CoachX Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 We have a Patrick sighting! Woo Hoo! Thats as rare as a three pecker billy goat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzeke Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Wow! Put Sam Morin on the 1st line! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachX Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, Zzeke said: Wow! Put Sam Morin on the 1st line! trade him now! his value will never be higher! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzeke Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 (edited) Open the sound, and go double full screen, guys. Puck music to our ears - - we are ready forsome hockey ! Edited January 4, 2021 by Zzeke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJgoal Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 https://twitter.com/JHallNBCS/status/1346141964123713538 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zzeke Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Bill Meltzer's Report: Training Camp: Day 1 Report January 4, 2021, 1:30 PM ET The Flyers conducted the first day of on-ice work on Monday during their abbreviated training camp at the Skate Zone in Voorhees, NJ. First came simultaneous Group A and Group B practices on the rinks at either side of the complex. That was a followed by an "Orange" vs. "Black" scrimmage. At the end, the "skills group" of players did a shootout practice on the Phantoms rink and the remainder skated on the Flyers rink. PRACTICE GROUP A ORANGE Claude Giroux - Kevin Hayes - Wade Allison Oskar Lindblom - Morgan Frost - Jakub Voracek Ivan Provorov - Justin Braun Robert Hägg - Erik Gustafsson BLACK Carsen Twarynski - Nolan Patrick - Travis Konency Michael Raffl - Connor Bunnaman - Joel Farabee Travis Sanheim - Mark Friedman Shayne Gostisbehere - Phil Myers Goalies: Hart (Orange team), Elliott (Black Team) Notable: * Nolan Patrick looked very good for a player who hasn't played or been in a full-fledged practice since April 2019. He skated well, handled the puck well and had zip on his shots. Elliott robbed him with the glove in close at one juncture. * Even from the pressbox level, it was easy to tell that Oskar Lindblom has regained most or all of the muscle mass he lost last year during his chemotherapy treatments. * At one juncture of the practice, Morgan Frost turned Elliott inside out and scored. At the other end on the same rep, Frost turnstiled Gostisbehere but wasn't able to finish the play. * Neither Zayde Wisdom nor Tanner Laczynski (core muscle injury recovery) participated in either side of practice. However, both skated before the practice began. GROUP B James van Riemsdyk - Sean Couturier - Tyson Foerster (Black) Samuel Morin - Scott Laughton - Linus Sandin (Orange) Max Willman - Andy Andreoff - Nicolas Aube-Kubel (White) Defensemen: Egor Zamula - Derrick Pouliot, Tyler Wotherspoon-Nate Prosser, Chris Bigras-Wyatt Wylie Goalies: Alex Lyon, Felix Sandström Notable: * Converted defenseman Morin went to the net and scored a rebound goal at one juncture of the session. At another juncture he got away with a low percentage cross ice pass that created a scoring chance for his side. * Wotherspoon, an AHL veteran, faired well one-on-one with several of the NHL roster forwards. * Zamula still looked like he needs to add muscle to his frame but he passed, defended and skate well on Day 1. SCRIMMAGE The Hayes, Patrick, and Frost lines listed above comprised the Orange team, along with the Provorov pairing with Braun and the Hägg-Gustafsson pair atop the rotation. The Couturier and Laughton lines were the most notable atop team Black, along with the Gostisbehere-Myers pairing. Hart started in goal for the Orange side, Elliott for Team Black. The Phantoms' goalies came in for the latter part of the scrimmage. Team Black scored first. Willman scored on a odd-man rush, beating Hart from the left dot. Team Orange then scored back-to-back goals. Giroux took a pass from Hayes in the slot. His shot missed the net but caromed right back out Giroux, who scored on a rolling puck from the right side. Shortly thereafter, Konecny gave Orange a 2-1 lead on a seemingly stoppable shot. That was it for the 30-minute scrimmage: Orange won, 2-1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzeke Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 (edited) Edited January 4, 2021 by Zzeke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OccamsRazor Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 Till the first cheap shot to the dome by someone on the Devils... ...or some other team this season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojo1917 Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 @OccamsRazor Don't let the Eagles **** fest ruin your ability to enjoy the Flyers. We don't know what will happen. For all we know he might have had ball bearings installed in his elbows and he will be doing the cheap-shotting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OccamsRazor Posted January 4, 2021 Author Share Posted January 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, mojo1917 said: @OccamsRazor Don't let the Eagles **** fest ruin your ability to enjoy the Flyers. We don't know what will happen. For all we know he might have had ball bearings installed in his elbows and he will be doing the cheap-shotting. We can't have nice things. