FlyerNutter
In the forest, a man learns what it means to live
Didn't you guys know that if you try to rebuild properly you have to sign a contract guaranteeing that you'll keep losing for 6+ years?
You mean like Couturier, and Sanheim
Didn't you guys know that if you try to rebuild properly you have to sign a contract guaranteeing that you'll keep losing for 6+ years?
To point out if you just fixate on mistakes, you can find plenty from any D-man, because they play a lot of minutes.Lol this is just completely delusional. There's nothing more to say about it.
Why are you mentioning Sanheim? I'm even more sure now you aren't watching
To point out if you just fixate on mistakes, you can find plenty from any D-man, because they play a lot of minutes.
I've also seen Risto make more good defensive plays this year than last season.
People get so fixated on their perceptions that they're not open to any possibility of change.
Risto last 20 games, xGF 51.80%, xGFrel +3.68.
Some of that on the 3rd pair with Seeler, but a number of games on the 1st pair with Provorov.
16:23 at 5x5, Provorov 18:17, Sanheim 17:28, TDA 17:26 (York 16:40), Braun 14:38, Seeler 13:46. So he's not being sheltered.
xGF/60: 2.28. Which isn't great but doesn't make him an offensive black hole, either
Ghost for example has a xGF/60: 2.39 on a more wide open offense.
We'll see if he can maintain this play, but it's good enough to make him a useful "body" on defense, and better than he's looked his entire career. The contract is what it is, going forward if he can at least be a solid 3rd pair guy who can play up in the lineup he'll have some value and be easier to move down the road.
Not anyone can coach a Makar. Add for Stinktolainen, if Shaw turns him into a mediocre defenseman (because it's clear that offense is no longer a part of his game or ability), then they need to deal his sorry ass as quick as possible. $5.1 million for a third pairing defender who needs to be taught how to play defense. Only in Philadelphia.....If Shaw can turn Risto into a respectable D-man, extend the man!
Anyone can coach a Makar, but turning sows' ears into silk purses is quite a trick.
The past is past, whether it's Risto or Hextall drafting Patrick.
All that matters is what you do going forward.
Torts, and it looks like Briere, have to figure out how to make do with the hand they've been given, not "coulda shoulda woulda."
New fantasy theory: Briere pushed for that signing and agreed with other dubious transactions knowing full well that a complete rebuild is needed. Hastens Chuck's departure and hopefully gets him canned completely, Danny boy gets a built in excuse for why the team is terrible for the first few years of his tenure, and he has a bunch of tank commanders in place to garner as many high draft picks as humanly possible to hopefully hit upon a franchise player or two.Briere is going to be a bigger joke than Fletcher.
The man that was in charge of pushing/signing Deslauries. Been right alongside the last few years approving every beatiful step. He’s a loser.
The amount of cap savings is calculated as league minimum + $375k.
So in 23/24 the league minimum goes up from $750k to $775k so the cap savings would be $1.15M.
Same for 24/25 and 25/26.
New fantasy theory: Briere pushed for that signing and agreed with other dubious transactions knowing full well that a complete rebuild is needed. Hastens Chuck's departure and hopefully gets him canned completely, Danny boy gets a built in excuse for why the team is terrible for the first few years of his tenure, and he has a bunch of tank commanders in place to garner as many high draft picks as humanly possible to hopefully hit upon a franchise player or two.
Now, I realize that sitting idly by while Chuck trades all of our 2nd round pick completely contradicts that but Briere being a Machiavellian wolf in sheep's clothing is the only hope I have of enjoying hockey again any time even remotely soon, so I'll continue to not-seriously entertain the notion.
The literal Risto signing is in the past but it’s a present problem and will be a part of 5 more years of our future.No, the past is not just simply the past.
You're right, the opportunity cost for Patrick is far worse, Maker, Heiskanen or Pettersson. Anyone of which would been a solid foundation piece.No, the past is not just simply the past. It does matter just as every single other thing has mattered that has brought us to this point. All of the sudden this franchise is going to be able to operate in the proper way after showing for a decade plus that it has no idea how to function in the 21st century of hockey? We're supposed to just believe that? The ones that have this organization where it currently is will be the ones that are making Briere GM and they're the ones that Hired Tortorella.
You do not simply get to wave it away because it makes your stances look horrible.
Mentioning Risto and drafting Patrick in the same breath as if they're even remotely comparable is LOL worthy.
You're right, the opportunity cost for Patrick is far worse, Maker, Heiskanen or Pettersson. Anyone of which would been a solid foundation piece.
The literal Risto signing is in the past but it’s a present problem and will be a part of 5 more years of our future.
Yeah, going from the thirteenth pick or whatever it was up to two really sunk this franchise.You're right, the opportunity cost for Patrick is far worse, Maker, Heiskanen or Pettersson. Anyone of which would been a solid foundation piece.
Just take the L, dude.Trading #14 in a weak draft really sank this franchise.
Unless you think Voracek, Ghost and Gudas were the future of this franchise, the foundation has been rotting for a long time.
sure they could...poorly lolThe Flyers couldn't coach a Makar.
Makar would have had any ounce of talent he displays regularly in Colorodo, berated and coached out of him because that's not the Flyer waysure they could...poorly lol
all that offensive talent would go to waste
You're right, the opportunity cost for Patrick is far worse, Maker, Heiskanen or Pettersson. Anyone of which would been a solid foundation piece.
Trading #14 in a weak draft really sank this franchise.
Unless you think Voracek, Ghost and Gudas were the future of this franchise, the foundation has been rotting for a long time.