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You can thank Gary Bettman and his desire to keep crappy teams playing meaningful games late in the season. The only thing the Flyers have been good at is the skills competition. Without that, the Flyers would be the NY Rangers. Tocch has this team humming.
Quite the reality check by the Rangers.
1. First the Rangers tell everyone they are giving up on the season.
2. Then they follow that up by spanking the Flyers.
3. Flyers 35% faceoff percentage. Pathetic.Nothing says well coached team like giving up 30 goals in 5 games while being one of the lowest scoring teams in the league.
It looks like the Flyers are already on the Olympic break and forgot to tell the fans.
The Flyers didn’t realize the value he brought to the team, and now that he’s out, they see the drop.
Flyers fans have been saying it from Day 1 but any credit given to Vladar is less praise for Tocchet and his old time hockey. If the Brass couldn’t see that Vladar was the duct tape carrying this team, they should be fired.
The offense doesn’t run through Zegras.
Bull. Zegras has been far and away the best offensive player on this team the first part of the season. Even with his recent 10 game slump, he still comfortably leads the team in goals and points. Part of this is the misuse of Michkov. I am tired of hearing that Toch’s usage and Michkov’s issues are all Michkov’s fault. When it comes to Michkov, Tocchet may be worse than Torts. You have to wonder how Michkov would be doing on a team with a competent front office. Imagine if he had the freedom to play with Bedard and get his confidence up instead of all his faults drilled into him daily. They may not win many more games in the short term but it would pay off long term. Work on his faults while building his confidence or do it the Flyers way.
The Flyers have been living on a wing and a prayer and thought they were half way there.
tocchet was such a great hire. would love to sit in on that interview.
Tocchet was a “win now” hire for a team that’s further away from being ready to win now than anyone in the franchise is willing to admit.
You don’t hire your color commentator who has no business experience and absolutely no training to run your team if you are a serious franchise but at least DB took a night class.
It is a wonder why the league isn’t scrambling to be more like the Flyers and poaching their execs.
Anyone who would pitch an honest to god rebuild would never get hired.
That’s exactly what this is. It’s a reality check. They suffer from the some of the same issues that ended the Eagles season. I write this as Buffalo South looks up in the standings at Buffalo even while fans still look down on Buffalo. They do many of the same things, use the same worn out cliches and have the same lack of success over recent seasons, yet for some reason the Flyers fans feel they are better than Buffalo while refusing to look in the mirror.
Anyway back to the Eagles. The Eagles Patullo’d their season and the Flyers are doing the same. As long as Vladar was stopping pucks, Flyers brass/fans stick their fingers in their ears and don’t want to hear anything negative. Everybody likes him, he’s a friend of the family, he’s a good boy. The entire team lost the game, it wasn’t because of his nonsensical play designs and play calling. You can’t blame one guy.
When you hold everyone accountable you hold no one accountable. Anyway, over my Eagles rant and i still can’t figure out why Sirianni has an assistant head coach, it’s not like he calls plays.
Flyers fans always want to believe a hot start is the new normal. Torts found that out the hard way. Vladar, not Tocch, is more responsible for the Flyers winning ways. Is he better than Torts, yes, but that’s a low bar.
I don’t know where the Flyers will end up, maybe they’ll squeak into the playoffs and fool themselves into believing, like the Pittsburgh Steelers did for a decade. What a joke but the Steelers continue to ignore that Tomlin in the Playoff Hall of Shame for his work over the last 9 years as the #1 worst playoff coach in several categories while clinging to long ago playoff success before some of their players were born.
Anyway, The Flyers still need their Bedard, their Crosby, their Makar, their Hughes, etc. with no realistic plans on getting them. The Steelers fooled themselves for a decade that they didn’t need a QB and the Flyers have been selling their fans the same fairy tale.
6-foot-5, 225 – enough said. did “jonesy” make this trade?
my how hunter mac has fallen. poor “jonesy”
and led his team in penalty minutes. He was born to be a Flyer.
all one can do is laugh. more flyers nonsense
I guess team Canada might as well not go to the Olympics. How will they ever cope. Sidney Crosby must be beside himself that they won’t be able to replace the transcendent talent that is Tyson Foerster.
In a playoff position and yet one game out of last place. Same number of points after the same number of games as 2023 when they were also only one game out of last place.
Speaking of the Islanders, that Schaefer is a great example of an 18 year old who forced his way onto the team. Danny should take note what that looks like instead of making a farce out of Jett being the youngest player ever to wear a flyers jersey. That’s been such a joke the last 2 years it’s embarrassing. 3rd times the charm they say and eventually Danny will probably get it right.
Flyers are :
27th in goals
20th in PP (which while still bad is still better than the Torts years. At least they won’t be setting another NHL record this year, probably.)
29th in Shots/game
26th in Shots against/game
while still rocking a .890 sv%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.
Dallas made the extremely rare Jack Eichel type move with former #2 overall draft pick CENTER Tyler Seguin 10+ years ago who instantly became the Stars franchise center but i guess that doesn’t count?
Considered one of the 5 worst trades for the Bruins because they gave up a young #1 center. Bruins ended up missing the playoffs 2 out of the next 3 years with none of the players they got in return panning out long term. Safe to say they regretted moving on from the #2 overall pick of the draft.
The anchor player makes everyone better. The Flyers don’t have that guy, they don’t want to draft that guy. They can only hope that someone else doesn’t want their #1 center, he wants to come to the Flyers, and the Flyers can make the best offer.
As mentioned, everyone has nice prospects, just like everyone has culture.
