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Post by lalalaprise on Apr 1, 2007 18:56:55 GMT -5
NO im not saying Halifax sucks, but like I said in my reply above...Cats fans wanna have their cake and eat it too. You cant play the underdog card when youre playing AT HOME for game 7. Moncton is not the underdog. What's the point of having cake and not eating it? This has been a very good year for "cake" this year, rebuilding team 4th overall. A 1st round win would be more frosting on top. Frosting on top for a 4th overall team to win 1 round?? I think winning one round would be expected out of a team that finished 4th overall...frosting would be making it to round 3...not making it out of round 1. If Moncton is such huge underdogs they should play the game in Halifax
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Post by Cristobal Huet on Apr 1, 2007 19:39:00 GMT -5
What's the point of having cake and not eating it? This has been a very good year for "cake" this year, rebuilding team 4th overall. A 1st round win would be more frosting on top. Frosting on top for a 4th overall team to win 1 round?? I think winning one round would be expected out of a team that finished 4th overall...frosting would be making it to round 3...not making it out of round 1. If Moncton is such huge underdogs they should play the game in Halifax It's not a normal 4th place team. They lost 3/4 of their team that won the Cup the year before. The team on the ice now also lost Samson and Bourdon. That's why it's not your normal #4 vs #14 series. Moncton is not an underdog, it's a series that could go either way, that's why they are playing game 7 Tuesday.
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Post by SteveUL on Apr 1, 2007 19:39:59 GMT -5
What's the point of having cake and not eating it? This has been a very good year for "cake" this year, rebuilding team 4th overall. A 1st round win would be more frosting on top. Frosting on top for a 4th overall team to win 1 round?? I think winning one round would be expected out of a team that finished 4th overall...frosting would be making it to round 3...not making it out of round 1. If Moncton is such huge underdogs they should play the game in Halifax Moncton played consistently almost all year ... while Halifax under-achieved almost all year. Only recently did you guys finally put it altogether and start winning games regularly. If you had played reasonably consistently you could have been 4th in the Q ... you have always been a more talented and more experienced team than Moncton is ... so why did you finish 14th ?
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Post by damina on Apr 1, 2007 22:11:34 GMT -5
because Halifax Sucks! Go Cat's Go!!!!!!!!!
gotta go, must buy Concert Tix at Magnetic Hill Concert site. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Seriously though, what is there to like about Halifax?
answer, that we don't live there!!!!!! Mouseheads 3 WildCats 4.
Cat's Win in 7!
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Post by Peter Loubardias on Apr 1, 2007 23:18:52 GMT -5
because Halifax Sucks! Go Cat's Go!!!!!!!!! gotta go, must buy Concert Tix at Magnetic Hill Concert site. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Seriously though, what is there to like about Halifax? answer, that we don't live there!!!!!! Mouseheads 3 WildCats 4. Cat's Win in 7! Say whatttt..?
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Post by lalalaprise on Apr 1, 2007 23:38:32 GMT -5
Frosting on top for a 4th overall team to win 1 round?? I think winning one round would be expected out of a team that finished 4th overall...frosting would be making it to round 3...not making it out of round 1. If Moncton is such huge underdogs they should play the game in Halifax Moncton played consistently almost all year ... while Halifax under-achieved almost all year. Only recently did you guys finally put it altogether and start winning games regularly. If you had played reasonably consistently you could have been 4th in the Q ... you have always been a more talented and more experienced team than Moncton is ... so why did you finish 14th ? Halifax finished 14th because they arent as good as Moncton who finished 4th. You guys can slice and dice it all you want...fact is Halifax traded away vets at the deadline and we got younger. Its not like Halifax has impact players and they underacheived all season. Plus, Halifax's young players arent rookies but they are just as young as Moncton's players. I see people talking about "13 rookies" for Moncton, but both teams avg age is about the same. I just honestly dont get why so many Moncton fans on here think Halifax is the better team on paper...4th vs 14th is a huge difference in standing.
