SCFlyguy

Selling high would have been before you signed him to the big deal.

Sickos; they should be shunned and placed in a national registry.

Yes.

You keep ignoring my question. What Stanley Cup winner had one of its two best players acquired as a UFA?

These threads are always so slow when the team loses.

Yet tucson83 keeps asking to sign a UFA superstar.

Who were the UFAs? Cause Binnington, Tarasenko, and Pietrangelo were all Blues draft picks and O'Reilly was acquired via trade.

Name a Cup team whose 2 best players were acquired as UFAs? I'm trying to think of one.

You don't have to trade him, but you certainly talk about it, and if you get say top prospect, 1st and 2nd (or better) you think real hard about it.

Keep the slobbering over Flyers draft picks who haven't done anything in the NHL yet to the prospects thread please.

Hm, what team has dinosaur management and a play style reminiscent of the pre-cap era?

It's at least a five year job from the moment they acknowledge this. Every year they don't pushes this off another year.

Oh, god, now I have to hear about Little Danny Briere's "work ethic" and "character". How come that work ethic and character didn't prevent him from taking a hooking penalty every time he lost a puck battle below the goal line in the offensive zone? I guess emotional and lazy is sort of a kind of work ethic and character.

Amazing. This is the org in a nutshell. I cannot imagine being this worked up about the legacy of Danny Briere. Did he take you into his house as a rookie too?

I would say the fact that Briere was taught by the morons we so desperately want to replace immediately moves him below candidates that have had some exposure to another org. It also moves him below many single-cell organisms on my personal list.

Briere’s on ice personality has a lot of similarities to Clarke/Holmgren’s GM style: impulsive, hot headed, dumb. One positive is Briere won’t be able to be called for hooking penalties when he is in a suite.

"Sir, I remember exactly where i was on 1/6. I was two steps behind the forward as he drove to the crease."

FBI needed to know where he was on 1/6 probably.

Paul Holmgren is so dumb he tried to sign Corsi to a 12-year deal with full NMC.

I've been saying this for years. I said it about Giroux. I said it about Simmonds. I said it about Couturier. The best GM is a GM without emotion. Who looks at the roster and the players for what they are, not what they want them to be or what the franchise needs. We got the best years from Couturier. Three Couturiers weren't making this team a winner. So you trade him for multiple shots at a player that will potentially be better than Couturier, or at least a player whose prime matches better with where your team is at this moment. Resigning him was gross negligence.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but I think you're underestimating Yzerman's draft/moves. They got two foundational players in one draft. They won the first Cup without that 1C iirc. The Drouin trade was a landslide win. The trade for McDonough and JT Miller was great and then they traded Miller to recoup assets. You're also forgetting Cirelli in the 3rd. Tyler Johnson as an undrafted UFA.

Sorry, I meant Yzerman. I always get those two Red Wings mixed up, lol.

And yet we're going to have a bunch of people here celebrating Fletcher's promotion, saying we have to "give Briere a chance" because he could be "the next Shanahan" (except he was no Shanahan as a player), not wanting to hear that Briere might not be the savior and doing everything but planning a parade, yet when the same things that have happened for the last 10 if not 20 years continue to happen and the Flyers continue to step on rakes at every opportunity they will be the first ones to complain and look around and wonder, "what happened?" I'm just going to say it: Danny Briere strikes me as the same type of hothead player as the guys upstairs and, like them, will make a bunch of big moves right away to show everyone he's the new sheriff in town, yet these big moves will only waste more resources (cap and draft) and will accomplish nothing.

Yeah, I'm pretty much "F the Bullies" at this point. We have fewer championships than Pittsburgh, Tampa, and Colorado, yet the organization acts like they have the Yankees' history.

Lol, flyercanuck with the receipts.