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@mojo1917 - just FYI, your account may have been hacked...

Bryzgalov is a compliance buyout with no cap penalty. They just keep paying him $1.6M a year. They're not retaining salary on anyone (*cough* JVR *cough*) Tony Deangelo doesn't mean anything for next season. If getting his space back helps after next season, no reason not to do it (now, offseason, trade deadline, whenever).

That's the same thing with the retain salary. Keep 50% of TDA and gain $2.5M in cap space and maybe an asset. If you need it. So many things to be done not "just to do them" but if they make the team better. Not for example taking a 1st, 3 2nds, a 3rd, and a 4th to turn Gotstobethere and Hagg into Ristolainen and Deangelo. (That said, getting rid of TDA should be a net "plus" regardless )

This is it exactly. You don't need to do anything with them, of course it's also likely that they don't do anything (if history is a guide). They have three more seasons of the second line center they had to have three years ago. They have eight more seasons of a guy they didn't need to re-sign when they did. They have four more years of a guy being paid like a top four that they hope can be an effective bottom pair. Two more of a former foundational D piece that they now can't find anything to do with. They have three more seasons of a 32-year-old goon and a 28-year-old who's just happy as heck to be playing long term on a team that hasn't made the playoffs in three years. They have almost $20M in three 30+ year old guys on IR. They're still paying Bryzgalov for four more years (this doesn't have much to do with anything as it doesn't cost them against the cap, but, still, I mean... #halloffame) This is just all indicative of an organization* that has followed no long term plan to develop since... The Hartnell/Timonen trades and the Briere signing? 16 Years ago?

Would you give a pick or a prospect for a 25-year-old that can't stay healthy? 'cause I wouldn't. I like Allison fine, but sometimes at 25 you've pretty much seen what a guy can do in this league.

I don't speak for FC, but I don't think we know where they are in a rebuild until we know what they get on the draft. That said, I don't think Konecny needs to be moved, as much as could be moved if the return blows you away. If the ping pong ball drops in the Flyers' favor *cough* then all bets are off. TK is exactly the kind of winger I want to give a young center.

You're not going to go all in on all of the D's right next to each other up there? Sounds like something you'd watch...

"What Not To Do: a What I Saw novel by Danny Briere"

Definitely a playoff team.

And doesn't count the past ten years! Winning!

Just to be clear, the Flyers are starting Year One of the rebuild...

I got a new hat.

I didn't need that hat

I wouldn't mind Forsberg and Timonen as Senior Hockey Advisors, providing they are the most Senior advisors on staff... Boreanaz would likely be the Ryan Reynolds of the franchise. Perchance to dream...

He a 10% owner in the Sixers and Devils, partner in HSE which is Josh Harris' outfit that owns majority in both. I could see him wanting his own pool to splash around in.

(I had seen that elsewhere ) That's David Adelman. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Adelman Not sure how being a partner in an organization that owns another NHL team works out, but happy to learn.

Much like Chris Drury (who you seem to have forgotten), he'll be rooting for the team that currently employs him. Not the one that wouldn't even bother to offer him an extension.

Hey, they just need to finance a $1.25B purchase from a company that is making money hand over fist on their investment. Should be pretty simple. Boreanaz has an estimated net worth of ~$70M Timonen ~$44M Forsberg ~$54M So unknown guy on the right better be good for about a billion or so.

If Bedard is on the Flyers you are not even allowed to begin to consider the remotest possibility of ever - eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - having him on your FHL squad(s). Period.

So you're saying they should get Matthews? My point would be that the Flyers' rebuild takes on a different character with Bedard. And keeping Hart with Bedard makes a ton of sense.

Right, but if they wind up getting Bedard, then a trade for Matthews becomes superfluous, for example. And the Leaes aren't "over a barrel" capwise... yet...

He's a friggin' Leae

Guys who have been part of a losing organization for their entire careers, have been on the roster while the whole of team culture has degraded to the point that no one recognizes it any more, who "want to be here," and are now seen as fundamental building blocks for the future? Good times.

Don't give me a guy who scores .62 goals per game. I'm used to "legendary" players who score .28 goals per game. And, I mean, why get a guy who has scored 30+ in each of seven seasons he's been in the league when you have had "legendary" performers who scored 25+ five times in 14 years (and hit 30, once! no, really!)? Despite appearances to the contrary, I'm not a huge Auston Matthews fan but the guy has hockey talent for miles past what we've seen in Philadelphia in the 21st Century. I'm not sure Flyers fans really remember what it means to have that sort of a performer on your squad.

I don't think Hart gets "shopped" but he could get "offered" in the right circumstances. They're not trying to ditch Hart. They don't need to get rid of him. He's not "a problem." He's just a very valuable piece that could land another valuable piece or pieces. Nothing is going to happen until they find out what the draft brings and whether Briere gets the "interim" taken off (I mean, seriously, of course they are going to do that).