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	GOALS						PENALTIES				GOALS						PENALTIES
1 Mika Pietila  (N/M)	No.	G	A	A	Time	PP/SH	No.	Offence	Dur	Time	No.	G	A	A	Time	PP/SH	No.	Offence	Dur	Time	20 Joel Laing N/M
30 Petter Sandstrom (N/M)	1						19	Holding	2	1.10	1	29	17	-	50.19		23	Roughing	2	0.52	33 Trevor Prior N/M
2 Jim Paek	2						4	Slashing	2	1.54	2	77	14	-	51.17		9	DelayGame	2	2.46	X 8 Steve Duncombe DND* X
4 Marc Hussey	3						13	DelayGame	2	2.46	3	29	93	17	59.54	E/Net	32	Holding	2	5.58	9 Jason Sessa
7 Eric Charron	4						11	Tripping	2	3.22	4						23	XCheck	2	12.02	10 Rhett Gordon
11 Greg Hadden (A)	5						34	XCheck	2	6.51	5						22	Hooking	2	13.31	14 Mark Dutiaume
13 Dody Wood	6						49	Roughing	2	15.32	6						23	Interference	2	31.56	17 Chris Szysky
15 Briane Thompson	7						19	Roughing	2	18.34	7						93	Boarding	2	35.14	X 18 Keith Leyland DND* X
17 Jason Elders	8						34	Interference	2	31.34	8						29	Tripping	2	29.30	19 Boe Leslie
X 18 Kristian Taubert DND* X	9						49	Roughing	2	33.08	9						17	HoldStick	2	30.13	22 Jeff Brown
19 Scott Allison	10						44	Unsportlike	2	33.08	10						22	Ill.Use Equip	2	30.36	23 Kent Simpson
27 Mark Cadotte	11						13	Unsportlike	2	33.08	11						95	Unsportlike	2	33.08	X 24 Scott Levins (A) DND* X
X 42 Paul Moran DND* X	12						7	Slashing	2	40.00	12						27	Unsportlike	2	33.08	27 Marc Laniel (C)
44 Barry Nieckar (A)	13						34	Elbows	2	42.56	13						17	Roughing	2	40.00	29 Warren Norris
49 Jason Clarke	14						7	XCheck	2	44.00	14						17	Holding	2	47.54	32 Dion Darling
66 John Purves (C)	15						7	Misconduct	10	44.00	15						44	Roughing	2	56.53	44 Timo Willman
72 Lee Jinman	16						15	XCheck	2	46.00	16						14	Roughing	2	56.53	77 Calle Carlsson
	17						1	Misconduct	10	46.00	17						B	TooManyMen	2	57.38	93 Rick Brebant
	18						15	Misconduct	10	53.20	18										95 Brent Bobyck
	19						4	Roughing	2	56.53	19
	20						7	Roughing	2	56.53	20
	21						B	Unsportlike	2	59.54	21

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PERIOD SCORES						SHOTS ON GOAL						MAN OF THE MATCH		STRIPEYS
	1	2	3	F	OT		1	2	3	F	OT	PANTHERS	Jim Paek	REFEREE	Hanson
PANTHERS	0	0	0	0		PANTHERS	6	13	8	27		VISITORS	Joel Laing	LINESMAN	Craig
VISITORS	0	0	3	3		VISITORS	9	11	22	42				LINESMAN	Pirry

Notes:

1 Mika Pietila and 20 Joel Laing played in nets.  The Panthers' starting forward lines were Allison/Hadden/Nieckar, Purves/Jinman/Cadotte, Elders/Wood/Clarke.  The Panthers' starting defensive lines were Paek/Charron, Hussey/Thompson.  18 Kristian Taubert missed this game due to flu.

This game was a sell out.  The start of the game was delayed as the plexi glass was broken during the warm up.  There was a ceremonial puck drop before the face off attended by Brian Johnson and Malcolm Young of trendy chart toppers ACDC.  The Steelers players were welcomed onto the ice by the DJ playing Poison's 'Look What The Cat Dragged In'.

