I'm not sure why that makes us a mid table team. I think we're close with Nottingham and Cardiff.
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Doom
In my head I see it as :
Devils
Giants
Panthers
Steelers
At the moment, just a gut feeling on my behalf that's all, all comes down to who we've got left to announce & who our netminders will be..
Our last forward signings should be Ciampini, Mandat, McNally and hopefully Aaron was alluding to signing Hammond that’s three top 6 players all above 20 goals a season, plus a player in McNally if he keeps his cool can do a good job for us on special teams and net us double figures I don’t think we’re too bad imo.
The key for many will be the netminder situation like you point out, it’s been below par to say the least. He hasn’t done a lot wrong Aaron since joining us but probably self admittedly he hasn’t put enough emphasis on a stud goalie. Let’s hope that changes with the new signings, it will be the make or break of this team.
If we signed those 3 (Ciampini, Mandat, McNally) plus Hammond that would put us at 13 forwards (including Mosey) so I'm assuming Mosey would move back to D if this is true? And according to rumours we have already signed Sebastien Piche who is a d-man which would complete our D group, so we would then be carrying a spare, which I can't see happening.
I don't think Mandat is coming to be honest, I think McNally and Ciampini are and Piche on D which would leave us looking something like:
Aaron said in his interview with Pete spencer he may yet move Mosey back to D I don’t know how that would stand for Piche but as we all know contracts are not set in stone
He did, but i'm pretty certain these interviews aren't conducted on the days the signings are announced, so would assume Pete's had the interviews lined up prior to the rumour that Piche signed his deal. Time will tell
If we signed those 3 (Ciampini, Mandat, McNally) plus Hammond that would put us at 13 forwards (including Mosey) so I'm assuming Mosey would move back to D if this is true? And according to rumours we have already signed Sebastien Piche who is a d-man which would complete our D group, so we would then be carrying a spare, which I can't see happening.
I don't think Mandat is coming to be honest, I think McNally and Ciampini are and Piche on D which would leave us looking something like:
Aaron said in his interview with Pete spencer he may yet move Mosey back to D I don’t know how that would stand for Piche but as we all know contracts are not set in stone
Yeah I heard that but wasn't sure if that was just throwing us off
Wouldn't be against Mosey playing D, the only thing would be is if we then had an injury back there who would cover, as our D cover would be in that 6 to start with
It begs the question would we be prudent with injuries inevitable to run with a spare even an expensive player is surely cheaper than the out lay on new visas housing flights etc… they couldn’t be much difference in the cost?
I always wonder why the top sides don’t do this. Every season you’ll need to bring in extra bodies, so why not strike when the market is nice rather than basically taking whoever you can find in the season.
Perhaps with the increased roster size this year compared to last season maybe Fox might be thinking we could run shorter bench for a little while? Then giving chance for any injury to player(s) to recover.
