AAA 2014 Quarterfinals: Fargo-Moorhead Ice Sharks vs. Seattle Metropolitans

[seventieslord]

Danny Grant - Bones Raleigh (C) - Blaine Stoughton
Alex Shibicky - Dutch Reibel - Joe Carveth
Johnny Sheppard - Bob Gracie - Joe Lamb
Paul Ysebaert - Curtis Brown (A) - Wildor Larochelle
Cecil Blachford - Mud Bruneteau

Joe Cooper - Kent Douglas
Reg Hamilton - Barry Ashbee (A)
Albert Langlois - Gary Sargent
Ralph Bowman - Tom Poti

Arturs Irbe
Don Beaupre

Coach: Jacques Martin

PP1: Grant - Raleigh - Stoughton - Shibicky - Sargent
PP2: Sheppard - Reibel - Carveth - Douglas - Cooper
PK1: Brown - Larochelle - Cooper - Douglas
PK2: Gee - Lamb - Hamilton - Ashbee
PK3: Brown - Ysebaert - Langlois - Sargent

VS

Coaching Staff - Terry Crisp, Clare Drake

Captain - Schock
Alternates - Marshall, McEachern

Shawn McEachern (A) --- Robert Lang --- Ray Sheppard
Rick Dudley --- Jozef Stumpel --- Mike Bullard
Jochen Hecht --- Ron Schock (C) --- Leroy Goldsworthy
Armand Mondou --- Manny Malhotra --- Mike Grier

Bert Marshall (A) --- Doug Lidster
Vladmir Malakhov --- Boris Mironov
Tom Kurvers --- Hugh Bolton

"Sugar" Jim Henry
Carey Price

Ex : Sergei Mozyakin (LW), Skinner Poulin (C), Evgeny Paladiev (D)

Power Play

McEachern --- Lang --- Sheppard
Malakhov --- Mironov

Dudley --- Stumpel --- Bullard
Kurvers --- Lidster

Penalty Kill

Hecht --- Malhotra
Marshall --- Bolton

McEachern --- Grier
Malakhov --- Lidster


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[ResilientBeast]

Just to start this party

First Line

Danny Grant - Bones Raleigh (C) - Blaine Stoughton
vs
Shawn McEachern (A) --- Robert Lang --- Ray Sheppard
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Bones Raleigh >= Robert Lang
Danny Grant < Ray Sheppard
Blaine Stoughton < Shawn McEachern

Edge Seattle

Second Line

Alex Shibicky - Dutch Reibel - Joe Carveth
vs
Rick Dudley --- Jozef Stumpel --- Mike Bullard
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Dutch Reibel << Jozef Stumpel
Alex Shibicky > Mike Bullard (Mainly because of the question of Bullards RW eligibiliy)
Joe Carveth > Rick Dudley

Tie, better center for Seattle, but the wingers have question marks.

 

[Hedberg]

Bones Raleigh >= Robert Lang
Danny Grant < Ray Sheppard
Blaine Stoughton < Shawn McEachern

Edge Seattle

I think we need to look at the wingers as a whole as Sheppard/Stoughton are the one dimensional wingers whereas Grant and McEachern are the glue players. I don't think there's really a significant edge anywhere. McEachern is more rounded than Grant, but Grant is a better goal scorer. Sheppard was probably a bit better goal scorer than Stoughton which helps to erase the goal edge Grant has.

 

[seventieslord]

McEachern better than Stoughton? How?

I personally have Grant ahead of Sheppard due to VsX and neither bringing anything else major to the table, and they're not even close in that regard, but this has got me wondering if maybe it's just a case of badly chosen benchmarks in some seasons. Because career-wise, they look pretty close. Sheppard was very Tim Kerr-like in that he wasn't as good as his numbers, and was a very linemate-dependent, visually unappealing player.

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Fargo-Moorehead Wins in 7 games

3 Stars
1. Raleigh
2. Henry
3. Several tied (Irbe, Marshall, Grant, Lang)


EDIT: Changed from 6 games to 7 games