What a great looking facility the Wave has. From the turf, to the boards, to the banners.......everything looks first class. Did I say turf, awesome! I haven't been there in years, but I would love to go back. Feats are you listening??
Their win in Game 2 tonight was the Wave's 60th playoff victory all-time, second (by a lot) to the original San Diego Sockers' 98. Baltimore's two franchises (and, yes, they are two franchises, please don't start that b.s. again) have a combined 97, but two of them came when the club was the Houston Summit. San Diego Sockers I - 98 Milwaukee Wave - 60 Cleveland Crunch/Force II - 52 Houston Summit/Baltimore Blast I - 49 Baltimore Spirit/Blast II - 48 Mini-games are not included, but the Blast have won three of those (Milwaukee has won four).
For example, where was Chad Vandegriffe tonight for the Wave? He has been a rock on defense all season, but he can also handle the ball on offense. Guilherme Veiga did a fine job on defense, but his ball handling was nill. Three different times tonight, Veiga found himself on the offensive side of midfield with the ball and a surrounded by a surprising amount of black turf. On all three occasions, he looked lost. Vandegriffe would have known what to do with the ball. You'd think that for a high leverage game that the league would have prompted the Wave (and the Blast with Lucas Roque) to state the injury and severity. But, eh, what do I know. I am apparently one of about 18 people who'd be interested in that information.
It's great (and irrelevant) that you knew. Why wasn't that information distributed to the fans by the team? Everybody should know, not just part of the Secret Society.
Only injuries that will require players to miss several games will ever be reported since according to MASL Rules 3.2 OFFICIAL LINE-UP: Not later than fifteen (15) minutes prior to the start of the game, the official line-up card shall be submitted to the Referees by each team. Changes to the line-up card may be made up until the start of the game due to player(s) injured during warm-ups. The Referee shall inform the opposing Head Coach in the event of a line-up change. Starter’s names shall be designated, and these players must be on the field of play at the start of the game. I believe the game day pool of players has to be reported 48 hours in advance of the game.
Secret society HA! Did you watch the game in Baltimore? He looked like he hurt his knee pretty bad on a play. I agree that injury news should be shared with on the league website or heck even the wave website. That is one thing I hope they look at.
No I didn't. And spending a Saturday night staring at YouTube should not be a prerequisite for knowing why one of your team's standards isn't playing an elimination game on a Tuesday night. And I think that his injury in Baltimore makes the point for us. Baltimore KNEW that Vandegriffe had gotten injured. So why wasn't that reported anywhere for the consumption of the rest of the world? I heard a story about Mike Lookingland a couple of years ago. Some people knew up front (and others knew during) that he wouldn't be with the Wave during the playoffs that season. However to try to keep it secret, he sort-of had an injury that he didn't really have so that the opposing team would keep guessing. I don't know how legit that injured non-injury was, but I can't imagine that it had other teams fooled for a second (and in hindsight, it didn't really matter as Lookingland was pretty damn useless in the few games he did play).
I didn't watch the whole game as I was out with the family but I did see him get hurt and it didn't look good. The whole lookingland experiment definitely didn't play out well for the wave. I was wondering the same thing why he didn't play in the playoffs and got the same answer you did. I'm hoping roster updates/injury updates are something they get a little better at either on the particular teams front or the league as a whole. Would be nice to know why some people are not playing.....
Some players are added to the active Gameday roster because a team does not have enough players. If the team is given a bench penalty the injured player would serve the penalty. Or if the injured player is not with the team and on the roster no one would go to the box and he would be listed as serving the penalty
In-laws 50th anniversary party. I avoided Twitter/Facebook all night so I could watch the game Sunday. Made the mistake of checking my E-mail Sunday morning. When I saw they blew a lead and lost in OT, there was no point of watching. Of course, the Wave's E-mail had nary a mention of Vandegriffe's injury...
Ya, everyone has found themselves in that position. Both missing a game you'd normally watch due to another commitment as well as accidently hearing the score before you got a chance to see it. Just proves you are a normal, well-rounded person.
There you go again Lewis.... this is not true. with a bench penalty, a player must go to the box. the penalty is a punishment that must be served. if what you are saying is true, then no team would ever send a player to the box for a bench plenty, they would just have it assessed to a player not there. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound...?
A bench penalty is a bench penalty, whether it's towards a player or a coach, someone has to serve the penalty in the box. Games have not restarted until a team has sent a player to the box. Whatever you're "thinking" happened in Harrisburg and Baltimore, didn't happen. You obviously missed something.
We were all asking why no one was in the box , Peruzzi was listed as getting the penalty in Harrisburg and the penalty was shown on the scoreboard. However Peruzzi was still in Italy
Would like to see all 5 min. penalties, like player misconduct penalties, etc, result with another player also serving a two minute penalty which would give the opposing team a 2 min. power play. So you would have 2 players in the box, one 5 min and one 2 min, Also would like to see, if a goalie commits a penalty, then the goalie must go to the box for 2 min PP and will be replaced by the backup goalie or another player.
You will not see a goalkeeper serving his own penalty , Since teams would have to go to a 16 man roster and pay to fly the back up keeper to every game.
I understand not all teams bring a back up keeper, but there is no reason another player cant play gk. Like the player the team would normally use for a 6th attacker. I would like to see the GK serve the penalty, if teams don't want to lose their starting GK, just make sure they don't commit penalties.