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the state of the team is the same since wharton certificate boy took over, and even before.
They are not a good team. They have no plan to become a good team. They have no path towards cup contention.
As far as Thomas, he will not waive to come to Philly. There will be many suitors for his services. He would have zero reason to come to philly.
Anyone who has faith in wharton boy or “jonesy” needs their head examined. Fact is its very bleak. nothing has changed
crazy thing is they are still very much in the playoff race. couple games out.
Blame Bettman and the OT point rules. It is hard to be out of the playoff race at this point in the year unless you are committed to the tank.
I still can’t believe they’ve only scored 2 goals in 18 OT periods. That may be a record and yesterday’s OT was incredibly bad. Maybe they should try something different, like Michkov.Again with size over skill.
The Flyers are noticeably small on the ice. Not everybody, but their smaller guys are noticeably small and don’t have elite skills. If they did, they would be playing.
The Kings got Panarin for a prospect + a conditional third and signed him for $11M for two years.
Panarin would only waive for the Kings. It was the only place he was willing to be traded to and gave them a sweetheart extension deal. The Flyers were never in.
I understand the thinking but Frank is correct, Panarin wanted to go to the playoffs and picked his team while giving them a sweetheart deal to make it work. He held all the cards with a full NMC. GMs are to quick to give them out knowing that most likely that some other GM will have to deal with the downside. Same with Coots. Flyers can’t do anything but cut his ice time, they can’t do anything without his permission.
For 58 minutes, the story wrote itself.
Nick Cousins, former Flyers draft pick and Stanley Cup winner beats Vladar on a defensive mixup involving Juulsen for the game winning goal. Will Juulsen be to valuable to the PK, with 6 SECONDS IN LAST 4 GAMES, to sit after the olympic break? Tocchet says he’d like to get Andrae some time after sitting for over a month but the PK is to important.
While they tied it up with the goalie pulled the Sens quickly ended the game once overtime started. Once again the Flyers skaters were vastly outplayed and only Vladar kept them in it.
I hope to hell Danny sells at the TDL but he won’t because he’s still looking towards making the playoffs next season rather than rebuilding. Same goal as this season.
Andrae sitting again for Juulsen is another dumb decision. Allegedly because Toc doesn’t want to mess with the PK. Juulsen combined for a TOTAL of 6 seconds of PK time the last 3 games.
Again with size over skill.
On the opening goal last game Michkov was on the ice with Zegras and Tippet when he made that ridiculous pass to help setup the goal but he will again be starting on the 3rd line.
Despite all of Tocchet (and Briere’s) hand wringing:
Key 2025-26 metrics for Michkov include:
Offensive Impact: When on the ice, Michkov has helped the Flyers maintain a strong expected goals percentage of 53.38%.
Advanced Metrics: He has ranked in the 85th percentile for on-ice expected goals (2.84 per 60 mins) and 83rd percentile for goals for (2.98 per 60 mins).
Production: After a record-breaking rookie season where he led all NHL rookies with 26 goals, he remains a focal point of the Flyers’ offense.
Despite a challenging start to the 2025-26 season, including lower ice time (14:34 TOI/G) and fewer points early on, Michkov is consistently identified as the team’s top driver of high-quality scoring opportunitiesScrew Tocchet and DB. When he’s on the ice he’s frequently the best player for the Flyers even with his “conditioning”. If his conditioning was really such an issue that he was a liability, his metrics would show it. His metrics show a criminally underused forward being held back by a 61 year old coach’s preconceptions. He is helping keep the Flyers afloat despite his coach.
Same goes for his treatment of Andrae. Not Juulsen’s BIG, nothing else matters.
Briere said the team overachieved up until January 6 and underachieved since then. He believes the reality is somewhere in between.
The reality is closer to the .600 team before January 6. They have to move away from Errson and his league worst save percentage. At least this year, it’s one awful goalie instead of three. They need another guy there. They also need another top 4 Dman.
Vladar : .939 in October, followed by .894 in November, .905 in December, and .876 in January.
