The Ended Flyers Thread

[phillychuck]

Sabres seems a strange choice if you have the rest of the league to choose from. Any reason?

[bigegypt0417]

I'm 50 years old and been a Flyers fan since I was 10 years old...I will never be the fan of another team even if I only pay a little attention to the team...they will always be the only team I am a fan of.

Even now that I live in Wisconsin.

[Squire]

Lots of young talent (Dahlin, Power, Cozens, Tuch, Krebs) and a Top 10 farm system and not a historical rival of the Flyers.

Well see how it goes. I probably won't be able to do it though this Flyers organization surely deserves to lose fans.

[zambonir]

I attended the entire Cup run of my second-favorite team (the Stars) and was in Dallas the night they won it (in Buffalo) and let me tell you, it's still not the same. Also the case in 2020.

Also hard for me to see this particular period of incompetence as the dealbreaker when there have been so many others. (I know a few people who loved Lindros more than the Flyers,for instance and never came back.)

But really I just don't follow hockey as closely when the Flyers are bad. When they're in the playoffs regularly I don't stop watching after they lose, but when they are barely in the mix I end up being disconnected from the whole league. I was at that crazy Penguins playoff game in 2012 which was ultimately meaningless (they folded in the next round) but probably the high point of every season since 2009-2010.

And yet - you can't really blame Fletcher for trying to run it back with the COVID season team. You can for everything he's done since it didn't work. And the entire regime change was a botch as usual.

[zambonir]

Quite a summary from O'Connor

O'Connor: Flyers fans right to be infuriated by 'aggressive retool' failures

None of the Flyers’ stated goals hold up under scrutiny. They want to be “harder to play against,” but the players they’re acquiring to do so (Ristolainen, Deslauriers, MacEwen) have historically made it significantly easier for the other team to have the puck the majority of the time. They want to be building for the future, but they’re still burning draft picks on DeAngelo with the aim of … protecting York and Ronnie Attard from tougher minutes as rookies? They want to improve now, but after an offseason that — assuming there are no more big moves looming — they didn’t improve the team much on paper, they’re banking almost entirely on the impact of their new coaching staff and a questionably constructed blue line corps to drive said improvement. Both are legitimate unknowns.

[LegoDoom]

Lots of young talent (Dahlin, Power, Cozens, Tuch, Krebs) and a Top 10 farm system and not a historical rival of the Flyers.

Well see how it goes. I probably won't be able to do it though this Flyers organization surely deserves to lose fans.

Maybe a west coast team? You could watch both.

[Aquapong]

Macewan is a free agent I think.

It’s interesting that they keep signing defensemen instead of seeing what they’ve got with York and Attard. The NHL isn’t the MLB where you have control over a player for 6 years.

[LegoDoom]

I've stated my concerns about Tippett, but walked back some because of how good his shot is. Having said that, his 2 year contract looks good to me and he'll still be an RFA when it expires?

[bkeich]

It is really just a way to avoid arbitration.

[Aquapong]

And Macewan is back on a one year deal…we need one more guy to effectively do line fights.

Brink apparently hurt himself and will be out half the season already.

J Cates, Allison, Hogberg, and Hodgson are still RFAs and unsigned. Sportrac is showing we sign a kid from the Habs named Luis Belpedio D.

[bkeich]

This is arguably the worst offseason I have ever seen as a fan. They trade away draft picks for a bad player, they sign virtually no one (certainly no one of consequence) for a team that was not just bad, but was actually getting worse as the season progressed.

There is an article in the Philly papers about could the Islanders pass the Flyers by signing Kadri? Ummm, there is no reason to believe they aren't already better.

Retooling. Funniest term ever. I wonder if it means they are tightening down the seats in the stadium so than fans don't throw them in the ice.

[bkeich]

Nothing to argue with about this ranking. It almost seems like they are trying to make stupid moves.

FANS SPEAK: Flyers’ Management Team Named Worst in NHL

[LegoDoom]

Sounds like Couts is out for ~3 months, if not longer, with a herniated disc.

Sean Couturier to Miss Significant Time for Flyers with Another Back Injury

[phillychuck]

This is just getting to be more and more fun.

[xogfog]

Fine with me, I want to see the kids play anyway...

[zambonir]

The march to #1 begins!

[bkeich]

I wonder if we will even get to double digit wins. This is a laughably bad team. Fletcher might be the worst GM in the last 30 years of all Philly sports

[Aquapong]

It’s supposedly a good year to have a high draft pick right?

[Florida_Sunshine]

Now we know why Fletcher went out and got Deangelo.

Ellis is likely going on IR, will not be counted on as ever coming back. His core injuries are actually 3 major muscle groups. And it is not responding to therapy.

Two more key players will miss substantial time.

Get ready watch heart and hustle.

Just curious, any generational players in next years draft?

[Aquapong]

Looks like we were the sucker Nashville dumped his injury prone contract on.