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Just want to know if the Red Devils are the only team who doesn’t complete game reports for the Media and NZIHL.com?
All other teams seem to be able to get these done, seems pretty poor that all the games from Canterbury do not have game reports
Are they special, or just can’t be bothered or just slack?
You may want to ask questions before making a statement like that. Canterbury submits game reports every monday following games. It’s up to the league to post them, not us. They have the reports promptly. They have last weekends reports and still have done nothing with them. Player hater!
Hmmmmm, pretty sure he did just ask a question!
Fair call though, I’ve sent ours through and had to ask several times for them to go on the website. There are a lot still missing including all the Canty home games.
Maybe we could set up a way for us to upload our own??
Player hater is a little strong. This was directed solely at Canterbury! hahaha
People could of course post them here as well as sending them to the nzihf. They can be instantly posted on slapshot.net.nz in the appropriate thread.
"cowgirl":31dfw3ln wrote:Hmmmmm, pretty sure he did just ask a question![/quote:31dfw3ln]
Statement then a question. How about asking a respectful question, waiting for an answer, then forming a judgement.
It’s like me saying is kelf an idiot, a moron, or just was dropped as a baby?
Neither of the options paints him in a good light and it would be ignorant of me to make assumptions of him in a question like that. In fact, I would be stating that’s he’s one of the above options. A statement within a question. Either way, his comments/questions are not helpful.
They need a system so that people can post their reports directly to the site. Trusted users could post directly and others could be put into a moderation queue waiting for checking by someone before posting.
One of the most convenient ways to do it is to setup a site on http://wordpress.com/ which has all of these features available by default. The NZIHL could avoid bothering to run their own site and let WordPress.com do it for them. WordPress.com is usually used as a free service, but there are a bunch of paid upgrades available which allow all advertising to be removed and you can use your own domain name and modify the look of the site.
I’m contemplating converting http://dunedinicehockey.hellyer.kiwi/ over to it in the future as it’s a lot less hassle than mucking around setting up your own web hosting account, upgrading software etc. etc.
I’ll post all the Devils reports that are either sitting in an Auckland email box or on the cutting room floor. Craig will send them to me shortly.
The following game reports are unedited and uncensored. By no means are they official. Official game reports can be found on http://www.nzihl.com and only http://www.nzihl.com. Disclaimer over.
NZIHL Round Nine ? August 15 And 16 2009
Alpine Ice Arena, Christchurch
Canterbury Red Devils vs West Auckland AdmiralsThe Canterbury Red Devils moved to the top of New Zealand Ice Hockey?s National League table after two wins against the West Auckland Admirals last weekend.
The Devils won the first game by 7 to 1, and the second game by 4 to nil the following night. Goals in the first game were scored by Paris Heyd (2), and one each by Jacques Kemp, Brett Salzl, Ryan Ruddle, Jani Kaszala, and Loren Nowland. West Auckland?s Gareth McLeish scored the solitary goal for the Admirals.
In Game Two, Canterbury goaltender Vince Mitalas recorded the shutout when he blanked the Admirals, saving his most spectacular save for speedy winger Jeff Bonazzo, who took on Mitalas? glove and lost part way through the second period.
After a nil all first period, the Devils turned up the heat in the second, scoring goals through Dan Nicholls, Salzl, and Hamish Lewis, with Chris Eaden adding the fourth late in the game.
Following the league-wide bye next weekend, during which eight of the Canterbury team will be playing in the two test series between New Zealand and Australia, the Devils need to collect only one more win the following weekend against second-placed Southern Stampede in order to guarantee a home final.
NZIHL Round 8 ? Thunder @ Devils
August 8 and 9, Alpine Ice ChristchurchCanterbury?s Red Devils continued their march towards the finals of this year?s National Ice Hockey League, with two dominant performances against the Dunedin Thunder in Christchurch over the weekend.
A fired-up Dunedin team, playing for pride only after notching only the one win so far this season, certainly didn?t lack heart despite ending up on the wrong side of two 16 goal beatings in the two game Round. In Game One on Saturday night, it was the Thunder who had the first goalscoring opportunity, when they forced a turnover deep in the Canterbury zone ? only some desperate moves by Devils netminder Justin Findlay denied Jordane Fazende some early points.
At the other end of the ice Red Devils captain Loren Nowland attacked the game with his usual vigour, delivering a couple of punishing body checks and then finishing off some nice passing plays from Brett Salzl to score the first two goals of the game. With an additional goal from Paris Heyd the Devils finished the first stanza up only 3 nil, with Rick Parry making some spectacular saves to keep Dunedin in the hunt.
In the second period, rangy Canadian Kyle Papai continued his scoring streak, notching the first of his three goals for the night, before Adam Soffer got in on the action as well. Dunedin climbed back into the game on the Power Play, converting their chance thanks to Stefan King, but the comeback was shortlived as Canterbury?s top scorers combined again when Chris Eaden fed Heyd for the Devils? sixth goal just before the buzzer.
