Mike Fink — Barkey and Bump Should Be Long-Term Linemates

[Bill Meltzer]

Flyers: Barkey and Bump Should Be Long-Term Linemates

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Flyers Youth Movement Starts With Them & Ends With Tocchet
If the Flyers lean into a youth movement, the question is how head coach Rick Tocchet goes about it. The critique of the coach throughout the season is how he deploys ice time, specifically, with Michkov and the other young skaters. Furthermore, he’s been quick to scratch younger players for mistakes or for not checking, which explains why Nikita Grebenhkin, another prospect in the system, has spent multiple games in the press box.

As to the argument that Tocchet was the worst coach you could pick for the team, the above is argument #1. The Flyers main concern should be how to best evaluate and develop their young talent rather than focusing on continuing to lead the league in grinding out low scoring shoot out games in an attempt to get a few more points.

Tocchet was the guy they brought in to make the playoffs and entice elite talent FAs that Philly is a destination, not a roadstop. Both of which he has failed at. The least the Front office can do, the absolute least, is to find out what works out best with the kids.

Nobody is going to think less of Tocchet if accepts reality and cuts the kids some slack but of course he “has his own thoughts about that”.

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