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As it's close season how about changing 'five things we learnt' to cover each EIHL team's story from last year?
Let's go alphabetically starting with the Giants ;)
1> Bringing back the same 'on-ice' team - the 13/14 Giants team took everyone to the cleaners in the league the previous year, so bringing back all but three of the key men should have made them the bellwether for others to be judged against. Gather more points than that team and you'd win the league we thought - so a bit of a shocker that 4 teams did just that.
2> Losing the 'off-ice' team - with hindsight, I'm pretty sure that Paul Adey should have been the first contract to be renewed. You'd need to be a complete plonker to bin your coach after winning the league, even if he didn't deliver the cup and playoff trophies you craved. Can't see anyone else making that mistake again.....
3> Take your mid season recruit straight from the NHL - sounds good in theory, except when you delay your final import recruitment until after a gap has appeared at the top of the table, and your Stanley Cup winning recruit is as big a bust as Kevin Westgarth. Massive LA Kings to Belfast Giants healthy scratch fall from grace.
4> Continental Cup - after failing to get ice-time for the CHL, and after being a little fortunate to get through the quarter finals in Fischtown, where they were lucky losers. Their departure from the Semifinal group after the final game went to the exact 4:3 score that would deny them, and allow the two teams facing each other to get through, was more than Fischy.
5> British net-minders - maybe this was the year when Bowns became the British number one, but it was also the year that Murph proved how much he was worth to the Giants. His injury was pivotal, and although Chubak seemed an able replacement, the odd game stolen here and there may have prevented the wheels falling off.
Final talking point - Remember when Colby Cohen was slashed to the ground, and then kicked out at Brookwell's knee with his skate? Think he was lucky to just get the spear and the DOPS suspension - if Keefe had been the man he had tried cut we may still be picking bits of him off the NIC ice pad.
Favourite player : Ray Sawada. Goals in the NHL, AHL & Liiga. Yes please.
Thanks for reading guys. If you want to get involved please contact us on twitter or find us on Facebook and like us and leave a comment:-
As it's close season how about changing 'five things we learnt' to cover each EIHL team's story from last year?
Let's go alphabetically starting with the Giants ;)
1> Bringing back the same 'on-ice' team - the 13/14 Giants team took everyone to the cleaners in the league the previous year, so bringing back all but three of the key men should have made them the bellwether for others to be judged against. Gather more points than that team and you'd win the league we thought - so a bit of a shocker that 4 teams did just that.
2> Losing the 'off-ice' team - with hindsight, I'm pretty sure that Paul Adey should have been the first contract to be renewed. You'd need to be a complete plonker to bin your coach after winning the league, even if he didn't deliver the cup and playoff trophies you craved. Can't see anyone else making that mistake again.....
3> Take your mid season recruit straight from the NHL - sounds good in theory, except when you delay your final import recruitment until after a gap has appeared at the top of the table, and your Stanley Cup winning recruit is as big a bust as Kevin Westgarth. Massive LA Kings to Belfast Giants healthy scratch fall from grace.
4> Continental Cup - after failing to get ice-time for the CHL, and after being a little fortunate to get through the quarter finals in Fischtown, where they were lucky losers. Their departure from the Semifinal group after the final game went to the exact 4:3 score that would deny them, and allow the two teams facing each other to get through, was more than Fischy.
5> British net-minders - maybe this was the year when Bowns became the British number one, but it was also the year that Murph proved how much he was worth to the Giants. His injury was pivotal, and although Chubak seemed an able replacement, the odd game stolen here and there may have prevented the wheels falling off.
Final talking point - Remember when Colby Cohen was slashed to the ground, and then kicked out at Brookwell's knee with his skate? Think he was lucky to just get the spear and the DOPS suspension - if Keefe had been the man he had tried cut we may still be picking bits of him off the NIC ice pad.
Favourite player : Ray Sawada. Goals in the NHL, AHL & Liiga. Yes please.
Thanks for reading guys. If you want to get involved please contact us on twitter or find us on Facebook and like us and leave a comment:-
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