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These next 6 games are essential. Very tough teams, 3 games vs. conference rivals. Schedule eases after. Need at least 6 pts in this stretch. They got 8 in their last essential 6 game stretch.
Tocchet is gonna have them ready to go. Let Go Flyers!!
I am more amazed those players and tuch haven’t asked out. maybe they are comfortable and have accepted losing like some flyers players.
Those players have no one to blame but themselves right now, there’s a bunch of talent there but they play an uninspired game. They need to look in the mirror and pull themselves into the fight, they’re soft AF.
They seemed to respond well tonight. The lines all looked ready to go. I was concerned about that. I think we’ve seen enough, they’re going to hang in. They’re not a team that’s just going to up and die at some point. About 1/3 of the way through the season and they’re 4th in the conference with a .635 win percentage.
Rick Tocchet says “hi” to all the haters. 🙂
Let’s Go Flyers…I hope someone punches Crosby’s teeth out, oh wait, it’s not the 1980’s any longer. I still hope it happens though. 🙂
A gpalie who can stop the puck and the top 4 on the blueline is the catalyst for success. I guess Risto is closing to coming back to help bolster the 3rd pair. Kind of hoping Kyrou would get a shot with Seeler on the 3rd pair. The blueline is not big, but constantly gets it out of the D zone with good outlet passes as opposed to chipping the puck up the boards every time. It would take real courage to embrace making the blueline smaller, but even more mobile and passing ability with inserting Kyrou. I do not expect it to happen any time soon, but with Drysdale and Andrae not getting caved in due to lack of size, it is something to think about.
That whole Drysdale trade still doesn’t sit well with me. Gauthier screwed the organization over with his request, he probably wouldn’t be having as much success offensively with the Flyers as they lack the talent that the Ducks have, but his talent level far exceeds Drysdale’s in my opinion. Bad trade!!
So, two points out of first place in the Metro, I did not see that happening at any point in the season after Thanksgiving. 😵💫
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And when they ignore the facts, some people think this is a bad team and Tocchet is a bad coach. They’re on pace for 100 points. Last year they had 76. The negativity has reached peak comedy levels.They aren’t a “bad” team, but they aren’t a talented team either. As mentioned, goaltending is a large part of their success to date and in my opinion they are well coached, which can take a less than talented team a lot farther than some people are willing to admit. If you’ve got a team that’s less talented than most, you can have a lot of success by being stingy defensively with your systems play. It’s not fun hockey to watch, but it is a recipe for success in the win column.
Going into the last half of an essential six game stretch against conference rivals. They won two of the first three. If they can do the same in the last three, it will be very encouraging. They need to keep making shots. Wednesday, they got one more D goal, Foerster stayed hot with the game winner and Couturier and Michkov got goals. Definitely need something from Zegras-Dvorak-Tippett today. They’re due. If you’re going to get your goals by committee, all the committee members need to chip in regularly. Islanders aren’t a super strong home team.
Phenomenal goaltending is saving their asses, if we’re being honest with ourselves.
Every team has “nice” prospects. That doesn’t cut it.
The path the flyers are on and have taken will lead to nowhere. There is no path to sustained cup contention. They continue to spin their wheels. They refuse to pick a path. Towing the middle of the road leaves you in the middle of the road. There is no savior on the way. No buying their way to cup contention via free agency. No one is trading you a #1 center or #1 Dman. They are a poorly run franchise.
Yes, they are, or at least they have been. I don’t truly know what their current path is, it’s probably a fluid one, it’s definitely not a hard rebuild. Which I think they should do, but that requires a lot of losing for a consistent number of years. But as a fan, I’m ok with that.
its way too early to say danny boys drafts have been good or bad. so far only 2 players who were both high picks look to have a good nhl future. need a few more years to see how it plays out.
either way you need elite level players to win. flyers lack that on the roster and the farm system.
They have some nice prospects they’ve taken in the past three drafts, but yes, lets see how that plays out with those kids. And another yes, having elite talent helps you win Cups, no question, but in a salary cap world, 99.99% of the time you have to acquire them via the draft, which means you typically have to finish near the bottom of the league. As I said, you can’t have it both ways. Dallas doesn’t have any “superstars”, in my opinion, yes they have great players but they don’t have McDavid or MacKinnon on their team. They just slowly drafted well and they’ve been very competitive for awhile now. If you can’t get a superstar, be more like the Dallas Stars.
based on what?
they have 1 potential elite level propsect.1. the rest are nothing but depth types if they pan out. though thats what danny boy wants.
“But like I said, when you’re not spending $12 million on a player, or even two like Edmonton does… Colorado has three or four high-end guys. We’re not going to be built that way. So depth will be important to us.”
Based on the fact you don’t have to draft a superstar to have had a good draft, that’s just ridiculous. There’s 23 guys on a roster who need to contribute, but yes, the Flyers need a better players in all positions. Drafting 1st overall means you probably had a really bad year, but no, Flyers fans don’t want that, and when they do have a bad year, like last year, they deem management as failures. You can’t have it both ways. Drafting high means you have a bad team, but you have to void out the fan noise and just go through with it.
