prov Jr A teams several times in the past, if I'm not mistaken.
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Post by jimc on Mar 20, 2011 12:47:34 GMT -5
is that really the best way to determine an AC rep...based on the previous year's league champ?
Teams come and go...as do many players. Playdowns in the same year as the Cup is being competed make so much more sense, no?
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Post by jimc on Mar 18, 2011 21:22:54 GMT -5
ya know, there is some real blame to be placed on the branch here...and other branches in the past.
Until the dolts and dullards in charge of the various branches actually take the initiative and stop approving player cards when it comes time to register and pay for the privilege, only to turn around and rule a player ineligible after some stupid protest later on.
it's an idiotic system run by idiotic people. The onus is on the various federations to rule up front on every card signed, at the time it is submitted, so everybody knows where they stand. This ridiculousness that occurs every year with teams taking the cheap way out and pointing fingers at their rivals and playing games in the board room, rather than just getting down to focusing on winning games on the ice.
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