Beiträge von kabidjan14

  • WM 2019 Österreich - Norwegen 17.05.2019

    I swear, Austria has been the better team by far this game. The only area where they (Norway) are doing much better is physical battles, and they're a bit of a dirty team. However, the lion's share of the chances have been for Austria, and I can't help but feel like one of them is going to go through soon. However, talk of scoring is cheap, someone has to actually put one of them through sooner or later. Haudum has been playing inspired hockey, which makes me happy to see. That was a bad goal for Starkbaum to give up by the way, looking at the replay it appears he should have seen the puck the whole way.

  • WM 2019 Österreich - Schweiz 14.05.2019

    Michael Raffl was impotent offensively, but aside from a few bad penatlies, he still contributed a lot defensively.

    Thomas Raffl and Fabio Hofer were as, if not more, inept offensively. They also provided their share of bad penalties, but they didn't provide anything meaningful defensively. Michael Raffl is the best of them offensively, but in the NHL he is no offensive juggernaut. The biggest difference between Michael and everyone else is that he has a great two-way game even when he is struggling offensively.

    I miss Ulmer and Viveiros. The defensemen were bad. I would characterize Schlacher's performance as "brave". Brave, but not effective. He played physically, had one nice possession that led to a shot IIRC, but just lacks the offensive or defensive skills to be effective against competition of this level. Heinrich's lack of size really showed today because he came up short on a couple of key poke checks that led to shots on goal for Switzerland, and some passes or clearance attempts were just beyond his reach and led to the inability to keep the puck in the zone. His calling card is that he's a mobile defenseman, but I felt he he struggled to move the puck very effectively against a team as fast as Switzerland. Pallestrang looked a bit overwhelmed, and usually he is a rock-solid defenseman, but he didn't seem to be able to do anything with the puck when it would come to his corner. The same could be said of Strong. Unterwerger probably did the lion's share of puck-handling. He's always going to be a limited-ceiling player, but in that role he was somewhat adequate.

    Zwerger, Haudum and Baumgartner were by far the smartest line. They were able to get the puck into the offensive zone, and then get the cycle going. However, they didn't have the skill or physical ability to create actual chances.

    Peter actually has some, albeit limited, puck-moving ability. He is not entirely a physical presence like Wolf. But he is mostly just a physical presence. With Ulmer and Viveiros, even Bernd Wolf, you wouldn't need him on the PP.

    Herburger looked physically overwhelmed. He's a smart player. But he's small, and he's not as fast. In Switzerland he was a mid-six forward generously, and the Swiss players are at least NLA stars. Schneider is extremely fast as an ECHL player, as an EBEL player, and as a member of the Austrian National team. However, the Swiss are wayyyy faster, or at least as fast. Therefore, he couldn't derive an advantage from that. And I've never been under the impression that he's a stunning individual at other things like puck-protection, change of direction, or dangling. I thought Ganahl was not as bad today. He's got some very clever tricks to be disruptive and create some semi-chances.

    The fourth line was good for providing energy, being disruptive, throwing their weight around and trying to keep the Swiss out of the offensive zone. But I wouldn't recommend any of them to receive more playing time, because I have a feeling that their abilities are limited to those roles.

    To stand a chance, they would need to have passed the puck extremely well and gotten to the right spots to make chances because the Swiss were the physically superior team in almost every way. However, unforced passing errors were what killed the team eventually.

  • WM 2019 Österreich - Schweiz 14.05.2019

    Hofer has been the worst player on the ice. Pains me to say because I've been warming up to him, but not today.

    The frustrating thing is that it isn't the high-pressure passes that they're missing. Every time they have some time and space to make a good pass, they make a bad pass. So the offense never gets started. Through almost 55 minutes, no line has looked seriously dangerous.

  • WM-Vorbereitung Team Austria

    Zitat von nasti22

    Don't understand your opinion. The entire roster consists of players of the EBEl or at least a farm team and the youngest is 20. Why should Neubauer be part of it?

    And I believe there are other player in this age with experience in the EBEL like Lanzinger, ..., and they are not invited

    I was thinking of Henrik Neubauer.

