flyers website hacked with a VLC Trade

[Irishjim]

 

I know this is a trade we'd all love but its funny anyway..kudos to the hackers

[jammer2]

@Irishjim  Good Lord, what a cruel joke!!  If you're gonna take the time to hack an account like that and face criminal prosecution, at least make the trade believable...ha ha.

[FD19372]

I thought maybe they setup an auction for him. The Lecavalier must go sale, sponsored by Filene's Basement. Sell Mortimer!!! Sell!!!  They'll be lucky to get a 4th round pick for him at this point.

[RiskyBryzness]

Imagine our shock tomorrow when this trade actually goes down.

[FD19372]

Vincent Lecavalier for Scotty Upshall!

[ruxpin]

I'd trade him for a Klondike Bar

[FD19372]

I'd trade him for a Klondike Bar

I'd trade him for a pre-chewed Klondike Bar.

[LegionOfDoom]

Whaaat would you do for a Vinny trade...

[DaGreatGazoo]

So...what was the trade??  

[DaGreatGazoo]

Nevermind....the screen shot didn't pop up on my phone right away.

[J0e Th0rnton]

For Eberle lol. That must have been a nasty let down when found out it was fake.

 

Kudos to the Hackers.

[ruxpin]

Did this really happen? I can't find it reported anywhere else

[murraycraven]

Did this really happen? I can't find it reported anywhere else

 

I was looking too rux and cant find it either...   funny as hell if it is true though!

[Irishjim]

Did this really happen? I can't find it reported anywhere else

here's your sign

[King Knut]

Yes.  But honestly, Umberger and Read are hurting the team and turning in worse efforts on a nightly basis.  I'd sooner see either of them gone than Vinny at this point. 

 

 

I thought maybe they setup an auction for him. The Lecavalier must go sale, sponsored by Filene's Basement. Sell Mortimer!!! Sell!!!  They'll be lucky to get a 4th round pick for him at this point.

[DaGreatGazoo]

But honestly, Umberger and Read are hurting the team and turning in worse efforts on a nightly basis.  I'd sooner see either of them gone than Vinny at this point. 

 

Politely and strongly disagree....Read has been terrible no doubt.  But he's also 28, and almost a million/year cheaper than VLC, and could return to form(or could even be injured).

 

VLC is past his prime, appears to have lost his game/confidence completely and has never "fit" on the Flyers roster.   

[Poulin20]

I hated VLC when he was on Tampa as he killed us back then and I still hate him today as he continues to kill us as a member of the Flyers 

[Mad Dog]

Both funny and sad... Poor Flyers fans... they want to see VLC gone sooooooo bad that they start going that far. I wonder what The Old Man's reaction was (or would be) when he sees this. lol

[Adamflyers]

I'd trade him for a Klondike Bar

Would have been funnier and far more believable if that is what the hackers had put!

[pilldoc]

I hated VLC when he was on Tampa as he killed us back then and I still hate him today as he continues to kill us as a member of the Flyers 

 

agree with @Mad Dog ..that is both funny and sad and yet the solid truth. Only in Flyerland can this happen.

[King Knut]

Well I think we can agree that we want all of them gone.

 

but respectfully, from my POV, do we have any reason to believe Read is injured?

Vinny is clearly past his prime, but I see a lot of effort in the guy.  Often more effort than many others on the team incuding Read.  Vinny is clearly embarrassed by the state of affairs in his game and his career.  Read looks like if he never played hockey again he wouldn't care.  Same with Umberger.

 

I honestly believe that if we had a coach who had any interest in figuring out how to utilize the skill sets he has out there, VLC would be a decently contributing member of the team.   Decently enough to merit his contract?  Probably not.

 

Read and VLC are both gone the same year contract wise.  I don't think we'd have any trouble convincing Vinny to waive that ridiculous NMC.

 

I cede your point about Read being 28.  But in some ways it makes it worse to me that the 28 year old 
should be in his prime" guy is being out hustled nightly by the "over the hill, past his prime" guy.

 

Maybe at the end of the season Vinny can just fake a concussion and we can LTIR him for the next 3 years like we're doing with Pronger.  I think there's an open LTIR slot right?

 

 

 

Politely and strongly disagree....Read has been terrible no doubt. But he's also 28, and almost a million/year cheaper than VLC, and could return to form(or could even be injured).



VLC is past his prime, appears to have lost his game/confidence completely and has never "fit" on the Flyers roster.

[Podein25]

...Vinny can just fake a concussion and we can LTIR him for the next 3 years like we're doing with Pronger...

 

 

Clearly you are a creative problem solver! If only it didn't basically amount to insurance fraud...

[Mad Dog]

One thing I will say - without trying to sound like VLC's apologist - he at least seems to be trying.  He just really, physically unable to play anymore.  He tries to push and can't.  I even almost feel sorry for him...

 

Read, on the other had, seems to have checked out.  I am not sure why, but I am seing a complete transformation of a player who appeared well on his way to being a solid player the last few years (many of us, myself included, even forecasted stardom and compared him to Bobby Ryan..... remember?) to a total waste of a roster spot.  I was at the Columbus game on 11/22 and I am telling you that the guy just doesn't seem to be even remotely interested in trying.  Why?  I really have no idea, but wish I had.  I have to speculate something happened in the summer, because, again, I am seing a totally different player. 

[RonJeremy]

Maybe he spent the summer at training with Jerry Sandusky

[ruxpin]

@Mad Dog

 

Does anyone know if Read is hurt?   I ask because your description of him is dead on, and it's the only straw I can grasp at.