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Zegras is going to single handedly ruin my rebuild dreams, what’s wrong with that kid? Didn’t anyone tell him “the plan”?
An actual surprising October, to be honest. I thought Rick Tocchet did a good job keep a low-end skilled team fairly competitive. As the good teams start to rise though, which usually happens, I think you’ll see the Flyers back in the bottom quarter of the league. Which is where they need to be, if we’re being honest with ourselves. Keep drafting and building.
Ugly, ugly, hockey right there. I think there may have been a team party on Saturday night or something? :0
One team I really love to beat, I don’t care if we lose every game for the rest of the year, just beat the Leafs. đ
Too much drama in here associated with him and the Flyers. They gave him another chance to showcase himself and it didnât work out, thereâs also nothing wrong with going back and playing Junior at 19 years old, he just turned 19 August 21st. Last season he only played 46 games in Junior, 9 in the AHL and 4 in the NHL, go down and play a lot of minutes and get better. I donât know what the big deal is from a fan perspective, this is still a very young kid.
The issues have nothing to do with the player and everything to do with the Flyers. The kid was a galaxy brain pick on the heels of the Cutter screwup. If he had been drafted a few picks later and spent the last 2 years honing his craft in OHL (and possibly College) nobody would care because thatâs where he shouldâve been drafted and where he should be playing.
The Flyers havenât had a franchise defenseman in forever but they desperately need one. One falls into their lap, all the draft experts, everyone not part of the Flyers agrees. He has every award known to man in college but DB compares him to Emil Andrae (who the Flyers treat like dog poop when it comes to playing time in the NHL) and refuses to draft him for a 5â11â 200 ft player who loves the weight room with limited upside (best estimate 3rd line).
Instead of letting the kid develop, DB immediately signs him and puts him on the NHL roster and promotes the crap out of the kid including him being the âyoungest player to ever make the Flyers rosterâ despite him not being ready. The kid canât develop in College because DB signed him to a pro contract. Another strike against the front office who likes to complain that heâs too good for the OHL but has no other option.
They put him on the team again this year despite him missing 3 months of the offseason and not looking particularly great in the preseason. Put him on the team anyway to help develop his offensive skills and then proceed to put him on 4th line and press box in equal measure before low key sending him back to the OHL.
All of this while the player they shouldâve drafted (and need) and consensus top 3-5 prospect in the world for each of the last 2 years Zeev, is QBing the NHLs #1 pp even if he is going through some growing pains. The guy they said was the reason they couldnât draft Zeev? No matter how well he plays, does not seem to factor into the Flyers plans. On merit alone, Andrae shouldâve been with the Flyers and playing.
Am i wrong on any of that?
So anyway, yea, itâs all about the drama with the Flyers. Was it coincidence they benched Jett when they played Zeev so the 2 young players wouldnât have a head to head easy comparison that would embarrass the Flyers? Drama.
I get that y’all are frustrated with the organization, there hasn’t been much to cheer about over the past 10 years with poor ownership and management since Mr. Snider passed away. But this isn’t as big a deal in my mind as you are making it out to be. The center ice position is a position of weakness within the organization and needs to be addressed, that’s why I have no issues with them swinging at a few young guys given the lack of talent at that position within the organization and how I personally believe it’s an absolute key to having a winning franchise. It’s not the only key, but it’s a major major one, for me. Look at any successful franchise and you can see they have strength and depth down the middle.
Heck, look at 2009, 2010, 2011, the Flyers had Richards, Carter and a very young Giroux, who aren’t exactly Crosby & Malkin, or Sakic & Forsberg, or Yzerman & Fedorov, or Bergeron & Krejci, etc. etc. but they were a big part of getting to the finals in 2010. There was obviously more to it than that (Pronger) but you gotta be strong down the middle. Anyways…I digress.
There’s lot of 19/20/21 year old kids throughout the history of the draft who’ve had a hard time getting a spot on NHL rosters because of the 20 year old AHL rule, which they are changing because of that, or they’re just not quite good enough for the NHL but they’re also perhaps too good for junior. Look at Connor Geekie in Tampa, last year he played 50 games and then got send down, this year he played 6 games and then got sent down again. Marco Rossi got sent down two years in a row to the AHL because he wasn’t ready.
Jett just turned 19 in August, he’s still a VERY young player…things will be fine with him.
Ten games in last year, the Flyers were 3-6-1. This year, theyâre 6-3-1. The turnaround has been remarkable.
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Through 9 games they’re kind of in the muddle middle area we all thought they’d be in. There’s a new coach and new systems to learn, and there’s a serious lack of high-end talent, but they’re managing to hang around and be tough to play against, which can be both fun and boring to watch. Let’s Go Flyers!!!
prove it
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Tavares has only been top 10 once in the past ten years, 2017 he finished 8th in voting.
Wow, this is a fun team to watch! A quicker turnaround from a rebuild than most teams I’ve seen. Well done to Armstrong and crew for that.
Surprising start for the geriatric Penguins, Fly boys will need a strong performance tonight, easy to get up for the Penguins though.
Obviously for the best. Hopefully he can work on his offensive game down there.
He obviously wasnât working on it in the NHL being benched or playing on the 4th line. Shame on the Flyers for that.
The article makes it sound like the Flyers are helpless bystanders in all of this. It was DBâs decision to sign him to a professional contract immediately which is why he canât play in college and if heâs not good enough to play in the NHL, the rest doesnât matter.
Poor decision making all around. He knew the rules when he drafted Jett, he knew the rules when he signed Jett. If you want to lament that Jett canât play in the AHL, then shame on DB for knowingly drafting a player ineligible to play in the AHL for his first 2 years.
It was his decision to let this kid embarrass himself on the ice last year and to basically waste a month of the kidâs time again this year. If he doesnât like his choices he shouldâve drafted someone else.
Too much drama in here associated with him and the Flyers. They gave him another chance to showcase himself and it didn’t work out, there’s also nothing wrong with going back and playing Junior at 19 years old, he just turned 19 August 21st. Last season he only played 46 games in Junior, 9 in the AHL and 4 in the NHL, go down and play a lot of minutes and get better. I don’t know what the big deal is from a fan perspective, this is still a very young kid.
