Manning will miss the next two months and thus the rest of the regular season, while Kimmo Kuhta leaves the team and returns to Finland because of family issues.
"Family issues"...turned out that Kimmo was just homesick as he just signed with Hifk, kinda pathetic really, grown man and all.
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"Im Bewusstsein der Menschen gerät Eishockey heute - gerade gegenüber Fußball - immer mehr in eine Sackgasse, weil es seit Jahren nicht mehr richtig wahrgenommen wird", sagt Schmellenkamp und warnt: "Wenn wir so weitermachen, ist Eishockey in zehn Jahren endgültig in der Versenkung verschwunden." Alle Verbände und Vereine sollten sich zusammensetzen, um über eine Renovierung der Darstellung der Sportart nachzudenken, sagt er: "Die Entwicklung der vergangenen Jahre hat die Bedeutung von Eishockey bei unseren Zielkunden deutlich geschwächt. Und das geht so weiter, wenn wir nichts dagegen unternehmen."
I wouldn't say that it's your typical DEL-game. Some refs don't call anything, some call everything and some change their mind multiple times per game, there is no clear cut line.
Apart from that, there are games where all those penalties are warranted. If players truly hook, hold and interfere all the time, it's their fault, not the ref's.
The problem is that there is no consistency and that the refs call way too many penalties on clean physical play. Sometimes it looks like they care more about preventing physical play than stick-fouls. They have to stop taking passion out of the game. Which you can only achieve if you actually let the players be physical, both with hits and with some pushing and shoving (or even punches) when things get heated. Don't jump right between them all the time, and don't hand out penalties every time two players push each other a bit.
Ironically enough, it was actually an extremely fascinating game.
I think both teams had a few select words for the officiating.
I think it's just amazing what Hannover does with that team, on that budget and a line-up so depleted that they can't dress four forward lines, even when using all of their young kids.
Things won't get easier either. They play 3 or 4 games over the Olympic break without Vikingstad, Reiss and the injured Herperger.
Gonna be very defensive battles and an opportunity for several kids to get some prime minutes.
Yeah, I'm going to miss Zach. At least they will continue with the "German" approach under Krinner.
I'd honestly couldn't identify with a North-American starting line-up.
looking at the scoring stats, its hard not to notice big young Marcel Muller. If I recall, he was highly rated for the NHL ENtry Draft in his draft year but everyone passed.
He seems to have developed well, scoring lots of points and leading his team in scoring. What is his NHL potential?
looking at the scoring stats, its hard not to notice big young Marcel Muller. If I recall, he was highly rated for the NHL ENtry Draft in his draft year but everyone passed.
He seems to have developed well, scoring lots of points and leading his team in scoring. What is his NHL potential?
Interestingly enough, my inline hockey team played against his team this summer and he once tried to pull the ball up with his stick from behind the goal and score Lacrosse-style. I blocked the attempt by batting the ball away with my hand.
He then chopped me in the mouth in frustration.
Anyhow, he does seem to be developing, but it's always a question about if anyone in the NHL is interested. Guys like Kreutzer and Barta, Ullmann and Wolf have also taken interesting paths of development and have played solidly on the international level to boot, but they've not been considered overseas either.
I think he's going to the Olympics now and it'll be interesting to see if he can hold his own. I didn't expect him to develop like this offensively.
If he WANTS to open some eyes in North America, he's got to have his agent find a spot for him on one of the summer rookie camps somewhere. He'd then have to perform well.
Maybe a team would then look to sign him to an AHL contract. If he could prove himself there, then he might have a shot.
Apparently Cologne is in serious financial trouble, they need about half a million Euro for this season alone.
Lets hope that they can get it done, losing the Sharks would be another huge blow for German hockey.
it would, but then again i'm sick of teams who calculate with PO money, who sign good players during the season, change coaches and then cry for not having enough money. i think this is one of the bigger problems in the DEL. but at least we know that from soccer already.
i hope cologne can get it done, but with a change in management and maybe a change of philosophy. because their youth program is still one of the best and whenever the kids played i was impressed. and still they find a way to replace the kids with useless foreigners. not as bad as in mannheim, but still sad.
They said the additonal players and coaching changes cost less than 100k combined and were not the reason why they are in trouble.
Sure, 100k more is 100k less you have to get now, but at that time getting to the playoffs was the priority. Missing the playoffs would hurt the team much more financially then the money they spend on new players and coaches.
Just new to the board. I really hope the will fix the situation around the Sharks. Would be sad if such great club with that history disappears, would be another blow to Hockey in Germany
Just new to the board. I really hope the will fix the situation around the Sharks. Would be sad if such great club with that history disappears, would be another blow to Hockey in Germany
Apparently the people in Cologne feel the same way. They are trying to save the club and even the "1. FC Köln" is helping.
I wonder if it's Gerstberger who wants to see the refs act like that, or if the order came from above. If it's Gerstberger, he needs to be gone immediately, if it came from above, hoping for the DEL to crash and burn may actually not be the worst option...
How could anyone not want constant checking?
The Olympics had quite a few very good games. Obviously that's far above what is possible in the DEL, but you should try to mold the game in that way, not try to be as soft as possible.
Holger Gerstberger hat mit Blick auf Olympia, als jeder gecheckt wurde, der nicht bei drei auf dem Baum war, gesagt, so etwas wolle man in der DEL nicht sehen.
Makes you want to throw up really.
People WANT see physical play, who is he talking to of the gets the impression that people prefer this lifeless, emotionless game with 20 minor penalties called/game that we are being forced to watch right now over physical hockey and crushing bodychecks???