22 Jeff Brown's Illegal Use Of Equipment penalty at 30.36 resulted when he played on without his helmet.

At 33.08, there was a scuffle between 49 Jason Clarke and 95 Brent Bobyck.  As this was being broken up, 13 Dody Wood and 27 Marc Laniel kicked off and the players wrestled in a knot for a while with Referee Hanson seemingly trapped in between the bodies.  Clarke, Bobyck, Wood and Laniel all got 2 minutes and 44 Barry Nieckar was also penalised, presumably for mouthing off as no obvious offence was apparent.

The 10 minute Misconduct on netminder 1 Mika Pietila at 46.00 was served by 72 Lee Jinman.  Answers on a postcard as to why one of our best players was used as a benchwarmer when we were still at 0-0 !

At 46.46, the Panthers called a time out.

At 47.00, the Panthers net was knocked off in a huge scramble over a loose puck near the crease.  Hanson signalled no goal immediately, but the Steelers protested it had been knocked off deliberately.  No penalty was given.

There was another scuffle at 56.53.  11 Greg Hadden seemed to go for 44 Timo Willman in the middle of a crush of players.  Lots of handbags ensued.  Willman, 14 Mark Dutiaume, 4 Marc Hussey and 7 Eric Charron all got 2 minutes for Roughing.  Hadden went unpunished.

The Steelers goal at 59.54 was scored in an empty net after the netminder was pulled.

Guestbook Comments

Name: Carole Wall
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: Rollersnakes
Sent: 00.12 - sun 13 oct 2002

There is no way that Steelers were 3 goals better than Panthers tonight - but I have to say that yet again, penalties lost us the match. When are we going to get rid of Clarke, he's a liability.  Well done Panthers, their goalie played a blinder - but we should have won that game.  Hanson, you were poor tonight. Take a look at the video and realise that you over picky to say the least.

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Name: Chris
Location: Rotherham
Sent: 00.54 - sun 13 oct 2002

Hanson was crap, simple as that. You can't say he cost you the game though because he gave you enough chances to win it, especially in the 2nd. Laing was superb and Pietila was also good. Another night it might have gone your way, but it's sport, you win some, you lose some. Simple as that. If you were going to win tonight I honestly thought it would have happened in the 2nd.  Both teams looked very unorganised on the PP. Neither team really created good scoring chances.
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Name: Lucky Lucky Lucky Jim
Sent: 00.40 - sun 13 oct 2002

HERE WE ARE FOLKS - HERE'S A TEMPLATE THAT THE PANTHERS FANS CAN USE - LIKE THE MAN SAID JUST CUT AND PASTE.

That was the worst refereeing I’ve ever seen in the ISL.
Simpson/ Brown / Willman should have been thrown out (delete as appropriate)
Laing should have got a game penalty for being too good.
They had a drum in the crowd and we didn't!!
Our fans definitely outnumbered yours
Our goalie had an off night

And if the Panthers should lose:

Steelers were not that good, just that we played awful
Rick Brebant is not as good as he was, he should have retired long ago.
We were short benched and most of our players were suffering from lack of talent / goonery / lack of effort(delete as appropriate)
You really missed Scott Levins!!!!
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Name: neil
Location: a dark toton notts
Sent: 00.08 - sun 13 oct 2002

well firstly let me say it seems to me that things down the rink dont change i think changes have to be made to the team ie clarke, thompson,barry can go as their is too much toughness in the team and not enough skilled players. we are never go to win if players are going to spend half a game in the penalty box and when are we going to learn when the ref call a penalty its final.and to finish i thought scott allison does not seem interested in playing for us as their seemed to be no get up and go from him is injured or is he here just not bothered sorry for being so negative but apart from the second period we could not string two passes together.
 
