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2 minutes ago, brelic said:

Apparently Patrick deleted his social media accounts yesterday. Probably insignificant, maybe not. 

 

 

 

Such a strange shroud of mystery around his injury. 

 

 

Especially since he was participating in everything leading up to camp, and has been skating/shooting on his own. It's just weird.

With luck this is the last time we'll see Stewart and Andreoff. They have not been good.

1 hour ago, Podein25 said:

 

Agreed. Some of the people from Ontario, particularly Toronto and Southern Ontario, are such insufferable pricks.

Some?

One of the issues with the structure of the organization is that the Phantoms and the Flyers don't play the same system. Boston does, and you can see it. Everyone does the same thing, regardless of the level where they spend most of their time. 

50 minutes ago, OccamsRazor said:

 

The guy they claim has to stay on the NHL roster for 30 days before they can send him down.

 

I think that is not sure how that works since the rosters aren't set yet, maybe they would claim him and look at him and then waive him again if they don't like him. But Brennan is an AHLer at best.

 

I think they would take a guy like Prosser first to fill out a roster....just my 2 cents.

Not quite, it's just if they waive him within 30 days, the Flyers could claim him back and assign him directly to the AHL (assuming they are the winning claim).

3 minutes ago, brelic said:

I wonder if the Jets would take a flier on a free defenseman, Brennan perhaps. 

I have a Hagg they can have, but only if they promise to trade him within our division later.

Lazy reach by NAK when he should have just gone for his change leads to a pass up the middle. Bad gap control by Niskanen and Myers lets two forwards up the middle with the puck and a goal.

Andreoff is really noticeable. In the worst possible way.

Damn, Frosty how did that not go in??

To follow on, looking at their sophomore seasons, Chabot's offensive metrics are better than Provorov's, while his defensive metrics are worse, but some not by very much. I'd need someone smarter than me to parse it out. Like this:

2 hours ago, radoran said:

 

Well, exactly. I'd just rather see more and longer term production before going all in. And along with that, he just finished his second NHL season. 25 in 63 as a rookie and then 55 in 70 in Y2.

 

I'm not down on the player, per se, just ambivalent about giving a guy $64M guaranteed after two years in the league. Also, a deal they didn't have to make rightnow as he is on Y3 of his ELC for 19-20.

 

I get it - it's around the same that Hedman got from TBL right before he broke out with a 70-point season. Of course, Hedman was 25 with three good ppg seasons - and two productive playoffs - under his belt when he got that contract. And after the 72 point season, he then put up 63 and 54...

 

To an extent, it might also be a reflection of what they need to do to keep players in the "trainwreck".

Smarter people than I who have watched Chabot since Juniors think he is worth that contract, so I don't know. I honestly don't think I've watched an Ottawa game since he broke into the league, so I have nothing to base it on.

Chabot's a good young defender. You do have to consider where he played, and who he played with when evaluating his point totals, as well. It really makes evaluating this deal tough, considering the trainwreck that organization has been over the past few years. Is that point total depresed due to the poor supporting cast? Or is it inflated since he's getting all of the choice minutes that he wouldn't get with a more talented roster?

Looks like Elliott-Lyon in goal again.

Rubtsov in again, certainly seems to be making a case for one of the open spots. No Stewart is good. Ghost Myers is interesting, seemed like they wanted Ghost-Braun by how camp went earlier.

Giroux, Couturier, Frost, Provorov, Niskanen, and Ghost all in tonight. 

41 minutes ago, ruxpin said:

For whatever it's worth, my laptop hates you too. 

Checks out. 

1 minute ago, AlaskaFlyerFan said:

 

Why can't you watch?  There's a youtube link above that Digityman posted.

My laptop hates me. 

So since I can't watch, I'm watching the Leafs play the Sens. Marner skating around, goes from the blueline back down below his own net, comes out, and casually loses the puck right up the middle for Ottawa to get the go-ahead goal. I know it's pre-season, but it made me smile.

Don't tell my wife.

11 minutes ago, ruxpin said:

Does anyone know whether tonight's game is televised or streaming or whatever (and where)?

I believe it's on NBC Sports Plus.

1 hour ago, radoran said:

 

Speaking to that, wondering what Couturier will be down for when he comes up at 28 with multiple 30/70 seasons. One 20 goal and one 50 point apparently gets you $7.1M today (8.7% cap hit)...

 

I've been wondering about that, myself. With Giroux up at the same time, will we essentially see a flip of what they're making, assuming Giroux slows down and wants to stay a Flyer?

1 hour ago, mojo1917 said:

Saad 's payday was going into his prime years, the 'hawks couldn't afford him. 

So they traded him? I thought he left via F/A either way, he was a homegrown kid the 'hawks couldn't keep, the 'flyers won't have to think about that with Konecny .

Saad was a serious OS candidate. Hawks were capped out before free agency even started, so they moved him rather than risk losing him to an offer sheet that could have been very low on the compensation scale.