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They better get to work and get Jiricek a skating coach. Dude skates like he has one leg. The franchise has done pretty well with guys who were drafted as poor skaters. Foerster and Brink come to mind.
https://www.nhl.com/nhl-edge/skaters/tyson-foerster-8482159
Avg NHL max skating speed 22.14 mph (fwd)/21.57 (D)
Foerster 20.9
Brink 23.3
Jiricek 20.1 (oof!)Not sure how slow he was before but Foerster is till fairly bad. Yea Jiri’s skating is very bad.
Absolute steal. Big 22 YO RHD with Top 4 potential for a small .5 PPG depth winger who was odd man out anyway. If they don’t do anything else, I’m satisfied.
Steal? No. It isn’t horrible though. It was fair value for a failed draft pick on his 3rd team in 2 years. His ceiling is 4/5, not any higher so most likely 3rd pair. That is if he makes it to the NHL as a regular. He is big and 22 and RH but you actually need to show that he can play and he hasn’t shown that since the draft. His development has completely stalled.
Even a 3rd pair RH dman has a better future on this team than Brink did long term so it was decent risk to take. Let’s hope he hits his ceiling, otherwise he’s just more AHL fodder.
Utah currently holds the upper wildcard playoff spot in the Western Conference. The lower wilcard team, the Seattle Kraken, trail the Mammoth by a single point. Just below the cutoff line for the Western Conference playoffs, the San Jose Sharks are five points (four standings points, tiebreaker disadvantage) behind the Mammoth but have played two fewer games.
It should be embarrassing for the Flyers that expansion teams, teams that recently tanked, and the team formerly known as the Phoenix Coyotes are passing the Flyers. Where would you rank the Flyers among the 4 teams for the future? Embarrassing.
They hire a fitness coach a month before the season ends but have had a fight coach ever since Tocchet was hired. Tocchet whose system is the most boring basic dump and chase system in hockey. It wasn’t great hockey when they won and it’s even more unwatchable when they lose.
Great decision making and should tell you all you need to know about the Flyers thinking. For all the talk of playoffs among the Flyers front office this team has not improved since last year, in fact i would say they’ve regressed since the beginning of the season and all of the Tocchet “the player” hero worshipping by the media isn’t going to change that.
This team is and always has been one Vladar LTIR or losing whatever mojo he found this year from finishing bottom 5, even Bill will admit the way they won was not sustainable. The team needed/needs clear headed roster evaluation in relation to the long term goal, not save my job for another season thinking. Maybe they should’ve held off on that season ticket holder letter that focused on the playoffs.
All that matters right now is the bottom line.
If your goal is to make the playoffs, that is true. They got the 2 points but realistically it was two bad teams playing and one of them had to get 2 points. The game was pretty hard to watch. I do not see the Flyers being sellers at this point.
The Leafs are totally checked out, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Berube gone before the end of the season. That was as lifeless a team as I’ve seen and on a 4 game losing streak that figures to get longer. There was one point during a power play where they couldn’t even complete open passes with one bouncing off a stick and creating a shorthanded flyers chance.
With the playoffs pretty much gone the Leafs are in hell. They don’t even control their 1st round pick unless they get into the top 5 and yesterday’s point just twists the dagger a little more. Imagine trading Minten and a top 10 pick for Brandon Carlo.
berube will be the next flyers coach.
He was already hired by Paul Holmgren to be the Flyers head coach back in the day. It would be the most Flyers thing imaginable if the Flyers recycled not only an exflyer but an exFlyer HC. Maybe just kick him upstairs to team president instead, I hear that’s a no show job.
On Sunday, the Flyers acquired 27-year-old winger Boris Katchouk from the Minnesota Wild in exchange for 23-year-old AHL defenseman Roman Schmidt
DB was trying to trade for Tkachuk and mistakenly traded for Katchouk. Heard that one earlier today :p
This game is interesting for a variety of reasons from what happened last TDL and what could happen this TDL.
Last year the Flyers traded Laughton (while retaining 50% for the rest of his contract). Actually the Leafs made 2 trades, the other was Frasier Minten and a 1st for Brandon Carlo. Both of these deals were so bad that it’s hard to believe Treliving still has a job.
Laughton – Immediately demoted to the 4th line and pretty much black hole for their abbreviated playoff run. I heard he was still good in the room but somehow that doesn’t translate to the scoreboard.