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Post by SteveUL on Apr 2, 2007 6:32:12 GMT -5
Moncton played consistently almost all year ... while Halifax under-achieved almost all year. Only recently did you guys finally put it altogether and start winning games regularly. If you had played reasonably consistently you could have been 4th in the Q ... you have always been a more talented and more experienced team than Moncton is ... so why did you finish 14th ? Halifax finished 14th because they arent as good as Moncton who finished 4th. You guys can slice and dice it all you want...fact is Halifax traded away vets at the deadline and we got younger. Its not like Halifax has impact players and they underacheived all season. Plus, Halifax's young players arent rookies but they are just as young as Moncton's players. I see people talking about "13 rookies" for Moncton, but both teams avg age is about the same. I just honestly dont get why so many Moncton fans on here think Halifax is the better team on paper...4th vs 14th is a huge difference in standing. Halifax has been every bit as good as Moncton all year ... the season series of 3-3 shows that in the head to head match ups ... Halifax has more skill ... more talented players ... more experience. Just because you under-achieved all year is not our fault. Its quite telling with the series tied 3-3 that the regular season record is very similar ...nothing has changed. Moncton is not a better team ... just more consistent over the long haul ... especially on the road. In the pre-season prediction threads ... Halifax was selected to finish 3rd or 4th in the east by most ... but under-achieved. At the end of the year they finally started playing like they should have been playing all year ... what took you so long ? Its very sad that you come on here pointing the finger at Moncton for having a better season than your Moose ... its not our fault.
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Post by Cristobal Huet on Apr 2, 2007 7:01:37 GMT -5
Moncton played consistently almost all year ... while Halifax under-achieved almost all year. Only recently did you guys finally put it altogether and start winning games regularly. If you had played reasonably consistently you could have been 4th in the Q ... you have always been a more talented and more experienced team than Moncton is ... so why did you finish 14th ? Halifax finished 14th because they arent as good as Moncton who finished 4th. You guys can slice and dice it all you want...fact is Halifax traded away vets at the deadline and we got younger. Its not like Halifax has impact players and they underacheived all season. Plus, Halifax's young players arent rookies but they are just as young as Moncton's players. I see people talking about "13 rookies" for Moncton, but both teams avg age is about the same. I just honestly dont get why so many Moncton fans on here think Halifax is the better team on paper...4th vs 14th is a huge difference in standing. The difference in a rookie and a 2nd year guy of the same age is that the rookie is not used to having an 8 month season or 80+ game schedule(including preseason and playoffs).
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Post by schrader on Apr 2, 2007 7:20:02 GMT -5
because Halifax Sucks! Go Cat's Go!!!!!!!!! gotta go, must buy Concert Tix at Magnetic Hill Concert site. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Seriously though, what is there to like about Halifax? answer, that we don't live there!!!!!! Mouseheads 3 WildCats 4. Cat's Win in 7! How Old Are You? Any how after I was all over them for shitting the bed in game 5 in moncton and then winning games 6 in halifax I'm going to have to give the boys credit for bringing the game 7 back to moncton and to give us a much better game/effort at home. Will be a close one . Moncton 5 Halifax 3
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Post by CrazyJoeDevola on Apr 2, 2007 7:33:47 GMT -5
Halifax finished 14th because they arent as good as Moncton who finished 4th. You guys can slice and dice it all you want...fact is Halifax traded away vets at the deadline and we got younger. Its not like Halifax has impact players and they underacheived all season. Plus, Halifax's young players arent rookies but they are just as young as Moncton's players. I see people talking about "13 rookies" for Moncton, but both teams avg age is about the same. I just honestly dont get why so many Moncton fans on here think Halifax is the better team on paper...4th vs 14th is a huge difference in standing. Halifax has been every bit as good as Moncton all year ... the season series of 3-3 shows that in the head to head match ups ... Halifax has more skill ... more talented players ... more experience. Just because you under-achieved all year is not our fault. Its quite telling with the series tied 3-3 that the regular season record is very similar ...nothing has changed. Moncton is not a better team ... just more consistent over the long haul ... especially on the road. In the pre-season prediction threads ... Halifax was selected to finish 3rd or 4th in the east by most ... but under-achieved. At the end of the year they finally started playing like they should have been playing all year ... what took you so long ? Its very sad that you come on here pointing the finger