Norfolk Admirals win 28 straight to end regular season
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NORFOLK, Va. – Goals by Ondrej Palat and Philip-Michael Devos helped to erase a one-goal deficit, as the Norfolk Admirals (49-18-1-2) defeated the St. John’s IceCaps (39-21-5-3), 2-1, on Friday night in front of 7,348 fans at Norfolk Scope Arena. The Admirals' extended their winning streak to 22 games after completing the two-game sweep of St. John’s.
Jon Cooper has been amazing with Norfolk, Tokarski and Janus both have 20 wins, Conacher is a machine. This matches (I believe) the Houston Rockets win streak.
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Capped off with a big win and hat trick by MVP Cory Conacher, what a finish.
Last edited by Still All In: 04-15-2012 at 08:58 PM.
The East is pretty weak. The first round they will get a team like Syracuse. Connecticut and BPort are okay, if they get Hershey I think they are the biggest threat, they have exercised some of their WBS demons this year.
The East is pretty weak. The first round they will get a team like Syracuse. Connecticut and BPort are okay, if they get Hershey I think they are the biggest threat, they have exercised some of their WBS demons this year.
The east is weak as a whole. That is why none of them want to come to the west. The last time a hot eastern conference team did a west conference swing, they won something like 1 of 8 games. I think it was Providence the year they had 110+ points.
Last edited by Tommy Hawk: 04-02-2012 at 10:28 AM.
The east is weak as a whole. That is why none of them want to come to the west. The last time a hot eastern conference team did a west conference swing, they won something like 1 of 8 games. I think it was Providence the year they had 110+ points.
I don't have numbers for the entire Eastern Conference, but since the Sharks moved to Worcester they are 11-3-0-0 vs Western Conference teams and the divisions they were playing in (Atlantic/East) are (as of this morning) 80-69-4-7 vs the Western Conference.
I don't have numbers for the entire Eastern Conference, but since the Sharks moved to Worcester they are 11-3-0-0 vs Western Conference teams and the divisions they were playing in (Atlantic/East) are (as of this morning) 80-69-4-7 vs the Western Conference.
They have played Houston and San Antonio and Rochester. Please. They haven't played the Admirals, Chicago, Rockford, Peoria, etc.
Also, the Admirals streak is interesting. How many of those wins were OT or shootout? So comparing them to teams that played before OT and shootouts is not a fair comparison so to say they surpassed, they had more opportunities to win since all games must now have a winner.
They have played Houston and San Antonio and Rochester. Please. They haven't played the Admirals, Chicago, Rockford, Peoria, etc.
I'm just pointing out that what you posted doesn't match the small sample size I'm aware of.
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Also, the Admirals streak is interesting. How many of those wins were OT or shootout? So comparing them to teams that played before OT and shootouts is not a fair comparison so to say they surpassed, they had more opportunities to win since all games must now have a winner.
That's something you could have looked up yourself in about 15 seconds. Norfolk is at 16 wins in a row in regulation. In the streak they have one non-regulation win.
The east is weak as a whole. That is why none of them want to come to the west. The last time a hot eastern conference team did a west conference swing, they won something like 1 of 8 games. I think it was Providence the year they had 110+ points.
In 2008 Providence had a winning record against the West that season, although they did go on a losing streak when they swung thru Rockford, Chicago and Houston. But it wasn't even close to 1-7.
Impossible to diminish what Norfolk has done here. I haven't checked the scores the last week or so, but many of the games midway thru this run in early March were not even close.
We don't know which conference is better because Andrews won't schedule many out of conference games. Bears fans have been waiting to play teams for years now. I can't even remember the last time we played Chicago, Milwaukee, Toronto, Hamilton, etc in the regular season. I know we have never played the newer teams like OKC, Peoria, and Rockford. Andrews needs to allow for more out of conference games and not let Hershey play Wilkes Barre 16 times a year and play Norfolk 8 times and so on
We don't know which conference is better because Andrews won't schedule many out of conference games. Bears fans have been waiting to play teams for years now. I can't even remember the last time we played Chicago, Milwaukee, Toronto, Hamilton, etc in the regular season. I know we have never played the newer teams like OKC, Peoria, and Rockford. Andrews needs to allow for more out of conference games and not let Hershey play Wilkes Barre 16 times a year and play Norfolk 8 times and so on
Andrews doesn't control the schedule - the owners do. Until they decide they want a more open schedule, it won't happen. Personally, I think we're not too far away from a total split of the conferences.
I've been surprised this is not more of a big deal. Winning 1/3rd of your season in a row is simply amazing to me, especially when you consider it's the longest streak in professional hockey history.
Your boys deserve to be playing in front of a big crowd
I think we could on a regular basis but A, we don't have a strong "home base", lots of transplants from other areas, due to the large military population, and B, said large military population.
