How Bad Can It Get: The 2001 Mississauga IceDogs are well on their way to being

By Jonathan Litterine
In every league there are bad teams. There is no way around it. Some teams just have no luck, draft horribly and thus no one wants to play for them. Yet the 2000-2001 Mississauga IceDogs are taking “bad” to a another level. Through 50 games the IceDogs are 3-38-7-2. The record gives them a grand total of 15 points. The teams with the next worse records in the OHL, the Oshawa Generals and the Sault St. Marie Greyhound both have 40 points. There aren’t very many positives for Mississauga. Jason Spezza looked like he would be with the IceDogs for his junior duration a few years ago. Then Spezza got fed up with the losing and demanded a trade. He is now playing for a hot Windsor Spitfires team. The IceDogs top scorer Patrick Jarrett has 43 points in 45 games. You know a major junior team is in big big trouble when there leading scorer isn’t averaging a point a game. Oh by the way Jarrett is a OHL rookie. The ‘Dogs have gone through 4 goalies this year. The 4 have combined to give up 272 goals. While their offense has scored just 129 times. Mississauga is outscored on the average of 5.04 to 2.58 every game. Recent NHL draftees who spent their OHL days in the Ontario town include, Chad Wiseman, Brett Angel and Sean McMorrow. After hearing these numbers I’m out of ideas. Nothing seems to work for these guys. Oh yeah I do have one question, Who in the world would ever coach this team?