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Outside of Brindy, I wouldn't credit the Hurricanes for any of them. If any are inducted (and I'd only vote for Brindy and maybe Barrasso) it will be for accomplishments elsewhere.

I can't get Fios here. It doesn't exist. So I'm forced to go with "not a monopoly." But my phone is on Verizon, so there's that. No sarcasm in this: I've heard horror stories about Verizon customer service. I don't often have to use it because I can figure out most things myself, but when I have they've been terrific. No complaints.

If it did, it would arguably be instantly better than Comcast customer service.

We've been trying to reach you concerning your vehicle's extended warranty. You should've received a notice in the mail about your car's extended warranty eligibility. Since we haven't gotten a response, we're giving you a final courtesy call before we close out your file and murder your whole family.

I'm really excited about this season. The flyers are in good hands and the Flyers will be exciting again.

Sadly for the Flyers, that would describe many goalies that would not require trading Matthews. Pretending the Leafs have to trade Matthews, they can get a better deal than the Flyers should be willing to do.

Agree with every word. I'd like to say Hart would still be an upgrade from Murray and Samsonov (maybe), but Matthews would be way more than the bargain basement rates the Leafs have paid previously. I have no reason to believe they'd start spending that kind of collateral on a goalie now. Fun to talk about, but 1) I don't want Matthews and 2) Hart doesn't get him.

You need both, but i think if i had the choice between great defense + average goalie vs. average offense + great goalie, I'd take the great defense. But it better be great, and I want an above average offense to go with it At the top of his game, what did Carey Price win? I actually always thought he was a bit overrated, but he was arguably better than Niemi, Vernon, or Osgood. Or Kuemper. I really want to say "build goalie out." Ideally both. But if I had to choose, then great defense and a goalie who will make the stops he's supposed to. Carter Hart is probably actually that and not the star goalie. As Flyers fans, we've been goalie starved for so long that "competent and can steal a game" looks like the second coming.

If I didn't know you better, I'd guess that was sarcasm.

Followed in silliness by this. Toronto will lose to just about anyone in the playoffs. Their core is flawed. They'll panic and break it up or simply fade without winning anything. I'm with you on your bias against the sunbelt teams, but it is what it is. It's great the Panthers are doing well. I like their team. But it's not exactly like their 17-person fanbase deserves the success.

That and being an original six team. And it's not just success, unlike Buffalo, it's about at least once doing anything of value in the organizations entire existence. Sorry, the above quote was just insanely stupid.

And if I was going to sign, it absolutely wouldn't be ROR.

Did you destroy both franchises by moving back?

Lol!

Nyet

Exactly. Which is plausible given the warm relations the Flyers organization has always historically had with the Russians/Soviets.

And preferrably on US soil.

No, but it helps to have the Kremlin-whisperer, Ovechkin, involved.

Fair. You know, I want to point at Lappy, and I think it's hard to absolve him. I want to say he was demonstrably terrible at the NHL level, but we also thought Hakstol was demonstrably terrible. The other thing I want to consider is how bad the medical staff was up until this past year. Relevant? Maybe not. But maybe. All reports coming out talk about how terrible it was. I mean we've seen the malpractice as it applies to several players and repeated injuries. But does this (i don't actually know; does it?) also apply in realms of conditioning, nutrition, etc. It just seems the organization itself was cancerous and made coaches successful elsewhere terrible here and players whose careers began with promise become increasingly terrible over time; some to resurrect once they move elsewhere. With both coaches and players, the resurrection phenomena is just too consistent to not think something here -- I'm guessing systemically -- is killing people's will to live. Again we're all responsible for our own performance--or should be. But something outside of simply players or coaches was (or is) rotten at its core. I think we're each talking about slightly different aspects here so I want to be clear I really do agree with your points. And I dislike Chuck, but I also agree we don't know yet about his picks. There were some I was "meh" about in real time that could still turn out well. Time will tell. If they do turn out well, it's not going to stop the question (an impossible one to answer): would they have succeeded had the Fletcher regime remained?

Drill instructors--and the military in general--have some more disciplinary tools available to them, but yeah. I know the ultimate responsibility is the players and your comments about society in general are spot on. But I think there's enough evidence at this point to suggest that our player "development" process is anything but. As a manager and a leader -- and as a managment culture -- you really can undo the skills and, in particular, work ethic of your subordinates. It's more common than you might think and not particularly new.

I've no idea, but I hope we find it soon because a Matthews trade would need to come with it's own lawyer ready with an insanity plea. Really wrong moment for Matthews and he comes up like a Fisher Price kid in the playoffs (and not the cool studly kind). Absolutely nothing wrong with bantering it about on a message board. Like you said, what else are we going to talk about? But Matthews would be an okay idea at the right time and a terrible idea with no upside and a lot of down in the current time.

Fixed it.

30 years between our last Cup and the end of the no cap era. Obviously, it was extremely easy to build a champion. Do you leave your house? How do you find your way home? You just string a bunch of incoherent gibberish together. Every post. If stupid posts hurt people, |we'd all be on ventilators.

Stand it or not, there's a long, demonstrable history of it in the league. They already have a team in the Los Angeles television market. They cannot allow the home attendance numbers in the 3rd largest US market to tank--not when there is already tremendous pressure on the salary cap and a significant problem with their television rights. They propped up the Devils and the Rangers for much the very same reasons. They did everything they could in Pittsburgh. The hole in the argument is Philadelphia, actually. I'm sorry, in pretend world that doesn't involve economics, yeah let Anaheim get what they, um, earned? But this is existential and the fix is clearly in. If it weren't, after how many years of way too many people believing this THEY'D LIVE STREAM THE ACTUAL DRAWING WITHOUT COMMERCIALS.