Poland Friendlies, Final 23 Announced, Closing Remarks
https://authockeytxreports.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/pol…losing-remarks/
Beiträge von kabidjan14
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Maxa in, Baltram and Jennes out, Title hopes in the Balance
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Haudum went on to finish the game with 1 goal and 2 assists for 3 points!
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2 goal performance today is good. 3+3 in 27 is not good, but today's performance is hopefully a start.
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U20 D1A World Championship 2017 Entry List Previews: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Norway
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Austrian U20 Entry list thoughts
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U20 D1A World Championship 2017 Entry List Previews: France and Germany
https://authockeytxreports.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/u20…ce-and-germany/Beck is talented but needs to move to a bigger club.
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St. Polten: Austria U18 1-5 Italy U18
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Is anyone aware of if Max is going the NCAA route or considering another route?
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St. Polten: Austria U18 5-2 Hungary U18
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This is for the U18 Tournament in St. Polten. Recap of Game 1:
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Would like to see Leiler, but otherwise it should be a fun tournament in terms of young players.
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I will be much busier during the international break but here are some events leading up to the international break and a quick stats status update.
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Problem is all the top young players are bunched up in one team, Salzburg. Vienna has a few, Villach has a few, Linz has maybe 2, no one else after them do. KAC doesn't, Dornbirn definitely doesn't, Graz definitely doesn't, Innsbrucker lucked out and got one guy in Mario Huber and it's why they're a mid-pack team and not bottom half team. I predicted cautiously that rookies would have a great year this year, however, rookies are still too bunched up. The point system rightfully allows each team to give good ice time to one rookie, for Salzburg Baltram, for Vienna Wukovits, for Villach Kromp, for Linz Gaffal, players need to spread themselves out more, as necessary.
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The Discrepancy of Size and Skill
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what is the question?
you won last week and you are 4-1What? I just saw everyone listing their names I figured Nic.Del wanted us to list which team we are. Woops
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ASEC Mimosas? ASEC's Team.
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Just waiting for the day the internal solution is Mittendorfer himself.
On a serious note, I like Bader. I prefer him to replace Suhonen, not necessarily be the head coach. I've heard good and bad about him but more good than bad, and his results speak for themselves. When Suhonen's contract ends there will be more money on the table to discuss other options. Until then, Bader will absolutely do.
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Roger Bader also...ok.
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ref loves wales...
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Someone on another forum had a question about tickets in Vienna. I don't know the answer so I thought I could just ask it and pass the answer along:
"I'm visiting Vienna from the US at the end of October and was looking to catch a Capitals game (the Oct. 26th game vs. Klagenfurt), so I was looking into ticket purchases at Albert Schultz Halle. Although that game is not yet available for purchase yet (I think they start selling individual tickets two weeks in advance), looking at the seating chart, I'm curious why the first 4 rows on the direct side of the ice rink are slightly less expensive than rows 5-10 (26 euro vs. 28 euro). I usually try to buy the tickets closest to the ice, especially first row. Is there some disadvantage to these first four rows versus rows 5-10? Or do Austrians not like being seated on the glass? Are the seats less comfortable? Pictures I've found of the stadium don't seem to indicate any issues, but it's not entirely clear.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks..."
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It must have been on of your first posts in this forum in 2015):
That's what i exactly meant with water to wine in a short time and unrealistic expectations. If Suhonen does not find and develop first class Austrian coaches in hist first two years, he has to go (seems to be your opinion, too). And I'm still curious with your position in hockey, too, cause you always give the impression, that you know a lot of people involved and have first-hand informations (and thus are better informed than most of us), but on the other hand this remembers me a lot of my 'oh-so-loved' insiders in this forum, whose only argument and point of view seems to be the fact, that they do something important in hockey and know somebody important in hockey and thus their opinion is the correct one. Needless to say, that they are unwilling to tell what they do and whom they know.
