GAME THREAD: Flames v Steelers: LEAGUE: Wed 29th Oct

[Doom]

Whilst it’s always important to get the win, I don’t take any delight in beating a short-benched team who can’t even scrape 3 lines together.

Weirdly enough it's all forwards missing from their team, they did have 7 defencemen last night.

From what I can work out from the team sheet, Guildford had the following missing;

Imports

Jacobs
Preziuso
Alvaro
Coughler

Brits

Hook
Waller

They would have had to leave out one of those imports due to the import restrictions, but still, that's some very good forwards missing.

It certainly made our job easier, but we have seen short benched teams in the past win games of hockey, so it was good to avoid that banana skin.

Regards

Doom

[ginger]

Slow 1st 10 minutes but then got rolling. Definitely made easier by the short bench Guildford had but professional job all round.

Good to see Kelly/Shudra/Neilson get some minutes

[mark]

I don't think any of the teams who will be challenging for the title would have any sympathy for us if we had been short benched, it's an opportunity to take two points against a team who were bound to run out of gas at some stage, we managed the first period, dominated the second and shut them down in the third. Greenfield had a candidate for save of the season in there, Heard continues to impress me, no sign of being a loose cannon yet and he's been effective with over a PPG, decent in the face offs and no silly penalty minutes.

[ginger]

I don't think any of the teams who will be challenging for the title would have any sympathy for us if we had been short benched, it's an opportunity to take two points against a team who were bound to run out of gas at some stage, we managed the first period, dominated the second and shut them down in the third. Greenfield had a candidate for save of the season in there, Heard continues to impress me, no sign of being a loose cannon yet and he's been effective with over a PPG, decent in the face offs and no silly penalty minutes.

My take so far on Heard is that he appears to have settled in really well. Gut says he is another Brendan Connolly - give him the right culture in the locker room and he's great