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3 hours ago, yave1964 said:

LADY BING TROPHY Again, as in every year, nobody really cares.

Best and most inarguably accurate thing you've ever written 

And funny, too!

@yave1964

So long as they can find an empty chair before the music stops.

On 10/9/2023 at 9:55 AM, mojo1917 said:

Winning teams don't have a guy getting OJT as their second line center is all I'm saying. 

Good thing we're not a winning team, then, huh?

6 minutes ago, OccamsRazor said:

I'm guessing...

 

Farabee - Couturier - Foerster
Tippett - Frost - Atkinson
Laughton- Cates - Konecny
Deslauriers - Poehling - Hathaway

Brink

York - Ristolainen
Staal - Sanheim
Seeler - Walker
Andrae - Zamula

Hart
Ersson

Probably

But I'm really hoping for a Tippett-Frost-Brink line. It's on the small side, but they had a lot of chemistry and varying skills that seemed to fit together.

17 minutes ago, J0e Th0rnton said:

Kochetkov + for Husso?

I haven't figured out yet if Kochetkov is staying up. I've been completely off the reservation. I was actually looking to send you something and paused.  

4 minutes ago, Howie58 said:

I'd say he's taken. 2016--you begin to wonder if it will ever happen?  

Great point.  Completely agree.

15 minutes ago, BobbyClarkeFan16 said:

I get some are not happy with the Allison move, but let's face it, the guy is always hurt. If he blossoms elsewhere, good for him. But during his time in Philadelphia, he was always hurt. He simply couldn't be relied upon. I'm guessing this means Foerster and Brink are making the team.

1000% this.  I mean, the kid was fun in the 13 minutes a season he played.   But I'm not sending down other kids who played well for Allison.

I wish him well; I really do.  I hope his career and health take a good turn.   But it's time to move on.

That said, I hope no one claims him.   It's unlikely, though.

So, tonight is the first I've been on a computer since we drafted.  

On the phone, when I moved people to IR+ and tried to pick up an FA, it told me I needed to drop someone.

Not the case on the computer (still cannot on the phone).     The same is happening to me in NAHANA.

Phil cannot in NAHANA--it keeps requiring a drop for an IR+ replacement 

30 minutes ago, yave1964 said:

Calgary was so snakebite last year. IMHO their biggest addiction was the subtraction of Sutter ....

So much so that they'll subtract him repeatedly out of habit.

1 hour ago, pilldoc said:

Rusty …. I have never been a Atkinson fan 

I've been a huge Atkinson fan when he was in Columbus and thrilled when we traded the Muppet for him.  I don't know that he has anything left, though.  "Rusty" is definitely at least accurate, and maybe kind.

It's not likely,, but possible, that I can make 8:00 work. The whole week is terrible for me so I'll just have to autodraft.

It's going to be the same every year, the first week of October, so I need to reconsider fantasy hockey for next year.

4 hours ago, Mad Dog said:

if they are getting the last year's Markstrom, they will finish dead last in Pacific... yes, below the Ducks and Sharks, as hard as it is to believe. 

You're generally a bit more bullish on Markstrom than I am, but still very much agree with your whole post.    But I'm quoting this particular line because that's dead-on.  If they get Markstrom from last year, I just don't think it's strong enough of a team to overcome that.  I would guess they'd have to be really bad to be behind the Sharks.  Multiple things would have to go terribly wrong, but I think it's a stronger bet than that they'll be contenders.   

On the other hand, if Markstrom plays like two seasons ago, their defense holds up, and they play like a team enjoying the benefit of Suter being gone, then they're top of the middle and maybe good things happen.

1 hour ago, OccamsRazor said:

Worst team or not if Flyers can get a 1st for this would you do it?

 

2.95mill cap hit for the next 3 season.

 

By the time the contract is up Michkov should be coming over.

 

I'm leaning I would however the issue becomes someone like Allison would have to go on waivers unless you send Foerster down in the meantime.

 

Just something to ponder.

 

I would only do this for a  Wing's 1st and the Sens 2025 2nd.

 

Otherwise no hold out for a better offer.

 

 

No all day long.  Our first is going to be high. No way in hell I'm trading that for someone who will be gone before the zolotoy rebenok gets here.

The first rounder, however, will likely be ready to go when he arrives or will have up to two years in on his entry contract.

If we're trading our first, it needs to be Draisaitl.

