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	GOALS						PENALTIES				GOALS						PENALTIES
31 Danny Lorenz  (N/M)	No.	G	A	A	Time	PP/SH	No.	Offence	Dur	Time	No.	G	A	A	Time	PP/SH	No.	Offence	Dur	Time	1 Eoin McInerney N/M
35 Pasi Hakkinen (N/M)	1	16	72	17	33.25		61	Holding	2	9.12	1	19	26	-	0.47		21	Roughing	2	9.12	47 Ryan Bach N/M
4 Brent Pope	2	24	8	16	41.42		8	HoldStick	2	42.30	2	32	19	26	37.50		95	Tripping	2	31.23	X 8 Bob Maudie DND* X
5 Patrik Wallenberg	3										3						17	Interference	2	50.43	X 9 Kevin Miehm DND* X
8 Clayton Norris	4										4						28	Hooking	2	52.07	X 9 Steve Duncan DND* X
10 Randall Weber	5										5										17 Pete Leboutillier
11 Greg Hadden (A)	6										6										19 Scott Allison (A)
16 Claude Savoie	7										7										21 Jeff Sebastian
17 PC Drouin	8										8										22 Jeff Brown
X 18 A.J. Kelham DND* X	9										9										24 Chris Lipsett
19 Steve Moria	10										10										25 Jason Mansoff
X 21 Ashley Tait DND* X	11										11										26 Ron Shudra
X 22 Paul Adey DND* X	12										12										27 Marc Laniel (A)
24 Jimmy Drolet	13										13										28 Paul Kruse (C)
32 Joel Poirier (C)	14										14										32 Brad Lauer
X 42 Paul Moran DND* X	15										15										X 75 Cal Benazic DND* X
44 Barry Nieckar (A)	16										16										X 93 Rick Brebant DND* X
55 Darren Maloney	17										17										95 Brent Bobyck
61 Christian Sjogren	18										18
72 Lee Jinman
77 Calle Carlsson

* Did Not Dress

Notes:

31 Danny Lorenz and 1 Eoin McInerney played in nets.  The Panthers' starting forward lines were Drouin/Jinman/Savoie, Hadden/Poirier/Wallenberg, Nieckar/Moria/Sjogren.  The Panthers' starting defensive lines were Carlsson/Drolet, Pope/Maloney, with Norris then rolling round.

Guestbook Comments

Name: Ian
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: Panthers
Location: Birmingham
Sent: 10.02 - mon 14 jan 2002

Another very frustrating night! Steelers deserved a point for the way they stuck to their coach's strategy and took the chances that we gifted to them. But we really should have taken the points. No cohesion, poor defending, no real fire. Some of our stick handling and passing was an absolute disgrace, you would have thought that professional hockey players would have managed to master elementary puck handling skills but apparently not, I've seen better in the under 10s. Something is very wrong when a team with so much ability can be so poor so often, maybe the coaching, maybe attitude, most likely a combination of different things, I don't know, but those that have the power to do so don't have much time left to sort it out. Otherwise it will be another season of potential written off with mediocrity, and even our management's propaganda abilities might start to be put to the test then.

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Name: Jez
Location: Nottm
Sent: 03.39 - mon 14 jan 2002

Frustrating game tonight. I thought Sheffield played really well defensively. They filled the neutral zone and I feel that when teams do this our forwards don't have the size to break through.PC and Lee have the moves and the strength to do it but both Swedes, skillful as they are, can be forced off the puck too easily. When the plays do work it's great to watch, but the passing and stickhandling need to be near perfect to break through a defence like Sheffields tonight. Having managed to get level I couldn't believe Pope when he jumped into the play in their end, rather than just putting the puck on the net.He tried to go round their player deep in their zone and lost it leading directly to their second goal.Other than an odd man breakaway, I couldn't see them scoring again.

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Name: Shaggy
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: #72 Jinman
Location: Nottingham
Sent: 00.07 - mon 14 jan 2002

The Steelers had a solid game-plan, the only one really available to them with so few skaters. Soak it up, lock it down, never let a flow develop (see how they kept continually icing it?). They virtually stopped attacking once they had a 1-goal lead. Say what you like about Blaiser, he IS a bloody good tactician! Of course, the most efficient way to maximise that strategy is to clutch&grab like mad - which they did in spades. Unfortunately, they got away with it. 8 PIMs?? My a*se.... should have been double that easy....

What's the other thing they did right? They parked Allison ( a notorious "blue-line bandit" - where do you think half his goals come from?) or someone else right up front - a long pass, little or no opposition D hanging back.... breakaway time. We fragging well GIFTED them those two bloody goals!!

We have (IMHO) a CRACKING good team this year, and when they get it right, they really get it right! I now have virtually no major complaints about any individual player. It is the team AS A WHOLE which just ain't cutting it! I saw some inspired passing/receiving tonight - and some absolutely awful stuff...

