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No one wants to engage with this on a daily basis so we just stop coming by.
He’s fun to debate back and forth with. I think the site has bigger issues like: Why has my latest post, which is just my updated preferred opening night lineup, not been approved in over two days?
Dube and formenton were nhl level players. Mccloud to an extent. Today no idea.
Yeah, Dube is, I fixed that before seeing your comment. Formenton has been in Europe since 2022 but didn’t play anywhere last season. He wasn’t great in the Swiss league. He did have an 18 goal season in Ottawa before that. Not sure what’s going on there. Hart and, to a far lesser extent, Dube are the only guys who look like they’ll get much interest. The league is in the wrong to ban these guys but which team wants to bring in a borderline guy under these circumstances?
Go to Europe for a year to work the rust off.
The league are nothing but hypocrites.Everybody besides Hart was already playing in Europe. Three are pretty borderline if not clear non-NHL caliber players. Hart and Dube are really the only clear, solid NHLers. Craig MacTavish and Dany Heatley killed people in booze related car crashes. The guys who can play in the league should get a chance.
Since York and Drysdale aren’t going anywhere, I don’t know how Andrae fits in.
I actually like Andrae better than Drysdale. Reirden needs to be a miracle worker with JD.
Between 1 and 82 games this year for Juulsen. When the season is done, you’ll find that’s the correct answer.
“Looks like Carter Hart is going to be acquitted.”
Yup, done deal. We’ll see how it plays out. No cap space really even if the Flyers did want him back.
I am probably most definitely in the minority here. But I would play Dvorak with Zegras and Michkov, at least try it at first. It gives those 2 a defensively strong 3rd, and Dvorak can take importasnt faceoffs when needed. You can take some of the pressure off Zegras from a defensive standpoint and allow him to take faceoffs depending on the situation or importance.
I’ve been advocating that move for Cates for a while now. Dvorak is the much better faceoff guy, so I’d likely leave him in the traditional center role.
And LTIR is there if they need it.
They might need LTIR for Chinakhov soon enough. Hahahaha! Again, I have no problem with Danny picking up the phone and kicking the tires. 186 combined NHL/AHL games in 4 years is worrisome though. That would be my biggest concern there.
4. no idea. off load tippets contract
They probably overpaid on Tippett but I don’t see any reason to dump him. He has three consecutive 20 goal seasons. Last year, his goals did drop but his assist numbers were status quo. I have more concern with his consistent minus numbers actually. He’s among the least of my question marks going into this season. I’m OK with a middle six winger who seems a lock for another 20+ goal season. Hopefully, he can find another level. He’s in that low 300 game slot where it’s getting to the point where he is what he is.
1) Foerster won’t start the season healthy, so it provides an immediate stop-gap (and lessens the temptation to rush Martone),
2) He’s flat out more talented than Brink, bigger and faster,
3) If he can stay healthy (big if) he’s a 20-goal guy who has a decent all-around game,
4) He shouldn’t take much to acquire.
Sounds like you would do Brink for Chinakhov straight up. Would you? Chin’s cap hit is $2.1M, so they’d have to juggle a bit to make him fit even if Brink is the price. The Flyers already have a few guys with recent injury issues. Not sure they want to stockpile that. They do have other young guys they can get a look at if Foerster’s health remains an issue. As an aside, an infection after an elbow injury sidelining Foerster? That’s sounding like a staph infection which is pretty damn serious. Hoping it’s not that. That would be a problem. Remember Kalinski from a few years back? I would have no issue with Briere doing due diligence here.
