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Depth will be tested against hot TB. No Brink, Drysdale, Konecny. Michkov on a line with Zegras. Should be fun.
still early though I think sens, rangers, blue jackets are done. Devils as well unless they fire the coach and GM maybe the get an uptick. Caps fading. not sure what to make of the pens with skinner in goal. bruins another funny team.
flyers control their own destiny.
no reason at all not to give kolosov a look. doubt they will.
The Pens and Bruins have both been really up and down. The Pens have done it better and are really up again. The bottom half team need to start putting together 10 game streaks at over .500 to even stay close and most aren’t. They need .600+ streaks to gain ground. The Leafs have worked their way back to contention. No complaints about the Caps. Looking more like 98 points to make the playoffs, higher than normal.
They do. Injuries are getting to be an issue again but still at .600 in their last 10.
Wouldn’t rule out a Kolosov look if Ersson continues to struggle.
In reality, the Flyers need more from Ersson, especially over the next few months.
I’d give Kolosov a shot. Ersson will get a chance in one of the TB games. He’s the kind of guy who will have his best game of the season to make this situation bleed out a little longer. Can’t say the Flyers don’t give their guys chances.
They’re still .600 in their last 10, which is fine, but other teams are getting really hot and passing them. Still not enough to push them down and out of the playoffs, but rivals having hot runs.
Seeing some separation between top nine teams of conference and the bottom seven. Very bottom teams look done. BUF has been the only shock turnaround and they are in at the moment.
Flyers get their depth tested a bit. Can’t remember last time two guys went down from nasty hits in one game. JD took a tougher hit. Was down longer. Could have gotten hurt in a few different places. Flyers said both were UBI, so it’s not a leg. Thought it could have been. Could be a shoulder on JD too. That was the point of contact, concussion also possible. Injuries are the only thing I see derailing the Flyers out of a playoff spot. These are spread around the lineup, easier to absorb. Juulsen in for JD, not an upgrade but they did well enough without Risto for a lot of games and Risto and York for a few. Michkov in for Brink isn’t a problem at all. MM has 7 pts and is +4 in his last 10 games. TML aren’t good on the road and the Flyers are good at home.
sitting n 3rd place and if they miss isnt a failure? interesting take since the playoffs were the goal from day 1.
If they get swamped by injuries, no failure. If they don’t and the wheels just fall off the wagon then yes.
its not about position its the quality of players. 28% and not one even close elite player in that group. I love will the cap goes up so that justifies it mind set. if your already using that nonsense then it was a bad deal from the start
get back to me in april. every team in the east conf is above .500. very little separation. go flyers brick by brick
if the flyers miss the playoffs, since they control their own destiny, would it be an organizational failure at this stage?
Konecny is scoring at .9 PPG and is a +11, Tippett is on pace for 26 goals, Dvorak is having a career year. Hate to tell you, but those are not unreasonable cap hits in today’s market. Couturier got himself a nice deal, for sure. Get back to me in three years. Hahaha!
April gets closer every day.
Depends on how it happens if it does at all. Flyers still aren’t deep, so the wrong injury to the wrong guy could still derail them. That would not be an organizational failure at this point.
8.75 tk
5.1 dvorak
7.75 ex selke
6.2 tippethow much cap space do those 4 eat up the next 3+ years?
Next year, about 28% for 4 of your top 9 forwards. Will get lower after that as the cap goes up.
flyers way ahead of schedule? what schedule is that? this is just another move to keep the mediocrity wheels spinning. imagine thinking dvorak is a key/core player. Flyers evalauto9ns and process are total garbage. love when peeps argue otherwise.
Cant wait for the berglund is a potential #1 center article to come out or what not
playoffs > cup in flyers land
You keep making these claims, the Flyers keep playing .600 hockey. That will get them into the playoffs.
Add to that the system is chock full of bottom 6 center prospects with no top line 1C or 2C anywhere to be seen, the Flyers have a problem. FA is already bare and they will have to be VERY lucky to find one via trade (without an hefty overpay) or drafting in perpetual “Bubble” land moving forward.
The Flyers are way ahead of schedule. They have a good 2 years to make that trade or signing. As it is, a big chunk players on the team up and down the lineup are having career years.
Ducks lost in DC last night. They’re falling. 2-6-2 in their last 10. Flyers, as always, need the points. 5-3-2, still .600 hockey, in their last 10 but conference rivals have gotten hotter and passed them in win .pct. A win tonight and they should be back in the #3 slot in the conference.
Tomasino’s numbers look OK for a young NHL forward: Roughly 1 PPG in the A and close to .5 PPG in the NHL. He also falls into long slumps which tends to get him traded. Hopefully, the Flyers won’t need him and he should boost LHV.
Despite a couple bad losses in their last 4, the Flyers still have the 3rd best record in the conference. Their magic number for points to make the playoffs: 46 points in their final 42 games. Should be doable.
As we begin the final day of 2025, only CAR has a better winning percentage in the East than the Flyers. They’ve cut their goals against from 3.48 per game last season to 2.79. Goal scoring is up slightly to 2.97 from 2.9. Thirty eight games in they are 20-11-7. Last year they were 17-17-4. A remarkable turnaround.
Should be an easy win against the sad sack of players that currently make up the Vancouver Canucks, talk about a dysfunctional organization. Let’s Go Flyers!!!
Should be, but VAN has goalies capable of stealing games which happened with Grubauer Sunday although SEA did check pretty effectively. In that game, lots of rebounds that bounced past Flyers who were tight on the crease, too much passing when shots were available. They need to play better tonight.
cant wait to get tickets for that December 2025 banner raising ceremony. amazes me what flyers fans now accept as “success”.
You’re not going to have success in the playoffs unless you’ve had enough success during the regular season to make them. This is a fairly simple concept to grasp.
The Flyers will have the 2nd best record in the conference on Christmas Day and the 6th best record in the entire league. Merry Christmas to everyone but their miserable haters.
Blue line competence and goaltending can take a team pretty far. The Drysdale/Andrae pair has been a revelation. They were supposed to get caved in because of size, but that has not happened. I hope Tocchet has learned if he wants to roll 4 lines, he is going to have to put some talent on the 4th line as opposed to “culture guys”.
On the plus side, they’ve given plenty of guys a fair shot. On D, they can absorb some injuries without depth guys simply killing them. The forward/scoring depth is thin if they’re banged up. The team D can keep things on track with D injuries but can’t score goals. Even depth players have to make plays once in a while. They found at least a temporary solution with Grundstrom/Barkey in over Foerster/Hathaway.
Probable playoff contender is an improvement. However, to avoid purgatory Briere will have to trade assets to improve the roster. Prospects in the pipeline will not be enough to push the team to a true Cup contender. I do believe the Hughes trade was an insight into the future when the few times an elite talent becomes available. With all teams having cap space now with the cap rapidly rising, it will be a highly leveraged seller’s market. Now, there will be more Zegras type trades out there in the future also. He has to be involved in those and hit big like Zegras.
I’m not convinced of that. They have some clear tweaks to make on F, D and G, and a blockbuster trade for the right guy would make a difference but I think they have a 2 year window for that. In this season, Briere seems intent on leaning on internal solutions first for fixing problems and that seems to have held up . . . and it’s a good culture move.
On a side note, that TOR 1st just keeps elevating in value. Grebenkin has more points then Laughton so far this season (granted Grebenkin has played 7 more games).
