SCFlyguy

Citation needed. I don't see anything different from the last several years, other than fewer players I hate. That doesn't mean more players that are actually good.

Got him, Torts!

No

They got Fedotov out because he sucked and he got cut by his team. Michkov can't do it by himself. I don't want another Lindros - a star player going to battle every game with half a team of pluggers. They need to get assets now that have half a chance of being good when Michkov is in his prime. Waiting 3 years to get Michkov help isn't going to work.

Lmfao, this is the entire season in a nutshell. Absolutely nothing accomplished other than getting the worst draft pick a team this bad should be getting.

We had to destroy the season to save the season.

Yet there are plenty here who are against moves that make the team worse the next year or two but might make the team better in four years. It would be amazing if there were a word for moves like that when used as part of a coherent strategy.

The same people that are against the rebuild are the same people who can't figure out why the team never gets better. I'm sure there is no connection.

Helpful to what?

Well, yes, but what about the Flyers organization?

Maybe this is the turning point and it’s all Stanley Cup from here, lol.

You are just the weirdest person. There is no switch. The Flyers' points percentage is .531, while the Rangers is .688, a difference of .157. I could be completely off, but that would suggest that at worst that the Flyers would be expected to get about 35% of the points when playing the Rangers, which is winning about 1 in 3 games. (Someone please correct me if my math is off.) We are also talking a handful of games between them, so the difference between winning 1 of 4 vs. 2 of 4 is a huge swing. Maybe I will start a Grateful Dead thread where we can geek out on shows, because I don't get your views on hockey. But I'm worried you are going to come along and tell me the Brent years are the best era.

Think what they could have gotten if they traded him a year or two earlier.

Ok, I'm done now (no one post anything dumb I have to respond to). I will leave it at this: rooting for anything other than a full teardown at this point is getting in line for seconds at the feces buffet.

He wasn't. Just because one tire isn't bald doesn't mean it's a critical piece. Get real - this team has no critical pieces.

God, having to listen to this drivel all season was driving me nuts. It's one thing for the team to say this - they are getting paid to. It's another for fans to delude themselves like this.

Couturier was my favorite Flyer since the end of his rookie season, but I wanted him traded the deadline before he signed his extension (and said so here) because: he was their biggest trade chip to replenish their assets and start the rebuild (that still hasn't started); it was obvious his age, skills, and salary didn't match where the team was talent-wise. It's not hindsight if you say it ahead of time. I am going to continue to say this: trade Konecny and don't make the same mistake again.

Only Flyers fans can be deluded into thinking Crosby wouldn't have succeeded against them the last 20 years if we just hit him some more. Instead of being mad at Crosby, you should be mad at the Flyers for icing such crappy teams since Crosby has been in the league. It's no coincidence he has scored more points against the Flyers than any other team. If he were on the Flyers, you would love every minute of it, just like fans loved Clarke.

It would have been better if he wasn't here because the team would have been clearly worse and maybe the front office would have realized what they had (it should have been obvious but apparently Little Danny Briere is dumb). It doesn't really matter if he is here or not because he isn't a wizard who can turn rusted spare parts into an F1 car. He will be long gone (or be GM) by the time they are relevant again.

Yep, same every year. The same people get excited about the organization making nothing moves (bringing in a nobody, bringing up a middling prospect, or getting rid of a poster's new least favorite player) and think the organization has now figured out the new secret sauce that no one else has figured out (how to win without rebuilding). It's tiring.

They won't be able to get out from under the albatross contracts (mainly Couturier) until the contract is over. What needs to happen is stop giving out the albatross contracts. If they re-sign Konecny, he will be an albatross contract.

Yes.

The organization wasted another season and another deadline not doing the things that have to be done. The house has had termites in it for 30 years. You can put up wallpaper or knock it down and start over. The clock on the rebuild doesn't start until they do.

None that wasn't apparent on the first day of the season my friend. The only ones who didn't know it were in the front office and on this board.

But that Adam Oates playoff run (5 games) really taught the young players all about the playoffs.