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Flyers Rookie Camp gets underway this week in Voorhees. Here are three players who need strong preseasons and AHL campaigns to earn NHL callups.
[See the full post at: Flyers Rookie Camp: Now or Never for These Players]
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Thanks for the write-up. Good stuff. I’m excited to see the boys back on the ice.
I’ve only seen Gendron a couple of times but was impressed with his speed and he always seemed to be in the right spot offensively. Puck found him. Small size which can’t help.
I was disappointed in watching Hunter McDonald. He has good size but I didn’t think he necessarily out muscled other players. He was sound defensively, but didn’t use his size/physicality. Again, VERY small sample size.
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They never seem to hit on those later round skill players. Sometimes I wonder if it is just an organizational failure that they cant seem to nurture these types of players, getting the most out of the skill they do have instead of trying to make them in to something they are not.
Wonder no more. It is an organizational failure. Torts tenure alone, he dgaf about the AHL team, the system they played or anything else. They were happy with Ian LaPerriere doing his own thing as long as he didn’t bother the triumvirate. That’s on top of as you said, trying to make players into something they are not. To watch the Flyers is to know this.
Let’s hope Tocchet and company change this, at least they talk a good game about working in tandem.
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They never seem to hit on those later round skill players. Sometimes I wonder if it is just an organizational failure that they cant seem to nurture these types of players, getting the most out of the skill they do have instead of trying to make them in to something they are not.
Wonder no more. It is an organizational failure. Torts tenure alone, he dgaf about the AHL team, the system they played or anything else. They were happy with Ian LaPerriere doing his own thing as long as he didn’t bother the triumvirate. That’s on top of as you said, trying to make players into something they are not. To watch the Flyers is to know this.
Let’s hope Tocchet and company change this, at least they talk a good game about working in tandem.
What is tocchet going to change? He uses all the flyers talking points. They still don’t realize you need talent to win. Not try hard types.
This franchise makes it hard to root/support them. Much more entertaining watching them continue to flounder as they don’t seem to learn anything
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The Flyers prospects are not really all that good. A bunch of tweeners. Jury is still out on the last few top picks but if history is a guideline I’m not that confident
You have any faith they can develop these guys into playing above what they project to be?
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What is tocchet going to change? He uses all the flyers talking points. They still don’t realize you need talent to win. Not try hard types.
This franchise makes it hard to root/support them. Much more entertaining watching them continue to flounder as they don’t seem to learn anything
I 100% agree that it’s the high end talent at the cornerstone positions that they need and still have not addressed. Until that happens nothing changes.
However, from a coaching perspective, and maybe it’s just words, for the first time in a long time I think the Flyers might not treat the AHL as a redheaded step child. Baby steps. Other teams may be running but the Flyers still need to learn to walk.
Q: Why do you think it’s so important for the Phantoms to play a similar style to the NHL club run by Rick Tocchet?
A: Yeah, I just think it takes the thinking out for the players. And that’s a lot of what Tocc and myself were talking about. It’s like 80-20, it doesn’t have to be 100% the same. It’s more like when they come up to play and they can jump into the game, and we don’t have to talk to them about D-zone coverage, because that’s an intricate thing, right? … And when you have two different systems that are very different, it takes a lot, and you’re going to miss reads, especially in the NHL, just because you’re not used to playing the structure.Once again, the org and their representative Torts did not give 2 poops about the AHL team or developing players so I will take whatever positive i can from that quote because I’m not used to a Flyers coach making sense.
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