radoran

Never said he was a terrible draft pick. Said at 30 he's not needed for the rebuild. And, no, winning the IIHF simply means you didn't make the NHL playoffs. Again.

So a 30-year-old who hasn't achieved very much, is content with that, and is a favorite of a coach who has as many first round wins in the last nine years as the Flyers do is too valuable to trade for a late first in a stocked draft by a rebuilding team? Got it. Put your analyst on danger money, Danny.

He is kind of a poster child for being content on a bad team where he's 5th in scoring. Not "a problem" but not necessarily a solution either.

Bob was 1-1, 3.56/.873 against the Flyers this year. He's been unremarkable for several years and is being exposed in the Final after losing his job to Alex Lyon to end the season and start the playoffs. He's been better than Bryz.

They picked up a first and Rick MacLeish for Parent who they then got back as a FA two years later. To your point, they can realize assets for Hart and Hart can still have a breakout season whether here or elsewhere.

The Flyers traded Bernie Parent before he was "Bernie Parent."

When you tell a player he's not going to be dealt and then deal him, that's exactly what it is. But to your point, Hart knows exactly what the situation is because Briere laid it out for him - he's the goalie of the future unless a blow your doors off deal comes along. Which is exactly the situation you say they are in. I don't see the harm at all in acknowledging that.

I've come around on ol' Laughts, but I'd deal him in a heartbeat for assets in the rebuild.

I don't care if it bothers @CoachX - if there's a deal, he's gone.

I think being up front and honest about the situation is better than effectively being exposed as lying to the player if a trade does happen.

Fundamentally different than "not wanted here." IMO

Peak Fletch to turn 2/3/4 into a 3.

I doubt he feels that. He's got to know the situation. Briere has told him he's the goalie of the future unless a blow your doors off deal comes though. I think Briere has - so far - handled this well.

Did they hire Fletch?

If he's here he'll get a chance to suck before being waived.

To get LA to give up a 2nd and retain salary on Provorov. They can afford to eat his salary in the AHL if needed. LA needed cap space and the move opens up ~$3M or so IIRC.

I don't know why the Flyers would trade for Carter Hart.

They acquired TWO second rounders. Of COURSE the SHA hate it.

It's called being ona bad team. If you don't have a forward to make the pass to, you get stuck "not making the breakout pass." You are spot on that Provorov has his share of the blame, but it's also why a "change of scenery" (often to a better team with a better situation looking to add the player) helps players. And why the Flyers might have wanted to make a player development change much sooner...

I don't believe those three words actually go together. Welcome to Verizon. Can you hear me now? What are you going to do? Comcast? [Really missing the GIFs]

Yugo customer service doesn't exist.

I still need to see how they are moving with the roster before committing, but it's going nicely. If, after the past 12 years, they didn't do anything radically different, they were going to have problems. Still might. Wanna see what Danny does - and it's not just this summer.

Hey @pilldoc we really need to look into who keeps hacking @ruxpin's account.

Well, this: There's risk in signing any contract. But, again, signing a guy for a career-ending contract risks situations we've seen before in Prongerand Weber especially when you're doing it a year early like Voracek (just #flyerrelated). So, now we're looking at a former perennial Selke winner signed at around $7M for the next seven years with a full NMC who hasn't played a minute of the contract yet. It's not the biggest "problem" on the roster, but it's not not a problem. I hope he comes back and can be an effective NHL player.