FlyersFan4Life Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Homer looks like a smart manLook at the crazy money for players in my eyes are not worth it5 years $24.25 for CloweHorton 7 contract, $37.1 solid player but too many injuriesFilppula 5yr $25 millionClarkson $5.25 mill per season for 7 yrsRibeiro 4yrs 23mill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammer2 Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 @FlyersFan4Life Homer does not look smart. The cap hit is not the problem, it's the length. Talk to me in 4 years when we have a 4.5 mill cap hit scoring 10 pts on the 4th line.....or probably the press box. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 @FlyersFan4LifeAssuming no more trades........hockey-wise (meaning putting aside the contracts' impications for a second), on paper, this team looks better than the one that ended the regular season 2 months ago and missed the playoffs. No doubt about that. But I wonder *how* much better: considerably better or marginally better. I would think with addition of Streit and assuming this defensive corps stays intact (nobidy gets traded) and healthy, te defense also got better.Getting rid of that headache Bryzgalov and adding Emery to compete with Mason should prove to be good.Scoring is stil a bit of a question mark to me, though. Again on paper, the Flyers whoudl have enough firepower to score goals at will. But they struggled with that last season. I am looking for big things out of Schenn and Couturier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyersFan4Life Posted July 5, 2013 Author Share Posted July 5, 2013 @FlyersFan4LifeAssuming no more trades........hockey-wise (meaning putting aside the contracts' impications for a second), on paper, this team looks better than the one that ended the regular season 2 months ago and missed the playoffs. No doubt about that. But I wonder *how* much better: considerably better or marginally better. I would think with addition of Streit and assuming this defensive corps stays intact (nobidy gets traded) and healthy, te defense also got better.Getting rid of that headache Bryzgalov and adding Emery to compete with Mason should prove to be good.Scoring is stil a bit of a question mark to me, though. Again on paper, the Flyers whoudl have enough firepower to score goals at will. But they struggled with that last season. I am looking for big things out of Schenn and Couturier.same here. I hope Cooter and Schenn shine this year. If the D men stay healthy and play like they are capable of anything can happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 (edited) If the D men stay healthy and play like they are capable of anything can happen.That. This is why I think this perceived, alleged need to add more defense is overblown. They Flyers have plenty of bodies and, in fact, will go into camp having people competing for the jobs. They addressed the need of a puck moving defenseman in Streit and if everybody is healthy, they should be fine.And if Gus and Oliver show steady progression, look out! Edited July 5, 2013 by Mad Dog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doom88 Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 That. This is why I think this perceived, alleged need to add more defense is overblown. They Flyers have plenty of bodies and, in fact, will go into camp having people competing for the jobs. They addressed the need of a puck moving defenseman in Streit and if everybody is healthy, they should be fine.And if Gus and Oliver show steady progression, look out!Agreed entirely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idahophilly Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 That. This is why I think this perceived, alleged need to add more defense is overblown. They Flyers have plenty of bodies and, in fact, will go into camp having people competing for the jobs. They addressed the need of a puck moving defenseman in Streit and if everybody is healthy, they should be fine.And if Gus and Oliver show steady progression, look out!Come on Mad Dog! ?????? I thought the sky was falling?Lavy makes his picks in the draft and most flipped out but within 24 hours thought it was not so bad. Then he gets Lacav, the top foward free agent. Scream " fire Homer" even though they have NO idea what's gonna happen 2 years from now. He gets one of the top D-man free agents in Streit and addresses one of our needs in a puck moving d-man and power play specialist (as is Lacav as I call him). OOps! We need a goal tender. Well I'll be.... He goes out and gets Emery away from Chicago who seemed to have him locked up. Oh, and Emery was the top UFA goal tender as I recall without having to trade for him. All this and the nucleus is STILL intact (though a trade is likely). And finally, he locks up G for 8 years so we don't have that distraction and he knows what the cap situation going foward is.Yep, Homer is an idiot... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Yep, Homer is an idiot...Well, I still think he is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idahophilly Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Well, I still think he is.LOL... Well, I can respect your opinion for sure! You do know that no matter WHAT he did you would feel the same way? To short a contract? To long? To much money? NMC? Draft picks given up? Not given up? To old? To young? Not worth the money? Should have offered more? Should have offered less?, Trade up?, Trade down?, Sign the role player? Don't?, Big time Vet? Let the young guys go with it? Not?....ect.... The guy can't win. Maybe for you it's easy. But as they say: You can pls some of the people most of the time but not most of the people some of the time.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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