And Suhonen aside, just because someone is not popular with the people he has to deal with, does not mean automatically, that he is wrong or doing a bad job. Some years ago I worked in Vienna's largest bookshop and my floor manager was in private a very nice person, but in the work often a pain in the arse for our stuff (I had no probs with him). He once told me, that his job is not to be a friend in work, but to take care of the workflow and that everybody is doing their job. Workwise he may have been one of the least popular floor managers in our company, but once he was gone, people started to realize the difference of a floor manager, who chiefly managed the floor, and our remaining floor managers, who primarily wanted to be friends with us.That's not said, that Suhonen should remain, cause I'm on the same page, too, that he sometimes lacks the ability to be a diplomat and should be more self-aware of his misjudgements here and there, but I'm still of the opinion, that a lot of the criticsim toward him is unfair and onesided and this was from the day of his appointment the case (and the last example is the number of his salary).
That posts serves a good example. First, the U15 and U16 performances have improved drastically since then, but more importantly, since that post about 20 months ago I've been able to get in contact with more people since then, expand my knowledge and make more informed opinions.
You don't have to believe me when I say I know people. If you go to my Authockeytx blog though (links all over the forum) you'll see stats for the various pre-season youth tournaments and national team camp scrimmages. You won't find those online. In my Examination of the state of Austrian youth hockey/Junior Career planning I outline a lot of information usually provided only by agents in a simple and concise format. You can make of it what you like.
See my opinion on him has changed over time. It isn't his job to be everyone's friend but he's gone a little too far in the other direction. Roger Bader even does not seem wildly popular but has been better at managing personal relations to at least workable levels. There was a time a while back I thought many things were Suhonen's fault or Bader's fault. Now I've definitely learned more, but Suhonen is at this point still much to blame for a lot of botched relationships and his coaching job at the Qualifications was poor at best, though yes I understand his main capacity isn't a coach. I'm slightly worried Mittendorfer (not knowing him personally) may extend Suhonen next summer, that would be a poor choice, but if you look at my recent posts (as suggested above) I list a lot of reasons why I think things are slow right now, Suhonen is just one but he is probably the only one that the OEHV can control (somewhat).
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@nordiques! See you read the papers, you read the news. That's good for you, but there are plenty of people who know as much or are as into Austrian hockey as you and think that things were better in the past than the present. Most people in fact don't agree with your idea of "40 years wrongdoings" which you've touted many times, many people believe the good old days were better (I don't). You only know Rotter, Viveiros, Daum because you only read the news, some other people talk to staff members and you just list them off or discount what they say. I talk to a separate group I get the same feedback. It's a very small number of people, usually people exiting the program or who have no future in the program, who will openly criticize, similar to any job you won't criticize your boss openly until you are leaving, but if you take the time get to know people, Suhonen is not exactly popular, though I did find one person who liked him.
I can't speak for everyone here but I can speak for myself, you should stop stereotyping me into this big pool of "people who love to complain" or "people who love to blame." I think Suhonen has laid a decent foundation. Now I think he needs to go, the environment he has created is too toxic for him to remain. Incidentally I believe that once he is gone and his successor takes over, if no egregious errors are made, Austrian hockey should begin to move forwards and thrive, in large part due to Suhonen's work. If you review a lot of the recent things (positive things) I've said about Roger Bader, it's not as if I (speaking for myself) am merely critical of those in charge for the sake of being critical or like to find fault in systems. The problem is that a selection of not just players, but league staff members, local coaches, and the media have lost any interest in cooperating with Suhonen on a number of issues, or he has lost interest in collaborating with them. Once he is gone and someone new comes in the relationships reset at zero. Then his coaching programs, his player conditioning programs, his camp regimens and other things he's contributed will really begin to move things in the right direction, even as I feel Austrian hockey is in a relatively good place, but before that I don't really see much getting done while the petty standoffs continue.
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Statgazing Week 3: Zitz Blitzes, Baumgartner excels
https://authockeytxreports.wordpress.com/2016/09/25/sta…gartner-excels/