Dunedin switched goaltenders at the beginning of the third, with Aaron Bryant giving Parry a spell, but the experiment didn?t last long, as the Devils went up a gear and started to pour on the shots. Papai completed his hattrick and then the Devils defensemen started to get in on the scoring, with goals from Jacques Kemp, Mitch Oak, and Jorden Henare.
When a frustrated Parry finally quit with a minute to go, it was Checkmate to Canterbury as they scored the empty-netter thanks to a great skate from Dale Harrop whose long range attack was finished off by Henare. Final Score ? 16-1
In Game Two of the Double-Header, Red Devils coach Keith Payne moved his pieces round the board with care, continuing his rotation policy between the pipes as Vince Mitalas was given his chance against his old teammates. Mitalas was also given some heart-stopping moments in the first period by his defensemen, as a couple of early fumbles offered the Thunder some one-on-one scoring chances. However it was the Devils who found the back of the net first, as Dunedin-raised Paris Heyd beat Parry with a nice move, before Turkish national player Cengiz Akyldiz tallied with a wobbly slapshot. Goals from Eaden and Harrop closed out the period, but not before Thunder?s Jordane Fazende was pulled down on a break-away ? referee Ryan Cairns having no hesitation in awarding a penalty shot. The Frenchman was unable to convert, sending his tricky behind-the-legs shot just wide of Mitalas? toe.
After the break it was the visitors who opened the scoring, demonstrating a never say die attitude that won them some fans and earned the respect of the Canterbury players. This time it was Israel Lewis backing up Fazende who coolly slotted a sweet pass under Mitalas? glove. Down the other end though, the Devils continued to find the twine with goals from Eaden and Papai, while Anton Purver also got in on the scoring action, the period ending with Canterbury up 8 to 1.
In the third, more goals flowed from the home team before Fazende, double and even triple shifting for the visitors, found an open Simon Christos to claw one back, before later finally getting one of his own when he banged in a Blake Sinclair rebound.
It was the Devils who had the final say, though, as some great passing plays saw more goals to Harrop, Heyd, and Nowland, while super-sub Purver added the sixteenth and final goal with a great backhand shot with only a few seconds left in the game.
With the Devils now confirmed finalists, their remaining round robin games are vital in gaining home advantage for the final, and Coach Payne is determined to maintain the momentum as they host the Admirals next weekend; ?We had a great weekend here, and I?m really happy for the guys. I was also very impressed with the Dunedin boys ? they?re a young side who?ll only get better, but they?ve certainly got a lot of heart to keep skating the way they did. I wish them all the best for next year. The Admirals next weekend are a team with the ability to trip us up ? they?ve upset the Swarm already this year, and even the Stampede were unable to beat them Saturday night. But as long as we keep our guard up and play smart, we should be able to keep the home fans happy next weekend?.
Thanks that would be great! And yes I was dropped as a baby.
I am not a player hater, I don’t think I said anything about playersAll it was, was an observation
No need to get all defensive, or are you just getting ready for the weekend
” title=”Grin” />"vpatrol":1g5ufame wrote:The following game reports are unedited and uncensored. By no means are they official. Official game reports can be found on http://www.nzihl.com and only http://www.nzihl.com. Disclaimer over.
[/quote:1g5ufame]No, no they can’t that was the whole reason for this thread!
NZIHL Round 6, July 25 and 26 ? Christchurch
Southern Stampede @ Canterbury Red DevilsGame One ? Saturday Night
New Zealand Ice Hockey?s National League has now passed the halfway point in their winter competition, and Christchurch?s Alpine Ice Sports and Entertainment Centre played host to the two league leaders, unbeaten going into the double-header last weekend.
Canterbury?s Red Devils were the marginal underdogs against Queenstown?s Southern Stampede, who topped the table with seven wins and a draw, while the Devils were on a six game winning streak with two games in hand against their southern rivals.
The game started badly for the home team, when their defensive rush coincided with a poorly timed line change, a quick turnover leading to a four on nil rush by the Stampede, as Canadian import player Joe Bjorkman wristed the puck past netminder Justin Findlay?s glove.
The Devils equalized a few minutes later with yet another short range rebound effort, this time Stefan Speck forcing the puck in with an assist from Loren Nowland. In a period notable for its high speed and intensity, both teams played disciplined and yet strangely directionless hockey, effective defence closing down attacks from both ends to wrap the period 1 all.
After the first break, the Devils struggled to match the intensity from Queenstown, who wrested the momentum thanks to the Bjorkman brothers, Joe and Brett, who between them scored two quick goals to give Stampede the buffer. From then on, the Southerners seemed content to play a defensive game, as an increasingly desperate Canterbury tried to find a way past Thomas Gobeil?s glove. When Chris Eaden scored on the Power Play with a long range slapshot with just over a minute to go, Devils coach Keith Payne inserted James Carr in an effort to try and create some magic, but even with Findlay off the ice for the extra attacker, Stampede?s defence held strong as they ground out the win, snapping the Devils streak at six.
Final Score ? 3-2 to Southern
Game Two ? Sunday Night
Smarting from their first loss this season the night before, Canterbury?s Red Devils were keen to turn the tables on their southern rivals in Game Two of their Home-and-Home in Christchurch last weekend. In a mini-series that had been billed all week as the clash of the round robin, the Devils and Queenstown?s Southern Stampede game had lived up to expectations when the Stampede drew first blood with a nail-biting one goal win.