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoachX Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 1 hour ago, OccamsRazor said: We can't have nice things. cause we will just break them. I know I have a bad habit of running with scissors 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzeke Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Day 1 of Camp report by Charlie O'Connor of the Athletic - Excerpt: Don’t read too much into the line combinations As Vigneault acknowledged after practice, some teams hit the ice Day 1 with their favored line and pairing combinations for the first game of the season — which is understandable given the shortened camp. The Flyers? Not so much, unless you expect 18-year-old Tyson Foerster to be on the top line with Sean Couturier, or Twarynski to skate with Konecny and Patrick, or Wade Allison to flank Kevin Hayes on the opposite side of Claude Giroux. Yeah, this was a slightly different Day 1 strategy. “I know we don’t have a lot of time to get ready, and each team has their own philosophy,” Vigneault said. “A lot of teams have gone with their set lines and set units and their sub group right away. I wanted to look at the big picture. I wanted to see some of our younger guys right away with some of the veteran guys.” So no, Frost centering Voracek doesn’t mean the young center is looking like a lineup lock. The line of Michael Raffl, Connor Bunnaman and Joel Farabee isn’t the Flyers’ first attempt at constructing a fourth line; neither is the trio of Samuel Morin, Scott Laughton and Linus Sandin. The coaching staff clearly wanted to make this a day for new looks, experimentation and a bit of fun. In fact, Vigneault explained that the decision to put Foerster with Couturier and James van Riemsdyk was largely driven by a feeling that the first-round pick didn’t get the usual “big moment” on stage at the draft, and he felt that getting a day on the top line might make up for it, just a little. “I’m going to mix and match for the first two days, forwards and defense,” Vigneault said. “Come Day 3, Day 4 and Day 5, moving forward, we’ll obviously take a look at a couple different options.” Key forward lines: Van Riemsdyk-Couturier-Foerster Giroux-Hayes-Allison Twarynski-Patrick-Konecny Lindblom-Frost-Voracek Raffl-Bunnaman-Farabee Morin-Laughton-Sandin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzeke Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) We are all pulling for the highly skilled Nolan Patrick. Every day in Camp AV will end with shoot-out practice. He said that every standings point is very important, especially in this shortened 56-game season. Here is Patrick: (Go to double 'full-screen') Edited January 5, 2021 by Zzeke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzeke Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 January 5, 2021 Meltzer reports today's Day 2 Camp lines/pairings: GROUP A (Flyers Rink) BLACK Claude Giroux - Sean Couturier - Linus Sandin Oskar Lindblom - Nolan Patrick - Nicolas Aube-Kubel Egor Zamula - Phil Myers Robert Hägg - Shayne Gostisbehere Carter Hart ORANGE Michael Raffl - Kevin Hayes - Zayde Wisdom James van Riemsdyk - Morgan Frost - Joel Farabee Ivan Provorov - Mark Friedman Travis Sanheim - Derrick Pouliot Brian Elliott GROUP B (Phantoms Rink) BLACK Carsen Twarynski - Scott Laughton - Wade Allison Erik Gustafsson - Justin Braun ORANGE Samul Morin - Connor Bunnaman - Travis Konecny Tyler Wotherspoon - Justin Braun WHITE Tyson Foerster/ Max Willman - Andy Andreoff - Jakub Voracek Chris Bigras - Nate Prosser GOALIES: Alex Lyon, Felix Sandström, Roddy Ross The first 20 minutes of the scrimmage was played on the Flyers' rink, with the second half on the Phantoms rink. Wisdom made a nice play in the neutral zone, and Hayes cashed it on with a goal from the left circle. Gustafsson tied the game at the other end with a shot through some traffic. There were no scoring in the second half. During the shootout, after Giroux hit the post and Couturier lost the puck to open the first round there was a run of goals: JVR (high glove), Hayes (over the glove) and Konecy (glove). Giroux ultimately went 1-for-5, as did Voracek, Konecny, Hayes, Gustafsson, JVR and Patrick. Couturier, Frost,Gostisbehere and Lindblom were unable to score. Frost had Elliott beaten on one attempt but tucked a backhander wide. He tried the same move the next time, but was stopped. Couturier hit the post on his third attempt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cheesesteak Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 On 12/31/2020 at 7:35 PM, Zzeke said: @ruxpin Wow! Correct! How did you do that? Flyers Ed 'Boxcar' Hospodar. As an enforcer, he was best known for being one of the instigators of a pregame brawl between the Montreal Canadiens and the Philadelphia Flyers in the Montreal Forum prior to game six of the Wales Conference finals on May 14, 1987, an act which earned him a suspension for the remainder of that year's playoffs. The fight that changed hockey More than one Flyer had told the Canadiens' Claude Lemieux not to end the pregame warm-up by shooting a puck into the Flyers' empty net. Lemieux's ritual, much like his personality, had crawled under the Flyers' skin like a 200-pound tick. "Don't do it, Claude," Hospodar