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HansonBros17

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  1. Sam Carchidi and Sarah Baicker have Gus starting, articles below..... http://www.csnphilly.com/hockey-philadelphia-flyers/skate-update-hal-gill-out-erik-gustafsson http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/sports/flyers/For-Flyers-Gus-is-in-Gill-out-in-Game-6.html
  2. Who knew Akeson could contribute the way he has and look so solid after playing only a couple regular season games? For what Rinaldo has contributed so far this series, you lose nothing giving Laughton a shot.
  3. I agree about Rinaldo sitting if Laughton were activated, that's why I said "If Laughton is in the lineup, I vote for Rinaldo to sit based on his performance so far this series," a few posts ago. However, I disagree about goon hockey being over because it's the playoffs. If it is, someone forgot to tell Brent Seabrook, Matt Cooke, Antoine Roussel, Steve Ott, Ryan Garbutt (speared Corey Perry in the groin), Milan Lucic (slashed Danny DeKeyser in the groin). If anything, play seems to have gotten nastier since the playoffs started, and our little ball of hate, Rinaldo, is Mr. Nice Guy all of a sudden. Maybe game 5 will be different.
  4. I'm pretty sure Rinaldo didn't commit any penalties in game 4. In fact, it looks like he only has two PIM this series. He got two minutes for slashing with three minutes left in game one when the flyers were already down 4-1 and the refs were calling everything to "keep the game under control." He's been very tentative and cautious this series so far, I'd like to see the Rinaldo I saw during the regular season who hits everything with a pulse ...not like Richards/Carter/Upshall old city style but you know, out there on the ice.
  5. Gill played well when inserted into the lineup against PIT and CAR late in the season. He was a +1 in each game. I just hope he's able to keep pace with the nimble NY forwards.
  6. Hall kills penalties and is great on faceoffs. His FO% through 4 games in the playoffs is 57.8%. Only Giroux is better with 60.3%. Hall won an important faceoff in the flyers zone at the end of the game 4 last night. Akeson had another great game last night. And he only played 8:47. Rinaldo played 6:33, a little over two minutes less, and I barely noticed him...again. Rinaldo has been invisible these last four games. Maybe he's being cautious and not throwing the big hits because he doesn't want to get called for a penalty and put his team a man down, but if Zack's not hitting, he may as well not be playing. If Laughton is in the lineup, I vote for Rinaldo to sit based on his performance so far this series.
  7. I think Gustafsson would be the better choice because of his speed and superior defensive awareness, the kid's rarely out of position. I like the idea of Gill pasting a few rangers forwards against the boards but I also could see Zuccarello or Hagelin or St Louis or anyone with above average speed skating right past him like he was Mike Rathje out there.
  8. From phily.com: "The only update the Flyers provided was Grossmann left the game with a "lower-body" injury. He will be re-evaluated by team doctors today. Grossmann, 29, regularly wears a knee brace on each leg under his equipment. If Grossmann cannot play tomorrow, healthy scratches Erik Gustafsson, Hal Gill and Oliver Lauridsen are available." So basically, no news yet.
  9. From Wikipedia: "(On) June 2, Yankee manager Miller Huggins started (Lou) Gehrig in place of regular first baseman Wally Pipp. Pipp was in a slump, as were the Yankees as a team, so Huggins made several lineup changes to boost their performance, replacing Pipp, Aaron Ward, and Wally Schang.[34] Fourteen years later, Gehrig had played 2,130 consecutive games." Maybe Mason is our Wally Pipp? ...but that would make Emery our Lou Gehrig. Hey, anything's possible.
  10. Deserve's got nothing to do with it. http://youtu.be/dpDkYZWeeVg Mason starts.
  11. Emery played well in game two, but Mason gives the team a better chance to win. Once healthy, Mason gets the start.
  12. James Neal Suspension Announcement...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9lNsWQMhuc
  13. Bryzgalov cant find work? Next thing you know he'll be on welfare and food stamps living in philly ghettos. http://deadspin.com/ilya-bryzgalov-talks-philly-ghettos-welfare-queens-an-506623110
  14. @ruxpin Not saying that Tye McGinn is the next Patrick Sharp or Sergei Bobrovsky, but why must the Flyers always do this with their good young players/prospects? If Holmgren gets good return in trade that's one thing, but I don't want to see this kid be a throw in. He's only 22 and played well on the flyers top lines this past season. If there's not a spot open now, there will be in the next year or two. Guys get hurt, he'll get an opportunity. Unless we get equal value coming back, keep McGinn - no more Matt Ellison thank you.
