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Deslauriers looked pretty uneven in camp. Bad game, OK game, bad game, OK game. He’s a role player. He’s not there to win you games. That’s what the top of the lineup is for. They need a little more scoring than they’ve been getting. Whatever chemistry is being built needs to turn into chemical reactions that turn into goals.
The Flyers haven’t taken their lumps the last three years? Chicago is still pretty bad and will be at least a couple more years. At least they got Knight in the Seth Jones trade to help in goal. They are nowhere near playoff contention let alone the Cup.
Then I guess the fact the Flyers went 0-3 for a combined score of 15-5 against Carolina last year doesn’t matter either.
There’s a difference between pointlessly losing without a plan and losing with a plan. The Flyers are the former (as they have been absolutely trying to make the playoffs the last 3 years regardless of their PR campaign) and Chicago which is trying to win a Stanley Cup down the road.
#1 overall – Connor Bedard C
#2 overall – Artyom Levshunov D
#3 overall – Anton Frondell CAll potential franchise changing players at cornerstone positions you need to win the Stanley Cup. The Flyers have done zero building towards the Stanley Cup. Sure they’ve drafted some good wingers in Michkov and potentially Martone but without franchise players at the premium positions it’s all wasted. Chicago still has a ton of work to do to build a Stanley Cup contender but at least they are trying and have a farm system with higher end players than the Flyers. Quality to the Flyers quantity. Don’t confuse the Flyers trying to make the playoffs every year with who is further away from a Stanley Cup. It’s the Flyers.
This reminds me of the Penguins. They were derided for tanking for Crosby/Malkin but multiple Stanley Cups and 20 years later. Who is laughing at who?
flyers will do anything to justify playing nd. hope he is a lineup staple. he deters nothing. if I was a ” fighter” on the other team I wouldn’t even engage him, I would laugh at him at this stage.
2nd game of the preseason 2 weeks ago is a lot different than the regular season. Call up Grundy and say goodbye to ND. He’s not an NHL player at this point in his career and it’s not like he brings a wealth of playoff experience with a total of 5 games.
Reminds me a little bit of Keith Yandle in a Flyers uniform. Neither one of them should’ve been on any NHL team at the end of their careers. Yandle’s was worse though because it didn’t matter how bad and embarrassing he was, no matter how many games he cost them, the Flyers promised him that they would let him break the iron man streak. The exclamation point on a lost season and a middle finger to the paying fans who paid to see the best team iced, not a farewell tour for a player who overstayed his welcome by at least 2 years.
Chuck was so great at picking dmen .. yandle, Ellis, Risto, TDA. How did the Flyers not win a cup with these standouts? ND was another of those stellar signings.
Anyways, ND was a bad long term signing for a 4th line (with modified NTC) as an aging enforcer in a league moving away from fighting when he was signed and he’s even more useless now.
Edit : Fun Fact – The Flyers are paying ND almost as much in his mid 30s to sit on the bench and retire a flyer than he made during the previous 10 years combined.
Carl Grundstrom > ND
Grundy cleared waivers. I guess the Flyers have a decision to make.
Grundstrom is already on waivers. Guryev most likely never plays a game in the NHL.
What is the upside of this for the Sharks? They are only 2.5 mill from the cap and already have close to 20 mill on LTIR before Ellis. They could’ve just waived Grunstrom themselves. Did they really need another 6.25 mill of LTIR (they will be paying approx $10 mill actual cash for the privilege) for the next 2 years?
Edit : According to Sharks fans, it seems that the Sharks really wanted to open up a contract slot (and neither player traded were in the sharks plans) so that their 2 top prospects could both play in the NHL this year plus the potential for a roster purge at the TDL. The Ellis contract keeps them above the floor if that happens plus the Carey Price contract expires after this year. This gives them an extra year of LTIR.
Looks like a win/win.
Conditional 6th round pick also sent to San Jose for Carl Grundstrom (F) and Artem Guryev (D).
I’m shocked that they were actually able to trade him. I thought the Flyers would have to sit on that contract one more year because it isn’t front loaded and the acquiring team has to pay his full salary.
On that note Grundstrom and his 1.8mill contract was immediately put on waivers and Guryev is not predicted to ever play in the NHL and is currently playing in the ECHL.
I’m not sure what the Sharks got out of this other than freeing up a contract slot and a 6th for taking on an additional 8 mill salary? They were already above the cap floor and they could’ve just waived Grundstrom themselves.
Guryev and Grundstrom are off the books after this year and make half of Ellis. The sharks will be paying Ellis salary for 2 years for some reason (10 mill) and have less salary cap space than the Flyers now. Make this make sense from the Sharks side?
Barring any new information coming out, this does look like a steal for DB. Congrats.
I want to see Luchanko in more attacking situations.
I think being on the Flyers 4th line is not in the best interests for his development but on the other hand Briere doesn’t have to explain how Jett “blew him away from day 1 last year” and made the roster while sending him back this year.
He should be in the OHL on a much improved team getting top minutes.
You also have to think Tortorella coaching anybody last year wasn’t in anybody’s best interest.
Tortorella’s record number of line changes
It’s a shame DB couldn’t find a way to bring back Torts this year, i guess even DB couldn’t cover up Torts abusing players and quitting on the team no matter how much he tried.
–If you’re trying to see what Jett Luchanko has, you’d like for him to be playing higher in the lineup. While Rodrigo Abols has had a solid preseason, there’s a cap on what offensive risk taking Luchanko can do with the fourth line. Good news, Luchanko did good work coming off the wall to find Travis Sanheim on the game tying goal.
-And speaking of Sanheim, he and Cam York continue to put together excellent shifts together as a pairing.
If Jett makes the team as a 4th line player, do you feel he’d be better off in the OHL (on a much improved team from last year) playing top minutes or playing the 4th line grinder for the Flyers?
Tippett loves to shoot the puck. Among skaters with 1,000 minutes of ice time over the past two seasons, he ranks fifth in shot attempt rate: 23.00 per 60 minutes, just ahead of Auston Matthews (via Natural Stat Trick). However, Tippett’s goal- and point-scoring rates are the worst out of anyone in the top 10. It’s not particularly close, either.
Didn’t realize how many shots Tipp took but yea playing him on the 1st line and that 8 year contract is not great.
Fwiw, it looks like ND and Jett make the team with Abols being the cut if they go with 8 defensemen. Not very smart. I still can’t believe the Flyers think ND is an NHL hockey player.
Speaking with a source Thursday, I was told 2024 first-round pick Jett Luchanko is likely to at least start the year in the NHL, though not much else is set in stone, and he may ultimately be returned to the OHL’s Guelph Storm once the regular season begins.
Given the two aforementioned forwards (presumably) locking in spots, it has left Rodrigo Abols as someone on the outs (at least to start the season) up front; Nicolas Deslauriers, though likely to be the 13th forward more times than not, is not going to be waived. While Abols could find himself en route to the AHL’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms by the start of next week, there is a possibility that the Flyers open the year with 14 forwards.
