GrittyForever

Nice! This is what you want going in to a new season. When they start losing, by all means we all dump on them, but not until.

This is a very negative place . I may have to quit. Are there any other decent Flyers sites out there?

Nobody said they were doing great things. But again, the past is the past. IF you have an issue with what they've done so far in the rebuild by all means air that beef. Talking about 10 years ago though is pointless.

No, it's not "wrong" but it's tiresome and depressing to keep whining about "the last 10 years". The past is the past. It's gone it's over. It no longer matters. There's no point in going on and on about it. I mean you probably should have asked that hot girl (or guy, no gender assumptions here) out back in high school but you didn't, so your life is what it is. Can't turn back the clock. We have won the cup. That's no longer relevant either. This is just now. Is what it is. Sure, I want to see things on the ice too. But you have to be realistic and because of Fletcher it's going to take time. We subtracted, we changed. So, if the team looks unified this year and plays hard, looks like a team, and the younger guys progress, and we are any amount of better than last year it's progress and I'm good with it. Positive just makes your life better. Try it.

Oh quit trying to find the negative in everything. This is a reboot/rebuild commencing with Fletcher's firing. So far they have taken steps forward from that pit of despair. A couple trades fell through but they made the big subtractions they had to make and they got a shiny draft pick. It's a start. Wait for something bad going forward before dumping on them.

What are you actually referencing?

We did okay. Definitely no Fletcher deals.

imo no maybes about it. Michkov was second best player in this draft and will be a star. We won this past draft after Chicago.

Right, but after Cellibrini it's kind of all up in the air. Not a deep (almost) sure thing draft like this year was. Right now 6 or 7 could be just as good or better than 2 or 3.

Still have to win the lottery. Doesn't guarantee anything.

On paper they might be the worst but I think Torts will have them playing a tight system that frustrates other teams at times and so they will win some close ones (assuming the goaltending is half decent). By no means enough to get in the playoffs, but probably keep us around where we were last year. My money is on San Jose being worst.

No matter what Torts does now, we can still say "at least he's not Babcock".

I only have one fact, which I laid out in my first post and that is that the "hero" in charge of Russian hockey is a good friend of our old time Czar. I can't believe they'd go in on Michkov without a good conversation between those friends happening. Also might explain why Michkov was so "I want to play in Philadelphia". He may have been promised things. Also might explain why he dropped past Arizona (who drafted other Russians). League insiders might know and everyone might have been told he was only coming to Philly. But this part is just speculation on my part. Speculation that makes sense and explains things, but speculation all the same. I have a question for anybody though and that is how do Russian tax laws work? Do Russian hockey players pay any amounts of money to Russia? If they do, that would also explain why Putin has no issue with big contracts playing here.

This is pretty much a subjective political opinion based on conjecture and unsupported by any facts. You phrase it as if it's truth or fact, but it's just opinion. There is no factual reason to think Michkov won't be here. Absolutely none.

Because Putin loves to have his hockey stars be stars here so he can parade them around Russia and say look, we beat them at their own game. If he didn't want to have stars in the NHL Ovi, his best friend, wouldn't be playing here. Michkov/Bedard will be like Ovi/Crosby. It's coming, it's real. Be afraid