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“big game hunting” – love that flyers buzz word. Hysterical seeing their free agent plans go up in flames. Even more hysterical that was their plan.
Come Feb or March the report will be the forest needs shoulder surgery. Once again, they go all silent on the injury. Looked like a pitcher who blew his arm/shoulder out. Big loss no doubt as he is one of the few player to root for on the team.
Not so sure they put Russian #2 in the top 9, if they do bet it is a short leash. Carl getting that spot right off the bat wont be shocking.
At least Bonk is back.
Bill any updates on Forest?
I don’t expect anything more than upper body injury unless he needs surgery right away.
Will be interesting to see what the forest injury ends up being. Probably week to week then season ending surgery in April. Misses start of camp. Would be par for the course with this medical team.
Sucks for Tyson as he is a legit bright spot for the team going forward. Didn’t he have his shoulder repaired few years back? No worries as ND can draw back in the lineup on a consistent basis.
A gpalie who can stop the puck and the top 4 on the blueline is the catalyst for success. I guess Risto is closing to coming back to help bolster the 3rd pair. Kind of hoping Kyrou would get a shot with Seeler on the 3rd pair. The blueline is not big, but constantly gets it out of the D zone with good outlet passes as opposed to chipping the puck up the boards every time. It would take real courage to embrace making the blueline smaller, but even more mobile and passing ability with inserting Kyrou. I do not expect it to happen any time soon, but with Drysdale and Andrae not getting caved in due to lack of size, it is something to think about.
That whole Drysdale trade still doesn’t sit well with me. Gauthier screwed the organization over with his request, he probably wouldn’t be having as much success offensively with the Flyers as they lack the talent that the Ducks have, but his talent level far exceeds Drysdale’s in my opinion. Bad trade!!
lol. flyers screwed it up.
cant wait until april to have this discussion.
some really think this is a good team on the upswing. pure entertainment. they also think tocchet is a good coach I bet
And when they ignore the facts, some people think this is a bad team and Tocchet is a bad coach. They’re on pace for 100 points. Last year they had 76. The negativity has reached peak comedy levels.
love “pace”. get back to me when they actually hit 100 points
no negativity, reality. reality is they are going nowhere.
cant wait until april to have this discussion.
some really think this is a good team on the upswing. pure entertainment. they also think tocchet is a good coach I bet
its way too early to say danny boys drafts have been good or bad. so far only 2 players who were both high picks look to have a good nhl future. need a few more years to see how it plays out.
either way you need elite level players to win. flyers lack that on the roster and the farm system.
They have some nice prospects they’ve taken in the past three drafts, but yes, lets see how that plays out with those kids. And another yes, having elite talent helps you win Cups, no question, but in a salary cap world, 99.99% of the time you have to acquire them via the draft, which means you typically have to finish near the bottom of the league. As I said, you can’t have it both ways. Dallas doesn’t have any “superstars”, in my opinion, yes they have great players but they don’t have McDavid or MacKinnon on their team. They just slowly drafted well and they’ve been very competitive for awhile now. If you can’t get a superstar, be more like the Dallas Stars.
Every team has “nice” prospects. That doesn’t cut it.
The path the flyers are on and have taken will lead to nowhere. There is no path to sustained cup contention. They continue to spin their wheels. They refuse to pick a path. Towing the middle of the road leaves you in the middle of the road. There is no savior on the way. No buying their way to cup contention via free agency. No one is trading you a #1 center or #1 Dman. They are a poorly run franchise.
its way too early to say danny boys drafts have been good or bad. so far only 2 players who were both high picks look to have a good nhl future. need a few more years to see how it plays out.
either way you need elite level players to win. flyers lack that on the roster and the farm system.
You may be right on DB and Jones but some are now questioning the, as you accurately call it, re-tool which has been misleadingly called a rebuild for 2.5 years. DB has been here for 3 off-seasons and 3 drafts, there’s a reason the center depth is nonexistant and he’s the reason. Jett is projected to be a 3rd line center and that is his crown jewel. How can they be headed in the right direction when their only plan for addressing the hard positions which DB has neglected is praying to the heavens that a franchise center or franchise Dman are available for trade, the Flyers are able to make the best offer, and they want to come here? Good luck. Doesn’t sound so much different than Fletcher. Hayes was the best center available at the time and they paid whatever it took to get him. Does DBs plan sound much different?
Well, let me start by saying, three years in the grand scheme of things, isn’t a long timeline. Secondly, he was promoted to full time GM in May of 2023, since then they’ve done well in the draft given their draft positions, they’ve acquired some good young talent and they tried to maximize their number of picks. If they get two players from any one draft, they’ve done well. Michkkov, Bonk, Bjarnason and Barkley are good picks, but the later three need time to develop. I think Jack Berglund is going to surprise people when he eventually comes over, he’s only 19 years old and still developing, same with Luchanko just turned 19 in late August, he’s got lots of time to develop into even a middle six player. All the kids from the 2025 draft are just that, young kids, let them soak and develop. Everyone is impatient, I get that, the team has been shit and poorly ran for a long time. I’m hopeful, but I’m almost 60 years old, so experience tells me to be patient and see where they go with this. There wasn’t exactly anyone at the center position screaming out “TAKE ME” when they were picking in the draft, you can’t make up stuff that isn’t there.
based on what?
they have 1 potential elite level propsect.1. the rest are nothing but depth types if they pan out. though thats what danny boy wants.
“But like I said, when you’re not spending $12 million on a player, or even two like Edmonton does… Colorado has three or four high-end guys. We’re not going to be built that way. So depth will be important to us.”
flyers are being propped up because of goaltending. simple as that. overall, they are a below average team with below average coaching.
go flyers. brick by brick.
MM still with the low ice time amung the top 9. imagine him playing the same amount of minutes as GH. great coaching.
not a tough choice at all to any person with common sense. send the russian down to get playing time. maybe back to toronto for laughton…..
flyers have the worst 4th line in hockey by far.
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“It’s tough because right now, we’re looking for fourth-line identity,” said Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet.
all one can do is continually laugh at the flyers and their philosophy.
