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Post by Goalie Wanted on Jan 7, 2006 9:39:30 GMT -5
Don't like to criticize any players but I watched the Startaford/OV game last night and the only reason it was close was because of sub-par goaltending from Stratfords, bu? Where was Huston? Huston we have a problem--LOL sorry had to say it!
OV goalie was solid and rumor has it he was seen speaking with coach/gm of Stratford after game. As the wheels turn could he be in a Stratford uniform come next Tuesday? Time will tell but that would be a HUGE upgrade...
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Post by guest on Jan 7, 2006 9:51:08 GMT -5
houston quit, he wants a trade
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Post by Quitter on Jan 7, 2006 10:06:00 GMT -5
Nice team player eh... What did his teammates think about that?
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Post by guest on Jan 7, 2006 10:15:57 GMT -5
not to sure, but i'm sure they're pretty mad.
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Post by anon on Jan 7, 2006 11:22:41 GMT -5
Have to have a team behind you to be a team player. He has taken all of the blame this season for the "team". and has been left to be the scapegoat by Flanagan all year. Huston was smart to get out when he did, and if the rest of the "players" are mad, maybe it will make them start playing hockey. Funny how everyone always blames the goalie for a loss,...Huston is not a quitter, there is no team to quit, and he needs to look out for himself at this point. Steve Rice dumped on him in his "column"., with all kinds of help from Flanagan,,anything to take the focus off himself. Flanagan needs to go, preferably gracefully, but likely not. He is way past his prime. Cullitons should get Westman back as head coach--it is imperative that the players respect the coach==now??? Not so much. He could have stood up and given Huston his blessing, instead of crapting on him, he did not, so who is he going to pick for his next target? Not too many goalies at this level want to risk playing for him,,,,the truth will come out in the end, too bad this will go down as the worst Culliton season EVER.
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Post by hockey guy on Jan 7, 2006 16:14:24 GMT -5
You always hear what a respected team the Cullitons are,,,how the management is always right there for the team, ,, funny how he treated huston, and encouraged the rest of the team to treat him. The Cullitons used to be a classy team,,,maybe thats only when they are winning?  For two years you dumped on Huston-an made him the fall guy--who are you going to replace him with>no one wants to play for you anymore. The writing is on the wall-hang up your whistle, and do it soon,,before the Cullitons lose whatever chance they have to redeem themselves. This team will miss Huston-but no one can blame him for leaving. |
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Post by fire on Jan 7, 2006 17:48:54 GMT -5
This is getting a bit rediculous. Now the papers are saying that Huston doesnt want to leave.
He only wanted to because someone else was talking about leaviing. I have to agree that this is not considered being a team player. As for being the fall guy...Huston has played some really great games, BUT he has also let in way more soft goals than he should be at this level, (plus he has been pulled 4 times this year,) which in turn ended up costing the team alot of games. (when your team is able to score 4 or more goals a game you should be coming out on top). Now you have the Brodhagen Kid who played a pretty crapty game last night, but how does anyone expect this kid to come out and be right on his game when he only plays about once a month.(That was only his eighth start this season least played goalie in the league) Maybe if the Cullies had used the kid a little more he might have more confidence in himself. Technically his stats arent that bad and other than OV he has been able to keep his team in every game he has played in. Stratford isnt going anywhere this year so maybe they should give the Brodhagen his oppertunity, and see if he is up to the task for next year.
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Post by guest on Jan 8, 2006 8:48:19 GMT -5
Brodhagen would be a # 3 goalie on any other team, Stratford needs help now between the pipes
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Post by Action Jackson on Jan 8, 2006 11:07:36 GMT -5
No worries Mate! Action Jackson will be in town by Tuesaday.. Bet the farm on it!
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Post by jkghi on Jan 8, 2006 13:51:44 GMT -5
again you can't put all the blame on the goalie, ya they score 4 or 5 goals a game sometimes (not against the jr c's tho) but how many goals does huston get hung to dry on per game, more then anyone else in the league, if there were a stat for huge saves and times hung out to dry huston would be leading the league
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Post by fire on Jan 8, 2006 14:07:44 GMT -5
Huge saves generally are needed because a goalie has been caught out of position. Anyway what hope does this team have for this year when they cant even beat the Jr C all stars. Maybe the directors should take a hard look at the scouting staff and ask why they took so many players from Jr D when there was more talented players in Jr C available.