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Name: Bobby
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: J.Bremner
Location: dark and sad nottm
Sent: 12.59 - sun 13 oct 2002

I said at the start of the seasion that Adey wasn't upfor the job ,well last night just underlined it.
we need to learn to keep our mouths shut
we need to learn to score goals on power plays
and last of all ,what was that all about putting our best player in the sin bin to serve a 10 minute pen.
sorry Adey we (panthers fans) deserve better.

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Name: SROG
Location: NOTTM
Sent: 11.51 - sun 13 oct 2002

As for the game, well we were competitive for 50+ min's out the 60, which is lets face it a vast improvement on that away game debacle! as for moray hanson well he must have been on a sponsored whistle-blowing (2p per blow) game, that's the only rational explanation i can come up with for all the penalties, talk about completely spoiling the game, he does realise that it's a contact sport i hope? and yes, i too was bemused by the decision to send jinman to sit pietila's 10min'!  credit to Blaiser for picking up Laing as Steelers 'minder, thought it was a risk when i first read about him, but WOW he is one of the best shot-stoppers i've ever seen. a neutral would think we got stuffed looking at a 3-0 score, but they got 1 v.good goal, the 2nd was handed to them on a plate (by us puck-chasing kinda like headless chickens) & the 3rd was an empty netter, not arguing the result as the (slightly) better team won on the night, just putting it to context. on another nite, the shot that thompson (?) cranked off the bar could have gone in & we could have gone on to win 3-0, that's just the way any sport can go on any given nite!
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Name: RTB
Sent: 11.31 - sun 13 oct 2002

I saved my first game of the season until last night.Having not been convinced by the signings made during the summer.Foolishly I beleived that we would come out strong.Oh dear wrong again.What I witnessed was an incoherent display gradually being overcome by frustration,eventually leading to the misconducts that were to cost us.Indiscipline that only the "coach" can cure.The captain should set a better example,too.Full credit to Steelers.They played a classic road game and ended up taking the honours and more importantly,the points.Thats why they are at the top and we can only dream of such dizzy heights whilst living on the "promises" of a certain "manager".Where was the promised fire in our bellies last night?

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Name: Chris
Sent: 10.46 - sun 13 oct 2002

what can you say about lastnight!
All well and good blaming Hanson, yes he was awful but lets be fair we had more than our fair share of chances and it came to nothing.  Clark must go, wood not far behide, and words with Allsion cuz he looks lost out there.  As for the crowd, for such a good turn out it all went a bit quiet, come mid 2nd period the Steelers fans were out shouting us!  Last night proved to me that some plays are not good enough and to be honest the steelers are in a different class from us this season.
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Name: Girl In A '32' Shirt
Homepage: http://www.pantherslair.co.uk
Homepage Title: Panthers' Lair
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: Poirier '32' Panthers' Home shirt
ICQ Number: Look for my name - But mention this site or I won't authorise you
Location: Beside my signed & framed Niffty Paek #2 photo
Sent: 10.33 - sun 13 oct 2002

Yes, Hanson was awful, but the penalty tallies were more or less even on both sides. The three Misconducts were the killers in the end as we were down to 2 D-Men, for God's sake ! No wonder we were knackered by the end of the third. Too true as was said further down - When are our players gonna learn to keep their mouths shut ???

AND Pietila takes a ten minuter, so who sits it out ? LEE JINMAN !!! Somebody please explain the logic of this as I have no idea ! One of our best players used as a benchwarmer when its still 0-0. If it had to be someone on the ice at the time, put Purves in there. Anyone but Jinman. But I don't think that's the rule anyway.

Also after trumpetting in the press how fired up he was, Allison did sod all out there apart from lose the puck and actually got pushed over by one weak glove I saw. Hang on, you're a big lad. That shouldn't have floored you. I don't blame the Steeler fans for winding him up at all. His best reply would have been to score, but he never seemed to get anywhere near.

Its so utterly disappointing to fight really hard for two periods in what started off as a barnstormer and then totally fall apart like a house of cards just because they scored one. This team has a lack of heart problem. It also has a discipline problem which seems to be fuelled rather than controlled by our illustrious Captain.

