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On 8/1/2020 at 5:09 PM, CoachX said:

So do I

 

What were we talking about?

I was joking about taking the C from Giroux and giving it to Coots.

Also:

He won't. He's going to Minny. 

57 minutes ago, pilldoc said:

whoa!!!  4-1 Blackhawks ....WTH..... ?????  Smith being hung out to dry.

6-2. Hope the Hawks can keep this up in the short series.  

2 hours ago, CoachX said:

Team is playing good, and has a legit chance to do something special.  Making a captain change is just, DUMB

Sorry. I forget. 

14 hours ago, Podein25 said:

Finally, a thread devoted to "Big Ginger," as  the boys call him (they don't call him that).

 

He should win the Selke. I will be surprised if he doesn't. Imagine if he could actually shoot a puck?

 

He was always the leader this team needed.

Strip G of the C and give it to Couturier. 

Huh. Jagr captain of the Pens, and Fat Balloon was on the Pens...

SO I put on  the 5OT game. First thing I notice: Pens are wearing whites AT HOME! Why did that go away?

Second thing: Why does the Flyers' 10 best games DVD have the national broadcast as the audio? The best part of this game is Dornhoeffer yelling "Thank God it's over!" at the end.

1 minute ago, pilldoc said:

 

I have the Flyers "greatest fights" VHS somewhere packed away.  Goes from mid 70's up to ~late 80's maybe very early 90's when Lindros arrived.  I have some great donniebrooks between the Devils and Caps ......   Of course nothing beats that all time great between the Flyers and Sens ........ 

Somehow there is not a single game with Lindros in it from the DVD set (It does include the 5OT game, but he was still out at that point).

3 minutes ago, pilldoc said:

 

That seems eons ago ...... 

 

I love the the line ..... "the crowd is quiet! ......"  ahh I remember this game thanks for posting....

 

 

I have the "greatest games" DVD set. Might toss one of those on later.

1 minute ago, flyercanuck said:

 As mentioned, short term he has done well.

 

 I was extremely vocal about him blowing up what took Hextall years to build for a quick shot at victory but so far he hasn't done that. His trades have looked good in the small sample that we have...there's still 6 more years after this one remaining on his Hayes contract, so I'm not so sure we're going to like it then as much as we do now. I wasn't thrilled when he took York over Caufield/Newhook/Krebs but time will tell on that and it certainly wasn't a horrible choice.

 

 Compared to what I thought he was going to do, he's been damn good.

I'm in the same boat. I was afraid that the "bias for action" mandate would have resulted in some early moves that didn't happen. That's resulted in some of those youngsters having positive impacts on the team.

Watching this right now:

1 hour ago, mojo1917 said:

The other thing about it was Fletcher did the Caps a solid which can maybe be cashed in later when we need a solid. After Holmgren pulled the Shea Weber offer sheet, I think other GMs weren't willing to "work with us" as readily, Hextall wasn't really very active in the trade and Free agent market but I think he paid a price for Homer's earth scorching denouement.

I disagree with this here. Hextall wan't a buyer in trades given the team circumstances, but off the top of my head he shipped out Grossman and Pronger's contract for a pick and Gagner; Lecavalier and Schenn for Weal and a pick; Hartnell for Umberger; Coburn for a first and Gudas; Timonen for two seconds; Schenn for two firsts and Lehterrible... There are some great moves in there, which doesn't really point to teams not wanting to work with him.

1 hour ago, OccamsRazor said:

Was signing Bob to that huge deal a big mistake?

 

Sure looks like it right now.

 

6 more years left at 10 mill per...

Yes. I also felt the same about the Price contract. When it comes to it, if that's what it takes to get Hart under contract, I'd be more inclined to let him go. Goalies can absolutely have the biggest impact game to game of any player on your team. The problem is that goes both ways. You can overcome a skater having a bad game or a bad series. A goalie is much, much tougher.

If Gallant is available, I think he's the pick. Babcock doesn't seem like he'd be a fit for that front office. They're heavily analytics-driven, I just can't see him going there.

10 hours ago, Podein25 said:

 

Fair enough. I guess I'm less worried about those vets - I think they will bring it in as playoff game. And I feel they can get back to where they were. 

 

I do like sprinkling some young legs in among them though and I think AV will do just that.

My biggest issue is that Grant and Thompson in particular look slow. There's not much "bring it" you can bring to make up for that. And you're killing the potential contributions of guys like Farabee and NAK. I feel like as constructed, they built two fourth lines. Were it me, and the final 12 guys were coming out of the 13 that played on Tuesday, I'd roll:

G - Coots - Jake

Farabee - Hayes - Konecny

JVR - Laughton - NAK

Raffl - Grant - Pitlick

4 hours ago, Podein25 said:

 

Small sample and all, but I would say they looked like they had the same kind of confidence in their play. And in each other. 

 

With Ghost seemingly back to the form he had prior to getting the yips (or whatever the hell was going on with him), and with Friedman looking like he knows his way around an NHL rink. Well, suddenly we look deep at all positions (maybe not goal).

He did have two knee surgeries (One in-season, one during the pause), might have had something to do with it.

The bottom six worries me if they roll with Grant, Raffl, Pitlick, and Thompson. Those two lines really didn't look good to me last night. The main good plays I saw came from the two youngsters playing on the 4th. The top two lines though, looked ready to go, and even the 3 guys rotating on the 3rd pair looked better than fine.

I do think AV is planning on rotating guys around at the bottom of the depth chart during the RR, so some changes may be coming, though.

The thing about that second play though, was that Zamula recognized his error and went right to work minimizing the damage. If I remember that play correctly, the cycle died shortly after he threw that check. 

57 minutes ago, Podein25 said:

 

I didn't really notice NAK to be honest but it was a quick game, not a lot of shifts for him and it was very much an exhibition game. No real big contact. In a real game I look for NAK to be in fast and hard on the bodies of the Broons' D on Sunday.

I thought he had a couple of good forecheck shifts, particularly late in the 2nd. But it seemed like he and Farabee were swapping for eachother all game, meaning they each had ~7 shifts off between each on ice shift. Tough to get anything going that way.

But him being a first round pick makes it more important for the Flyers to concentrate on him. Losing Kalnyuk sucks, because he was progressing nicely and he definitely might have a decent NHL career, but the Flyers hadn't invested a ton of asset value into him. Losing York would be monumental. The Flyers will work much harder to ensure that doesn't happen than they likely did for Kalnyuk. They also have three more years, which would put Ghost in his 30s and likely gone, even if he isn't an offseason casualty this year or at the expansion draft, the old vets will be gone, so there's a much more plausible route to the NHL for York in a couple years than there was for Kalnyuk this year.

49 minutes ago, mojo1917 said:

this is maybe my favorite hockey meme of all time.

The freeze of the guy's face, the chyron, it's the reason the internet is allowed to exist.

The fact that it's the Pittsburgh local telecast

9 hours ago, mkscrewy said:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseGranger_/status/1288224384830672896?s=19

Also, I have no idea how Laughton got that puck up that far that tight.