AJgoal Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 While he hasn't been scoring, Read is still effective at driving the play, and is a good penalty killer. While not worth his contract given his production, he's versatile, and slotting him in on the 4th is a fine spot for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Knut Posted October 12, 2016 Share Posted October 12, 2016 1 hour ago, RJ8812 said: All I remember is the Flyers went "off the board" to draft him. When we could have and should have drafted someone like Maatta or Pearson. Thank God we were able to get Gostisbehere in the 3rd round. Read was effective for several years and a strong player. They brought him in as a 25 year old Rookie, right? So it's easy to forget that we're just seeing the years catching up with him. He's 30 now, which is by no means an age you'd expect to see a guy slowing down this significantly, but then again Read's been charged with all the same defensive zone starts as Coots for several years and was stuck with Umberger even longer than Coots. His "prime" years may literally have been eaten up by Berube and Umberger. There's a chance if he gets third line minutes with Cousins & Raffl/Weise we could see something from him. In the mean time, management seems to be happy with his "fundamentals" and defense... which doesn't bode well for trading him because who the hell is going to take on 3 million for Fundamentals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OccamsRazor Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 The Flyers made official yesterday that Roman Lyubimov, who will switch from number 60 to number 13, will be part of their actual opening night roster in Los Angeles on Friday. Jordan Weal, who was present but not on the ice for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms' practice on Wednesday, has been assigned to the Phantoms. That is a good number for him i hope he sticks around better than the last Russian to wear that number for the Flyers..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OccamsRazor Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 TK having some fun with NHL 2017........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OccamsRazor Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 How Boyd Gordon is here to help Claude Giroux offensively http://www.broadstreethockey.com/2016/10/13/13270076/how-boyd-gordon-is-here-to-help-claude-giroux-offensively “If you look at Gordon, he’s a specialty player. He’s a faceoff guy, penalty killer, shot blocker. He’s a guy you want out in the last minute of a game.” “Part of the thought process there is –- I told you at the time [of his signing] -– take a little bit of the load off of [Giroux] on the PK. G took a lot of faceoffs there in the right dot ... We want to take a little bit of that, the minutes, the effort, and that side of the game… what does that do? Hopefully give G a couple minutes of 5-on-5 more, which hopefully should lead to more production.” A good read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OccamsRazor Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Numbers Game: Top line shines as the Provorov-Streit pairing continues their great play http://sonsofpenn.com/flyers/numbers-game-top-line-provorov-streit/ I have to sit Mcdud when Gudas is ready. Manning has actually been effective!!! Man what a pass by Ivan.....he is only going to get better.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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