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As someone who invested 0 in this season emotionally, financially, and with my time, I concur with this post!

Ok ok I know we missed the playoffs but tonight’s loss does have a silver lining as it triggered the below… To the golf course, 2023-2024 Pittsburgh Penguins, We welcome you!!!!!

Haha so glad you like it! It’s been so long I forget who came up with the idea to begin with on the old board. It may have been me or someone else. Regardless I did my part to make sure it ported over here when we moved and to bump it now and then on Philly.com and here. I’m thrilled both this and We Welcome You! (Created by Bakanekimiwa) made it here and live on today. Sadly I have to make an entry: Our 2023-2024 Playoff run, by the Philadelphia Flyers with a foreword by the Kate Smith statue in exile.

That would be great! We could finally get rid of him!

I loved him too and Lavi even said that he has a shelf life the day he got hired by the Flyers. Keenan was my all time fav but he was another one who wore out the players. That was likely hastened by the emotional turmoil caused by the death of Pelle. Even Iron Mike was moved to tears. “We lost Gump” was his famous line to his surviving players in the hospital as he cried.

Agreed, remember the Pens had been bad for years and were tanking for a few to get “The Flower”, Chernobyl baby (Malkin) and then were awarded horse teeth in a secret lottery after they threatened to go to KC. We had some good players from all our years of middling but it never was going to match their star players who were a tier above ours. That 2012 defeat of the Pens in the playoffs was delicious I have to say and was probably the last thing I truly enjoyed as a STH, it was all downhill after that.

I think he is the right guy if you have a team ready to win now but maybe this was the wrong time for someone like him for the current squad. With what he demands and gets out of players he is like a rising tide that lifts all the boats. Unfortunately this rising tide put the dinghies and rowboats we have currently onto the rocks and they are taking on water. If had some more ironclads I think Torts would be the right guy.

I tell ya, you guys are doing my wallet a big favor as these first posts make me not even want to explore a partial game plan for next year .

https://youtu.be/Kw0XnQPQbL4?si=NVPK8rDXUi5lb2vA

We haven’t had a viable plan in net since 1987

Well, at least the Phillies won, there’s that

Isn’t that just the Flyers luck? Curse of Pelle lives on.

I wish nothing but bad luck on the Sabres organization. I was living there when Pegula took over and the fans thought all that money would lead to cup after cup. That was so ironic since they kind of relished being the small market hard working team image and hated the Flyers for, among other things, being rich and big market. I tried to tell them money didn’t win us any cups. Now they are bearing that out. I’m thrilled the Canes and Sens beat them in 2006 and 2007 and they really haven’t been competive since and I hope the Flyers crush them tonight.

I’m pretty sure we all feel this way as fans because we haven’t had a GM who knew how to build a winner since Keith Allen. My favorite teams of the 1980s were built by Allen and then were slowly eroded / evicerated by the parade of fair to bad GMs since. To be fair the GMs since Allen were good at acquiring flashy players and talent at times but were lousy at building a team that could win in the long run. That is actually what they hired Hextall for but then they pulled the plug on him early and frankly as time goes on it doesn’t look like his picks are panning out as planned anyway. My hope with the current management is that they are looking long term to build a winner the proper way. It’s way to early to judge if they will be successful but similar to Hexy their hearts are in the right place and we are going to have to wait and see about how their long term plan unfolds.