I think it's imperative that Piroinen show something for the organization to put faith in him to be the starter next year. If he plays at the level thus far the organization will probably need to acquire another goalie to push Piroinen or possibly be #1.
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I think it's imperative that Piroinen show something for the organization to put faith in him to be the starter next year. If he plays at the level thus far the organization will probably need to acquire another goalie to push Piroinen or possibly be #1.
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What has Piiroinen lacked so far? He's literally a rookie who's played 11 games. If he continues on his trajectory, I see no reason why he's not the starter next season.
I don’t discredit the Memorial Cup. We won, regardless of the format.
That being said, good chance if we want a memorial cup game in the next 10 years, we won’t be hosting. I don’t take anything away from the cup because we hosted. We didn’t make the format, we followed it, and won it. A memorial cup is a Memorial cup.
To see this young club win a playoff series this year, would say a lot to the fans and themselves about the future of this team.
Last time the Spitfires won a series, I was still a Whalers fan. I wouldn’t mind seeing the team play some April games.
Nobody is discrediting the Memorial Cup. People have their opinions on that season in general. That was my point over a year ago if they ever want to play in a Memorial Cup again it will take 16 playoff wins.
If this team has any intention of winning a playoff series their D has to be better, their vets have to play like vets and get very good goaltending. Also it most likely would take winning 2 games on the road if they don't have home ice. Even last year winning game 1 against Sarnia everybody knew Windsor was going to have to win another game on the road. Sarnia was too talented not to win at least 1 in Windsor.
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DiPietro wins his debut as in Ottawa.
Lots of goal support for him.
He must like that.
Lots of goal support for him.
He must like that.
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Realistically Ottawa didn’t need Mikey but what we got for him seems like it is more then we might have else where as teams seem pretty content in net. Plus if Oshawa or SSM sell off a bit, they could move 2 of the top 5 tenders.
Good to see Mikey win today. Hopefully he can bring gold to Canada and break the shutout record this year. Would also be nice to see Ottawa win the league if Windsor doesn’t make it of course lol
Good to see Mikey win today. Hopefully he can bring gold to Canada and break the shutout record this year. Would also be nice to see Ottawa win the league if Windsor doesn’t make it of course lol
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DiPietro was a luxury buy, a "would be nice to have" want, not a need, for Ottawa. Hence the price they paid - basically a third round pick this year (they had multiple seconds and sent us their worst one - is VERY telling) . The get him to stack their goalies to guard against any injury AND to keep him from a potential play-off rival where he could steal the series on his own. They didn't need him - it was a buyers market. Actually worse - there wasn't a market. Rychel started reaching out to teams to sell them on Mike.
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Murray from Barrie to Saginaw. They just got a little better/tougher. We play them twice this weekend.
It must have been obvious to Ottawa that he was never going to report. The Spits have a much better chance of signing him since it is much closer to his home in the Detroit area. I expect his decision will happen sometime after the NHL draft and before Michigan State's semester opens in late August. If he looks like a sure-fire NHLer, there are a lot of benefits to playing in the OHL. He can attend the NHL team's training camp and sign a Pro contract. The downside is that since he will have been drafted from the USHL, the NHL could sign him and send to the AHL.
Spirit need a goalie.
They have had issues trying to keep the puck out of their net against Windsor.
Agree with others who were fairly impressed with the debuts of rookie dman Dylan Robinson and veteran goalie Colton Inzce Friday night in Sarnia.
Both deserve to play more this upcoming week.
Robinson followed up his debut with his best game of the season for LaSalle last night scoring 1G and adding 2 assists in 4-3 loss.
Has nice upside looking forward to seeing how this youngster develops as he is the 4th 16 year old that the Spits have signed.
Both deserve to play more this upcoming week.
Robinson followed up his debut with his best game of the season for LaSalle last night scoring 1G and adding 2 assists in 4-3 loss.
Has nice upside looking forward to seeing how this youngster develops as he is the 4th 16 year old that the Spits have signed.
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Would definitely like to see Robinson back in this weekend. Get him in the line up as much as possible between now and the deadline to see how he progresses and make a decision at that time as to where he should finish off the year.
As for the goaltending Windsor should run a 50/50 split for the next few weeks to get Piiroinen on a regular rotation. Keep it predictable now that DiPietro is gone. After the deadline start giving him 2 out of 3 and as long as he adjusts and improves his play keep increasing his starts. Yes he needs to earn his starts but he needs to know regardless of how the team in front of him does he has the coaches confidence when he earns it. He's a rookie but he's also the future so he needs the opportunity to recover when he makes his mistakes.
Nothing against Inzce but Piiroinen's development has to be priority while Inzce is a somewhat known quantity in the league his value comes from proving he's reliable when needed.
Start Piiroinen Thursday, Inzce next game and so on.
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Most info here is in fact wrong. No idea where it comes from. I hope you don’t believe what you hear on a newscast and spit it out as fact??
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