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Elliott may be trending down in his career numbers, but this perky 9th rounder is still giving his team a chance to win (allowing 2 goals or less in Games Started) more often than not - Moose 23 GS, 13 games of 2 goals or less, 57% of his starts were giving his team a 'chance to win' game Hart 30 GS, 14 games 2 goals or less, 47% Talbot 32, 10, 31% Mrazek 51, 25, 49% Bob 71, 33, 46% Bishop 58, 40, 69% Welcome back Moose!

So we traded Schenn to sign more expensive Schenn ? I thought we already had the homegrown pivots, then Hayes money for Simmonds...or is Hayes, Frost and Farabee a better future? Don't know how lesser TOI and forward depth will help Nolan's game, either. Either before or after we look like a slow team. JvR Giroux V - Big $ Schenn Coots Simmonds - Not 2 Shabby Lindb Nolan Konec - Young Turks Rat Rafterman Raffl - Schraaps

Normally this news walks on by, a mess among the millions every time online in future shock. So the entertainer who sang God Bless America for millions of Americans is now declared un-American? ********. You would have thought Comcast discovered Kate Smith was raising money for the Axis. For Flyers fans it’s par for our org, the Flyers trade away another all-time gem, goes well with the 3 centers we drafted and traded who went to hoist the Cup elsewhere, and the forward dubbed Mr Game 7, with his name on it a Couple of times, who just won another game 7, coached by another center, make that 4 centers traded away who went to win the Cup, the tireless Brind’Amour, who is coaching an organization below the MasonDixon still in the playoffs past the most recent Cup champ. Another coach we dropped took his team to its first Cup in Music City, then there’s a goalie(!) we traded who then played for Vezina in a college football town, he’s still playing next week, and don’t get me started on Hall of Famer #88, it goes On and on, and on and on, except in ol’ Philadelphia Freedom where the ice melts in April. So don’t worry Kate Smith, you’ll move to bigger and brighter games now that the Flyers have chopped your ankles off. If I were a maverick organization in this wacky wide world of sports, I’d start opening day playing Kate Smith videos and encourage every paying fan, from every color, creed, every gender and generation to stand and sing in unison God Bless America with Kate leading the way. I’m sure as news sifts through people’s busy lives, they’ll understand that standing with Kate is still in good standing. **** it, Comcast team, here's a guaranteed WIN WIN for social clicks and season tics: re-sign Simmonds and re-install Kate's statute on the same day and we may drink from the Cup in '20.

Why's everybody writing an obit on a franchise-holding comeback team while the wheel's still in spin? This team has excelled from the crouch, the comeback, so let's get back to evens tomorrow night. Still have not seen their best hockey, imo, for a consecutive three periods, I think it's in there. Maybe it's messy, but this Flyers team can dictate play against top competition, gotta do it.

The shifts started going into another gear after the Grossman injury - like they flipped the playing field - didn't ya think? Interesting to see if they can sustain that intensity back-to-back, a draining win or a new gustafason? If Nash played all his shifts like the end, watch out

Playing only 17 min last night it was as if he was benched. G+VLC 25 minutes; Richards + StL 40 minutes...a discrep due to lack of PP time, and what, strategy? Let those horses ride, Chief!

Start with more ice time for VLC, 7 min, yeesh, but 12 for Akeson, yikes. Last time Holmgren praises Chief in the press for his great hockey mind. Or is he several stepans ahead?

And they could get blanked in the Garden in G1 then turn it up...can INTANGIBLES be a key to a series? Berube's squad, sumthin about what they've shown in comeback after comeback - was it that game at the Joe where it started? 3 or 4 goals in the third? I turned it off, then saw that W. This roster elevated backcombs, what, 11 more times or something? HolmGMren must feel good levenly larding this lineup, whatever that means, oh, it means yer Schenns and yer Raffls and yer Streits light the lamp. This season showed they got that 'MO that can turn playoff series, lezzdoit!

and re-viewed at 870k, attractive. Interesting to see which D unit that line draws in the playoffs, I think he's got another gear and needs to add to the matchup headaches with some early series lamplighters. Why not?

Rux - a sober assessment is no match for Berube's brew - thirst against top flights. There will be no pressure against the B's, just trust the system and play hard, with some ol' opening round rux-spin. All other matchups feel iffy. In any case, can't see a stay-the-course summer if Flyers manage only two home games this Spring...

Caluso - I'm half expecting to see a post this summer "Brayden Schenn to Nashville".... I do think he's progressing, as many have statted w/ youth comparables, but if we are ousted in Rd1 and he's off the score sheet, watch out...

3rd lowest attendance in the league - guess they figure that ol'dog is the new trick!

@jammer2 - agreed!! After that great HBO doc on 'em it seems too perfect to pass up, hope it gets the $$$ (pretty sure Comcast will get it instant on-demand distribution!)

IrishJim beat me to the puck!

I heard Zombie wants Bryz to play Tretiak