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Originally Posted by modaymorninggm
It is great to follow the loyalty of the fans on this site. People saying they prefer this team to last year's that won a conference championship. Wow that is loyalty. Commenting that this year's team is over achieving. They are in 18th place in a 20 team league and only 1 point ahead of the 19th place team that plays in the much tougher western conference. How is that over achieving unless the expectation was to be dead last in the entire league. Rebuild does not mean bottom out - when the Ice Dogs won their first Conference championship they easily made the playoffs the next year. Being in 9th place in the 10 team Eastern Conference in a year where many say the Eastern Conference is the weakest in history is not over achieving.
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The fact that a team with double digit number of rookies already has more wins (16W and 8 T) after 50 games than were expected to have after 68 games is by definition
over-achieving:
do better than is expected.!
and it is impossible to overlook the fact that the Ice Dogs compete level is extraordinarily high - 18 one goal loses is nothing short of amazing!
Here they all are:
01 Oct HAM - 4 vs NIAG 3 Meridian Centre
02 Oct NIAG -3 vs PBO 5 (EN) Memorial Centre
10 Oct NIAG -3 vs NB 4 North Bay Memorial Gardens
13 Oct SAR - 5 vs NIAG 4 Meridian Centre
15 Oct OSH 2 vs NIAG 1 Meridian Centre
19 Oct ER 6 vs NIAG -5 Meridian Centre
21 Oct NIAG 5 vs MISS 6 Hershey Centre
28 Oct NIAG - 4 vs BARRIE - 5 (SO) Meridian Centre
29 Oct NIAG - 1 vs OWEN SOUND - 2 (OT) Community Centre
03 Nov NIAG - 1 vs HAMILTON - 2 Meridian Centre
04 Nov NIAG - 5 vs NB - 6 (SO) Meridian Centre
16 Nov NIAG - 2 vs HAMILTON - 3 (OT) First Ontario Centre
04 Dec NIAG - 3 vs SARNIA - 4 (OT) Progressive Auto Sales Arena
10 Dec NIAG - 2 vs Mississauga - 3 (OT) Meridian Centre
27 Jan NIAG - 0 vs Kingston - 3 (Note: 2 empty net goals in final 25 seconds) K-Rock Centre
28 Jan NIAG - 4 vs Ottawa - 5 (OT) TD Place Arena
02 Feb NIAG - 4 vs Mississauga - 6 (Empty net goal) Meridian Centre
03 Feb NIAG - 2 ve Peterborough - 3 Meridian Centre