As were just about to go into the fourth month of the season what can we say other than its been a very inconsistent season for the Sheffield Steelers. Some people may argue this is one of the worst teams we've had in a long time but I completely disagree I think its one of the best teams we've had in awhile. In my eyes Doug Christiansen is putting his own stamp on the club which he said he would do and yeah were struggling to put a run together and take all four points on a weekend and been settling for two out four pretty much every weekend of the season so far but you try running a team that has had as many injuries as we have we was without 3 defenders for how many weeks one who is still out, the best backup goalie in the league hasn't even seen a match night yet, and then you look at Maxime Lacroix who unfortunately was ruled out in Nottingham back in September for 4-5 months with a broken leg and before he got injured he was outstanding and looked like he was going to be the top point scorer for the Steelers if not the Elite League, and so far we get a player back and another goes off injured. We've had to bring in Ilpo Salmivirta mid season who has since been released along with with Rylan Galiardi who was with Sheffield in Pre-Season we have also had to bring in Nate DeCasmirro, Robert Sirianni and Phil Hill mid season to fill up the team sheet because of injured basically what I want to talk about is whether releasing Rylan or Ilpo or if not both of them was the wrong decision.
We all know Rylan Galiardi did a hell of a lot of travel to meet up with his team mates in pre-season out in Europe I think it was like 26 hours of straight travelling, when Rylan was signed his stats look promising and I thought yes he could be a big player for us especially after Ryan Menei had pulled out of his contract due to family reasons but every time I saw Rylan play in a competitive match and I think I saw just about all 12 of his games he just never seemed to be the player a lot of people expected of him as some people would say but I thought (2+7) in 12 games I didn't think was bad but I do have to agree he just never seemed to fit into any of the lines and if I look at the line up now I don't think there is anyone you could take out to play him other than Phil Hill but if were being completely honest as soon as Lacroix is fit enough to play he will be back in that top line. I was one of the unlucky fans who got #39 Galiardi on my home jersey and I'd be lying if i said I wasn't gutted when he got released but looking on it now it was probably the right decision; yes he might have improved massively and start racking up the points but at the time of his release it was a case of he wasn't better than we already had and someone had to go unfortunately.
Now when it comes to Ilpo Salmivirta it didn't take him long to become a fan favourite but it wasn't a case of the Sheffield Steelers didn't want him it was a case of he was offered a better contract at Amiens in the French league, could we have done more to convince him to stay in Sheffield yes probably because the fans certainly wanted him to stay especially when he was on that line along with DeCasmirro and Sirianni accumulating 8 points in 8 games (0+8) yeah Ilpo didn't manage to score but he was getting closer and closer each game and it had been a long time since I've seen someone play so hard for the shirt. Ilpo was definatly a big loss for the Steelers and you could say that Nate and Rob haven't been the same without him but what about Rob Dowd?? since he joined them to on a line its been pretty explosive racking up points.
So guys what do you think when it came to Rylan Galiardi and Ilpo Samivirta leaving the Sheffield Steelers?
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