Look, I'm no coach, no hockey expert (if we're honest, who on here is?) or anything like that. But there's a few things that I think we should be doing that we aren't.... why, I don't know:-
1) Screen the netminder. Get someone parked RIGHT in front of that crease, make the barstool give himself a crick in the neck trying to see past. It happens occasionally... but nowhere near often enough.
2) Get in close - virtually all the shots on goal (especially powerplay) were long-range ones. Crash the net - seems to work for Belfast!
3) Mark those blue-line bandits! Too many loose men hanging around waiting for a long-shot pass (or petition the ISL to bring in the 2-line pass rule, that'd fox the gits, heh heh!).
4) Support your team-mates. Everyone else seems to attack in waves, mutual support etc. We seem to rely on lone heroes a bit too much. Not always, of course - but too much IMHO. We have some right classy players, but their skills can only be enhanced by teamwork.
5) Check the living hell out of them. Make them HURT (legally of course) every time they ice. Wear them down, destroy their team cohesion, break up THEIR plays.

This might look like I'm 'having a go' at the Panthers. Ball-cocks. I like 'em, I support 'em, and I DON'T believe that they are a bunch of unmotivated incompetents as some appear to. But there is something not yet right at the team level. THAT is what Blaiser gets right - as much as I dislike his style (was Brent Bobyck always such a chippy little sod, or is it just when he plays for Blaiser?).

Tonight was, IMHO, a point lost rather than a point won, but it's not all bad news. Use the remaining league games to get things right (and of course hammer the Germans in the Ahearne Trophy tournament), and concentrate on two trophies which, I believe, are well within our grasp.

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Name: KillerBus
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: Steelers
Location: Notts Uni
Sent: 22.47 - sun 13 jan 2002

Personally I think you all have a right to be cheesed off with your team/coaches. Steelers came with an obvious gameplan and stuck to it well and from the few steelers I got to speak to as we left were very happy to walk with the point. Although I do have a few questions. The first is, does Jinman always do those pirouette-y things when he gets hooked slightly or was that just you guys getting frustrated and begging for the 5 on 3 PP? Secondly, if our Allison aint so tough why is it that on numerous occasions your players seemed reluctant to check him (either body or poke)? Thirdly does Pope always try things on with the smallest/known non-fighters on the opposition or was it just tonight that he decided to act the hard man on player like Bobyck?

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Name: Simon Morley
Sent: 22.18 - sun 13 jan 2002

I've rarely seen so much clutch & grab.... there's an art to impeding a player and the Steelers played it well tonight.  Don't get me wrong the steelers did what they had to do... talking crap on this guest book doesn't do your teams efforts tonight justice and just in my opinions belittle the coaching skills of Brebant and Blaiser... if thats what you want to do fine.  Panthers on the other hand didn't do what they had to do to win.... is it me or is that a LARGE ice surface out there......They only had 12 players, we should have skated their arses off.... The third period should have been ours.  Yes the Steelers played a very defensive game, but are we saying that thats the best WE can do in a Nottingham / Sheffield game ?  Players did put the effort in, but tactically we were beaten off the ball park.... Todays game was lost for us by the coachs and I'm sure Sheffields dressing room was a lot happier than ours.

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Name: Jono#72
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: New away
Location: Basford, Nottingham
Sent: 22.17 - sun 13 jan 2002

When we play our biggest rivals I expect the team to show quite alot of passion and even more will to win. This was just not evidant tonight.
We were playing a team with just TWELVE skaters, yet we let them boss the game. They played us like fiddles and it nearly cost us the game.
Scott Allison ran the show for them and I was suprised he wasn't named their MOM.
Panthers, this just ain't good enough.

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Name: Mythos Man
The Hockey Shirt You Wear: HC Excalibur Znojemsti Orli
Location: Long Eaton
Sent: 20.35 - sun 13 jan 2002

Just got home from another rather inept, lacklustre and enigmatic display by the Panthers. It may be just be me, but why can't the Coach(es) change our game plan to suit the circumstances of the opposition? Steelers arrived with just 12 skaters, yet we failed to engage them in the corners and persisted in dumping and not chasing throughout the game! Steelers tactics were also obvious from the first 5 minutes - soak up as much pressure as you can, leave a man near the red line, suck the Panthers defenders in and then release the free man up the middle. How many times did we get suckered by that? McInerney, although he played well, was giving up rebounds on virtually every shot, but where were the players driving the net to collect? Very frustrating! Finally, what was Gary Moran Moran up to tonight?? Announcing every surname twice?? Was it to ensure that the crowd heard after his usual Colin Crompton "...oel ...ier" trick with the radio mike, or was it to try and fool the Steelers fans into thinking we had twice as many players as we actually did?? Either way Mr Moran Moran, it made you look rather stupid stupid!
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Name: SROG
Location: Nottm (at work - boo!)
Sent: 13.31 - mon 14 jan 2002

Steelers had a strict game-plan they stuck to it & it worked. That line change that cost us a goal has to be one of the worse timed changes i've seen in my 20+ years of watching hockey!!! And did we even have a game-plan? We had dump & no chase at one point and as Mr Morley points out the 'long pass up the middle' most of them completely off target or straight to a Steeler d-man! Blaiser may not be the best coach in the isl, but he's damn sure the best motivator, Steelers have played 3 games in 4 days, 2 draws & 1 win, with a team carrying lots of injuries!!!
Where was our motivation?? We looked so flat & lethargic! Yeh sure, PC hit the post, but most of the other shots were pretty easy & didn't exactly stretch Big Mac's ability! They were determined not to lose, we looked for most of the game like we couldn't care less......
Too late to do much about it this season, hope to God we have a new & EXPERIENCED coach for next season, Dave Whistle would be my no' 1 choice!!!!!