Positive points: JIM PAEK WAS A GOD....again ! We seem to end up saying this after every game, but without him we'd have lost a lot earlier especially considering our lack of D-men from start to finish with the flu absence of Taubert. Thoroughly deserved his Man Of The Match award.

Also stand up and take a bow, Mika Pietila. The fantastic one on one save when Szysky was on a clear breakaway out of the box (why do we always get caught like this ?) was tremendous. He was hoovering up shots all night.

Honourable mentions also to Hadden, Cadotte (throws big checks for a little guy) and Charron (when he wasn't in the sin bin).

To be honest the Steelers didn't look individually any better than us, but the difference is that they are organised, disciplined and play as a team.

Comedy Moment Of The Match: Allison going into the corner and losing his stick only to turn and see it sticking upright at him jammed in a gap in the boards. Actually the appearance of ACDC on the ice is also a contender just for the sheer Spinal Tap bizarreness of it all. I thought Brian Johnson had died !
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Name: PI**ED OFF FAN
Sent: 02.19 - sun 13 oct 2002

Comedy moment of the night....none!!!  Depressing moment of the night.... at least HALF of our capacity crowd leaving with 4 minutes to go!!!

For all those who left -

1. Jimmy P got man of the match.
2. I hope you saved that precious 10p on the parking charges!
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Name: Shaggy
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: Panthers 01-02 home #72 Jinman
Location: Nottingham
Sent: 13.10 - sun 13 oct 2002

Well, we just couldn't buy a goal last night, could we? Part of it was Laing - he was catching bullets and no mistake - easily MoM for them. Part of it was luck as well - the number of oh-so-bloody-CLOSE ones!  If you look at it dispassionately, the two teams weren't THAT far apart. They were a bit faster overall (though Cadotte was going supersonic again), but the gaining/keeping possession of the puck was more in our favour when it was player-vs-player. They were better at the shorter, controlled passing - AGAIN we tended to rely too much on the long, speculative and easily-intercepted passes.  On the discipline side, our 'loose cannons' (eg: Clarke, Wood) were a bit more loose/hot-headed than theirs, whilst their goonery was (in typical Blaisdell style) much more organised/cynical.  Overall, on the night I'd say that there was only a couple of percent in difference between the teams - but when you're playing for 60 minutes, sometimes that's all you need... :-((

On the subject of Hanson.....
Gawds, was he cr*p. He called some ridiculous penalties against both teams, and missed some absolute howlers! This is where my comparison above of discipline makes the difference.... Blaisdell gets his team to initiate it, knowing that we'll react - and half the time the ref misses the initial thing. Clever (if reprehensible) psychological warfare on Blaiser's part, something to be tightened up on our end.
To say that Hanson didn't make a difference is laughable, though - those 10min misconducts slaughtered our line-ups and defence..... and he was being WAY more picky than most refs usually are...

On the subject of Allison......
I sit behind the home bench, so I actually see the faces of the Panthers players as they skate back to the bench - and Allison looked in pain on more than one occasion. I think he's still injured - he certainly didn't look fully up to scratch last night.  Interesting, BTW, to hear the reaction of the majority of the Sheffield fans to their 'hero'.... after all the times we were told that "I won't boo him" or "the Steeler fans will show their respect" - what happens? - booed just about every time he was near them or touched the puck - and from the majority of the Steeler fans too!  No respect - but we knew that anyway.....

One grumble about the team tactics last night - the sheer number of unneccesary icing shots and dump-and-chase..... PLEASE STOP THAT!!!

Plenty of doom&gloom merchants are no doubt already writing the team off (one stupid old bat in Block 15 last night was screaming out that it was the worst team we've ever had and they should sack the lot - obviously she's forgotten the previous couple of years, senility must have set in) - but hey, it's a long haul....

As for Adey.... well, how many Too-Many-Men penalties have WE had this season so far? - none that I've seen. And they certainly seem to be better-motivated than last season (the hastly trip up the road being an exception).

