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agree. clear cap space sign all 3.
why would they come here? i thought you said there are better options? lol yeah you can’t get bennett and ekblad to come here but you’re gonna get mcdavid and eichel. delusions at their finest…
– you are mentioning players who haven’t even played a pro game yet. that does not factor into any youngest team equation. Those players you mention every other nhl team pretty much has equivalent prospects. None of which will be on the team next season. Here is some info for you, the flyers prospects are nothing special.
Zavragin – playing pro in the K at 19 years old with a .917 SV% in 43 games.
Bump – “He was named to the All-NCHC First Team, and NCHC Forward of the Year. During the championship game of the 2025 NCHC Tournament against Denver, Bump scored two goals, including the game-winning goal in double-overtime, to help Western Michigan win their first NCHC tournament championship in program history. He was subsequently named the Frozen Faceoff MVP.”
Barkey – team-voted captain, back to back OHL championships including 184 pts in 114 games in the regular season; 47 pts in 28 playoff games during those two years.
Bonk – alternate captain and led the league in plus minus.
The fact that these guys aren’t even on the team yet proves my point. we are still the 2nd youngest team and getting younger. not every team has these players. pay attention.
– briere has shown next to nothing so far.
again, you’re not paying attention. you’re here too much talking to no one.
– May I ask who you are? Player? Management?
boooring
– 2nd youngest is a flyers talking point. they really aint that young nhl wise. being young doesn’t equate to being good or having “great” young talent.
yeah you’re right. just the leading rookie goal scorer, two players that just won the OHL championships and another on a NCAA championship team. Not to mention a pretty damn good young goalie in Zavragin. maybe you’re just not paying enough attention – that will happen if you spend too much time talking to yourself on here daily lol
– why on earth would Bennett and ekblad accept 5 years from a bottom feeding team when they can get 7 or 8? Ask yourself this, if taking 5 years are they likely to go to a winning franchise? it would take a severe overpay as they will have many better options. Then again agents are “calling” danny now that they hired tocchet.
I want 5 years. And I already said it would take an overpay. You’re either agreeing with me or you have a reading comprehension issue. which is it?
– they wasted away CC and jakes prime years.
they tried to put a team around them. it wasn’t good enough. probably briere’s fault.
– ex selke is on the way down so he really shouldn’t factor in anything.
-how many years does he have left? lol
– they didnt bottom out by design. they bottomed out because of incompetence.
irrelevant. next…
we have a ton of cap space, picks and prospects. they are still going to want to spend and be competitive during TK, Coots and Sanheim’s tenure. That’s just the facts. They are going to want to give these guys more help for a chance to win. They aren’t going to be rebuilding for 5 more years.
we are the second youngest team in the league. I could see the flyers trying to get Bennett and Ekblad to come here for 5 years each. That’s a winning C and D to compliment TK, Coots and Sanheim. You still have youth with Michkov, Foerster, Brink, Drysdale and York among others. Everyone slots in better this way and we’d be no older looking than a team like Dallas who has seemingly found a good mix.
Especially if Florida wins again, they may be happy to move on from those two and they may be willing to come here together for an overpay – which is likely what it will take. Seth Jones had a great game yesterday – I wonder if they see him as the answer moving forward. Ekblad and Bennett certainly fit the “born to be a Flyer” narrative they like to push.
Boeser is another interesting name if you can fit him in. His connection to Tocchet might play a part. Maybe even see if there is a trade to be had for Byram. I could see York going the other way depending on how that relationship is currently.
They are not going to waste away Coots, TK and Sanheim’s careers with their new deals starting. And unless they are in the McDavid sweepstakes next year (there is a 99% chance he stays an Oiler for life) this might be the best team you can put together for the next 5 years while you continue to draft and develop.
There will be some who say “No we aren’t good enough to be signing big name FAs!” Well this is how you’re gonna get better the way we are set up. They aren’t going to keep bottoming out – they are gonna put a team around TK, Coots and Sanheim. 5 years max until their deals near a close. That would be a competitive team while we continue to develop the younger guys and draft.
Any thoughts on available goalies? Any hockey trades that can be made that doesn’t involve signing free agents?
Does anyone have faith they nail this draft?
you don’t. and you’ve made it known ad nauseum. anything else to add?
do the Islanders trade #1 overall to acquire assets and draft hometown boy Hagens? He seems to really want to be there.
York has a chance to blossom into a special, long-term defenseman – so whatever center would be coming back in a potential trade needs to have that same upside in my opinion. otherwise I’m not ready to move him for the sake of moving him, even if that means a slight overpay. we don’t exactly have a ton of d prospects knocking down the door.
^ everyone said Torts runs the show and Briere is a puppet. Torts was Jonesy’s guy. Briere fired Torts. Seems pretty clear who is in charge. So the first thing you said makes no sense at all.
1. my guess is they’ll do one year of Shaw or Lappy, run the rest back and tank for McKenna, kick tires on Cooper in 26 and if he goes to Utah like some are saying than maybe they go with Ferschweiler then. He’s got a good thing going at WMU so he may be in no rush.
I just wish they’d go after Shaun Clouston.2. maybe.
last I heard they weren’t even close in number. after the whole torts situation i wonder if he even wants to be here.
i guess that’s sort of my point – outside of McDavid and Makar and maybe Eichel who from that list could Briere possibly be talking about? There’s literally no one else noteworthy. Does he actually think those are possibilities?
I know we flew McDavid back from 4 Nations on our charter flight – did someone slip him a post-it note with an insane number on it?
Do you go to McDavid, Makar and Cooper and tell them all let’s form together like Voltron? Here’s som Comcast money?
I just can’t see what players Briere could be targeting from that UFA list it makes no sense.