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Post by hockey01 on Apr 2, 2024 22:10:36 GMT -6
Predictions?
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Post by bombcrew on Apr 3, 2024 10:06:10 GMT -6
I think the Bombers will get some revenge from last years shellacking in last years final.
I think every game will be a close high scoring game. Lot's of fire power here.
Bombers in 6. Total goals will probably be around 32 to 28 lol
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joker
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Post by joker on Apr 3, 2024 12:42:27 GMT -6
I just hope nobody brings any signs!!
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Post by blevysboys on Apr 3, 2024 13:59:45 GMT -6
this 1 is gonna b tuff. guess it depends on how much battlefords been juicing for the last week.
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Post by stangmang on Apr 3, 2024 14:56:11 GMT -6
this 1 is gonna b tuff. guess it depends on how much battlefords been juicing for the last week. C’mon man. Stop. |
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Post by myopinion on Apr 3, 2024 15:16:22 GMT -6
this 1 is gonna b tuff. guess it depends on how much battlefords been juicing for the last week. C’mon man. Stop. I wish he would take off the mustang avatar |
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Post by stars123 on Apr 3, 2024 15:21:46 GMT -6
I think this series is going to be a barn burner… too close to predict.. I’ll say Battlefords in 7.. lots of depth and experience from last years championship run. 14 players with 10 goals or more this year in the sj. Losing Sylvestre for the first game is a huge loss for the Bombers..
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Post by thegreat1 on Apr 3, 2024 23:25:25 GMT -6
I think this series is going to be a barn burner… too close to predict.. I’ll say Battlefords in 7.. lots of depth and experience from last years championship run. 14 players with 10 goals or more this year in the sj. Losing Sylvestre for the first game is a huge loss for the Bombers.. Good luck. Weakest defense core and weakest goaltending of the remaining teams. Bombers in 5. |
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Post by notbillchow on Apr 4, 2024 7:19:06 GMT -6
I think this series is going to be a barn burner… too close to predict.. I’ll say Battlefords in 7.. lots of depth and experience from last years championship run. 14 players with 10 goals or more this year in the sj. Losing Sylvestre for the first game is a huge loss for the Bombers.. Good luck. Weakest defense core and weakest goaltending of the remaining teams. Bombers in 5. thought so myself, until Cunningham has decided to start stopping pucks! He’s pulled up to .940 which is second in the league in playoffs. |
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Post by thegreat1 on Apr 4, 2024 7:44:08 GMT -6
Good luck. Weakest defense core and weakest goaltending of the remaining teams. Bombers in 5. thought so myself, until Cunningham has decided to start stopping pucks! He’s pulled up to .940 which is second in the league in playoffs. Agree. But a .940 vs Melville really ain’t saying that much. Not a lot of firepower there compared to the remaining teams. If he can hold a .940 vs the bombers then they have a chance. |
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Post by stars123 on Apr 4, 2024 8:06:32 GMT -6
thought so myself, until Cunningham has decided to start stopping pucks! He’s pulled up to .940 which is second in the league in playoffs. Agree. But a .940 vs Melville really ain’t saying that much. Not a lot of firepower there compared to the remaining teams. If he can hold a .940 vs the bombers then they have a chance. A defensive corp that returned 4 players from the championship team. That experience is going to go a long ways. Izyk,gold,Grill,Rask is a pretty good top 4 add in Karman and Olsen and I don t think the defence is that weak. The only team in league with 4 defencemen with 30 plus points. That can be dangerous. Only team with 4 defencemen with 10 plus goals.in first series they locked down defensively.. you forgot to mention they have the best coach of the 4 teams remaining.. |
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Post by Hockey on Apr 4, 2024 8:59:10 GMT -6
Disagree with the best coach and best defense
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Post by bombcrew on Apr 4, 2024 10:08:09 GMT -6
Stars123 got me looking at stats. Some things I noticed.
Stars have the highest goals against out the 4 remaining teams. So the defence better score some goals to bail themselves and goalie out.
Bombers are much quicker and skilled up front so should give the Stars D fits on the for check.
Bombers scored about a goal per game more than Melville this year so it will be tougher to stop the Bombers high octane offense.
Bombers had the least amount of goals against this year so I'd think the best defense core and goalie. Hence the goalie and defenceman of the year.
And guess the league thought Reags was the best coach in the league this year not the god like coach K??
But like I said this should be a run and gun series. The winner will be whichever goalie makes the key stops. Or a lucky bounce here or there.
Good luck Bombers!!!
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Post by stainerbaby on Apr 4, 2024 16:03:50 GMT -6
Anyone know if the bombers players got their bonus cheques from round 1?
Crazy to me to see a junior a team with a payroll higher than most ECHL teams….. must be tough to coach kids making more money than you are.
When you haven’t won a championship in 30 years I guess you are bound to get desperate eventually.
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Post by elbows on Apr 4, 2024 16:21:55 GMT -6
get off that glue your sniffing..lol..what a dumb thing to say...
