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The main issue I have is, who are these quality free agents? The list of UFA’s is pretty bare when it comes to difference making players.
It’s a fair concern. Teams tend to extend these players — especially at C and D — before they ever hit uFA status.
Just a quick list–Mikael Granlund, Boone Jenner, Mason McTavish, Marco Rossi, Gabe Vilardi. We would all prefer somebody younger like McTavish, but we will see what happens. Maybe some sort of a trade for non free agent? Something has to be done because Dvorak and Coots are not top line Centers.
Agreed. The Flyers do have a surplus at wing, so that helps.
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I am all in on this team making the playoffs, because if they don’t, it will be a disaster. Another year on the outside looking in, but this time with a draft pick in the late teens. I feel like they will be offer sheeting Fantilli or Carlsson because that is the only way they get a true #1 center.
I think good players can be drafted in different spots. I also don’t think just barely missing out this year would be a disaster longer term, but it would be pretty damn disappointing at this point. I do agree that the only way to bring in a center has to be from the outside. However, a Fantilli or Carlsson offer sheet would be matched. If they go the trade route, perhaps someone like Mason McTavish, who has had a down year and whose team has to get Carlsson and Gauthier signed.
Huge win! Hopefully we get some help in the games tonight? Good game by Matvei, but he’s making too many trips to the penalty box. Hopefully he out grows this bad habit sooner than later.
He’ll probably cut the bad PIMs a bit next year. Getting help so far except from Winnipeg vs. Columbus so far.
Bill, out of the big guys that the Flyers drafted last draft, are any of them similar to Tom Wilson? The Flyers could really use someone like him and last night was pretty obvious
A lot of people, including himself, liken Martone on a young Corey Perry. Not quite as rambunctious but still very competitive. Nesbitt has a very competitive streak about him. Vansaghi is extremely physical: that’s the bread-and-butter of his game.
In terms of a direct comparison to Wilson, that’s a tough bar to clear. But Wilson, despite being a first round pick, took quite a few years post-Draft to bring out the offensive end of his game. He was a 4th liner but an effective and unique one, for his early career.
