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Turnovers. Miscues by Jett Luchanko and Nikita Grebenkin figured directly into two of Winnipeg’s goals. Luchanko also passed up at least one open shot possibility (Tocchet has implored him to shoot more often). He did have a nice outlet pass that started one of Philly’s better scoring chances of the game.
Another game where Jett does not help the team or show improvement. How much longer can the Flyers put up with DB’s vanity project? Another game where you couldn’t even tell he was playing by the stat sheet. How does playing on the 4th line help develop his offensive instincts, which is the main excuse for not leaving him in juniors?
DB’s been justifying and the Comcast PR department has been hyping this kid since he was drafted over a consensus no brainer better player at a position where the Flyers, 2 years later, are still completely lost in the wilderness. If he had been drafted in the second round the expectations would be lower and there would have been no pressure on the FO to fast track him.
After last year’s fiasco of having him poop the bed, the Flyers wanted to promote him as them not having made a mistake last year without exposing themselves to ridicule yet again. So we get this, where he’s not asked to do much other than not screw up. It’s the Ristolainen plan!
I have yet to find someone who agrees with the Flyers and what they are doing.
https://www.broadstreethockey.com/post/flyers-moving-emil-andrae-around-doesnt-help-anyone/
Strong play, an intriguing skillset, good compete in puck battles, none of it seems to matter when it comes to Andrae securing an NHL future. It seems as if no matter what he does, the Flyers view his role as already filled by Drysdale and York, and Tocchet, Briere, and Jones do not seem to be bullish on the idea of having three offensively-minded, smaller defenders on the same team. That crunch results in Andrae repeatedly being shuttled up and down between the NHL and AHL levels, even when his play suggests otherwise.
It is a case where the meritocracy that has been preached from the Tortorella era, into the newly minted Tocchet regime, has not been followed. Andrae, frankly, has shown himself to be an NHL defenseman whenever he has gotten time with the big club.
Making your season debut against the Florida Panthers is no easy task, but Andrae made it look so as the Flyers out-shot their opposition 7-1 with the Swede on the ice at 5-on-5.
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We know the Flyers are hell-bent on building a Stanley Cup-contending defense that’s stocked to the brim with size and range, but they aren’t there yet. How can that be enforced reasonably against Andrae despite being a handful of years down the road?Drafting a franchise defenseman was and still should be the way to save this blueline. Trades, sure but having that guy makes everyone else’s job easier. Especially the first few years when he’s on an entry level contract which frees up money to improve the team around him. The Flyers will never and have never believed in value. The best bang for the buck. During Sniders years, they just outspent everyone else. Holmgren did the same thing during the early salary cap years which is why Hextall inherited a team with no cap space and no assets. Holmgren spent them all to win now, and when win now fails, someone has to clean it up and it’s usually not the person who spent like a frat boy.
Fletcher did the same thing. Gave out those 8 year contracts, traded for and doubled down on Risto (the Flyers got horrible ROI on fletcher from Ghost going on to score 200 pts in the last 5 years to risto being demoted to 3rd line and always being injured). To put that in perspective, although Sanheim may be a better defensive defenseman, Ghost has nearly doubled him in points while playing 20 min a night and because of the way the Flyers misevaluated him on the ice and mistreated him in the media, they couldn’t give him away. Garolina got for only 3 mill/yr a 50 pt defenseman who scores 29 pp points a year. That’s value, that’s value and skillset missing from the Flyers. I’m sure he had no interest in coming back but whose fault is that especially if they never even reached out? But Risto? 5 years, a complete makeover, totally stripping him of any offensive ability, but one hell of a PR campaign, is going to save the Flyers blueline when he returns.
You want to save the blueline, sell the team, clear out the front office and for once, because nobody outside of the Flyers bubble cares about it, bury forever Flyers hockey and enter the 21st century. They need execs who will draft a franchise Dman and a franchise center, not just make noises about needing them.
Might be time to move Michkov away from Couts at even strength. Although if the alternative is to have Dvarak be his center, not a better option.
Don’t worry they will trade for a true #1 center for this team and the rest of the centers will move down the lineup. Kevin Hayes 2.0.
The Flyers are excited to be able to overpay someone for the first time in quite awhile now that Ellis and the rest of the dead money are clearing up.
Send Jett back to the OHL, he’s not developing on the 4th line but hey, wasn’t that a great pick by DB, youngest Flyer to make the team in history.
Still can’t believe they sent Andrae down. He is one of the top 6 defensemen on this team as constructed. I wish writers would stop pretending he has a future with the Flyers. They treat him as a necessary evil when the large players fail.
just listen to the 1st minute. just shows how delusion of this franchise.
Sorry, could only make it through the first 30 seconds and didn’t hear the word rebuild once. In fact i think the first words were “the Flyers have been in that competitive mode the last 2 years”. At least someone is finally being honest. But yea they hit all the classics. Competitive, Hard to play against, old school, culture. All the buzzword bingo greatest hits. Can’t imagine the rest was much better.
From the article:
Why would the Flyers trade Owen Tippett?
While the entire package of Tippett is super exciting — a 6-foot-2 winger entering his prime that can skate as fast as anyone not named Connor McDavid in the NHL and has a wickedly powerful shot — the success has been dramatically inconsistent during his time in the Orange and BlackThat Tippet article was definitely a puff piece approved by Comcast. He’s a one-trick pony with one of the worst shooting percentages. in 2023 he was 11th in shots but only 56th in goals. Last year he dropped to 127th in goals. Historically he is an incredibly inefficient and indiscriminate shooter. When he limits his shots, like last year, and his goals drop you realize how badly you screwed up. He is 6’2″ though and you can’t teach that. Born to be a flyer.
The only thing keeping that contract from aging badly is the salary cap going up.
