GDT: #16 | Sharks at Flyers | Monday, November 11, 2024 | 7:00 PM | NBCSP, 97.5 FM

[Beef Invictus]

Also think it's less a Torts thing and more an entire organizational approach to development and skills maintenance. This keeps happening, all the time, to tons of players of all ages.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Also think it's less a Torts thing and more an entire organizational approach to development and skills maintenance. This keeps happening, all the time, to tons of players of all ages.

agreed...

it happened before Torts it will continue long after..

this Org. compltely values a type of hockey player that hasnt existed since the 1970s cuz the game has moved on.

 

[deadhead]

My personal take is that it's a bit of a 'blip'. Visually he looks a lot worse, but his metrics aren't all that different than last year. He's still a strong defensive player, but the offense just hasn't been there.

I'm a big time believer in the thought that unless you're a legit top line/elite level player you're only as good as the people you play with. Last year he played mostly with TK and Couts. And, he only had 4 points through 20 games to start the season. He looked better and had chances, but that is a product of playing with TK -- TK is a legit top line player who creates offensive chances for others around him.

This year, he's played a lot with Frost, Tippett and Couts. Frost has been bad for the most part this season, Tippett has only started looking good in the last 3-4 games (playing with TK, who would have thought lol), and Couts same thing.

Foerster isn't fast, but seemed to have more burst last year.
His game is similar to Cates, except he's stronger with a better shot.

Top speed - league ave (this will increase with full sample)
2024-25: 21.24 - 21.81
2023-24: 21.77 - 22.10
Bursts - league average
2024-25: 10-19
2023-24: 64-73

 

[Shrike]

agreed...

it happened before Torts it will continue long after..

this Org. compltely values a type of hockey player that hasnt existed since the 1970s cuz the game has moved on.

1970’s is an exaggeration, they’re were real enforcers in the 1990’s, they only started slow dancing instead of fighting and cheap shotting instead of hitting about the mid to late nineties

 

[Flyerfan4life]

1970’s is an exaggeration, they’re were real enforcers in the 1990’s, they only started slow dancing instead of fighting and cheap shotting instead of hitting about the mid to late nineties

but the type of hockey they love goes back to the Flyers inception is what im saying..

this Org. is incapable of moving beyond the BSB ideology...its why they will never have success

 

[Shrike]

but the type of hockey they love goes back to the Flyers inception is what im saying..

this Org. is incapable of moving beyond the BSB ideology...its why they will never have success

True. Shame that other teams copied, improved, exhausted and moved on from that philosophy while we are still watching the Flyers never ending search for a player to break another Russian players leg.