And by the way I Heard that the Brodhagen Kid took game MVP for Stratford. Once again the team allowed way too many 2on1s, 3 on 1, and even 3 on 0s go figure.
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Post by toe blake on Jan 8, 2006 14:33:10 GMT -5
new tender won't help cause there's a lot more problems before they get to him.
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Post by Guest on Jan 8, 2006 16:09:58 GMT -5
who are the junior c all stars?
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Post by fire on Jan 8, 2006 17:41:35 GMT -5
I have to agree with toe blake. Lets have a good look at the 20 guys up front No matter what the opposition has to get by the first 5 players before reaching the goalie.
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Post by Hockey Guy on Jan 8, 2006 17:42:23 GMT -5
huge saves are made when goalies get caught out of position here i am almost pissing myself laughing at that statment do you really watch hockey or talk to anyone about the game to make a statment like that yes goalies will let in soft goals to the people watching or even the other players on the team but when i played maybe i had a coadch that knew nothing of the game but we were told never blame the goalie for if we had done our job there would not have been a sshot on net and back to huge saves there must be alot of teams glad that there goalie was caught out of positiony
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Post by guest on Jan 9, 2006 9:44:34 GMT -5
Brodhagen is not even close to being a # 2 goalie in the league, a year in Jr. C would help, as far as the defense goes they are one of the weakest teams in the league so who ever they get he better be better then average
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Post by c on Jan 9, 2006 17:14:02 GMT -5
Brodhagen played b last year and c and did great he hasnt played this year to even stay in game mood he has only had 2 bad games against ov and he still got wins good time to play bad hey!. every one also forgets that the goals scored on ov were 2on 1 2 on 0 and 2 powerplay goals one a pass in front to guy standing all alone he can play
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Post by Midwest Fan on Jan 9, 2006 21:35:56 GMT -5
Huston was bad this year and quite frankly was the worst starting tender in their history. I hardly saw Flanagan making him the scapegoat. He got alot of starts when everyone thought Broadhagen had earned a few more. They were more than fair to Huston but he just didn't comethrough alot of nights. He looked pissed off at his D and the world and played like it most nights. Will Wingham have success with him if he allows that many soft goals. Bottom line is Flanagan is taking the heat for leting him go when it was HUSTON that requested the trade all because he had no confidence in his teammates. (he thought a key player was bolting so he was gone too) Blame Flanagan all you want but he accomades players if they don't want to be there and that is proper treatment and loyalty and has made Stratfords reputation. After Huston stated the reason for wanting to leave you can't bring him back into that dressing room and rink. This has been a learning year for the Cullitons, thats for sure. But after 30 years of winning lessons are learned hard.
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Post by guest on Jan 10, 2006 15:23:33 GMT -5
l really hope the deal went through for Jackson, Brodhagen is not ready, just watch his rebounds, sorry guess there not rebounds because they go between his legs into the net, there was alot of GM's at the game last week and l heard one of them saying that the Cully's are in trouble if that kid is there # 1 goalie
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Post by Huston on Jan 10, 2006 15:43:59 GMT -5
For the record I called dennis as soon as i got home from my vacation asking if there's anyway I can stay, the reason wasn't because mcparland was leaving it was because in your last year of jr after 5 years you want a shot at winning once, and let's be real here the cullitons are young and rebuilding.McParland was the icing on the cake for leaving. Anyways dennis never returned my phone calls and that's all there is to it. then he goes to the paper and throws in his 2 cents..."i can't understand why a player would leave at this time in the year"...you can't dennis?...well it's funny when players want to leave and come to your team you understand just fine, and why do they come here?...to win...and why did I leave dennis? to win...if the cullitons wanted me to stay they had there chance but no effort was made....and on another topic about not blaming brodhagen friday night for a few soft goals, i wasn't there but i heard he had no chance a few times, sounds pretty familiar to me but people who dont know hockey and don't understand being a goalie need to stay off a site like this because you're idiots and look for a goalie to be the reason teams lose, i'm being blamed for the season so far cuz i'm the worst goalie in stratford hisory? statistically ya...but again let's be serious here, no goalie gets left to dry as much as the culliton goalies and for brodhagens sake i hope the cullitons get another tender because this kids confidence will be down the crapter if he goes through what i did...so all in all take everything for what you think it's worth.
