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Brink for Jiricek. Wow.
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.
The only way to look at this is all Bobby Brink was worth is a reclamation project? A kid whose only attribute is his size as he can’t skate and is a very low hockey IQ player.
Granted, Brink is no superstar, but being as kind as I possibly can be, this is a very underwhelming return.
danny is a putz and in over his head. that’s been clear for a while. He let torts walk all over him and now tocchet. they seem to not have much respect for their boss.
The Flyers show all the signs of an organization that has little to no internal communication… nobody ever seems to be on the same page (and that’s been the case for a while now), and it’s why I continually say they’re directionless.
go read tweets or the like from flyers beat in september. They raved how good MM looked. Not much if anything about out of shape and the like. Evevn the coach praised him. no the tables have turned. like cutter MM is just taking the high road not saying anything
What have the flyers done to help him? Have they assigned a personal trainer? A dietichen? anything to get back on track.
seeing the cutter situation and now all the MM bullshit. Wonder what Martone is thinking? No worries player banging down the door to play for the flyers and tocchet.
Well, the previous coach and current GM carried his stuff through the airport, so there’s that.
The Flyers drama is of their own making. Let’s see if they can handle it with a bit of professionalism this time.
Plain and simple, the Flyers are the same thing they’ve been for roughly a decade now… directionless. The plan has been business as usual, and the organization has regressed, and to think otherwise is to completely ignore the results over the past 10 years.
They need to learn how to play from the Christmas break to the Trade Deadline… that’s the time period everything goes off the rails and sinks the season every year, and this season was no different.
Last three season? Yup. This year is inexcusable though. They didn’t dump (Frost/Farabee was a dump), have the league suspend or trade players.
No matter what excuses are put forward, it has happened multiple seasons. I’d say the problems run deeper than injury or trades.
if you can’t overcome the loss of the Forest then you were never good to begin with.
They still played .600 hockey, 7-4-4, after Foerster went down. It was after the Anaheim game where Drysdale and Brink got knocked out of action after dirty hits when the team fell apart. They’ve been 2-8-2 since. Vladar got hurt during that stretch. Did not help. Team needs to get bigger, tougher, meaner as well as better.
They need to learn how to play from the Christmas break to the Trade Deadline… that’s the time period everything goes off the rails and sinks the season every year, and this season was no different.
https://x.com/jakeboyer_1/status/2018013380095750429
But Rick Tocchet was definitely the right hire! And I had to take a look, only to be surprised they’re “only” paying him $5M a year… thought it was a hell of a lot more than that.
And I have no idea who the guy who posted this is, but he goes on to try and defend the organization in some of his replies. He has a few other posts where he’s all over the place opinion-wise.
I would say the Flyers of today are one of the greatest comedies ever if they didn’t truly believe they were on the right track.
Defensively, as the Flyers approach the trade deadline, I can’t help but wonder if placing Rasmus Ristolainen on the top pair is a bit of feature work to move him by then for an acceptable return. While reports are that it would take “alot” to move him, his continued injuries (he’s only played 17 games this season) likely give other clubs pause.
I’d like to know what an “acceptable return” is for a broken-down defenseman who can’t seem to find the ice for more than a couple weeks thanks to injury. I’d also like to know what team/GM thinks Ristolainen is a piece they need (understanding that Chuck Fletcher is in New Jersey, but only as an advisor). I get there’s a premium on right-handed defensemen, but at this point in time, that’s the only positive you can say about the guy.
I suspect there’s a bunch of folks speculating Ristolainen could be traded simply for clicks as I can’t imagine anyone being this lost in Fantasyland.
