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I guess Briere just refuses to acknowledge the likelihood of a player falling off a cliff from a production standpoint begins around 33 years old. Oh but look, they can always trade him Dvorak because by year 3 he will have a limited no trade clause. Here’s the issue just because there is an avenue to trade a player at that age, does not mean there will be a market. My current example is Garnet Hathaway.
Full credit to Dvorak maximizing his value this half season. I guess there was no need to find out whether he could replicate production with other forwards besides just being stapled next to Zegras all season. Three years from now, the odds are extremely high Couts and Dvorak will still be on the roster anchoring the 4th line. Sure the cap is increasing, over $12 million dedicated to the 4th line seems like a bad strategy even if the cap is above $130 million. I do not recall the Panthers spending potentially 8-10% of their cap on their 4th lines.
but he wanted to be a flyer and play for coach tocchet. that means something in the flyers family.
“jonesy” and danny boy strutting their feathers around this morning no doubt. flyers are back.
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ex selkethat is def a cup contending center group the next 3+ years. absolutely no need to re-sign as soon as he was eligible. Hopefully they get Abols locked up on a 2 year deal. Does this qualify as big game hunting?
“More importantly, he plays a big role in our locker room and has fit in seamlessly to our group and what we are building.”
more culture BS. How many “room” leaders are needed?
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They should win a few cups at least no?Brick by brick little buddy, the future is bright for this organization!! I’m assuming they’ll pick up another first round pick for the 2026 draft, they’ve already got the Leafs first rounder for the 2027 draft and they’re a sinking ship, so the next couple drafts should be promising.
Who are they trading to get another 26 1st?
Imagine when this team actually gets a number one and number two center.
They should win a few cups at least no?
Bill can you provide any rationale reason why they do to have zegras and MM on the top PP unit? when does come common sense approach come into play?
Where’s nesbitt….the Jett got less than 12 minutes
Nesbitt had a poor Under-18 Worlds for Canada this past spring. Correspondingly, he wasn’t invited to the Summer Showcase — which all but sealed the deal that he wasn’t going to get a selection camp invite in December.
I know being sarcastic…
When all u can say is laughtchenko won a faceoff then damn. If Both these picks miss the “rebuild” gets set back badly.
Will laughtchenko even be as “good” as frostsky I wonder
The Flyers will have the 2nd best record in the conference on Christmas Day and the 6th best record in the entire league. Merry Christmas to everyone but their miserable haters.
cant wait to get tickets for that December 2025 banner raising ceremony. amazes me what flyers fans now accept as “success”.
go flyers brick by brick.
Blue line competence and goaltending can take a team pretty far. The Drysdale/Andrae pair has been a revelation. They were supposed to get caved in because of size, but that has not happened. I hope Tocchet has learned if he wants to roll 4 lines, he is going to have to put some talent on the 4th line as opposed to “culture guys”.
Probable playoff contender is an improvement. However, to avoid purgatory Briere will have to trade assets to improve the roster. Prospects in the pipeline will not be enough to push the team to a true Cup contender. I do believe the Hughes trade was an insight into the future when the few times an elite talent becomes available. With all teams having cap space now with the cap rapidly rising, it will be a highly leveraged seller’s market. Now, there will be more Zegras type trades out there in the future also. He has to be involved in those and hit big like Zegras.
On a side note, that TOR 1st just keeps elevating in value. Grebenkin has more points then Laughton so far this season (granted Grebenkin has played 7 more games).
will there? seeing how he has rebounded and stayed healthy teams may be more gun shy to give up on players of his ilk. especially when they make a coaching change and don’t see said player play for the new coach.
pleasantly surprised he has kept GH and ND, and even juulson on the bench. Will it last is the question. when the 4th line has a bad game or 2, and they will, will hepivot to the old worn blanket. giving GH that 2-year unneeded ext is laughable. another guy who should have been moved.
buffalo is open for business. Any deal for Dahlen or Tage would have to include MM or Martone. Seeing the path the flyers are taking both should be available. If dahlin and Tage have no trade clauses can’t see them waiving for buffalo south.
Byram and Power you can probably put a decent package together.so can 30 other teams.
Buff wants the playoffs as well; doubtful they want a futures package. Also, Leary about bringing in players who know nothing but losing and kind of accepted it. they would fit right in with TK sanheim and ex selke.
Second game in a row where the Flyers left points on the table against inferior opposition. 1 out of 4 points where they should really be beating their opponents and taking at least 3 there. Playing down to their competition again. They let Penarin and Zibanejad beat them yesterday. It’s all the Rags have really. Even bad teams have very good players in this league. Goalie depth is their biggest issue now over scoring depth. Ersson has not been hood the last two games after putting together a stretch where he was winning, however imperfectly. They can still score enough to win games.
lol. their is no such thing when you look at the eastern conference.
must have missed it when the flyers became an elite team.
I wonder if Barkey is being showcased for a post Christmas trade?
he will be a healthy scratch….
I believe it is safe to assume Ersson is a below average backup goaltender playing in the NHL. The third goal at the end of the second period was a shot that needs to be stopped. Ersson is now sitting at a .869 save %, there is no way a team can make the playoffs playing a goal 30 or more games with such poor results. Even if he can get back to his career .886 save % will not be good enough, especially considering this HC is certainly more concerned about defensive responsibility over offensive attack.
The 4th line can easily be reshuffled with players already on the roster and the HC just will not do it. He only allows the team to go to attack mode right after a PK. For Briere to be shopping for a 4th line center when that position can be easily filled internally is foolish. Of course, I expect that path to be chosen.
Nd- Abols – GH is not a an nhl viable 4th line.
IMO they need to replace all 3. after all these years they still can’t even produce a solid 4th line internally. I do not think they have anyone on the phantoms to fill the 4th line role the coach envisions. he seems to have a 1 track mind of the role of a 4th line.
refuses to have grebenkin play every game in that role. Said a while back can’t wait to see who they acquire to be the next Grant/Thompson.
Sam has never been that good no matter where he has played professionally. If they re-sign him with a raise that will be very funny.
what evidence is there risto will cut the goals by a good bit? there is next to no chance carl puts up half point per game rest of the way. nothing but an ok dime a dozen 4th line player.
there is very little separation from top to bottom. all propped up by artificial points. like the flyers 4 games up on buffalo. that is not a huge deficit at all. this is what the owners want. makes for boring hockey. like how the flyers and others play.
you should not get any points for losing. never ever. not sure why they find that hard to implement. regulation wins having the same value as OT and shootout wins is also flawed. again, this is what the owners want to prop up teams.
go flyers. brick by brick.
who will they trade a 1st for to replace the forest? looking forward to seeing the forest back for the ECF.
One game is a small sample size but holding MTL, which does have a decent offense, to one goal at home is a nice start. They’re only 32 games into the season so things are still a little tight. Which team in the bottom half of the conference looks like they’re going to turn things around and start on a 7-3 streak any time soon? The NHL has had the loser point for a quarter of a century now. Perhaps going outside and yelling at clouds will be more effective than complaining about that.
doesn’t matter how long (hasn’t been 25 years) they have had it, its dumb. no complaining, stating simple facts you fcs.
any of those teams in the conference can go on a positive or negative run. sabres 3-0 last 3. panthers 6-3-1 last 10. pens 0-6 last 6. makes for boring ass hockey. begging and praying for OT.
go flyers. path to the ECF goes through philly.