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Post by guest on Jan 10, 2006 19:33:38 GMT -5
Huston's right. no goalies get hung out to dry like cully goals maybe we need to look at the 2on 1 and 2 on 0's and dont worry huston your a sick tendy. Also great comment about people who dont no goaltending should not talk crap because these people dont know anything and are in there own fantisy world's
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Post by Midwest Fan on Jan 12, 2006 13:33:17 GMT -5
Huston, you are wrong. Your D wasn't strong but it is not the worst. Are you saying you did everything you could? Good goalies thrive on work and for about 5 games you showed what you were capable of but most nights looked very average. You can't blame D for weak goals and it can bring a team down. Goalies should never blame their D! Just do their job. You were a pleasant surprise last year and they gave you a fair shake this year.
As for McParland wanting to jump ship, he needs to show leadership and start to play with intensity instead of wishing he was elsewhere so he could win. For each player, winning starts with you! Intensity and doing your job. Any takers? Too many players looking for some one else to carry the team so they can go along for the ride. Newsflash, you don't throw on that jersey and just guarantee winning. The players have always worked hard for their success in the past 30 years. So far you have not shown the intensity and work ethic needed to succeed. You may not like this post and you do play under alot of pressure in Stratford. Are you cut out to be Cullitons?
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Post by Fan on Jan 12, 2006 14:17:15 GMT -5
the above post might be hard to take but it has lots of truth, the team work ethic is inconsistent at best, there are players on the team with heart but Flanagan prefers to use players like McParland, Warda, Dalpe and Kropf who look pretty but only worry about their offensive statistics, the grinders who are not afraid to do the tough work like Broome, Taylor & Crawford are the players who will look after their responsibilities at both ends of the rink, Haber will also help when he is healthy, you win the tough games and playoffs with your grinders not your pretty players, time for everyone to suck it up, no more excuses about goaltending, maybe the Cullys should pay more attention to players plus minus stats, scoring a goal is not much use if you cause two against, I am sure other fans see the same things
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Post by Hockey Guy on Jan 15, 2006 6:08:23 GMT -5
to the above two post both you know sh*tt about what the situation was like in stratford for huston the lost that huston let in 10 goals well repeatedly he sent players to the bench wanting to be pulled flan-a-gone did not do it in the room huston started to undress between periods thatss when flan-a -gone says i did not want to pull you in the middle of the period all this time rexy the boy stands behind flan-a-gone with a ssmile so i guess what i am saying is there is alot going on that you the fans really don t know eh and for steve rice the reportot maybe he should do a little foot work before he runs his mouth off
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Post by Stratford Cullitons on Jan 15, 2006 8:38:52 GMT -5
Rex is a tool and should be shouldering the blame for the woes of the Cullies. Worst move they made bringing him on board. They should have left him in Paris. Where's Westman? Why did he leave right before the start of the season?
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Post by Hockey Guy on Jan 15, 2006 10:00:32 GMT -5
only Phil would know the real truth to that but rumour does have it going back a little in time . Last year when statford went up against listowel for the first round Westman wanted to start Huston Flan-a-gone the other guess who won . Phil believed they needed the first win and that maybe Huston could have got it momentum thing . Well enough about the past now the future he did not like some of the picks that were being made and maybe could see what a sh!% bowl it would be in the dressing room this year by making these chooses . Also he could spend his time in a more psitive way watching his daughters play then waisting his time baby sitting fla-a-gone . there were other issue but if I know Westman he will not bend over like little rexy boy will flan-a-gone must be having the time of his life
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Post by Ironman on Jan 15, 2006 21:08:19 GMT -5
Cullies, It is one of those years suck it up and get ready for next year.
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For two years you dumped on Huston-an made him the fall guy--who are you going to replace him with>no one wants to play for you anymore. The writing is on the wall-hang up your whistle, and do it soon,,before the Cullitons lose whatever chance they have to redeem themselves. This team will miss Huston-but no one can blame him for leaving.