Lindbergh31

Signing Emery to a one year deal for cheap and get rid of Bryzgalov would be great, especially if they don't go after Bernier from LA.

Well Jammer, if you throw enough **** against the wall (Flyers goalies) one might stick!

Hopefully Holmgren lets him develop this coming year with the Flyers

There lies the problem with the Flyers, no long term plan and better yet if they did have a plan actually following that plan. As fans we all know that Snider would trade his wife and kids for one more Stanley Cup before he goes to the big hockey rink in the sky so following a plan won't happen. So unfortunately, until he passes away nothing will change in this organization. I thought after the 2006/07 season the Flyers would build through the draft but they surprised themselves and the fans by going to the Eastern Conference finals in 2008 and the Stanley Cup finals in 2010. Losing Pronger hurt this team in 2011/12 and this past year but having a wingnut like Bryzgalov on the team is unacceptable. The bottom line is Snider and Holmgren panicked when Snider said that they're going to fix the goaltending problem, so they didn't do their homework in Bryzgalov to find out if he's the answer, they just gave him a **** load of money. Little did they know or see is the fact that with a little patience they had a young goalie right in front of their eyes who could have been the one if given a fair chance. Now they have to decide to buyout Bryzgalov this summer or next, personally they might as well buy him out now because he's going to be a distraction all season long next year and if he gets hurt then they won't be able to buy him out.

As Flyers fans we all appreciate how Snider will go to great lengths to do whatever it takes to put a winning team on the ice. What he seems to forget to way back in the 70's when they won their two cups, the teams were built through the draft and Keith Allen making smart trades not to mention the young teams in mid 80's that went to finals were also built through the drafts. Now that he's getting up in age, and the fact the team he loves hasn't won a cup in 38 years has clouded his judgement and he's making stupid, impulsive decisions. Unfortunately, like what happened in Chicago when their long-time owner Wirtz finally died, did the Blackhawks finally turn things around and look at them now, Flyers fans might have to wait for the same thing in order to see the Flyers do things the right way.

The media must love this guy because he always has off the wall comments. The bottom line is Snider and Holmgren have to do the right thing and send Bryzgalov on his merry way. I'm sure his teammates are getting tired of the this ****.

The only problem with that is the Flyers outbid themselves when they signed Bryzgalov to that big contract. He wasn't getting any other offers and Holmgren was dumb enough to send a draft pick to Phoenix so he could work contract out with Bryzgalov before free agency started. If Holmgren would kept the draft pick and taken his chances at free agency to sign Bryzgalov to a cheaper contract or signed Vokoun to a short contract to pair with the young Bobrovsky (which is what most Flyers fans wanted) we wouldn't being having this discussion. Aziz, ruxpin and others are correct, it's the contract and cap hit that the Flyers have to deal with, they have a get out of jail free card to use on Bryzgalov to get out of his contract. It's time for Snider and Holmgren to man up and admit their mistake in signing this idiot to this contract and get rid of him. I'm sure with the cap hit going down there are going to be lots of players available this summer because teams are getting out of bad contracts. Like you said it's time for the Flyers to stop going out and signing the big name free agent for the sake of signing him, it's time for them to sign players who fit their needs but don't blow their cap.

I'd like to see the Sharks win the cup this year, they've been pretty consistent over the last decade, it would be nice to see them win it finally.

The problem is if Fleury has no confidence how does his teammates have confidence in him to stop the puck, the way it's going the Pens will have to score 7 goals just to have a chance to win the game. I think you'll see Vokoun in the nets in game 5.

I see the Colts and Knights are tied 1 apiece, hopefully the Colts knock off the Knights. Enjoy the series.

Don't forget the year freeze on Nashville trading Weber is done July 1st I believe, so it wouldn't surprise me to see Holmgren call Poile to see if he's considering the thought of trading Weber then the Flyers want in on it. It will be interesting to see what Holmgren does at the draft and free agency this summer.

Leafs and Islanders fans are saying thank god for shorten season so their teams wouldn't screw up and go on their annual two month losing streak in November and December to take themselves out of the playoff race like years past.

Remember HF101, if Carter was a finisher than the Flyers would have been playing game 7 of the 2010 Stanley Cup finals instead of losing in game 6. He could score goals but was unable to score the big ones when needed.

I think Gagne could be one of the veterans in the leadership role for the younger players, he knows what it means to play in Philly. He understands the expectations of the fans which will help when talking to the younger players and he could replace Briere as the go to person for the French players on the team. He's got his ring so now he might be happy to finish his career playing in Philly.

It would be great if Holmgren could trade for Bernier because he's stuck behind Quick and won't get the chance to be a number one in LA plus if the Flyers get him then the Devils won't.

