Owen Sound Attack 2018-19 Season Thread (Part 3)

[AttackRinkRat]

In case you missed it, nice article about Nolan Seed.
Seed stays cool through turbulent rookie season

 

[LDN]

GO ATTACK GO tonight ...go for the sweep!

 

[AttackSound]

GO ATTACK GO tonight ...go for the sweep!

Thanks for the praise LDN

 

[Pond Hockey]

Keeping momentum and consistency has been tough for the Attack all year. Hopefully they can keep the momentum from Game 1 and play another solid road game. Credit Guzda for a huge game. A couple of odd goals, but he made saves when mattered most and overall played very well. Perhaps his best game in his OHL career.

I would expect the Hounds to come out strong right from puck drop. They looked flat in the first period on Thursday, I expect that won't be the case tonight.

Attack will need to score 5-on-5. Can't count on 3 PPG's per game very often.

GO ATTACK GO!!

 

[TO Attack Fan]

Keeping momentum and consistency has been tough for the Attack all year. Hopefully they can keep the momentum from Game 1 and play another solid road game. Credit Guzda for a huge game. A couple of odd goals, but he made saves when mattered most and overall played very well. Perhaps his best game in his OHL career.

I would expect the Hounds to come out strong right from puck drop. They looked flat in the first period on Thursday, I expect that won't be the case tonight.

Attack will need to score 5-on-5. Can't count on 3 PPG's per game very often.

GO ATTACK GO!!

Guzda's exceptional play earned him first star honours in last night's contest. He faced 90+ shots over the last two games. The last two Soo goals were empty netters. The kid's on fire!!!

 

[Gouin Street]

Couldnt agree with you more TO Attack Fan. He has outplayed Villalta up to this point. He is a treat to watch, and will be the next couple yrs.

 

[HockeyPops]

Couldnt agree with you more TO Attack Fan. He has outplayed Villalta up to this point. He is a treat to watch, and will be the next couple yrs.

Guzda has definitely been the better goalie of the two. But Villalta has been very good too, although he has a penchant for letting in a weak goal here or there when he isn't as busy in net. He has always thrived when kept busy. He needs to find a way to stay as sharp even when the play is at the other end for prolonged periods.

 

[PensFan101]

About as good a two games as the Attack could hope for. Love seeing Guzda rising up at the right time and giving this team a chance. To me, he's clearly the guy for this team going forward, and any games that the Attack can still win in this series will be because of him.

Won't be at Game 3 but so excited to be at Game 4 on Wednesday. We've got a series!

 

[Millpond]

Guzda has definitely been the better goalie of the two. But Villalta has been very good too, although he has a penchant for letting in a weak goal here or there when he isn't as busy in net. He has always thrived when kept busy. He needs to find a way to stay as sharp even when the play is at the other end for prolonged periods.

That can be a goalie killer. Standing there freezing, waiting for some action .

 

[DWI Dale]

guzda is a stud.

 

[Gohoundsgo]

That can be a goalie killer. Standing there freezing, waiting for some action .

Yup, I think the game was about half over by the time he faced his 8th shot.

 

[DavelPatsyuk]

Couldnt agree with you more TO Attack Fan. He has outplayed Villalta up to this point. He is a treat to watch, and will be the next couple yrs.

To be fair it’s a lot more difficult to stay in a game when you’ve faced six shots through 30 minutes of play. That definitely effects it.

That being said Guzda showed potential last year, and he’s shown he’s grown further this year. Been a treat to watch.

 

[three dog night]

Big game tomorrow

 

[Attackfan43]

Very sad announcement to pass along.

Jeffrey Chapman has passed away. Was active on the fan pages on facebook. Huge attack supporter.


Will be missed.

 

[Millpond]

So very sad to hear about Jeffrey's passing. He loved the Attack, and his town .

It was a priveledge to know you, Jeff.

Rest In Peace

 

[rangersblues]

Sad news. Prayers to Jeffrey's family and friends.

 

[three dog night]

That is sad news prayers to Jeffrey family and friend.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Well almost game time. Looking forward to watching the matchup. Bears are always tough at home.

 

[HLLYWD99]

A shorty!

 

[Cynical Canadian]

I wish we could get the Owen Sound radio feed, these SSM guys are brutal.

 

[Northernstormfan]

Why isn't there a radio broadcast from Owen Sound tonight? Having to listen to the Soo broadcast is unbearable. They're horrible.

 

[Noofgoof]

Why isn't there a radio broadcast from Owen Sound tonight? Having to listen to the Soo broadcast is unbearable. They're horrible.

We don’t broadcast the home games in OS on our radio just our road games

 

[Millpond]

Joey Hishon on the Attack playoff loss tonight-"that's playoff hockey, like it or not, where the men are men, and the sheep are nervous".

 

[AttackSound]

Why isn't there a radio broadcast from Owen Sound tonight? Having to listen to the Soo broadcast is unbearable. They're horrible.

To add to what was already mentioned, the Attack are in an interesting situation as the city population is only around 20,000. The region of Grey Bruce counties makes up the vast population of supporting fans.

This would probably fall under it's own thread one day but but keep in mind that the Attack draw the majority of its attendance from the surrounding populus so to draw more fans to attend home games the team chooses not to air home games on the main AM radio station 560 AM.

Having said that there has only ever been 2 broadcasts from the Bayshore in history on CFOS ever both in the past 2 seasons.

The other factor that plays a fairly big factor is that with the exception of the Barrie Colts in the league who have no real local AM transmitter for radio, most of the league has their own agreements with radio Broadcasting companies in their own home centres.

As of April 1999 when the Platers were resurrected at the Attack, the team doesn't physically buy the radio time from the radio station but in fact the radio stations on sports reporter Fred Wallace who doubles his roles throughout the season as PA announcer/ and local sports reporter for Bayshore Broadcasting which owns 3 radio frequencies in the city.

560 CFOS AM
106.5 FM
93.7 FM

Which all rebroadcast sports updates and Attack news. In reality you'll probably never see Owen Sound Attack games broadcast at home more then once or twice a season, or for a specific specialty game.

The only two times they ever broadcasted them where both Guelph games late in the season the past 2 seasons, and that was only because of the ties between both cities that date back to 1989 when the team were the Platers and relocated from Guelph to Owen Sound.

Not to all count that Mr. Fred Wallace is very much a well respected and somewhat of a legend in Owen Sound and OHL community.

 

[Living Vicariously]

So very sad to hear about Jeffrey's passing. He loved the Attack, and his town .

It was a priveledge to know you, Jeff.

Rest In Peace

Condolences from the Guelph area. It’s always sad to lose someone so soon - and this was way too soon. Thoughts and prayers to family, friends, fans, players and all.