Which of those months is not like the others? His season hasn’t been as great as it seems in the moment. The Flyers went 6-9 in Dec, well below .600 the month before January. The Flyers were boosted by early season wins and OT Loser points and a crappy division where most of that time the difference between first and last was about 10-12 points. They were “underachieving” well before 1/6/26 it just took awhile for momentum to catch up to them. The Flyers aren’t a team that looks to fix things that anyone can see are broken when they are winning which is one of the reasons why things snowball.
Vlad had a .929 last night, well above his season average of .904, and needed every save. He will need to continue to do this for the next 4 months for the Flyers to have a chance.
Adding players? If you are talking about possibly making a run at being a playoff bubble team, maybe, but as far as becoming a real contender they aren’t any closer than they were 3+ years ago. Could the bar be set any lower?
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7019567/2026/02/03/matvei-michkov-tocchet-flyers-briere/
Multiple team sources have indicated that now, even months after his slow training-camp start, the Flyers believe Michkov still may not be able to do the things he needs to do from a physical standpoint — on a regular enough basis — to earn a larger role. Whereas last season he was routinely able to absorb hits along the wall or in scrums in the corner, and emerge from those scrums with the puck, for example, the thought is that he now struggles with that because his strength is lower than it should be.
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Michkov get’s his minutes. Looks good. Spectacular pass leading to a goal. Flyers win.
The Flyers .. should .. take .. the win.
But no, another Michkov hit piece and Tocchet just wants the best for him from Kevin Kurz following DB’s talking points from the press conference.
WHY? Caps on a back to back with a 3rd string goalie.
and still outplayed the Flyers. Vladar made several 10 bell saves and, if i recall correctly, the caps missed an open net.
The Flyers are most likely going to end up outside of the playoffs and outside the top 5 picks but this should help that comcast gate revenue.
DB looked absolutely thrilled to have to give a pregame press conference defending his coach. The win bought them some more time. I was kind of hoping for OT there in the 3rd.
Hard to believe they won tonight. Vladar is team MVP. When he’s not on top of his game they have no chance.
Danny boy looking like someone caught red handed being sweated by the cops. He had a bigger word salad saying nothing than Tocchet did during the carnival.
Friedman said Danny needed to step up to put out the fire and all Danny did was say, in 100+ words, nothing to see here, move on.
The Tocchet hire just keeps looking worse and worse by the day.
His answer to the Michkov question at the carnival was completely unhinged.
“Caps are somewhat reeling as well. Flyers very much still in the playoff mix. The other EC just as inconsistent as the flyers. Many underperforming.”
They’re 2.5 games out of a playoff spot with 1/3 of the season left. 2-3-2 in their last 7. That’s not going to be good enough to make up ground. They need to play better than their first half .600 hockey to make the playoffs. Not seeing any signs that’s going to happen. Third year in a row now the Flyers have had a significant collapse later in the season. First two, they lost key guys to suspension or trade. Don’t have that excuse this year.
There are no excuses but Kevin Kurz is going to try like hell to give them one.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7016678/2026/02/03/flyers-tyson-foerster-injury/
https://sports.yahoo.com/article/flyers-rick-tocchet-drops-idiot-220947610.html
The Flyers, at least according to one report have a 9% chance to make the playoffs going into this game and have admitted the end game of their retool was to buy the elite talent they need in 2026 FA (much like Fletcher). Hence all the “we’re done subtracting, pushing for the playoffs, playoffs in sight, etc. It was never a rebuild and the plan to buy the talent in what was supposed to be a talent rich UFA this year is not possible because the cap went up in a way Jonesy, with no financial or managerial experience, could have foreseen.
It does explain why they repeatedly passed on talent in the draft for “culture” and “200 ft” and this last draft “size”. Toc wasn’t hired to develop young players, he has no discernable track record of that, he was hired to attract those UFA players starting this summer.
I stumbled upon this article from over the summer.
When asked by The Athletic’s Kevin Kurz. Tocchet says he has thought about playing Trevor Zegras with Matvei Michkov when the Flyers’ season begins.
“We’d be idiots not to explore it and talk about it, and try to manifest it where it can work,” Tocchet told Kurz. “Can it work? I don’t know.”It only took him 50 games and the Flyers being nearly eliminated from the playoff race to Zegras at center with Michkov on his wing in extended play so i guess he is an idiot by his own admission. Most assumed Michkov on the right wing instead of left but baby steps, Toc is still learning.
