AAA2012 Prelims: St. John's Ice Caps vs. Birmingham Barracudas

[seventieslord]

Captain: Paul Ysebaert
Alternates: Kevin McCarthey, Bob Errey

Nathan Horton - Greg Malone - Phil Kessel
Marco Sturm - Anatoli Semenov - Bill Flett
Bob Errey - Paul Ysebaert - Dan Cleary
Greg Gilbert - Randy Wood - Garry Howatt

Brad Stuart - Patrice Brisebois
Francois Beauchemin - Boris Mironov
Kevin McCarthy - Muzz Patrick

Guy Hebert
Ron Tugnutt

Coach - Sid Abel

Spares:
- Brad May
- Herb Carnegie
- Roxy Beaudro
- Terry Carkner

PP1: Horton - Malone - Kessel - Mironov - Brisebois
PP2: Sturm - Semenov - Flett - McCarthy - Stuart
PK1: Sturm - Wood - Stuart - Beauchemin
PK2: Ysebaert - Cleary - Brisebois - Patrick

VS

Barracudas

Coach: Ted Nolan

Alex Semin - Eddy Olczyk - Justin Williams
Sergi Samsonov - Daymond Langkow - Bill Hicke
Jochen Hecht - Thomas Plekanec - Ric Seiling
Freddy Modin - Mike Silinger - Dustin Bufuglein
Spares: Jason Blake, Derek Roy, Kelly Buchberger

Paul Martin - Kyle McLaren
Frank Eddolls - Igor Kravchuk
Bob Lorimer -Vladimir Marakhov
Spares: Toni Lydman,


Mike Palameteer
Don Simmons

PP!: Semin - Olczyk - Samsonov - Marakhov- Martin
PP2: Modin - Plekanec - Williams - Kravchuck - Bufuglien
PK1: Plekanec - Seiling - Mclaren - Martin
PK2: Langkow- Hecht - Lorimer - Eddolls
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[seventieslord]

Debate!

If you're a lower ranked team you can't possible expect to win without explaining how you're going to do it, right?

 

[Johnny Engine]

Ok, well I'm not the lower ranked team here (thanks guys!) but here are a few advantages I think I may have:

A better goalie. Palmateer basically has a four season resume as an above average goaltender, he hung for 3 more, but he didn't perform any better on bad teams than some non-impressive backups. Hebert has 7 straight seasons of .900+ goaltending, with finishes of 4,5, and 6 among them. He appears to have also played well in 1991-92 backing up Curtis Joseph. His one season of winding down, 2000, he had his job taken by an upstart Giguere, so there's no reason to believe he should have been chased out of the league by any means. Both goalies have one out-and-out failure of a season each, 1982 and 1983 respectively. In fairness, Palmateer had knee surgery that year, but going 2-7 with a 4.83 GAA is bad any way you suture it. That and his only have 1 60+ game season raises durability questions, unsurprising for an unorthodox athletic goalie.


A more offensively talented defense. The below are adjusted point seasons over 30. (Beauchemin has 1 as well). It should be noted that Brisebois and especially Stuart have been relied on by their NHL teams as defensive stalwarts as well, so I don't believe this is an irresponsible group either (Malakhov's placement in your lineup suggests you don't trust him much yourself, for what it's worth).

Mironov: 56, 52, 40, 33, 31
Brisebois: 42, 38, 38, 38, 37, 36, 35, 33
Stuart: 45, 42, 39, 33
McCarthy: 41, 38, 33, 32

Malakhov: 52, 50, 41, 39, 32, 31
Kravchuk: 45, 40, 31, 30
Martin: 36, 35, 33

A tougher top 6. I have Flett and Horton as power forwards on each of my top two lines. I don't see any such equivalents on the Barracudas.

Sorry about the absence, Christmas be crazy.

 

[seventieslord]

Ok, well I'm not the lower ranked team here (thanks guys!)

Heh. The thought was, that statement would make your opponent come in here and make some points, which you would then have to respond to!

But good on you for serving up the first volley.

 

[seventieslord]

seriously BudsBuster. Don't disappoint me! You did really well for a first time. If you're gonna go out, go out with a bang. Or don't go out at all! Make a good case and maybe you win.

 

[seventieslord]

This one was extremely close and had to be decided by the number of games in the votes.

In game 7 OT... your winner is....... St. John's.

3 stars:

Guy Hebert
Ed Olczyk
Mike Palmateer