  15. "The Flyers have coveted everybody for quite some time, and could be willing to part with anybody in order to acquire everybody." EVERYBODY could make the Flyers Cup favorites, but I wouldn't want to part with ANYBODY, that seems like too high a price. Good find @OccamsRazor, nice spoof.
  16. Red Wings also selected Vladimir Konstantinov that year in the ELEVENTH ROUND - 221st overall. Quite a draft for Detroit that year.
  17. About half those guys have won the Cup, a couple of them even won it while a part of the Flyers. But I suppose @Polaris922 meant they hadn't won a Cup while they were CAPTAIN of the Flyers. Am I helping? lol
  18. Don't be ridiculous Burger... You can't wear your O&B glasses to the course, you'd lose the ball as soon as you drove it off the tee!
  19. @Polaris922 What Crosby DESERVED was a penalty shot as he was robbed of a clear break away and what was sure to be the game winning goal, but all the Pens were awarded was a 2-minute power play. Fortunately, they converted and justice was served. Man, I really need to figure out where I left those O&B glasses.
  20. A wide open shot? If Crosby was wide open how was anyone close enough to hold him? An 80% chance or more of Crosby scoring the game winner right then and there? When Crosby spins off the boards he takes one hand off his stick to fend off the d-man, so yes Crosby is about ten to fifteen feet from the net when he flops, but he's also one step off the goal line with only one hand on his stick. In today's NHL what would a smart player do if he's driving the net from a bad angle, covered by a defender, has only one hand on his stick, and knows he's not going to score? What Crosby did - fall down and maybe draw a penalty. Welcome to FIFA, I mean todays NHL. But I suppose this is all moot since I'm still wearing my orange and black glasses, I'll just take those off and.... OH THATS SO MUCH BETTER!!! I can't believe Strait only got two minutes when he tackled Crosby like that, that should have been five and a game for intent to injure. Speaking of intent to injure, how was Craig Berube not banned for life after his vicious, premeditated attack on Kevin Collins? Baffling. Almost as baffling as the reaction of all the homers on here to this alleged Letang Crosscheck. It's quite obvious the linesman skated into Letang's outstretched stick. Speaking of a stretch.......
  21. It's not a secret that players "sell calls" or "dive". It's a shame to see especially when it costs hard-working teams games or even playoff series. Like in game 3 Pens v Isles - Crosby falls to the ice "selling" a holding call in OT putting the Pens on the PP yet again where Kunitz scores the game-winning PP goal. Pens win 5-4. Three of the Pens five goals in game 3 were PP goals, one of which was a 5 on 3 man adv PP goal. That's a lot of "selling".
  22. We still have our second round pick?? I thought Homer traded that to Tony Luke's for a sandwich.
  23. @jammer2 It doesn't seem like Paul Holmgren's too concerned with being respected by his peers when he does things like sign Shea Weber to a huge front-loaded offer sheet, knowing that it would be crippling to a small-market team like Nashville to match. Although he certainly was trying to do what was best for the Flyers. Even if the Flyers were to end up with the 1st overall pick those idiots would probably take a center or wing - the Flyers rarely take defenseman before the third round. This is a big reason the current defense is in such poor shape, like goaltending, defense is ignored - a barely serviceable corps is available because of the occasional Holmgren trade. And that leads to another big reason we can't draft a franchise defenseman - you must refrain from trading away your 1st and/or 2nd round pick every year for that "missing piece". Someone needs to tell the front office they're allowed to select a defenseman in the first couple rounds of the draft. This is a list of defensemen the Flyers have drafted before round three in the last ten years: 2008 - Luca Sbisa (1st round) 2007 - Kevin Marshall (2nd) 2006 - Michael Ratchuk (2nd) 2006 - Denis Bodrov (2nd) .......that's it.......
  24. Sure, if the right players/picks are offered. Somebody traded Eric Lindros away on draft day for the right trade package, right?
  25. That was it looks like. Who will be shut down next: Voracek? Simmonds? Giroux?
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