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Their value will never be higher!

Sigh. The question is what haven't they done. Trade Seeler. No justifiable reason to keep him. Trade Laughton. I know this one is something you can get behind. Trade Atkinson. This one is harder, so maybe they tried. Trade Coots. I suspect they tried because they didn't name him captain until after the deadline. I think. Trade Deslauliers i know, limited no trade, but he has to submit a 20-team list. You still have 2/3 of the league. Find a dance partner, Danny Jones. Trade Garnet Hathaway why? Some idiot GM somewhere still believes he's a plus. Take advantage. What did they do that contradicts this? Erik Johnson in the moment, at the time, there was legitimately no reason outside of the marketing department in charge of manipulating the clinically brain dead fans among us that this was remotely a good idea let alone necessary. This was brain damage massaging the oxygen-deprived brain damaged imbeciles.

So ultimately screwed up both short-term and long-term priorities. [The rest not specifically directed at you] First of all, i find it extremely hard to believe that this front office had no idea what was going to happen with Hart. I'm fact, I'll bet anything that the entire league did, which was exactly the ONLY reason Hart was even still a Flyer. They came into the season saying rebuild. They could have folded at any time and said, "we said rebuild, and we meant it" and to hell with the myopic Facebook crowd and frankly some here. Because between here and the parent board(s) it is really exhausting the past at least 12-15 years having the same damn conversation over and over and over again and the same morons (names change over time) pretending "yeah, but this time, building the wall with applesauce is going to work. I'm a real fan, and I have faith." To those people, one more time: no, you're a ####ing moron and that's your #### in your hand, not your house key. You're never getting home that way. Please, people, learn to distinguish reality from horse crap.

Kick a## and don't even bother with the names.

My "ugh" response is about the truth in your post.

@BobbyClarkeFan16 Except the mouth-breathers (NTTAWWT) on the Flyers' Facebook page.

And the season itself was entertaining to watch. Everybody wins.

Not me. I want nothing to do with that.

Well, I mean yeah. This is kind of why I said the jury was still out, but on the other hand he IS in the NHL and the second club didn't pick him up off waivers; they traded an NHL defenseman (YMMV) and a first round pick for him. But for me, the verdict is still out on whether using the pick for him there was any more justified or if it would have been better to just trade back for multiple picks. At this point, I agree the 2nd round compensation is better than either O'Brien or most, if not all, of those players in the next 10 picks.

I'd absolutely entertain this.

I wanted Sandin in that draft and was sure they'd go there. He's in the NHL, of course, but I suppose the verdict is still out on whether this is a miss.

This. Completely this. HE'S 35 WITH AN EXPIRING CONTRACT. WHAT THE HELL IS THE DEFINITION OF AN OLD WASHED UP DEFENSEMAN????

Why else would you trade a 4th for someone with an expiring contract? When I first saw the headline I assumed WE were getting a pick because Buffalo was trying to add cap space for some inexplicable reason and needed to get rid of EJ. There are no words for the cognitive disfunction.

Put me in this column. Dumb as hell.

It's top 10 protected. That's all.

I still watch these every once in awhile. Just for the heck of it. My youngest daughter will be 25 this summer. She still watches it on her own periodically.

Well, if you prorate, the problems become oblivious..

Matt Murray?

This is exactly my own minority opinion. No argument will change my mind on this. Not that there aren't Americans who enjoy it, but i do think the enjoyment is stronger in Canada. Give me world juniors a million times before this. I'm not as strong as you in dislike for the Olympics in general, though i don't remember the last time I watched a total of 10 minutes of any Olympic games. I kind of like some of the downhill skiing she sled stuff if I'm somewhere and they have it on. I appreciate the skill in curling but for me it's like watching televised horseshoes or cornhole. So, I really don't bother watching, but I aggressively hate the NHL participation in the Olympics.

I'm in the minority on this subject. Moving right along.

Columbus has a team?

Grand Master Baiter?

Great call. Fully on board. No more, no less. Don't want him to put a slapper into an empty net? Don't let him. This is hockey, not synchronized swimming (NTTAWWT).

I cannot imagine the justification for the Flyers retiring someone's number whose number isn't already retired. I can't think of any player -- and I've liked my fair share -- who is deserving of that.

Extremely good point.