Carlo – He is who he is. Nobody special but he is a big right handed shot which apparently everyone thinks they need. Not that it did the Leafs much good. The kicker is the player that was traded for the 1st has absolutely busted out as a 21 year old center. Not saying he’s going to be a star but he is no doubt the best player in the deal and the bruins also got the leafs 1st.Minten has more points than Laughton and Carlo combined by a large margin which brings us back to the Leafs today. I’m sure they’d love to trade for an ascending 21 year old center to anchor their 3rd line but they couldn’t afford the trade capital it would cost.
The Leafs, believe it or not, are worse than the Flyers and to make it worse Boston has their 1st round pick that they traded with Minten for a JAG. The Leafs are in hell with little chance to make the playoffs and little chance to benefit from tanking. The only potential saving grace is the 1st round pick is top 5 protected but short of losing every game for the rest of the year, much like the Flyers, the chance of finishing in the top 5 is pretty much limited to winning the lottery so the Bruins may end up with Minten and a top 10 pick for a late 20s defensive defenseman.
How does this affect the Flyers? Well if the Leafs call up the NBA and figure out how dallas won the lottery last year and end up with a top 5 pick the Bruins pick bumps to 2027. That means the Leafs get to choose whether the Bruins or Flyers get the 1st round pick next year (i think) with the team they dislike more getting their pick bumped to 2028.
Either way the Leafs are in for a hard fall with no 1st round picks the next 2 years, most likely, and flawed/capped out team. Buyer beware when trading for players that are good in “the room” or whose main attributes are being big and right handed.
The Philadelphia Flyers are in an interesting position, heading into NHL Trade Deadline week. The team appears to be a bit of a quandary for what they might do come Friday at 3pm ET.
For the moment, they remain technically in range of a playoff berth, as they stand six points off of the Eastern Conference’s final Wild Card berth.
Quandry? There should be no indecision. They are 3 years into a rebuild and have accomplished what? No 1C, 2C, or 1D on the team or in the system. Plan A was to throw money at the missing elite talent in 2026 FA. Plan A never had a chance and sounds like a plot from the movie Dumb and Dumber. Plan B is to pretend there was a plan B to buy time until/unless something falls into their laps.
This is a badly constructed team with contracts designed for the team to be in contention now. Konecny turns 30 next year, Sanheim turns 30 in a month and both of these guys are signed until they are 35+. The Flyers are in no mans land. To many 5-8 year contracts to actually try to draft high and to bad to actually be relevant. They do have a kick ass pr dept and in the absence of a plan, fake it until you make it right?
I don’t think they have any choice but to go for the playoffs this year. If they do sell great but so what? Do we really need more players with size that hit and have the “culture” they’ve been drafting for? How many years can you draft for culture over talent? Just asking for a friend.
I think they talked playoffs to much this year, from the offseason on and ending in the season ticket letter promoting the playoffs. Eh, maybe they’ll blame it on Michkov as he seems to be the source of all the Flyers problems according to the coach.
Congrats to Coots for his 1st goal in nearly 3 months. It was only an empty net but that’s still better than Hathaway.
Vladar, once again, the only thing keeping the Flyers from losing.
Is it ironic that had Michklov not been on the ice because he just served a penalty, that he probably wouldn’t have been on the ice at all to score the game winner?
Michkov despite not playing in OT at all this season, was still the OT goal scoring leader over the last 2 seasons before last night. No other player has scored more than 1 OT goal over the last 2 seasons. Pretty sad and indicative of Tocchet’s dislike for Michkov. His OT goal last night put’s him in a tie for 1st place this year.
[O’Connor] Asked Tocchet if the goal earned Michkov more OT work: “Oh yeah. I mean, sure. We were talking about that over the break. We’ve lost, what, 11 overtimes? So we’ve got to try some different things. I think Matvei is skating better, so that’s gonna help. But yeah, definitely.”
11 lost OTs and the only reason they are thinking of making a change is because Michkov didn’t give him the option of not playing him in OT. Lol. Coaching malpractice or whatever. Someone will try to justify it but you know damn well Michkov wouldn’t have been on the ice if it was up to Tocchet.
Might be the first presser where he didn’t call Matvei fat and has to wait until next year, I don’t think he could’ve gotten away with it.
Emil Andrae’s last game played was 1/26/26, a full month ago. Despite Tocchet saying he wanted to get Andrae into a game before the break, here we are looking like Tocchet’s favorite orange pylon will continue to play.
I can only imagine this is as good for Andrae’s trade value as it’s been for the Flyers win total.
Just waive him as it’s criminal to make the kid sit for that long.
