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I blame Lavi more for the way he handled Bob which brought about the crisis. Snider never looked beyond the current season and it never mattered until the salary cap. For better or worse the Flyers were always in the mix for every free agent. Snider was just being himself given how Lavi handled the goalies the previous year. The move was bold even for Snider though with that 9 year contract but old rich guys near the end tend to ignore any and all red flags to get what they want.
Sadly, the Flyers still have yet to accept the reality that is the salary cap, and current state of free agency where top-end talent rarely (if ever) makes it to the market.
Even over 13 years later, the Flyers are feeling the double whammy of it all. First, Bobrovsky is chasing his third consecutive championship ring with the Florida Panthers. Second, Bryzgalov is still receiving checks from Philadelphia to not play for their team—the buyout penalty runs through 2027. Finally, last season, the Flyers posted the NHL’s worst team save percentage of the 21st century: .879, according to QuantHockey.
Who do you blame more, Snider or Laviolette?
What’s funny is DB was on the roster for the trade and he is the lead architect of NHL’s worst team save percentage of the 21st century. I guess the Flyers aren’t just setting records with their league worst power play. I hope DB puts both accomplishments on his resume.
While Ed Snider went full Jerry Jones, both he and Laviolette deserve blame as both made panic moves that led to Bobrovsky wanting out.
https://x.com/justingiam/status/1975970406067757490
There’s ugly, then there’s this.
After Shesterkin, who is absolutely better than either Flyer goalie, Fox and Gavrikov on D and Penarin, they have nothing. Literally nothing. They can’t draft. It’s killing them.
Seeing a lot of the pundits have a three-way battle between the Flyers, Penguins, and Rangers as to who finished at the bottom of the Metro.
ohhhh. i googled vonzipper and just came up with a company that makes sunglasses and i knew that wasn’t it! 🤣
Been meaning to ask… are you the KickSave from back in the old Philly.com days?
gramos is a blackhawks fan. i think that’s why he hates st. louis.
i meant to ask you what your avatar is. i feel like i recognize it but i don’t know what it is.
Oh, I get it. St. Louis has quite the inferiority complex when it comes to Chicago, and the hatred is mutual.
As for the avatar… it’s Eric Von Zipper, character in the Frankie & Annette beach party movies.
St. Louis is the armpit of this fiefdom.
Having lived in that area many years ago, I can tell you “armpit” is being overly generous.
they’ve tried red lipstick on this pig and pink lipstick on this pig and purple lipstick on this pig..
Be nice. This pig is the only thing the people of St. Louis have right now.
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.
Somewhat shocked myself as I really didn’t see any sort of value for another team to take on the Ellis contract. Also, I figured the Sharks were pretty much set with the Price contract, so in that regard, it seems to make even less sense for them. But hey, take the win no matter how it was earned!
flyers have always been a merit based orginization…..glad the jett will make it. hope he is the best 4th line center the flyers ever had going forward.
what are they going to get in a trade for andrae? every team has their version of andrae. so much for nhl ready a year ago per flahr.
Oh, you haven’t heard? He’s being packaged with newly-minted whipping-boy Owen Tippett for a top 4 defenseman. At least that was the word on Twitter this morning.
