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@sekke85

seems like the heart to heart he had with Daniel and the other team leaders had an effect. i like that he now seems like part of the team and the rest of the guys seem genuinely happy for him and his success.

He calls that move "the datsyuk "...

i wonder how long until people are calling moves... Girouxs?

that's why i said it fc

That was their best player Phil Kessel. that was nice . Didn't really notice him otherwise

@trevluk

i don't know his work in Dallas so, i cannot make a 100 % well informed argument based on that, but i would say based on his play with us so far he's been good to very good, he's given the team some muscle around the crease, doesn't panic with the puck and makes good outlets and little plays in the zone to negate pressure. i like that he's pretty young what like 26 ? ,about the same age of the giroux , read, jvr group and will probably improve, I think he'd be a good addition and would be able to join that core group moving through the years. if it makes sense cap wise i don't see why you wouldn't reward him with a raise .

for me it's got to be how much i enjoy having both talbot and jagr on the team.

those guys were great off season additions. i hope they both retire as flyers.

Fair enough Jim

@Irishjim

you're the goods buddy, and i like ya, so i'd like for you to define soft for me. because i really don't see a lot of what you have posted.

he's not soft on the puck, he's pretty strong actually to go with his skating abilty , he can ride an opposing forward to the boards as well as anyone ...

if you're going to come back with well he doesn't fight and doesn't cross check guys out of the crease after the whistle, okay his game doesn't have that physical edge, but he's not a sissy he blocks shots, takes hits to make plays in both zones... i just don't get it.

@ terp

I thought that was pretty interesting too, the last time i saw carle drop the mitts was against a Rangers goon (maybe Avery ?) and it was, sort of, to answer for a questionable hit as well as for carcillo laying out gaborik. kind of a; you hit our guy that doesn't fight, so we're going to get your guy that doesn't fight.

anyway i liked seeing 25 stepping up like that. makes the team look unified, unlike the way the sabres just watch miller get steamrolled. i also liked how genuinely happy briere was for bryz after the shutout was secured.

@greenman

took too long for him to get his act together to suit me, but i am glad he's playing well now.

I thought I saw he's a right handed shot...

that's nice if I am remembering correctly

wow confidence is a strange thing .

he looks like a completely different player, reckon he just need 10 starts in a row to find his groove.

he looks big in the net, not slow, seems to be in the right place all the time.

Okay, that's hilarious. Neither Flyers fans, nor Pens fans want their teams to play each other. Mutual respect for product on ice?

well the match up would be physically draining right out of the gate, i hate that team but they do take the body and have guys on the roster that can end an opponents season. who ever wins that series will be depleted in one way or another... even though i say i don't sweat them i know they can hurt our top guys.

rather have 5-6. don't care about the home ice cause the flyers are better on the road. ever since they stopped playing at the spectrum the flyers no longer have a home ice advantage

true that /\

@yave1964

i don't sweat the pens, of course i say that as crosby is getting ready to come back,so who knows how that will work out.... but i don't think they are deep enough to win the tournmanemt. they are a two line team and once you get past their top 3 defensmen the drop off is substantial also.

the key to that team has always been jordan staal and his ability to lift the scrubs he often had to play with on the 3rd line, and make them a non liability...his abilities allowed for malkin to be double shifted to crosby's wing on occasion when the pens needed a score, staal could move up to the second and lift those guys too.

with 87 back they become a tougher team to play skillwise but i think there will be a drop off in malkinstiens play with 87 back in the fold for whatever reason they don't feed off each other.

@MaineFlyFan

without knowing Bryz's mind there is no way to know what that behavior was about, speculation seems to only inflame a situation like this...

dude's been under a microscope since he's gotten here, some of it is deserved because his play hasn't been exactly stellar, but my opinion about that was nothing to see here move it along.

sorry if you took offense to the 8 year old comment, but i am not that big a fan of gossip and speculation; and would prefer a little less access to my favorite athletes, but today's sports reporters go for the sensational. what we're talking about here smacks of that unnecessary unpleasantness.