Game Two was a very different proposition from the outset, after a bizarre opening stanza saw five goals scored in the first five minutes ? the scorebench barely having time to announce one goal before another was scored. When the dust had settled, it was the Devils who had their nose in front with two goals from Kyle Papai and one from Paris Heyd, against one each from the Stampede?s Brett Bjorkman and captain Simon Glass.
With both goalies now warmed up, the game settled into a fast-paced rhythm, Canterbury stringing together some great passing plays, but having to remain content with a one goal lead as the teams went to the sheds.
After the break it took only 40 seconds for Canterbury?s Paris Heyd to add the go-ahead goal, although once again the Christchurch youngster was robbed of the point when the match officials mistakenly credited the tally to Kyle Papai. This was by no means the first time this season that points have been allocated incorrectly, and it seems unfortunate that Heyd in particular seems to have incredibly bad luck in this department, missing out on close to ten points so far this year. The nature of the goal allows no excuse from the officials either, as Heyd, on a breakaway, faked the goalie with a nice move and slid the puck into the back of the net.
Stampede struck back immediately however, when the Bjorkman brothers, Joe and Brett, forced the turnover deep in the Devils zone and left the puck unattended in the slot for Jamie Moore-Carter to convert with a powerful slapshot.
In a more physical encounter than the previous night, the Stampede chased the equalizer hard, but were caught out on their own man advantage when Canterbury?s powerhouse winger Adam Soffer took an excellent pass from Ryan Paskell and beat Gobeil to get the extra, and shorthanded, tally.
With the Devils protecting their two-goal lead into the final period, both teams began to take penalties, as a number of tussles broke out around the nets. Linesman Ryan Cairns demonstrated his wrestling skills at one point, while Referee Jerome Raateland was himself felled with a sickening accidental blow from behind, causing some concern as he lay immobile for some time. After the game, it was joked that Canterbury may have to review the size of their penalty boxes, as some fans were forced to give up their seats as the crowd around the scorebench grew. When the game eventually restarted, Canterbury?s point-scoring machine Chris Eaden took the opportunity to add another goal to put the result beyond doubt.
Queenstown however weren?t quite prepared to give up just yet, and forced a five on three, despite themselves having a couple of players sitting out misconduct penalties.
It was, predictably, one of the Bjorkmans who scored, Joe converting the assist from Glass to get within two.The Devils, a different team from the amateurs of the previous night, kept their focus and pounded Gobeil with shots, once again calling on their attacking depth to wear down the exhausted Stampede. With pressure coming from all three of their lines, it was somehow fitting that a split line change produced the final goal of the night, when team captain Loren Nowland fed Eaden with less than a minute to go as Canterbury?s final flourish sent the visitors home with much to think about.
Final Score ? 7-4 to Canterbury
June 29 2009
Red Devils On Fire On The Ice
Not even a dislocated shoulder to one of their star import players could take the gloss off another two commanding victories for the Canterbury Red Devils in the latest round of the New Zealand Ice Hockey League over the weekend.
Hosted by the West Auckland Admirals, the Devils repaid the hospitality with a rampant display of goalscoring that sees them leading the league in For and Against, having notched 47 tallies for a miserly 3 in return, after only four games of the sixteen-game competition.
Backed up by another solid effort by goaltenders Justin Findlay and Vince Mitalas, who shared a game each over the weekend – Mitalas recording his first shutout after five years competing in the league – the Devils overcame a difficult travel day on Saturday to notch up a scratchy 10-1 win in Game One of the weekend. Admirals scoring ace Jeff Bonazzo was right when he pointed out afterwards that the scoreline flattered the Canterbury franchise: ?It didn?t seem like a 10-1 game out there tonight, but you?ve got to hand it to Canterbury ? they buried their chances?. The chances came early for the Devils, when Chris Eaden was pulled down on a breakaway, and was awarded a rare penalty shot which he converted with a quick wrist shot under the Goalie?s glove.
Once again, Eaden topped the stats chart with 12 points for the weekend, with five of his seven goals coming in Game Two. But for Canterbury?s other leading goalscorer Kyle Papai, the weekend away turned into a trip to the emergency room to have a badly dislocated shoulder reset. The lanky Canadian is likely to miss at least one round after taking a hard hit in the corner early in Game Two.
Sunday night?s game produced a much more satisfactory team effort from the Devils, as they used the boards wisely when moving the puck out of their zone. Forwards Ryan Ruddle and captain Loren Nowland in particular appreciated the nice passes coming from defensemen such as Ryan Paskell and Mitch Oak, while reserve player Jorden Henare came off the bench to make a sweet play to Adam Soffer, who blasted the puck into the Auckland net. With head coach Keith Payne calling short line changes in the last two periods, Canterbury once again used their fresh legs to dominate territory on their way to an 11 nil win.
So that’s roughly what happened at the games for those who are interested. Official game results are on http://www.nzihl.com and only http://www.nzihl.com so don’t yell at me if you don’t like the descriptions! Disclaimer over.
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