EDIT:  I misunderstood. The first would come the Flyers way?  Then yes. Why not?

1 hour ago, mojo1917 said:

that dude's gripe shouldn't be dismissed out of hand, but we're all pretty decent people who remain cautiously optimistic.

Yes.  But that's the thing, we're all being labeled as negative because we dane to be even "cautious" because of over a decade of "we've changed X, so it's all good now."

I agree with pretty much everything you said.  But I think the attitude of "it's negative if it's not blindly rah rah" just reeks of  intellectual incapacitation.

52 minutes ago, radoran said:

 

I was just riffing on God making tacos.

 

Machete Monday leads directly into Taco Tuesday.

Who would know?  Because it's Tuesday and Monday didn't happen/doesn't matter.

1 hour ago, mojo1917 said:

not to quibble about scripture...but I believe it was the 2nd day...otherwise, how does one explain Taco Tuesday

Fair point. But it doesn't matter because it wasn't today. Today is all that matters.

14 minutes ago, radoran said:

 

Of course, my house a block off South Broad has been on offer as a destination for the parade since I bought it 20 years ago.

 

Absolute negativity.

 

So that means you've hosted several...oh wait.

It doesn't matter, rad, history resets when the sun goes down and nothing that happened before sunrise matters.

We all know that creation reset at the end of each day. I clearly remember reading in Genesis 1:14, at the beginning of the 4th day, God woke and said  "What the #### was I doing? Doesn't matter, that was yesterday. I'm going for tacos."

3 minutes ago, radoran said:

I made one comment about "winning the trades"

 

One comment.

 

Absolute negativity.

 

It's nice to see you're willing to admit it.

It's the first step in healing.  See you at the parade.

3 minutes ago, GrittyForever said:

You want to dump on the past cause it's easy

We also dumped on it as prediction and in real time, because it was honest and realistic.

Reporting the actual news may or may not be a waste of time; I'll let you decide for yourself. From my vantage, the delusional rah rah is the waste of time.

That said, I think most of the people you're currently arguing with are actually cautiously optimistic. That's actually a drastic improvement from the crap we've historically been force fed.   I mean you do you, but allow those of us who remember yesterday the same courtesy.

You're more than welcome to your optimism.  It comes across as Stockholm Syndrome, quite frankly, but you're welcome to it. If you can't take the realism and want to threaten to leave because some realism threatens your perception of a world of purple unicorns and Care Bears and rainbows, I'd suggest the Flyers Facebook page might be the place for you.

But just a heads up:  the world didn't just start today. Yesterday (let alone several thousand yesterdays) absolutely matters. 

4 minutes ago, OccamsRazor said:

 

LMFAO! (Honestly laughing with you, not at you.  That was funny)

33 minutes ago, GrittyForever said:

This is a very negative place . I may have to quit. 

 

Are there any other decent Flyers sites out there?

No. They all suck and have always sucked.  But have faith and be positive and try one, because their marketing department says otherwise and they have a goofy mascot.

4 hours ago, flyercanuck said:

Ya, we actually heard this from some when Fletcher was hired.

Exactly.

And when Hextall was hired.

And when Clarke stepped down...er...up...er...oh, whatever...

When Lavvy, Berube, Hakstol, Vigneaut...

And when each of the last (what is it?) 72 goalies arrived.

And one-skate boy.

2 minutes ago, GrittyForever said:

Positive just makes your life better. Try it. 

This is true.  Or, so I've been told enough that I believe it must be.

3 minutes ago, GrittyForever said:

No, it's not "wrong" but it's tiresome and depressing to keep whining about "the last 10 years". The past is the past. It's gone it's over. It no longer matters.

The problem is that I'm to the place of "show me."   

The reason for this is that when the Flyers have "changed" previously I was conditioned by literally 30 years of the variation of a theme of crap.     Coach X is hired but has a track record and I'm told history is not pre-amble and "see what he can do here!  He hasn't coached a game yet!"   Stunningly, history is preamble.    Substitute "coach" for player or GM and the same has repeated.     Or a player doesn't have a bad track-record but he's now way past his prime but signed for 25 year old money and expectations.   "Stop being negative!"   A year later?  The same person who told me to not be negative is complaining louder than I am.

No, I'm not always right.    It was late September 1988.   Some girl fell in my lap and I thought she was awesome.   I married her a couple years later.   30 years later, man, it kind of balances out all the times I was (accidentally) right!

