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Even Chris Pronger gives the “rebuild” (air quotes) a big thumbs down. Seriously, I don’t know anyone defends this front office. The voices supporting them are coming down to a few employees and stockholm syndrome fans.
Wheeler states, “Porter Martone’s awesome, Matvei (Michkov)‘s still going to be awesome, they’ve used two top-12 picks on two kids who might top out as third-line centers for them.”
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If you think the Flyers need a superstar center and defenseman, then you’ve probably been panicking for a while now. The truth is, there isn’t a reasonable path for the team to acquire both of these pieces. They could get lucky and draft one in 2026, but getting the other won’t be easy.https://www.nhl.com/flyers/news/five-takeaways-rebuild-evolves-to-next-phase
“I’m a big believer in Sam Ersson. I think that Sam is in a position now, age-wise, and being pushed by the depth at that position that’s there now, is going to benefit him, as well. I think that Sam is going to stand up to the test here this year,” Jones said.
Hilferty added, “I said this to the players the other day, we want to build a culture of sustainable excellence. Not just a shot next year, and it falls off after.”
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No matter how bad Ersson does, the Flyers have his back. Michkov, not so much. Ersson get’s as much support from the FO/coaching as Michkov get’s criticism. Hard to believe which one of them might have a future.
Thankfully Hilferty said they want to build a championship culture and not a championship team because he has no clue what the latter looks like. Team with talent talk about their talent, teams with nothing tangible to talk about, talk about culture. They should change their names to the Philadelphia Culture. Because that’s what’s important to them.
https://www.statmuse.com/nhl/team/philadelphia-flyers-16/stats/2026
You can thank Gary Bettman and his desire to keep crappy teams playing meaningful games late in the season. The only thing the Flyers have been good at is the skills competition. Without that, the Flyers would be the NY Rangers. Tocch has this team humming.
Quite the reality check by the Rangers.
1. First the Rangers tell everyone they are giving up on the season.
2. Then they follow that up by spanking the Flyers.
3. Flyers 35% faceoff percentage. Pathetic.Nothing says well coached team like giving up 30 goals in 5 games while being one of the lowest scoring teams in the league.
It looks like the Flyers are already on the Olympic break and forgot to tell the fans.
go flyers brick by brick.
from a points % perspective wonder where the flyers sit today.
Quite the reality check by the Rangers.
1. First the Rangers tell everyone they are giving up on the season.
2. Then they follow that up by spanking the Flyers.
3. Flyers 35% faceoff percentage. Pathetic.Nothing says well coached team like giving up 30 goals in 5 games while being one of the lowest scoring teams in the league.
It looks like the Flyers are already on the Olympic break and forgot to tell the fans.
tocchet was such a great hire. would love to sit in on that interview.
Tocchet was a “win now” hire for a team that’s further away from being ready to win now than anyone in the franchise is willing to admit.
You don’t hire your color commentator who has no business experience and absolutely no training to run your team if you are a serious franchise but at least DB took a night class.
It is a wonder why the league isn’t scrambling to be more like the Flyers and poaching their execs.
Anyone who would pitch an honest to god rebuild would never get hired.
That’s exactly what this is. It’s a reality check. They suffer from the some of the same issues that ended the Eagles season. I write this as Buffalo South looks up in the standings at Buffalo even while fans still look down on Buffalo. They do many of the same things, use the same worn out cliches and have the same lack of success over recent seasons, yet for some reason the Flyers fans feel they are better than Buffalo while refusing to look in the mirror.
Anyway back to the Eagles. The Eagles Patullo’d their season and the Flyers are doing the same. As long as Vladar was stopping pucks, Flyers brass/fans stick their fingers in their ears and don’t want to hear anything negative. Everybody likes him, he’s a friend of the family, he’s a good boy. The entire team lost the game, it wasn’t because of his nonsensical play designs and play calling. You can’t blame one guy.
When you hold everyone accountable you hold no one accountable. Anyway, over my Eagles rant and i still can’t figure out why Sirianni has an assistant head coach, it’s not like he calls plays.
Flyers fans always want to believe a hot start is the new normal. Torts found that out the hard way. Vladar, not Tocch, is more responsible for the Flyers winning ways. Is he better than Torts, yes, but that’s a low bar.
I don’t know where the Flyers will end up, maybe they’ll squeak into the playoffs and fool themselves into believing, like the Pittsburgh Steelers did for a decade. What a joke but the Steelers continue to ignore that Tomlin in the Playoff Hall of Shame for his work over the last 9 years as the #1 worst playoff coach in several categories while clinging to long ago playoff success before some of their players were born.
Anyway, The Flyers still need their Bedard, their Crosby, their Makar, their Hughes, etc. with no realistic plans on getting them. The Steelers fooled themselves for a decade that they didn’t need a QB and the Flyers have been selling their fans the same fairy tale.
The Steelers/Flyers comparison holds true as both have GMs who have ignored obvious roster holes for years thinking one player would fix all their problems.
tocchet was such a great hire. would love to sit in on that interview.
Tocchet was a “win now” hire for a team that’s further away from being ready to win now than anyone in the franchise is willing to admit.
yes he was. shows you how delusional and incompetent they are down on broad street
tocchet was such a great hire. would love to sit in on that interview.
Tocchet was a “win now” hire for a team that’s further away from being ready to win now than anyone in the franchise is willing to admit.