Sooner or later, the Steelers are going to come a big cropper - not just a defeat or two, but something MAJOR - nothing lasts forever, and they'd be fools to think otherwise.
And when it happens - all their arrogance, all their disdain for everyone else, all their hatred.... it will come back to haunt them with a vengeance.
I'll be sitting there watching.
And I will laugh and laugh and laugh......
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Name: Ally
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: Panthers Home (last years)
Location: Loughborough
Sent: 15.55 - sun 13 oct 2002

Hanson - yes, crap, but not really too far either way. We did have about 3 minutes of 5-on-3 and failed to score. I thought the funniest penalty was in the first period when Hussey skated towards a Steeler who promptly fell over and Hussey got a tripping call! Then two minutes later Allison's stick gets stuck in that bit of ice - couldn't just have been that the Steelers player fell over on the dodgy ice could it? Noooo.

I think Hanson's problem was that he was too determined to "stamp his authority" on the game. I think I'm right in saying the last Panthers/Steelers game he reffed was the bench clearance brawl (someone correct me if I'm wrong), so obviously he wanted to lay down the law early. But those 3 penalties (2 against us, 1 against them) in the first 90 seconds were... strange to say the least. The thing was, this just irritated the players further and they got worse, so really it didn't work at all!

With Misconducts I think it's pretty impossible to say what's going on because you don't know what the player has said to the ref - if he's told him to "f*** off you stupid w****r then fair enough, but the way things were going it wouldn't have surprised me if he'd have called one for slightly less than that. Also, maybe this is just my imagination but didn't Hanson call Pietila's misconduct before he went ape behind the goal??

Like the other (sensible) postings I thought it was an even game for 2 periods, but the Steelers' superior teamwork showed through in the 3rd. I thought we were also tactically a bit inept, particularly on the Powerplay. Everytime we got to centre-ice we dumped it in and tried to turn it over on the forecheck. Lots of times it didn't work. The Steelers on the other hand passed the puck into the zone then got it set. Their problem was that they then kept spoiling it by passing it straight to one of our players! In the 3rd I thought we also lacked any real innovation - it was the same thing over and over again - pass it out of defence, give it to someone like Jinman and let him try and take it in: why didn't someone realise sooner this wasn't working. Sure, that's got to be partly Adey's fault but also the players have surely played hockey for long enough now (20+ years for some of them) that they can come up with some alternative strategies!

I am becoming more convinced by the day that we'll finish 3rd this year (behind Belfast and Sheffield). I know we still haven't seen 3 of the teams at the NIC yet but putting the other results together I think 3rd does look a likely finishing position for us.  All IMHO of course.
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Name: Jono#72
Location: Basford, Nottingham
Sent: 17.08 - sun 13 oct 2002

It should have been a spectacle of everything good about the game last night, but unfortunately the game was totally ruined by that arse hanson. Not a chance of seeing any fast flowing hockey with him blowing his whistle every five seconds.  Not alot between the two sides, and 3-0 flattered the Steelers, but they got the vital breakthrough goal, and there was only ever going to be one winner after that.  To be honest, I think the Steelers are an average side, but they have an outstanding netminder in Laing, who was quite superb. That's his fifth shut-out already, and if Steelers do win anything this year it will be mainly down to him.

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Name: Gazzamundo
Location: Nottm
Sent: 17.22 - sun 13 oct 2002

There's a lot of negativity coming from fellow Panthers fans, but I thought that there was absolutely nothing between the teams for 50 minutes. So why so down-hearted ? As usual, Blaisdell has put together a quality side - did you expect anything else ? On another night things could easily have gone the other way.  Congrats to the Panthers for putting up such a good show and the same to Steelers players for having that little bit of extra something - luck, commitment, not sure what. The real killer was the 10 min penalty to Charron, as well as the 10 mins to Pietila served by Jinman. Hanson ruined what would have been an interesting final 10 minutes of the game.