had said and, for a moment, it appeared as though Lemieux would listen. But after the Flyers left the ice, Lemieux and teammate Shayne Corson sneaked back out with a puck to shoot into the Philadelphia net. It took only seconds for the Montreal-Philadelphia pregame spark to become a three-alarm blaze. Hospodar and backup goalie Chico Resch raced back onto the ice when they saw Lemieux and Corson. Soon players from both teams poured out of the dressing rooms and an all out brawl littered the ice. Overlooked at the time was how Flyers' coach Mike Keenan had dressed 24 skaters for the warm-ups. Montreal had 18 and two goalies. Again, those were the days. "We dressed a lot of guys," Brown acknowledged. "[Lemieux's pregame ritual] was a silly thing. But if he was going to do it, we weren't going to put up with it." NO, NO, NO. Incorrect. Not Hospodar. Tune in on Saturday at 12 Noon. Nobody will get it! Flyers Enforcer Ed 'Boxcar' Hospodar Dopita? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyClarkeFan16 Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 On 1/4/2021 at 9:09 AM, mojo1917 said: Half these guys aren't even invited to camp. Kase, Rubie and Sushko are staying in Europe. Well so much for that. I thought they were coming back to North America when the season started. Guess not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzeke Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 3 hours ago, Cheesesteak said: Dopita? This whole discussion about Hospodar was before the Saturday Photo Contest started because someone thought the advertisement shadow image was the contest. So, we played along with guessing Flyers' enforcers names. The last Saturday Photo Contest was a good one, a fun one, as you can see in this thread during Saturday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzeke Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 BLAST Charlie O'Connor wrote this morning - Best intentional hit: Philippe Myers on Carsen Twarynski Couturier-on-Konecny was accidental, but Philippe Myers blasting Carsen Twarynski into the boards certainly wasn’t. Early in a shift, the two got tangled up along the boards, with Twarynski ultimately dragging Myers down to the ice with him. Myers must not have liked that very much; seconds later, with Twarynski chasing down a dump-in, Myers lined him up and unceremoniously crushed him just as Twarynski was about to reach the puck, sending him sprawling to the ice and into the boards. Never say Myers doesn’t have a mean streak. Vigneault didn’t merely notice the increased physicality of Day 2; he encouraged it. “It’s one thing that we talked to our team this morning prior to our video meeting and our pre-ice,” he said. “(The) best way to prepare ourselves is when you’re doing a drill or you’re scrimmaging right now, if you have an opportunity to finish your check, finish your check. It’s good for you and it’s also good for your teammate.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzeke Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Another blurb from Charlie O - - - - as we all are pulling for Sam Morin - Samuel Morin mentor with the most successful NHL career: Daniel Brière Morin has been taking advice from quite a few different voices as he attempts to make the transition from defense to left wing. But only one of them has nearly 1,000 NHL games and 700 points to his credit: former fan-favorite Danny Brière, who has dropped by to give Morin a few pointers, likely gained from having the complete opposite body type as Morin. “Danny B is great, such a good person,” Morin said. “The advice he gave me was … well, this morning, I was watching my game yesterday on tape (with him) and when you’re a big guy, people notice you, right? So, they notice if you’re not moving your feet, so it’s really important for me to always move my feet and stay in movement.” Morin has numerous other mentors: assistant coach Ian Laperriere, for one; Matt Martin, as more of a silent, watching-from-afar mentor via tape study; even Morin’s forward teammates such as Scott Laughton, Konecny and Bunnaman, who have tried to give him tips on the finer points of the position. But Morin remains, as Vigneault acknowledged after practice Tuesday, very much a “work-in-progress.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OccamsRazor Posted January 6, 2021 Author Share Posted January 6, 2021 On 1/4/2021 at 11:43 AM, Zzeke said: Wow! Put Sam Morin on the 1st line! Woah woah there big fella is trying to get kicked off the team. NOT PATRICK SAM!!!! Bill Meltzer @billmeltzer Morin went for a check and accidentally hit teammate Patrick. Patrick went off slowly. Was sitting on the bench. Now going back to middle of bench for next shift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojo1917 Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 RE; Patrick he was going to get hit sooner or later. he finished the practice didn't miss a shift in the scrimmage. good to know. I think he's going on a **** you tour this season, i expect he'll be quite good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zzeke Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I'm a believer. This is a very, very, good team. Anyone else a believer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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