Another end of season analysis of the rest of the Elite League sides. We've done five, now four remain. This latest one features the team that propped up the rest of us, we look back at Scott Neil's Edinburgh Capitals.
Season in summary: A typical Capitals season to be fair, some highlights with plenty low lights and a bottom of the pile finish. The one positive we really could draw was that the imports actually stayed around for the campaign instead of buggering off to where they came from halfway through. Players like Tyler Plews and Jay King increased in their development and look good to be highly rated prospects for the future.
Performance of the Season: Capitals didn't have much success but when they did then recorded it in style. They particularly found some form in the M8 derbies with the Clan; winning a couple of games and losing narrowly in others. I'm going however for a 5-4 overtime win in Fife as the stand out showing.
Low point of the Season: Where do we start with this? There were numerous losing streaks throughout, and Capitals begin the new campaign having lost each of their last seven EIHL games; a feat they also did in 15 days either side of the Christmas and New Year period. A 10-3 loss at Dundee started that particular sequence, and that is my low point pick of the season.
Player of the Season: Only one player for me stood head and shoulders above, and that was the 11th pick of the opening round in the 2000 NHL Draft - way before the great Henrik Lundqvist - by the 'Hawks. That man, Pavel Vorobyev. The Russian picked up 51 points in 50 games and for a team that didn't have the greatest of seasons, it's pretty damn impressive isn't it? An excellent pick up by Scott Neil and the Caps backroom team.
Anything else? 2017-18 season will see the Capitals change even more. Player-Coach Michal Dobron has left for Ligue Magnus side Brest, and in his replacement is almost 900 game (regular and play-offs) NHLer Dimitri Khristich. And he's brought a lot of Russians with him. Whilst gives the Caps increased optimism, part of me is cynical in wondering how the Russians will adapt to the usual North American style of play here and if they will settle in the UK overall. Will Khristich last the season? I have doubts...
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Performance of the Season: Capitals didn't have much success but when they did then recorded it in style. They particularly found some form in the M8 derbies with the Clan; winning a couple of games and losing narrowly in others. I'm going however for a 5-4 overtime win in Fife as the stand out showing.
Low point of the Season: Where do we start with this? There were numerous losing streaks throughout, and Capitals begin the new campaign having lost each of their last seven EIHL games; a feat they also did in 15 days either side of the Christmas and New Year period. A 10-3 loss at Dundee started that particular sequence, and that is my low point pick of the season.
Player of the Season: Only one player for me stood head and shoulders above, and that was the 11th pick of the opening round in the 2000 NHL Draft - way before the great Henrik Lundqvist - by the 'Hawks. That man, Pavel Vorobyev. The Russian picked up 51 points in 50 games and for a team that didn't have the greatest of seasons, it's pretty damn impressive isn't it? An excellent pick up by Scott Neil and the Caps backroom team.
Anything else? 2017-18 season will see the Capitals change even more. Player-Coach Michal Dobron has left for Ligue Magnus side Brest, and in his replacement is almost 900 game (regular and play-offs) NHLer Dimitri Khristich. And he's brought a lot of Russians with him. Whilst gives the Caps increased optimism, part of me is cynical in wondering how the Russians will adapt to the usual North American style of play here and if they will settle in the UK overall. Will Khristich last the season? I have doubts...
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