  • Alps Hockey League 2018/19

    Witting got 6 assists. Pilloni was 1+1. Zitz had 1 goal. Huber and Feldner each had 1 assist. Only Salzburg forward who didn't score any points was Dennis Lobach. On the other side, Ivan Korecky also got his first goal. Pretty good game for Austrians I would say.

  • Die Zukunft der EBEL - Punkteregelung

    Zitat von schooontn

    die locker mitspielen könnten oder sofort legionäre ersetzen können? Zu ersterem fallen mir wohl spontan 20 namen ein

    Vorrauer, würschl, Steffler, Schnetzer, Kreuzer, Witting, Wappis, Maxa, Wieser, Schreier, Zündel, Zitz, Feldner, Klöckl, Artner, Hochegger, Jennes, Steurer, Obersteiner, Schwinger..dazu hast noch ein paar ältere die ohne Punkteregel wohl auch einen Vertrag hätten wie Ban, Pirmann, Nageler. Also es gibt schon einige Spieler, wie gesagt, sind überwiegend keine Wundertalente, aber mitspielen traue ich ihnen absolut zu. Problem => die Kader der großen sind voll und verleihen wollen sie die Spieler an andere Teams auch nicht, da es Farmteams gibt. Die "Kleinen" geben kein Geld für Ausbildungsentschädigungen aus oder haben Trainer, die sich den Nachwuchseinbau sowieso nicht antun wollen und lieber mit 3 Legio- Linien versuchen künstlich konkurrenzfähig zu sein.

    man sieht ja z.b. heuer allein bei Wachter, Birnbaum, Kainz oder Lahoda, dass da bei den Spielern, die für Salzburg vlt. aktuell nicht gut genug sind, einige sehr passable Eishockeyspieler dabei sind die den anderen Teams helfen können wenn man ihnen auch die entsprechenden Chancen gibt. Das selbe wirst in den nächsten Jahren auch bei den Farmteams vom KAC oder den Caps haben. Da solltest genügend gut ausgebildete Spieler mit Semiprofessioneller Erfahrung haben, die Rosterspots bei anderen Teams ausfüllen können wenn man ihnen halt auch das Vertrauen gibt.

    Great Post! I have a few thoughts.

    First, I think it's very fair that there is a national team multiplier for junior national team players. The training compensation fee, as I understand it, should be compensation for the resources spent to develop an athlete. The suggestion that clubs spend 3x or 5x more to develop national team players come across as very unegalitarian. Players should not be penalized for playing for the national team. Finally, as you mention, it's effectively worked as a transfer fee, and is at least in part responsible for some of the poorer clubs electing to go with legios over Austrians. I think the existence of a training compensation fee is entirely defensible, but this national team multiplier is what I take issue with.

    As to your list, some of the older ones might be ready, and I hope and am excited for them to receive the chance to show what they can do, though as you mentioned they would be contributors at best. Some of the younger ones by their own admission need a bit more time to get ready. I would generally be skeptical that more than a handful of them would be able to slot into a mid-6 type role.

  • WM-Vorbereitung Team Austria

    Austria should really take a shot at Norway this year. The players they were missing (Thoresen, Holos, KA Olimb, VA Olsen, Hoff) really pale in comparison to the players that Austria can be supplemented with this year. They're an aging team and they had their heyday, but those days are gone. Hopefully Austria can take advantage.

  • Nationalteams Nachwuchs

    I thought France was truly awful, unrivaled as the worst team in the tournament. Texier and Guebey who were not present aside, I don't believe there were any players on that team who are serious prospects for the future. The closest would be Lucien Onno, but even still he's a long shot at best. I also felt Payr and Maier were solid, but Baumgartner showed a lot of flaws that are legitimate concerns moving forward. Love Freimuller's articles, always have loved them, but I did snort audibly to read "Pusnik...hardly lost pucks."

    02 is a fairly weak class. If it comes down to 01+02, it likely won't end well. Freimuller lists Wallner, Thaler, and Oskar Maier (of the recent Red Bull prospects probably the least impressive), but if there is a leader it will be when Senna Peeters... People are excited for next year when the last 00+01 tournament takes place, but I'm becoming more pessimistic by the day. I'm sure the goal there will again be to avoid relegation, and delirious amounts of excitement when the goal is achieved.