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Remind me why Jett is on the team? To help him develop offensively? Too good for the OHL? Lol
I can’t believe i’m saying this as Torts loves his vets also but Jett played significantly more under Torts last year than Tocchet this year.
If anyone actually believed the crap they were spewing Jett would be centering a scoring line instead of eating popcorn and watching the game like the rest of us. Maybe DB is up there with him just like he was with Torts?
The only reason he is on the Flyers is for PR reasons, not for hockey reasons.
Flyers’ Ristolainen, Bonk out for at least 5 more weeks, according to report
According to The Athletic’s Kevin Kurz, both defensemen Rasmus Ristolainen and Oliver Bonk are approximately five to six weeks away from being back in game action. Kurz also adds that that is the timeline as long as there are no setbacks to either blueliner’s recovery.
This just keeps getting wierder and wierder. Bonk’s timeline went from day to day, to week to week, to now month to month? The way this is going we may be attending their funerals before the end of the season.
There are so many parallels as to how the medical staff handled the Ryan Ellis situation early on.
they tried their best. it was a trap game.
The only interesting thing for me is to see how they handle MM going forward. The coach has no answers so far.
as far as the jett not so sure it is even about optics. I genuinely think they believe he is nhl ready and can help the team.
according to boucher, the ass kissing homer, JD is playing great hockey
I’d like to have some of whatever they are smoking if that’s the case. What about his usage or play indicates that he can help the team or even that he’s taking any steps forward in his offensive game from the press box. They have made excuses and given him glowing reviews ever since he was drafted.
My vote is still optics because I refuse to believe they hired a GM even dumber than Chuck Fletcher. While pride and optics aren’t great being dumb is not fixable.
“We have to take into consideration his age and his development and what’s most important for us,” he said. “In three, five, seven years from now, how can we create the best Luchanko? Those are all things that we’re constantly thinking about and discussing and debating.
“It’s not just the points. Obviously, points are important because they help you win when you score goals and set up plays… but it’s the overall game we’re going to be looking at, just like we did in training camp. [We’re going to] evaluate the full spectrum.”
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“We’re gonna let the kid play and have conversations as we’re playing the games and see where it goes from there.“How does sitting yet another game, or when he does play, playing the 4th line, help Jett Luchanko’s development? Briere’s galaxy brain pick 2 years ago who, for some unexplainable reason, has made the team 2 years in a row and not looked like an NHL player at any point. Yet they resist every effort to let him develop in a lower league. They say he’s too good for OHL, yet he’s never dominated in that league. It’s not his fault they say, trust us. He needed to make the team to develop his offensive skills and yet he has only played, when they can even find room to play him, on the 4th line with a grand total of 1 SOG. How is any of this helping Luchanko develop offensively? It’s much better for him to not play in the NHL, not to be in offensive situations than it is to play 1st line minutes, 1st PP, in the OHL because apparently ice time is overrated. The bench is where you hone your skills.
Maybe the very image conscious DB just didn’t want it to look his signature pick was regressing by not making the team this year even though his play last year in the NHL made you question the coach and the GM’s evaluation.
No matter the reason, refusing to send this kid back and to play him on the 4th line, when he plays, is pride or stupidity. He’s going to get sent back at some point with a stupid platitude about how his time in the NHL helped him and it was the right move. So stupid.
https://x.com/ADiMarco25/status/1980986448968077515
Risto pushed back another month, for those actually looking forward to him returning.
The way these updates keep coming in for Bonk and Risto, we may not see either this year.
This kid should be back in junior, it’ll be a wasted year for him down there but it’s better to work on his offense in junior than flail away with the Flyers playing 8 minutes a night.
I don’t think it would be a wasted year simply because he has never dominated at that level. Many excuses have been due to the fact that he hasn’t dominated basically blaming the team and giving him a free pass. I would like him to show us he is to good for the league.
The other part of that is he could be playing in College with Martone if DB hadn’t rushed to sign him to a contract all so he could be the NHL equivalent of a purse dog. Unfortunately, when DB showed Jett to all his friends he didn’t perform as expected and went back into the purse. Now DB is stuck, if Jett didn’t make the team this year, then it would reflect negatively on DB and if there’s anything we know about this front office is that they are very very image conscious.
Speaking with a team source Monday morning, the Flyers are considering sending Luchanko to the AHL’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms on a conditioning stint. While it hasn’t been confirmed to me, it appears returning him to the OHL’s Guelph Storm is an option the Flyers are delaying as long as possible.
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Luchanko has built up somewhat of a reputation as a player who is reluctant to shoot the puck; said reputation has clearly spilled into the Flyers’ front office.Lineup updates for #SEAvsPHI:
• Dan Vladar gets the start in net.
• Forwards Nikita Grebenkin and Jett Luchanko slot back into the lineup.
• Rodrigo Abols and Nick Deslauriers come out.Glad to see the kids back in the lineup, to bad Andrae didn’t join them.
Sanheim leads the entire league in TOI/game. I guess we’ll see if he can hold up.
But his offensive game still needs to come around. Luchanko only has one shot attempt in about 27 minutes of ice time; only the Vancouver Canucks’ Arshdeep Bains has played more among forwards with one or zero shot attempts this season.
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Last year, though, it felt more because Luchanko popped, whereas this season, it seemed to have more to do with the team’s reluctance to have him repeat the OHL level (although last season’s lack of center talent was also a contributing factor).
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Though the team can dress him up to six more times this season without burning a year of his entry-level contract, a referendum feels like it’s coming sooner rather than later. Having the 19-year-old play fourth-line minutes was never a long-term situation, and he hasn’t popped enough to warrant a larger role.They are really trying to drum up interest for Tippet. Hopefully this hot streak will allow them to get out of that contract.
