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Dvorak played pretty well for Tocchet in AZ so you know where that tip came from. Seems to put up enough offense to be a 3rd line center rather than a 4th. He’s great on faceoffs which is a need. This spot was well filled. Say hello to your new left wing: Noah Cates. Hahaahahha!
Juulsen is another Tocchet guy from VAN. He obviously likes this guy and loves Rierden as a D coach. Underwhelmed with this need fill. Straight up defensive Dman. Only 157 games in at 28. We’ll see.
Vladar is below the .900 save percentage benchmark and is no proven workhorse. Not much to say here. The biggest need fill is the most disappointing. He was really good down the stretch in occasional duty. Somebody on the Flyers likes him though.
try to keep up, old man. your memory is slipping. Come talk to me when you compare it to other teams in the league. Until then, go play some power chords.
I’m willing to bet bragging rights the Rangers are worse. Their drafting is trash, maybe not since 90, but the last 20 years or so. The Flyers had nine picks in the top 60 over the last two drafts. Three were in the Top 13. Those guys have about a 90% hit rate at becoming regular NHLers. The other six, hopefully a couple or more can contribute. I like the team’s direction.
I don’t see how you consistently omitting him from your lineups when he will clearly be in the lineup barring a trade or injury is people coming to his defense. Most people see it as an omission and nothing more. Especially now that Pelletier is no longer in the equation.
I still don’t think it’s all that clear. Just like I don’t think it’s clear they won’t flip Cates to wing especially with the Dvorak signing.
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His name comes up a lot, especially when I post possible future line combinations and don’t include him. He seems to have a lot of fans here. I find it amusing, that’s all. He is an admirable guy though, like I said. Playing and being a .5 PPG guy at his size is quite an accomplishment. But I also see a lot of general dumping on the team at the same time I see the same fans jumping to his defense.
i get that he is likely the odd man out but I do think rose to the occasion under torts. that brink-cates-foerester line was really good for stretches. he showed more tenacity than I initially thought he was capable of.
He showed some spark and some skill. He’s an admirable player. He’ll likely get quite a few games in this year yet. It just cracks me up that every time I’ve said the Flyers were going to move away from smallish players like him, even before the draft, I always heard his name brought up as if I had just taken a dump on their kid’s birthday cake.
a guy like Brink probably wouldn’t be too sad to see the flyers miss out on him though.
Like a higher quality Brink
Again with the Brink love.
i think there is another level to his game and I see captain potential. too early to toss him aside in a trade IMO. even mcdavid and ekblad took about a decade to be playing for the cup. not every player is going to have a makar trajectory.
Then let him do what leaders are doing for other teams. Come in underpriced so your team can grab a couple UFAs to make the team better. He needs to find another gear. He’s not a UFA like Provorov was going to be before he re-upped. The Flyers have some leverage here. I’m seeing he’s asking above $6M. I think he’s asking a lot for what I’ve seen from him. Sanheim I like at $6.75M. I’m obviously a Sanheim fan. My big problem on defense is JD.
i might be in the minority but i like york and would prioritize holding onto him.
I guess I like York well enough. Not holding onto him isn’t an option. They just have too many holes. I like him better at 3 or 4D than 2D, which is where he is now. I was not blown away by what I saw from him last year. Sanheim is the straw that stirs the drink in their top pairing. I like Sanheim a boatload more and like Risto and Seeler in their slots better too.
Problem with that line of thinking is no one is giving a bottom-feeder a home town discount.
You can get a damn good Dman for $6M even without any discounts.
When you have no long-term plan, especially when trying to build something, you’re merely kicking the can down the road.
We will see what they do tomorrow. That will go a long way towards seeing what they see as needed fixes for this season. They still have three awful holes: Goalie, another top 4 Dman, and 4th line center who can win faceoffs in that order of importance. Goalies can come relatively cheap as can 4c’s. They may not be able to get all three. You saw Friday they want to get bigger and tougher to play against without sacrificing talent. They’ve already added a coaching staff that seems more geared towards where they’re at and looking to go. They’ve already added a guy who will fill a hole at center that everyone knows they needed. I see them as identifying obvious needs and filling them efficiently.