@MaineFllyFan

are you sure that the simmonds play is what bryz was reacting too ?

and this kind of she said, she said stuff is best left for the 8 year old girls....

again other than to say "so what" there's really not a whole lot to talk about.

ESPN is good at one thing anymore and that is promoting ESPN.

they suck.

I say "so what" to all of it, what those guys said to Ilya is private, why should we care what they said, or who said it.

the guy has looked really good in his last 6 outings, something has changed somewhere for the better.

why is this gossipy , 8 year old girl stuff news worthy ?

it's fing hockey not one fing tree hill

Even if it was a direct hit to the head (which it was) that's not the same as targeting the head. Kronwall is a good defenseman and he's making a play that a defenseman is supposed to make- seal off the boards there. Voracek has to be smarter. He put his head down and tried to get fancy. The only way Kronwall could have not hit the head is if he just stepped out of the way. I've been on the opposite side of almost every other hit of this kind that's come up for discussion, but this one was clean imo.

i shuddered at the impact and thought the primary point of contact was jake's mellon, but his mellon was down, there was no way to make that play and not hit jake's head. i thought it was a good hit with unfortunate circumstances. i bet jake never makes that mistake again.

also as i posted earlier regarding the knee on knee that ended jagr's night i'm really beginning to see a double standard when it comes to the flyers hitting guys and other teams doing the same. and that team in detroit gets away with plenty of unsavory euro stuff, punching guys after the whistle with their mitts (the chicago game saw lots of this) , a little extra stick work, really disrespectful stuff, that i'd love for them to have to answer for but the new league and the instigator penalty seems to say keep on keepin' on with that crap.

The problem is guys unless TSN or Sports Net up here make a big deal about the hit nothing will happen. The one thing I've learned from watching Detroit play is they get away with a lot of crap on the ice. I remember one of the teams in the playoffs last year really complaining about it. Now that I have watched them a few times lately I totally see it.

i hear you, Detroit is my "other team" going back to the bob probert days.. but man i'm starting to think they play dirty.

how about the knee on knee hit to jagr last night... the one that ended jagr's night. that was a dangerous & unnecessary hit there too, i'm not sure who made it but the guys was beaten and threw his leg out to try to "make a play"..

@aziz

it is interesting to me the way things are remembered... because Washington really put a lot of pressure on late in the game my take away was...we didn't play too well. the reality is we played alright, well enough to win obviously, but just like the way sugar ray leonard stole the marvin hagler fight by pouring it on in the last 30 seconds of each round my take away was different than the actually reality.

as a side note, i like pavel kubina and nic grossman, they are big and strong and don't panic, Kubina is a tough customer too, as of right now i wouldn;t mind seeing both those guys resigned to reasonable deals when the season is over in june.

@TedZep

Not sure I'd say stole the game, but he looked damned good. Here's hoping I have to eat my words of the last few months

really ?

what does he need to do ?

outshot 34 to 22

the flyers were not dictating play, were not controlling the puck, were not getting to the net. were only so-so in their own end.

they needed 30 to play like that to get the 2 points., that my friend is the definitiion of "stealing a game".

@aziz

you know your youtube playlist carries a lot more weight if you then don't say this...

you'd really like a guy who operates on a bit of an opposite harmonic, you know?

just sayin'.

Bryz stunk the joint up in the playoffs last year , i believe i have even said as much, but that phx team wasn't going to beat the wings they could play it 100 times and the wings win 99.

he's been good for about 2 weeks now, maybe it is the black pads who knows, he won that game vs washington. which was something we didn't see at all last year.

@Mad Dog

while i agree with a great deal of your post, i do think with regard to Bryzgalov "folding" in the playoffs, the coyotes were so overmatched he wasn't the reason phoenix didn't advance. they were outclassed in everyway by a superior team. you can, however, argue that if not for his steady good play in the regular season they don't even make the playoffs.

it would be disingenous for you to say "you saw this coming" no one thought he'd suck this badly.

as for 9 years, throwing Bob under the bus, no contest, the organization f'ed up big time.

That is an understatement. He has to be one of the fastest skaters in the NHL. Speed kills. Unless your name is Rico Fata, of course.

Gus also called up according to the Titterverse

do you think he's faster than harry z ?