I'm going to try and do this each week, if anyone can think of things to add to the overview let me know.
Elite League Standings
Team
GP
W
L
OTL
SOL
Pts
Belfast Giants
12
8
2
0
2
18
Sheffield Steelers
13
8
4
0
1
17
Nottingham Panthers
12
7
3
1
1
16
Dundee Stars
12
7
4
0
1
15
Coventry Blaze
11
6
2
2
1
15
Braehead Clan
11
6
4
1
0
13
Cardiff Devils
12
5
4
1
2
13
Fife Flyers
9
6
3
0
0
12
Hull Stingrays
12
2
6
0
4
8
Edinburgh Capitals
12
3
8
0
1
7
This weekends Fixtures
Fri, Oct 19,
(Challenge Cup) Cardiff 3 at Sheffield 4 (SO) - GWG - Drew Fata
Man of the Match Awards : Stuart MacRae(CAR), Drew Fata(SHE)
Attendance: 3,246
Sat, Oct 20
6:30 pm
Dundee at Hull
7:00 pm
(League + Cup)Fife at Braehead
Sheffield at Coventry
Sun, Oct 21
6:00 pm
Nottingham at Cardiff
Coventry at Edinburgh
Hull at Sheffield
6:30 pm
Fife at Dundee
Last edited by AlanHUK: 10-20-2012 at 06:48 AM.
Reason: Friday result
Being more up to date than the EIHL site confused me for a moment. Then again, having CC games doubled up with the League and the like confuses me too, which is why I love this blog post.
Our teams seem to do well and get through to the next round.
I went to Bolzano a few years ago to see the Steelers play HYS Den Haag, Maribor and Bolzano. Beating the Italian champs, with some of their top players was great.
It was pretty cool that it was just down the mountain from Ritten where Ashley Tait was playing so I got to go up and watch him play as well, then some of their fans came to see us play against their rivals Bolzano.
If nothing else the Continental Cup is pretty cool for the fans.
If they do make it through to the next round, they'll have to play the VHL champions
The year we got through we played a team from Minsk (I can't remember their name off-hand), Rouen and Red Bull Salzburg.
Some serious opposition there.
That wasn't a bad performance by the Blaze... ok it was. But it was a better away game from Steelers. Finnerty seems to have learned how to coach, because that was the perfect game. Kept Blaze to outside, forced the dump and chase etc.
You would think a Toronto newspaper would get right which EIHL team Wade Belak played for. I also like how they described Edinburgh's player recruitment as "Troll Eastern Europe"
I'm not a big EIHL follower by any stretch, but I do love me some GB National Team. Now that Ben Bowns is actually getting starts in the top league over there, how is he looking compared to Murphy?
Of course you have to take into consideration Murphy plays on a much much better team.
Quick stat break down:
Stephen Murphy is 9-3-2 with a .925Save% and a 2.04GAA. Murphy also faces 27.2 Shots against per game.
Ben Bowns is 4-7-4 with a .895Save% and 3.72GAA. Bowns faces 35.7 Shots against per game. That's a significant difference from Murphy's work load on a nightly basis.
Considering the key stats (Save% and GAA) they look worlds apart but all things considered it actually looks like Bowns could be closing in to Murphy's level. He looks like he's proving he deserved a starting job in the EIHL at 21.
I just want to avoid people telling me the numbers because they don't mean much when the guys are in 2 very different situations lol. My point of posting is to find out who looks like they could be the better goalie when it comes time to compete for GB?
From my computer desk in Canada I can guess Murphy's the present and Bowns is the future but I want to know what first hand observers think. Is it almost time for the future to be now?
I'm not a big EIHL follower by any stretch, but I do love me some GB National Team. Now that Ben Bowns is actually getting starts in the top league over there, how is he looking compared to Murphy?
Of course you have to take into consideration Murphy plays on a much much better team.
Quick stat break down:
Stephen Murphy is 9-3-2 with a .925Save% and a 2.04GAA. Murphy also faces 27.2 Shots against per game.
Ben Bowns is 4-7-4 with a .895Save% and 3.72GAA. Bowns faces 35.7 Shots against per game. That's a significant difference from Murphy's work load on a nightly basis.
Considering the key stats (Save% and GAA) they look worlds apart but all things considered it actually looks like Bowns could be closing in to Murphy's level. He looks like he's proving he deserved a starting job in the EIHL at 21.
I just want to avoid people telling me the numbers because they don't mean much when the guys are in 2 very different situations lol. My point of posting is to find out who looks like they could be the better goalie when it comes time to compete for GB?
From my computer desk in Canada I can guess Murphy's the present and Bowns is the future but I want to know what first hand observers think. Is it almost time for the future to be now?
Murphy is definitely the better goalie right now, plus he has the advantage of experience. Anyway, GB are not known for playing the kids over players they've trusted for years.
Bowns might be given a start against Romania to rest Murphy for the Japan game, we'll have to wait and see.
