Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Bill, I haven’t been paying close attention lately but I see there is a new CBA agreement. I heard in passing that there is a cap in the play-offs now?? Is there indeed one?
Any other highlights to mention? Anything new with players going to college (i.e. Cutter)?Here’s Bill’s rundown on the new CBA: https://hockeyhotstove.com/forums/topic/new-cba/
There are five teams in the conference that are already playoff locks: FLA, CAR, TOR, WSH, TB. The Flyers are light years away from being better than those teams. The rest of the conference is not that great. MTL, on paper, looks improved. NYR will get a boost from roster moves and Sullivan . . . or not. OTT ran a nice end season hot streak into the playoffs. NJ isn’t the team of the future as some predicted. The rest of the conference sucks worse than the Flyers.
r
Unfortunately, the Flyers offered no proof of that last season.
who else do they need to sign and why? — black_francis
Absolutely no one… was simply responding to another poster still dreaming of a top-4 defenseman, which apparently you didn’t notice.
Being just under is a better picture than was being painted on the socials yesterday.
Still not ideal for where the Flyers currently are, but a better situation than being over (which was the speculation yesterday).
The number on this deal is so good, I’m even more disappointed the Flyers didn’t get a bona fide Top 4 Dman on UFA day.
Danny shot his wad… no more money to spend. In fact, was reading earlier that they’re now over the cap (though they can put Ellis on LTIR, something they’ve not done the past couple of seasons).
Elliott Friedman reporting 5x$5.15
Nice work, Danny
He got the Rasmus Ristolainen deal, and is a much better player (even if he is still a work in progress). Definitely a good deal by Briere.
what’s the flyers goal after yesterday? what is the plan? they sign guys who will really not improve the team. they are still going to be bad. why not then just evaluate what you have in-house. keep the cap space to for down the line to see if any deals pop up or to broker a deal to get additional assets/players back.
just more spinning in the hamster wheel.
Have to appreciate a franchise that spends to the cap ceiling just to finish last in their division.
Above-900 NHL seasons:
Rittich 7 of 10
Vladar 1 of 5Flyers crack goaltending coaches and team doctors will fix him tho. — Tomahawk
Vladar has averaged 25 games per season in the 4 years he’s been an NHL regular, with the highest total being 30 games. Hell, his career high was 41 games for an ECHL team back in 2017/18. Based on the averages he’s had as an NHL regular (and his career high), is giving Ersson somewhere in the area of 50-60 games really “sharing the load?”
I get it, the pickings were slim. But based on the information above, throwing the money they did at what on the surface appears to be another below average goaltender doesn’t seem overly wise.
but i get it: flyers bad. — black_francis
Well, their record over the past decade pretty much tells us this, but hey, business as usual!
