Flyers Gameday: Mar. 9 vs. NYR

Good news. The Flyers may be down 3-0 to a tanking team after 1 period and they were outshot but what’s important is that they outhit the Rangers 17-7. The Flyers way.

Bill Meltzer wrote:

I agree in the sense that I don’t see an identifiable plan about what identity they are establishing and who will be the nucleus to emerge down the middle (both at C and D).

Thank you! This is what we’ve been saying all year! Not sure why it took 62 games to admit this. Even the Flyers postgame came out and said this team is cooked (once they determined they shouldn’t be playing the 76ers music).

Vladar has been covering up a directionless team all year. When he’s off they lose. When he’s really off, they lose big.

Can we also admit that Jones’s plan to buy C1, C2, and D1 in free agency this year was not so much a plan as a wish list? They don’t have a backup plan.

I still don’t see what they were thinking when they hired Tocchet, other than they thought they were able to go to the playoffs this year and, going back to my previous statement on FA, that the elite talent would want to flock to PHI to play for Tocch.

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How much more proof is needed to understand this is a poorly run franchise, and that being nice. They have zero leadership from top to bottom.

Talk about a nucleus, they have none. Their “core” is nothing but average and there really isn’t much upside left outside of MM and maybe the Forest. Bump and Barkey we shall see though again they will be depth/role players. The Defense hasn’t really changed since danny boy took over. That is a disgrace. He has moved some parts on offense though still the same results.

People will still defend this management and team is funny. Imaginer thinking Tocchet was the answer to any question about being a contender.

Their focus has always been to lowkey make the playoffs and their fallback for failure is to keep repeating “rebuilding” to the public. Kind of a have your cake and eat it to. No accountability. Remember when they threw a bunch of money at Fedotov to come over and save their playoff dreams 2 years ago with 10 games left in the season? Good times.

Then Torts quit when he realized they weren’t going to make the playoffs last year and now Tocch, the coach that free agents want to play for, is hired to get them over the hump. I don’t really think DB should get credit for Martone because he was a reward for failure, they weren’t trying to be bad, they were kind of like the Leafs who thought they were better than they actually were but the Flyers still had their 1st rnd pick. And in the end Martone is a luxury, not a necessity. If Hagens or O’Brien, who were drafted immediately after Martone, succeed as #1 centers, this will go down as a miss for DB regardless of how well Martone does. You have to wonder, if the front office had known at the draft that their Tocchet luring FA elite talent to the Flyers super plan was going to fail, would they have drafted differently? Neither of the centers are 6’3″ like Martone though so probably not. Being the biggest is the #1 attribute they were looking for.

Speaking of draft picks and the Rangers, how about Gabe Perrault. The consensus draft pick the Flyers should’ve picked instead of Bonk. Not that the Flyers need any more wingers but nobody thought Bonk was the better pick on draft day and who knows how things will be in 5 years but today, it’s looking really bad.

Bonk has yet to play in the NHL and Perrault looked pretty good last night against the Flyers.

https://www.blueshirtbanter.com/rangers-vs-flyers-fun-in-this-economy/

Some serious things, though. Gabe Perreault has looked like an actual man of late, specifically when Mike Sullivan was forced to play him as a top line player. He had a goal and an assist last night (he had another assist taken away as well), and his behind the back pass to Mika Zibanejad was a thing of true beauty. The kid has ridiculous vision on the ice, and to have the confidence to even attempt that pass let alone pull it off is something else. Good for him, man. Good for us, too.

You see quotes like that and you think, the Flyers were not the smartest guys in the room on draft day or when picking coaches.