I'm actually bullish on Danny Jones and am okay with most everything done so far.   Things I'm not so sure about, I'm only not so sure about--I don't hate them nor have a burning desire to scream, "this is going to blow up!"

Torts could end world hunger I won't like him.   But for the time being he's not even on my radar as a concern.   From my vantage, he's surprisingly right for the moment.   But winning the cup or even competing for it isn't on my radar, so it's patience time so long as things are heading in the right direction--and despite small nagging concerns, I believe they are.

So, I'm kind of in your boat about the "positive" but I don't believe the last 10(PLUS) years no long matter until they actually don't.    So far so good, though.

3 hours ago, NHL HHOF said:

 

Jamie Langenbrunner being inducted this year in U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Those lists get updated. Original posts can't be updated after 30 minutes. That's why I'm constantly posting new info.

Oh joy.

It's my entire "new content" page, driving actual relevant stuff either way down the page or not at all.

Your spamming truly sucks.

6 hours ago, NHL HHOF said:

 

NEW JERSEY DEVILS
HOCKEY HALL OF FAME
INDUCTEES

 

01. 1984 - Jacques Lemaire
02. 1995 - Larry Robinson
03. 1998 - Peter Stastny
04. 2001 - Viacheslav Fetisov
05. 2006 - Herb Brooks
06. 2007 - Scott Stevens
07. 2008 - Igor Larionov
08. 2009 - Lou Lamoriello
09. 2011 - Joe Nieuwendyk
10. 2011 - Doug Gilmour
11. 2013 - Brendan Shanahan
12. 2013 - Scott Niedermayer
13. 2014 - Pat Burns
14. 2015 - Phil Housley
15. 2017 - Dave Andreychuk
16. 2018 - Martin Brodeur

 

NEW JERSEY DEVILS
U.S. HOCKEY HALL OF FAME
INDUCTEES

01. 1990 - Herb Brooks
02. 1991 - Robbie Ftorek
03. 2000 - Neal Broten
04. 2003 - John Cunniff
05. 2003 - Jack O’Callahan
06. 2003 - Warren Strelow
07. 2004 - Phil Housley
08. 2004 - Mark Johnson
09. 2007 - Aaron Broten
10. 2007 - Bobby Carpenter
11. 2007 - John Vanbiesbrouck
12. 2012 - Lou Lamoriello
13. 2013 - Bill Guerin
14. 2014 - Brian Rafalski
15. 2016 - Barry Fisher
16. 2016 - Hans-Juergen Merz
17. 2016 - Shawn Chambers
18. 2016 - Brian Petrovek
19. 2016 - Brian Rolston
20. 2019 - Brian Gionta
21. 2021 - Peter McNab

22. 2023 - Jamie Langenbrunner

 

NEW JERSEY DEVILS

AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

 

01. 2018 - Glenn Merkosky

02. 2020 - Robbie Ftorek

 

NEW JERSEY DEVILS

WORLD HOCKEY ASSOCIATION

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

 

01. 2010 - Robbie Ftorek

 

COLORADO ROCKIES
HOCKEY HALL OF FAME
INDUCTEES

 

01. 1992 - Lanny McDonald

 

COLORADO ROCKIES
U.S. HOCKEY HALL OF FAME
INDUCTEES

01. 1995 - Henry Boucha
02. 2003 - Bill Baker
03. 2003 - Steve Janaszak
04. 2007 - Aaron Broten
05. 2009 - Bob Webster
06. 2010 - Art Berglund
07. 2016 - Bob Webster

 

COLORADO ROCKIES

WORLD HOCKEY ASSOCIATION

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

 

01. 2010 - Al Smith

 

COLORADO ROCKIES

AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

 

01. 2019 - Don Cherry

 

KANSAS CITY SCOUTS
HOCKEY HALL OF FAME
INDUCTEES

 

01. 1969 - Sid Abel
02. 2001 - Craig Patrick

 

KANSAS CITY SCOUTS
U.S. HOCKEY HALL OF FAME
INDUCTEES

01. 1995 - Henry Boucha
02. 1996 - Craig Patrick

You didn't get any responses the last several times you posted this because literally no one gives a crap about your mindless drivel.  It's in way of actual posts on the "new content" feed.  It's NOT new content. It's a repost of the same crap that was in the way before that anyone can find with a simple wiki search.

How about a list of your posts that had the slightest value.   Here it is: