RonJeremy

Ricci wasn’t really a good skater and was kind of vanilla, I don’t think his skill level was better than any of the guys picked in the top five that year.

Well he’s an older guy who ,hopefully isn’t a big party guy to turn Michkov into a boozer.

I'm beginning to think part of the reason we overpaid for Fedetov is that Briere knew that Michkov was coming over and they wanted a mentor to help Michkov.

Konecny is gonna be looking for 8 million for 7-8 years, we are already stuck with a washed up Coots for 6 more years. I really hope they trade him. I don’t see them trading Sanheim who is our best all around defenseman, but if they did that would ensure a total collapse to the bottom of the standings. Just look at how they dropped when they traded Walker.

I remember the Flyers and other teams really liked Jags skill and size but were afraid of problems getting him out of Eastern Europe, then the Soviet Union collapsed and he came over pretty easily. The Flyers went the safe route with Ricci ,who was really just a third line center. Imagine if we had drafted Jagr and we drafted Forsberg the following year, if we kept them and didn’t trade for Lindros , what a great combo that would have been .

Maybe Michkov becomes like Jagr . If you remember that draft it was Owen Nolan, Keith Primeau, Peter Nedved, Mike Ricci and then Jagr. He was by far the best player, so even if he is almost as good as Bedard ,we are ahead of the game.

The only thing we can hope for is a guy like MICHKOV who was a # 7, plays like a #1 and then we have to suck again next season an be in the bottom five for a lottery pick.

Foerester is gonna be deadly on the off wing in the Ovechkin trigger position, especially if we ever develop a good PP . It’s easier to move wings around from left to to right, and vice versa, but trying to create a top 2 center from a winger is very tough, they gotta not only learn to take faceoffs, but actually win more than they lose and the defensive responsibilities are a lot. I can’t name any wingers who were turned into top centers at all. The best chance we have for getting a center is by trading TK to a team that has lots of centers and wants a good scoring winger. As mentioned in previous threads , nobody is giving up an established top two center for a RW, but they may give up an unproven prospect . Anaheim might fit that bill and I’m sure they would probably try and offer Zegras over McTavish. There are lots of teams that would want TK but whether or not they have a good young center to offer is another story. The other thing is to trade up for a center in this draft, Cayden Lindstrom is a big skilled guy, but I’m reading that a lot of scouts think he will be a wing and doesn’t have what it takes to be a center in the NHL. I guess we should go defense with our 12th pick and hopefully get Yakemchuck and then go center in the following draft or with the FLA pick, but at 28, it’s a long shot to nab a #2 center.

A few articles are saying Michkov is coming over for good.https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/philadelphia-flyers/latest-news/flyers-prospects-matvei-michkov-could-arrive-much-earlier-than-expected

Why would a player change agents when he is on his very last contract with 6 years to go. Hopefully he's demanding a trade, but who would want him.

He’s already had almost two full years of healing from other injuries, you can’t keep losing valuable development time early in your career and expect a guy to ever reach his potential . I hope he’s healthy after this, but he may be another Wade Allison.

I’d like to trade up for the big center Lindstrom or the dman Dickinson, if we pick 12th ,I like Yakemchuck, he’s a monster, he hits and is an offense’s dynamo and he’s a right handed. I’ve watched his highlights ,he looks great. If we go center then I’d go with Iginla, Im drafting bigger tougher players with good skill levels over smaller passive guys with skill. This team needs some skilled guys with size.

He said the scouts wanted Makar but Hextall overruled that, who knows if that’s true or not. Clarke couldn’t even remember Girouxs name at the draft and it was one of his only good picks he ever made.

Of course, that’s how the main stream media verifies sources. I will stoop to that level to justify my argument.

Where there's smoke, there's fire.

Late breaking information…Minnesota offered Rossi for Gauthier. So now we can debate on what we needed more, a center who scored 40 points or a one dimensional defenseman who scored next to nothing and was injured again. I haven’t seen enough of Rossi play, but stats wise, he’s the better guy at this point . I think center was a bigger need than another Ghost style defenseman.If we had gotten Byram than I think I’d have preferred him over Rossi. At this point I think a center would have helped us more than a dman who can’t play defense. Maybe Drysdale turns into Bobby Orr, but so far I’m leaning towards Briere didn’t make the best deal possible.

Yes , remember when they bought out Leclair and another big contract and then they signed that slug on skates Vinny LeCavalier to a five year five million dollar deal. They were and still are morons, maybe just to a lesser extent.

Yes , but high first round draft picks are given the rookie minimum of 950,000. We gave Fedetov who was a late round pick over three times that amount. That is very unprofessional.

Not yet.

Don't forget we are also paying 4 million to Johansen too. Is Bernie Madoff managing our salary cap?

Frost is developing into a good 2 way center, he will never be a #1, but he's almost a #2. We actually need another center in addition to Frost, trading Frost and something else for Zegras still leaves us with only one skilled center. Konecny is still the best bargaining chip to get a center, but I think we need a big power center , who is good on faceoffs and who has offensive skill to complement Frost. We need a younger version of Coots with better skating ability.

He was one notch above Claude Boivin,.Steve Smith and Darren Rumble. Clarke could really pick em.

They take head injuries much more seriously than in the past. In today's NHL Lindros would be unstoppable. Think about the headhunters/ low hitters he had to face, Pilon, Kasperitus,Jovo, Stevens, Samuelsson, Marchment,etc. There's very few guys like that today. As for Patrick, I didn't like that pick from day one. Then again, I may be wrong, there's a guy I see daily who's walking around brain dead and falling off bikes,down the stairs and shaking hands with imaginary people.

Remember Alexandre Daigle he could skate, he just couldn't do anything else. I'm not worried about the coaching, I'm worried about him physically holding up in order to be coached.

Yes he was on the trainers table and the operating room table,multiple times.