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mojo1917

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  1. Keith Allen and the first go-round with Robert Earl, those were successful. That 80s team was my favorite, so borrowing from that culture would be fine by me.
  2. If I could get that tenner out of the ignition chamber I wouldn't bet it. I'm sure those words will be uttered...a lot.
  3. @JR Ewing We live in an age of hyperbole. Everything is the greatest it's ever been...blah, blah, blah. Sometimes this is true. McDavid is so much better than the next closest guy. Sometimes the greatness is close but not greater than. Sometimes it's people trying to sell ad-space.
  4. I am, because I don't give any credence to the Homer/Clarke cabal secretly puppet mastering the franchise into the gutter. There isn't a "what's the blue line for?" nincompoop in the GM, Chairman or President's position. I don't think the current big 3 rely on the doddering old fools at all.
  5. @OccamsRazor I think the Ryan Johansen "thing" is he injured? where is he going to go? could he be waived when he was? is ****** things up right now. FTR, I think Johansen's cap hit counts against the Flyers NHL cap so he can rehab- evidently a guy can't be waived and demoted if they're injured.
  6. Well, Lycksell can be counted on for zero in his 8 minutes. Maybe Ginning paired with Attard is the magic Adam needs to become a real boy. The ship is taking on water, I'm okay with it. A swoon will improve the draft position. It's all winning from this point forward.
  7. That looked like a man taking the puck from a baby. holy ****.
  8. @radoran My memory of being on athletic teams is there were definitely hierarchies based on ability, seniority and forcefulness of personality. My study of leadership through various points of my career has reinforced those learnings. If the senior, best guys are behaving one way, the junior guys struggle to have their voices heard. Especially if those junior voices contradict the seniors. There are intrapersonal dynamics working in all group situations. Because Couturier wore a letter while Giroux was the captain doesn't automatically make him a complicit acolyte or willing participant of the "for who , for what?" mentality that creeped into the room and accelerated once Simmonds was traded. The culture of the organization was damaged by Scott, Camillo, Fletcher and the folks who tried to "modernize" the organization without at least honoring the past. Gritty, as much as I like him is symptom A of the mentality. The rot starts at the head or words to that effect. I think it's too simplistic of a point to say, yeah, Coots was there so he sucks just as much as Giroux, and he should have stopped whatever was going on.
  9. Comments about Laughton are around 6:30. Still don't hear a guy thinking his team is built.
  10. Listing every 4th rounder who has done anything in the league doesn't move the needle for me. It just doesn't How many 4th rounders % make the league? Hint it is more than 10% but less than 11%. https://dobberprospects.com/2020/05/16/nhl-draft-pick-probabilities/ Oh, past guys have traded more assets for guys drafted in the 4th round? So what. Those guys aren't making the decisions. Those old guys still dodder around on the club level and are given office space where they've worked for most of their lives? Again, So what. At the end of the day Danny is the guy making the decisions. The team is in a position to make the playoffs, the GM trades one of the top 2 defensemen on the team, and goes bargain shopping for a player to help with depth because in the 2 weeks before the TDL- 3 defensemen hit the IR. These decisions aren't made in a vacuum, they're made in the messy real world by humans, the decisions affect other humans and not bytes of information. Danny is sending a message with the Johnson deal. I don't think he is only sending a message to this room, he's sending it to other guys that the Flyers may target via trade or free agency. Still, people lose their goddammed minds - because, because there is an 11% chance that the asset used may become an NHL player in 5 years? wtf am I missing? There is an 89% chance that guy becomes Wade Allison instead of Kris Versteeg. And Wade Allison is one of the better examples for the 11% argument, he got a sniff at the NHL- do we want him taking a roster spot? Icing a defense of Andrae, Ginning Attard, Staal, York and Sanhiem for the remainder of the season has a better than 11% probability of alienating guys like Forester, Tippett, Farabee, Cates, Drysdale and Poehling. Guys that are pretty good and fit a timeline for Michkov's arrival.
  11. @GratefulFlyers What, I can't support a post of yours with different information?
  12. If the team falls out of a playoff spot, I'll be disappointed for the boys. They've been fun to watch most of the year. This stretch of games vs the best teams in the conference is highlighting/bolding/underlining the gap in talent. We all see it, because we see it, I don't expect a quiet offseason . Falling to 15-12 in draft position and some luck after that could get them into position to spend to get a player they like if he's available. Seems like they battled again, but came up a little short. It's a better result than most of the recent games v the Bruins.
  13. I can't get that tenner into the ignition chamber. It's been tried.
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