Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 15/NASL Week 11 14 Jun 2015 This weekly update to the minutes-played-by-Canadians list need to be taken with more than a few grains of salt.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 14/NASL Week 10 7 Jun 2015 It was moving day on the Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 13/NASL Week 9 31 May 2015 Ouimette now has five appearances, four of them starts, for the Red Bulls. He’s played a total of 412 minutes. And that’s significantly more minutes this season than — ahem — all of the Canadians combined on the Impact roster.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 12/NASL Week 8 24 May 2015 Off the field, there was some good news as well. FCE’s Allan Zebie, who looks to have claimed a starting fullback spot after making the jump from the academy to the first team this past off-season, was signed to a contract extension that keeps him with the Eddies till 2017. Zebie is also rocketing up the Canadian minutes-played charts.
One in nearly 1.14 million: How FC Edmonton’s last two ACC losses defied the odds 22 May 2015 How about this: That the mathematical chance of FC Edmonton losing in the semifinal stage of the Amway Canadian Championship — on goals scored in the 96th minute of the second leg — is one in 1,137,777.77.
Eddies can’t afford to try and manage the second leg against the Whitecaps 19 May 2015 “For us, it we sit back in the 18-yard box, it is inevitable what will happen,” said FCE coach Colin Miller. “Our game plan worked to a T at BC Place, save for the last six minutes. And, I think we can score, I feel that way about every game we play, and that we need to score. But we are in a position where we’re not chasing the game, so there’s no need to do anything stupid.”
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 11/NASL Week 7 18 May 2015 FC Edmonton's brass decided to rotate the squad for Sunday's match against the San Antonio Scorpions. And, with so many younger prospects given the chance to play, a whopping total of 421 minutes were given to Canadian players.
Gut check in Vancouver: “What a performance” by the Eddies, says Miller 13 May 2015 “What a performance by these guys tonight,” said FC Edmonton coach Colin Miller. “It speaks to the culture that we’re trying to build here. We gave up some very poor goals to the best team in NASL on Sunday. But we came into this game not looking to draw; we thought we could win the game. We knew that, playing against the best team in the MLS Western Conference, that we couldn’t have one single player out there fail tonight. And we didn’t have any failures.”
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 10/NASL Week 6 11 May 2015 Hanson Boakai, Adrian Cann and Mason Trafford made their NASL season debuts this past weekend, and it pushes the number of "surefire" Canadian prospects who have played in MLS or NASL in 2015 to 29. But, let's break that number down. Take Ottawa and the Eddies out of the equation, and the number of players drops to 16 — which isn't very good at all.
Quintesstentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 9/NASL Week 5 3 May 2015 Two Canadians made their season debuts this weekend; After playing in USL or being parked on the bench through the first eight weeks of the MLS season, New York Red Bulls defender Karl Ouimette got to play a full 90 minutes on Saturday. And, on Sunday, fullback Allan Zebie, a product of the FC Edmonton Academy, made his NASL debut, coming in as a sub in Sunday's 2-2 draw between the Eddies and Minnesota United.
