Beiträge von kabidjan14

  • AlpsHL - EC Red Bull Juniors

    You mean they played against Jesenice and Olimpija? Postel was listed as a D against Jesenice and Kopp was scratched, Roles were reversed against Olimpija. Jesenice and Olimpija are doing better in the standings and they were 1-2 vs. Jesenice and 0-1-1 against Olimpija before.

    Of course the correlation could be purely coincidental, but I've been of the opinion that their skills were overstated for a while... Not that I am unbaised in the least bit. What I think I see have seen is superior Austrian talent riding the bench behind them much of this season.

  • EBEL 2018/19

    I guess the dream was that new clubs would bring new EBYSL/EBJL teams with them...

    With the import rules as they are, a more ideal situation could still be reached if prospects spread themselves out better among organizations...

    The hold up right now is that a few junior programs are hoarding all the talent. Players also are having a more difficult time conceptualizing the concept that you might get more playing time in Innsbruck or Linz than in Salzburg, and that the idea of a diminishing legio presence is not exactly coherent. There seems to be this belief that as athletes like (to just throw out examples) Dario Winkler, Philipp Kreuzer, Benjamin Nissner, will grow to supplant the legios. So as locals supplant legios and take their spot, new spots will open up for younger Austrians. This is also supposed to happen on a yearly basis, so each year the U22 class will supplant legios and/or players like Schiechl/Brucker/Schneider, and they will "graduate" to large EBEL roles. As long as you stay and keep working your graduation date will come too. Perhaps I could see this working, at least to an extent, in the grand scheme over a long period of time. Not replacing legios perhaps but aging Austrians, perhaps over 5-10 year cycles. Of course, I don't know that you should rather bet your career on the reaganomics theories of Austrian hockey rather than visible club openings and necessities...

  • Vienna Capitals Farmteam in der Erste Liga

    Zitat von nasti22

    Very professional explanation from TX, “haha”, so far away. It seems you only have seen the short video summary and not the whole match. Your analysis is seriously lacking in detail.

    Below the summary of the Headcoach (I know that you understand German as good as English): “… ich bin wirklich zufrieden. Mein Team hat heute Eishockey gespielt wie wir uns das vorstellen. Klar ist jedoch, dass wir an der Chancenverwertung noch arbeiten müssen.“

    Yes, you got me with that very specific and insightful quote I presume came from a press release. I couldn't have found that on the internet anywhere.

    When one goaltender lets in far lower quality goals, and gets out-saved by almost 10% the burden of proof is not incumbent upon me to show that he was not inferior to the other goalie. It's incumbent upon you to show that he was not. "You didn't watch the whole game" isn't a cogent argument because right now, all the evidence that is present supports my position. You can absolutely introduce new evidence of your own to support your own counter-points, I'd love to hear it. However, pointing out that I don't have more evidence than what I already provided doesn't debunk my position. A counter-argument does.

  • Vienna Capitals Farmteam in der Erste Liga

    Zitat von nasti22

    What do you mean with your comment, SOG does not really say anything about the goalieperformance?

    Well let's see, the other goalie blocked 43 of 45 shots for a 95.56% save rate. One goal wasn't that good a goal but one of the GA was just a really bad turnover from the Defensemen or a lucky bounce, however you choose to see it. The Vienna goalie got beaten 3 times, over the shoulder once on a snapshot with no screen, too slow going east to west once, and once failing to cover up on a dirty goal. 86.96% save rate. It seems obvious that one goalie did far better than the other.

    Of course, it is possible that the 43 blocked shots from the opposing goaltender were all straight to the chest, and all the 20 saves made by the vienna goaltender were amazing sprawled out glove saves and stick saves. I doubt it, but I may be proved wrong.

  • U20-Div.1A 2018 in Frankreich

    I'll just leave this quote from Bernd Freimuller here.:

    "Nico Feldner (3 Tore) ringt sowohl im Klub in Salzburg als auch anfänglich im Team um Anerkennung, was ich nicht verstehe: Gerade in einem Land wie Österreich, das Jahr für Jahr das kleinste und leichteste Team im Turnier stellt, sollte ein körperlich starker Spieler wie er, der noch dazu über einen harten Handgelenksschuss verfügt, gefördert werden."

    A small example of a bigger issue...

  • Österreich Cup 2017 INNSBRUCK

    The Norway side was basically their Olympic team to the name. Our side was a very young side. I'm surprised it was actually this close.

    However I would definitely be quicker to attribute this to attrition on their side than some sort of success. As much as Austrian hockey has been struggling to produce youth, Norwegian hockey has been worse. All the people who scored on their side were the remaining legends of the last era, Bastiensen (37), Thoresen (34), M.Olimb (31), Holos (30), KA Olimb (28).

    So rather an observation in absolute terms (eg. "our young players are good"), I think a better approach is the comparative approach, our young players are better, and I thought they would be better, than Norway's. In terms of young players we can even still do so much better than we put out, there's Huber, Neubauer, Haudum, Vivieros, etc.

    I think today was good because it was the first look at Dominic Zwerger. Moving forward I think there can be good confidence that Norway will be in the rearview mirror, but without other improvements other countries like Denmark or Germany may be disappearing on the horizon.