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FlyerFrank
ParticipantBrink and Barkey both in the Top 9 leaves you with too small a Top 9. They’ve also got a few 185-190 guys, not small, just average. Now Carolina has a small team up front too, but look at their smaller guys. Aho, PPG guy, Jarvis, close to it, Ehlers, not far behind Jarvis and all three are much better producers than Barkey or Brink.
With Andrae in, along with average to smallish for Dmen York and Drysdale, it’s a small blue line too.
I have no problem with Grebenkin or Bonk who is still a kid and will fill out to 200. Martone is the guy. No worries there, just not 100% sure he’ll turn pro next year. Small with average at best skills gets smashed in the NHL regular season let alone playoffs.
FlyerFrank
ParticipantThe Kings got Panarin for a prospect + a conditional third and signed him for $11M for two years.
Panarin would only waive for the Kings. It was the only place he was willing to be traded to and gave them a sweetheart extension deal. The Flyers were never in.
FlyerFrank
ParticipantAgain with size over skill.
The Flyers are noticeably small on the ice. Not everybody, but their smaller guys are noticeably small and don’t have elite skills. If they did, they would be playing.
FlyerFrank
ParticipantThe Flyers need to play great (like .680 hockey great) the rest of the way to have a shot at the playoffs.
FlyerFrank
ParticipantFlyer frank you really are a bozo. A dumb fuck.
Wow they have a better win % than last year. Get back to me when the season is over. Then compare
Wow they are in the playoff race. As is every team except the Rangers. What a high bar. They were in playoff “race” last year.This team is no different than when the putz took over.
Same cliched BS that is 100% correct. That upsets you as it shows how much of an uneducated flyers fan you show on a daily basis.
Are the flyers on the path to cup contention?
Have you suffered some traumatic brain injury that causes mid-term memory issues? The collapse last year started when they dumped Frost and Farabee to Calgary in late January. There were already a couple games behind this year’s pace when that collapse started. They ended up 15 points out of a playoff spot.
FlyerFrank
Participantthe flyers love blind fans like you. you are the target market.
even stevie wonder can see this team isnt very good and the franchise is poorly run.
shit you probably think tocchet is doing a good job
Does the team have a better win percentage this year than they did last year? Yes, significantly so. Are they in the playoff race? Yes, 2.5 games out with a third of the season left. Are the team’s obvious shortcomings improvable over this coming off season? Yes.
https://www.hockeybuzz.com/2026/02/04/flyers-standing-pat-isnt-a-plan
good read
Same cliched bullshit that every other idiot who doesn’t know hockey spews. No wonder you’re impressed.
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FlyerFrank.
FlyerFrank
Participantgo flyers. brick by brick.
they wouldn’t be able to get all that in 10 offseasons. When will you admit this is a poorly run incompetent franchise.
The improvement over last year’s team is still notable. Last year: .463 win pct. This year: .545. The areas where they can and must improve, aside from the obvious need for a reliable #2 goalie, is physical size and mental toughness. They look small out there against too many other teams. Even their bigger guys are about the same size as their opponents, which is OK. Too many smaller guys. That Anaheim game was the tell. They won that battle but lost the war when they saw two of their guys get knocked out. They were playing .622 hockey and then the bottom fell out. That’s where the slump started. They’re 3-3-2 in their last 8. Not good enough to gain ground in any race. Hopefully, they can win Thursday vs. Ottawa and come back and play close to their full potential, which I still think is .600 hockey.
FlyerFrank
Participantthey need a #1 and #2 center
they need 2 top 4 dman. with at least 1 being a #1.
they need a better goalie.
they need better coaching.
they need a better GM.Team is in pretty much the exact same spot since danny boy took over. How anyone can have any hope that this team is on the road to contention is nothing but a straight up delusional fool.
You’re not getting all that in one off season. Zegras can still develop into a reliable PPG guy and play center but he is still bad at faceoffs. The rest of his centering game is fine. That’s one spot. The better goalie is a #2, so that’s not a tough fix. They’re going to have jump on an opportunity for a #1/2 Dman or center and need to build out their depth to put a package together to get that. Probably a two year project.
FlyerFrank
ParticipantBriere said the team overachieved up until January 6 and underachieved since then. He believes the reality is somewhere in between.
The reality is closer to the .600 team before January 6. They have to move away from Errson and his league worst save percentage. At least this year, it’s one awful goalie instead of three. They need another guy there. They also need another top 4 Dman.
FlyerFrank
ParticipantHard to believe they won tonight. Vladar is team MVP. When he’s not on top of his game they have no chance.
Top off season priority clearly is finding another goalie. Vladar has a .650 win pct. Ersson’s is .456.
FlyerFrank
ParticipantThey need to learn how to play from the Christmas break to the Trade Deadline… that’s the time period everything goes off the rails and sinks the season every year, and this season was no different.
Last three season? Yup. This year is inexcusable though. They didn’t dump (Frost/Farabee was a dump), have the league suspend or trade players.
FlyerFrank
Participantwhat are the flyers current winning % in the conf? you were strutting your feathers around for a month. Now that reality has set in not so much.
you like flyers management are dumb as a stump.
Hahahaa! Because, unlike you, when a sports team goes bad, I find other things to focus on. I’m still shocked by the reality of their recent 2-8-2 stretch. Injuries triggered it, but they weren’t significant enough to excuse this collapse.
FlyerFrank
Participantpost the flyers winning % as haven’t seen you do that lately. what place they in.
They’re 2.5 games out of a playoff spot with 1/3 of the season left. 2-3-2 in their last 7. That’s not going to be good enough to make up ground. They need to play better than their first half .600 hockey to make the playoffs. Not seeing any signs that’s going to happen. Third year in a row now the Flyers have had a significant collapse later in the season. First two, they lost key guys to suspension or trade. Don’t have that excuse this year.
They still played .600 hockey, 7-4-4, after Foerster went down. It was after the Anaheim game where Drysdale and Brink got knocked out of action after dirty hits when the team fell apart. They’ve been 2-8-2 since. Vladar got hurt during that stretch. Did not help. Team needs to get bigger, tougher, meaner as well as better.
I already did. What part needs to be spoon fed to you?
FlyerFrank
Participantbig yawn. nothing but excuses. the team was never that good. losing middling depth players doomed them lol.
you and the flyers management think the same hence why they will conitnue to suck for the next 5 years minimum.
no the team needs to add skill before all else. bigger tougher and meaner will get them where exactly?
If the team is so unskilled, how did they play .600 hockey for half the season? No excuses. I said when they were going good only injuries would knock then out of the playoffs but the injuries they sustained shouldn’t have been enough to do that. They had them but they were spread around and only lasted long enough to get them into a season destroying slump. Good teams overcome adversity better than the Flyers have.
FlyerFrank
Participantif you can’t overcome the loss of the Forest then you were never good to begin with.
They still played .600 hockey, 7-4-4, after Foerster went down. It was after the Anaheim game where Drysdale and Brink got knocked out of action after dirty hits when the team fell apart. They’ve been 2-8-2 since. Vladar got hurt during that stretch. Did not help. Team needs to get bigger, tougher, meaner as well as better.
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