I’m curious as to the long-term plan for your proposed fix.
Are we talking 1 year deals to fix these couple glaring holes? If so, what sort of player do you think you’ll get on a 1 year, $4.5M (or whatever amount you’re comfortable with) deal? Is it a player that actually fixes said glaring hole, or just another place holder?
As for the cap increase, are you hoping that Zegras poops the bed? Because if he plays up to the hopes the Flyers have for him, I can’t imagine he’ll take a deal for less than the $6.5M he’s making this year. Is that a scenario that has been planned for, if the Flyers let him walk should he asks for market (assuming he’s what they hope he will be), and if so, what’s the plan for a top 6 center now? And this doesn’t even consider Matvei Michkov, who will be eligible for an extension at the end of next season, and will most likely be getting paid as well (guessing in the neighborhood of that “going away dead space,” if not more).
What I’m seeing in your post is more kicking the can down the road instead of having a long-term plan for success. And no, I’m not suggesting they become a playoff team this year (or the year after, for that matter), but if you improve the record slightly, you’re in a worse position in the next draft, and you end up repeating the cycle, just as the Flyers have done for over a decade now. Is repeating the same old mistakes acceptable?
Depends on the guy. Will his leaving after 25-26 create a hole they’ll have to refill again next summer? I don’t think there’s a goalie out there I’d be confident enough in to go beyond 2-3 years. A lot of guys, RFA and UFA have gotten taken off the block through trading and resigning. I’d go 4-5 years on either the right Dman or goalie but I’m not sure either of those guys is available. I was a little off on my dead space number. It’s $6-7M. So basically, if Zegras delivers in 25-26, you can reup him with what is dead money this year and have what his current cap hit is, which is $5.75M, to do other things. Think about that. How is that an issue? The Flyers have cap money to play with this year and I’ll start thinking more deeply about next off season if and when they fall out of playoff contention. When you’re building, starting with the foundation, then doing the framing and so on isn’t kicking the can down the road. It’s how that happens.
The Flyers don’t have the cap space for that deal. They do have the space to fill a couple glaring holes, roughly $9M. You can get a couple $4.5M guys for that. $7-8M in dead space goes away in 26 plus the cap increase, they could be bigger game hunters next July 1.
Ekblad sign in Florida for 8 years at $6.1 aav.
Super home town discount. At $6.1M for a really solid Dman, the Flyers could still add a $2.5M goalie, fill their two biggest holes and look very interesting going into this season.
Yep, hence the guy looking to stick around the league for a last trip around the sun….
I’m fine with that so long as he holds up his end in his role. I’m not expecting a fully finished rebuild for this season, just a good step in the right direction and last season exposed some glaring deficiencies.
And I doubt there will be very many “needle movers” available at any position. If they go the UFA route it’s going to be either a huge overpay, or a guy trying to hold on to his career and get one more paycheck before he is out of the league. Offer sheets may be there, but that would also entail an overpay in money and assets.
It will be trades where Briere will fill his holes, at least in the short term. But that is just my opinion.
Some people are talking about Ekblad, but I just don’t see why he would want to sign here long term in a million years. By the time we are good he will be at the tail end of his career. Why would any guy do that? Unless they are just in it for the money. Then do we really want that guy anyway?
A needle mover for THIS team is different than for a legit contender. They need a couple guys who can play at the NHL level. They don’t have much in the way of assets to trade. They got lucky with Zegras because ANA wanted the cap space and the Flyers had it but now are down to about $9M factoring in a York re-sign. See also Gibson trade. Flyers don’t have the cap space for Ekblad even if he wanted to come here. That’s pure fantasy.