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Post by bombcrew on Apr 4, 2024 16:28:12 GMT -6
Anyone know if the bombers players got their bonus cheques from round 1? Crazy to me to see a junior a team with a payroll higher than most ECHL teams….. must be tough to coach kids making more money than you are. When you haven’t won a championship in 30 years I guess you are bound to get desperate eventually. I think you have the Bombers and the Bandits mixed up 🤷♂️ |
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Post by Beaverstreet on Apr 4, 2024 16:39:29 GMT -6
get off that glue your sniffing..lol..what a dumb thing to say... Not really. Funny though |
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Post by bombcrew on Apr 4, 2024 21:23:38 GMT -6
For those keeping track at home Bax got one goal and one assist. No goals for the high power high octane Stars D...but Izyk did get two apples.
I didn't notice much of Bell tonight? I do sit at the end where Battlefords defends twice so that's probably why I didn't see him much.
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Post by thegreat1 on Apr 5, 2024 2:19:22 GMT -6
Anyone know if the bombers players got their bonus cheques from round 1? Crazy to me to see a junior a team with a payroll higher than most ECHL teams….. must be tough to coach kids making more money than you are. When you haven’t won a championship in 30 years I guess you are bound to get desperate eventually. I think you have the Bombers and the Bandits mixed up 🤷♂️ The only thing higher in the SJ than the bombers pay top is stars123. Defense is weak…. So is goaltending. Clean sweep! |
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Post by bomberville on Apr 5, 2024 8:30:26 GMT -6
I said Bombers in 6 but if last night is an indication of how this series is going to go. It could very well be a sweep. I said a couple months ago this team would be a different animal come playoffs. If anyone watched Justin Lies last year in the playoffs. He was an absolute beast going to war. Follow him up with 10 other players that have the same mentality.
-Bell looked like he was playing hide and seek out there. 100 foot player at best with zero sacrifice and the league can stop patting his stats. His assist last night was touched by 2 or more players before it went in the net. The amount of times game sheets have been changed this year is ridiculous.
-Sylvester is back in the lineup tonight.
-Bombers almost tripled stars in shots. Can Cunningham sustain the game he played last night? I’ll say it was a one off.
-Laser had an off night. He won’t let in a couple of the goals that went in last night 2 nights in a row.
Looking forward to tonight!!!
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Post by left4deadinflfl on Apr 5, 2024 9:42:29 GMT -6
I think this series is going to be a barn burner… too close to predict.. I’ll say Battlefords in 7.. lots of depth and experience from last years championship run. 14 players with 10 goals or more this year in the sj. Losing Sylvestre for the first game is a huge loss for the Bombers.. Sylvestre back for the 2nd game is a huge addition for the Bombers. Lol |
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Post by Hockey on Apr 5, 2024 21:43:09 GMT -6
Bombers in 4
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Post by toddpacker73 on Apr 5, 2024 21:56:03 GMT -6
Running right through them so far. |
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Post by eggvan on Apr 5, 2024 21:58:57 GMT -6
kian bell is a 2x mvp? guy is non existent out there
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Post by bombcrew on Apr 5, 2024 22:10:59 GMT -6
For those keeping track at home. Tony Bax got another goal. Just another great night defensively for him.
Still waiting for one of those 10 goal defenseman from the Stars to get their first goal 🤷♂️
Oh and one more note. Two of the other new guys from the trade deadline picked up goals. Smith and Gruener.
Looked like the defence Cunningham and Coach K were all out classed tonight. But I'm sure Coach K will have them ready for next game 👍
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Post by Jacques LeCoque Grande on Apr 5, 2024 22:14:16 GMT -6
kian bell is a 2x mvp? guy is non existent out there Bell can produce points, of that there's no doubt. But he is hands down the biggest floater in the league. He will not get anywhere NEAR any rough stuff and if I was his teammates, I would expect him to at least help me out or back me up. But nope absolute floater and soft as butter. Sure, he won a ring and that's great, but whoopty doo. He's 100 percent 1-dimensional |
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Post by ff39 on Apr 5, 2024 22:46:56 GMT -6
Bombcrew get it. Series isn't won in the first two home games. It's been 30 years let's take it easy. Ways to go. Loved the effort in the first two.
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Post by bomberville on Apr 5, 2024 23:04:47 GMT -6
kian bell is a 2x mvp? guy is non existent out there Bell can produce points, of that there's no doubt. But he is hands down the biggest floater in the league. He will not get anywhere NEAR any rough stuff and if I was his teammates, I would expect him to at least help me out or back me up. But nope absolute floater and soft as butter. Sure, he won a ring and that's great, but whoopty doo. He's 100 percent 1-dimensional He actually yells at his teammates to go fetch the puck like they’re his dogs. Absolutely hilarious!!! No doubt he can put up the points if someone does the work for him. Even more comical was him going after Anderson in the corner. Anderson would pulverize him like no tomorrow. |
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Post by stars123 on Apr 5, 2024 23:06:57 GMT -6
What was halarious was Olafson couldn’t score on an open net… or Mikey not winning in 18 years..
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Post by eggvan on Apr 5, 2024 23:10:19 GMT -6
What was halarious was Olafson couldn’t score on an open net… 😀 thats alright, we had 6 other guys who could score perfectly fine 🙂 |
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