at Moncton for having a better season than your Moose ... its not our fault. I don't see how this makes sense at all. We underacheived (or were inconsistent) in the first half. The team most predicted would be 3rd-5th (with Bat/PEI) is the roster we had in November. They werent getting it done. We changed plans, and traded a ton of our experience (Saulnier, Poirer, Lomanno, Chaisson) and the biggest piece, Duchesne. We went with an unproven goaltending tandem the rest of the way, more or less making a first round exit fairly inevitable, but using the experience to work on developing the youth. Down the stretch, the team started to gel, mainly by scoring goals. The defense and goaltending has always had some consistency issues. And we are seeing it here in this series from game to game. I do feel we are/were playing better than Moncton down the stretch, and in the series. So you could argue we are as good or better, as some of you seem to be doing. But this all seems like a built-in excuse in case you lose to a 14th place team. Because you KNOW in future debates, there will be no Moncton fans looking back at this year saying "Halifax were better than Moncton that year"... all you have to do is point to the record and the final standings. Moncton had a great year, and are sputtering at playoff time. Moose are trying to take advantage of that and pull off the upset. Like LaLa said, we arent a team loaded in talent that has simply underacheived all year... we are a different team now than in December... it was a complete shift of strategy. We may have underacheived in the first half... and into February... but its only been the past month that we've overacheived. I think you have it backwards. Just because Moncton hit a slump pre-playoffs, while the moose hit a hot streak, doesnt mean we have always been the better team. If this is what you want to argue, than does this apply to future debates? We will discount the final standings when referring to this year, or other years when a higher seed gets knocked off? That will be a first on these boards. Had we played you guys in february, you probably would have been looking at a 5 or 6 game series win. Your 4th place, consistent team just went cold at the wrong time and ran into a hot team. They still have the advantage now though, game 7 at home after a big game 6 win. I think both teams are destined for a second round loss, but I'd still love to win the series and complete the upset, as the moose have been the better team so far. But our inconsistency has reared its ugly head at times in this series. And Moncton have looked very ordinary, after a very consistent, successful effort all year. It's been a bizarre series so far, completely unpredictable from period to period. Game 7 should be interesting. Lets hope we see one of the biggest upsets in years not involving Cape Breton, a 14th place team beating a fourth place team...
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Post by Not2wonder on Apr 2, 2007 7:40:23 GMT -5
That would make the underachieve season excusable for you..........
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Post by bystander on Apr 2, 2007 7:50:01 GMT -5
"Plus, Halifax's young players arent rookies but they are just as young as Moncton's players. I see people talking about "13 rookies" for Moncton, but both teams avg age is about the same."
So let me understand this. Every other player the same age as ...say Crosby ... should be as good as he is. So a team of 20 Chris Moorehouse type players..should be able to be as good as a team of 20 Crosby type players. That theory will float about as much as the Mooseheads trying to cross Halifax harbour without a boat.
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Post by CrazyJoeDevola on Apr 2, 2007 8:10:57 GMT -5
So let me understand this. Every other player the same age as ...say Crosby ... should be as good as he is. So a team of 20 Chris Moorehouse type players..should be able to be as good as a team of 20 Crosby type players. That theory will float about as much as the Mooseheads trying to cross Halifax harbour without a boat. We have two bridges. So its very possible.
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Post by Penguins23 on Apr 2, 2007 8:24:39 GMT -5
"Plus, Halifax's young players arent rookies but they are just as young as Moncton's players. I see people talking about "13 rookies" for Moncton, but both teams avg age is about the same." So let me understand this. Every other player the same age as ...say Crosby ... should be as good as he is. So a team of 20 Chris Moorehouse type players..should be able to be as good as a team of 20 Crosby type players. That theory will float about as much as the Mooseheads trying to cross Halifax harbour without a boat. Look at my signature. I think it's pretty obvious the 20 Chris Morehouse would be better.
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Post by Milo on Apr 2, 2007 8:28:47 GMT -5
because Halifax Sucks! gotta go, must buy Concert Tix at Magnetic Hill Concert site. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Seriously though, what is there to like about Halifax? answer, that we don't live there!!!!!! Ugh.... just stop. Go write for the Times & Transcript or something.... they're all about stuff like this.
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