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But what about the four week stretch between Christmas and the ASG where they played well?
Season Accomplished. Everything is fine.
2022/23 Roster Thread XVIII: The bats have left the bell tower
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But what about the four week stretch between Christmas and the ASG where they played well?
Season Accomplished. Everything is fine.
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deadhead
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You think GMs don't talk about hypotheticals for weeks before the TDL?
They just wake up one day and decide to do a deal?
Montreal "didn't get a jump," Zito prioritized improving the defense of the top offense in the NHL over adding another forward.
Chariot was traded on the 16th, Giroux on the 19th.
Manson went on the 14th, which upped Chariot's value. Lindholm went on the 19th, Giordano the 20th.
Most trades occurred on the 21st, the TDL.
The only deals that occurred before the last week were Toffoli on Feb 14th, Lyubushkin Feb 19th.
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Of course I understand that most deals are probably long in the making. Apparently, three-plus years for Risto. I get that.
But there's also certainly some "indecision" or asleep at the wheel behaviour sometimes. I suspect that right now, the Flyers are one of those teams that are mired in indecision. The Torts manifesto certainly makes it sound like a direction has finally been chosen, but if there's as much internal disagreement as we have been hearing, and Fletcher is indeed a lame duck GM, what are we doing here? More stalling?
I don't have time to list all the moments where the Flyers have seemed legitimately unprepared, but they are aplenty.
Magua
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It’s really hard to never acquire anyone useful with any move you make, but golly gee, Chuckles tries his best.
It’s really hard to never acquire anyone useful with any move you make, but golly gee, Chuckles tries his best.
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Best glue guy they've had since they lost Dale Weise
Hollywood Cannon
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Seeler and Deslauriers, two players that were brought up by the organization in Tortorella’s interviews.
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It's a shame this pickup resulted in the Flyers not getting Tolvanen due to having 50 contracts... Yikes.
Flyerfan4life
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lol.. "glue guy"... when theres no other term to describe a non NHL quality player..
same as grit or plays the right way...
#beaf***ingFlyer..
hahaaa
deadhead
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A lot of that "indecision" is the other party, most teams try to wait until they're close to the TDL b/c they want to be sure they're still a playoff team, and in case there's a serious injury, suddenly your needs have shifted from a third line forward to say a top four defenseman.
And of course by waiting, it's easier to make a trade work if you're cap constrained, as teams "bank" cap room for the last 20 games, and only have to eat 1/4 (or 1/8 if 50% of salary is retained) of that cap hit.
And of course by waiting, it's easier to make a trade work if you're cap constrained, as teams "bank" cap room for the last 20 games, and only have to eat 1/4 (or 1/8 if 50% of salary is retained) of that cap hit.
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Glue as in that is what happens when you put horses out to pasture?
Magua
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Do you think Mr. Rebuild himself, John Tortorella, would sell high and trade a journeyman, Seeler, for a 4th rounder? He’s leading the rebuild after all, and that’s a textbook rebuild deadline move. But it sounds like he’s an indispensable part of their winning culture, so I guess not.
Striiker
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Torts just wants to make sure nobody on here ever forgets that he’s a dinosaur, not a modern coach who understands what matters or what rebuilding really means.
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Very bizarre that a useless player was waived, indeed
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Am I mistaken, or did every team in the NHL have the opportunity to contact Hogberg & sign him if there was mutual interest?
People act like he was ordered to Sweden by Chuck like a prisoner to Siberia. Dude became a free agent.
People act like he was ordered to Sweden by Chuck like a prisoner to Siberia. Dude became a free agent.
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Beef Invictus
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Am I mistaken, or did every team in the NHL have the opportunity to contact Hogberg & sign him if there was mutual interest?
People act like he was ordered to Sweden by Chuck like a prisoner to Siberia. Dude became a free agent.
People don't give a shit about Hogberg. They give a shit about the team ditching him instead of any of the slew of older and more useless players. They give a shit about a bad process and the way this team makes nothing but objectively and obviously wrong decisions every time they do anything.
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