I'm with you, I can't understand this freakin team, they play like **** then all of a sudden they play two great games to move further fro m getting a top 5 pick. Their chances are slim but beating Montreal and NYR was nice but I still would like to see them lose the remaining games so they get a top 5 pick. The last thing I want to see is the Flyers to miss the playoffs by 1 point. But it's nice seeing the young players get a chance to play. Mason played great tonight against the Rangers

Well I guess it was a good thing the Flyers scored 7 goals tonight against the Canadiens to give Bryzgalov a chance to win a game. I'd rather have Mason as the starter next year even if the Flyers end up with a high draft pick then see another year with Bryzgalov in net.

I agree with you FC, these long-term contracts especially with NMC will kill the Flyers from doing anything in future years. The max contract length I'd like to see on Flyers players going forward is 5 years. Buyout Bryzgalov and Briere would be a good start to the rebuild, I'll be happy if they end up with Jones or Nurse as their 1st round pick. On a side note, good luck to your Colts against the Bulls in the Eastern finals, should be a good series.

If he picks another forward with the 1st pick I'll be pissed. The Flyers have enough young forwards to build with, what this team needs are defensemen. We can only hope that he has a game plan going into the draft regarding who he'd like to pick and possible trades. The last thing this organization needs is Holmgren going to the draft to make a big trade just to save his job and not think of the future. But nothing will surprise me when it comes to Holmgren and how he builds this team.

It's too bad that Snider's memory is going because he would realize that when Clarke and the boys won their championships it started with goaltending which was Bernie. They built those teams through the draft. Then in the middle eighties the Flyers were a young, up and coming team that had a goaltender who they let grow into the position and he led them to the finals. But unfortunately the 2010 run to the finals gave Snider and Holmgren a false sense of thinking the Flyers were close to being a serious contender which they weren't. Next they trade away what was suppose to be 2 cornerstone players in Richards and Carter for younger players and expected to stay being contenders which didn't happen, Flyers fans know that the Devils are going to be looking for a successor to Brodeur either next season or the season after that and Bernier might be their pick. I don't know about anybody else but I couldn't handle seeing the Devils and Bernier stick it to the Flyers for the next 10 years. If Bernier is good as some people think then Holmgren has to work out a deal with the Kings this coming summer since there seems to be a good trading history between the two teams. It's time for this organization to build through the draft and if Snider doesn't live long enough to see another championship then so be it.

If Holmgren trades Couturier there better be a cornerstone defenseman coming back. As for the Briere comment, I guess GMs are pissed that Sid the Kid made a call to Iginla before he was traded to the Pens?

Well the logical choice is to either trade Briere at the draft or buy him out. The same for Bryzgalov, just buy him out because 7 more years of him would be just to hard to take. Find a goalie to sign for a couple of years or maybe trade for Bernier. Holmgren has to shore up the defense through free agency or trade and Couturier might have to be used to achieve that. If the Flyers can resign Gagne to a reasonable 2 or 3 year deal, he will replace Briere as the "French connection/veteran leadership" to Giroux and Couturier.

Regarding the tanking, most NHL fans realize the Pens basically had an AHL team for some years because ownership didn't give a crap about the product on the ice. Shero walked into a great situation in 2006 when he became GM when he had the second pick overall and drafted Staal but he already had Crosby, Malkin, Fleury and Whitney on the team. I don't care what anybody says, the Pens were gifted Crosby in the 2005 draft after coming out of the lockout, the formula for that draft should have been 1 ball for each team in the league not 3 balls for teams that didn't make the playoffs in the previous 3 years -- every team lost big time in that lockout so everyone should have had an equal chance of drafting Crosby. So if you take away those "gifts" as Flyercanuck posted, then it would have been interesting to see how Shero would have been as a gm. Don't forget when he took over there was no pressure for him to win right away where as Holmgren doesn't have that luxury in Philly because of owner Ed's lack of patience. Granted Holmgren has made some good and bad trades, good and bad signings but as long as Ed Snider's impatience attempts of trying to win every year so he'll have one more championship before he kicks the bucket, things will never change as to how this team is managed.

Let's face it, Shero shored up his forwards and defense which were good moves but the question remains, which Fleury are they going to get in the playoffs, the one that played against the Flyers last year or the one who backstopped them to a cup in '09. The good thing for the Pens is they won't have to worry about playing the Flyers in the first round this year.

The only problem besides his cap hit is the fact he hasn't been the same since Lucic beat the crap out of him when he was playing with Montreal. But he'd be an improvement over Gervais or Foster and that's not saying much for those two.