2023-24 #2: Phantoms (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL), NCAA, Jrs., Int'l, etc.

[blackjackmulligan]

The scouting consensus was not just how good a player he is and his potential... if ability was the only qualifier he would have gone a fair but higher.

But a lot of teams had the ~#5-12 range pretty closely grouped... if he had a different agent I believe the Flyers would have picked him... but if he had a different agent I believe he would not have made it to #10.

Now, maybe I am wrong. But they are the rumblings...

So based on some things you know, are teams for lack of a better word becoming reluctant to deal with tat agent in terms of the collage players he represents?

 

[thedjpd]

So based on some things you know, are teams for lack of a better word becoming reluctant to deal with tat agent in terms of the collage players he represents?

Same question I asked Appleyard, and it seems so.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I’m not saying I don’t believe it but the agent thing is dumb. Scott Boras used to be a bogeyman in baseball when he took advantage of dumb front offices in baseball. But then the whole league over time moved away from the old guard in front offices & get considerably smarter to know they dictate things not an agent(s).

 

[Maurice of Orange]

With the news of Kolosov not returning to the Phantoms this season, Lehigh signs backup AHLer Keith Petruzzelli.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1817205908411179126

 

[deadhead]

McDavid could have been represented by Satan, and he still would have gone #1.

I'm not sure I take the agent thing that seriously, it's not like an agent has a lot of leverage given the rules, Fox was exceptional b/c he wasn't coming out before his junior season, so he just had to give up one year of income.

We simply don't know, Gauthier grew up in Arizona, maybe a couple years in Boston convinced him that the East Coast wasn't where he wanted to end up. Maybe it was the agent.

 

[PDX Flyer]

Literally said “ I was born to be a Flyer” when drafted.

Keep it real deady

 

[deadhead]

Literally said “ I was born to be a Flyer” when drafted.

Keep it real deady

Players get coached by agents these days and often read from a "script."
Just b/c he said it, doesn't mean he meant it.

And that was before he spent a year in Boston.

We don't know why b/c he has never said anything.

 

[blackjackmulligan]

McDavid could have been represented by Satan, and he still would have gone #1.

I'm not sure I take the agent thing that seriously, it's not like an agent has a lot of leverage given the rules, Fox was exceptional b/c he wasn't coming out before his junior season, so he just had to give up one year of income.

We simply don't know, Gauthier grew up in Arizona, maybe a couple years in Boston convinced him that the East Coast wasn't where he wanted to end up. Maybe it was the agent.

or maybe more than likely the Flyers just screwed up.

 

[BigToe]

 

[FLYguy3911]

Andrae woulda scored.

 

[Appleyard]

Andrae woulda scored.

Drysdale would have scored too...

but also dislocated something and have had 35% corsi in the game...

aha.

 

[Larry44]

Good grief, Zev Buium skates like Mark Friggin' Howe. What a disaster.

 

[Curufinwe]

I think this will hurt much worse than passing on Caufield. He's scored a lot of goals, but so have TK, and OT and how many right hand shooting wingers signed to 8 year deals do you need. Two is a stretch, three would be nuts.

Past three seasons
Caufield: 77 goals in 195 games
Konency: 80 goals in 215 games
Tippett: 65 goals in 218 games

 

[Cody Webster]

He's going to look great QB'ing our PP for the next decade

 

[BringBackHakstol]

Imagine seeing that skill and saying, nah, we good. Be a f***ing Flyer baby.

 

[scumpup]

so excited to watch buium in the orange and black this season

 

[PDX Flyer]

He's going to look great QB'ing our PP for the next decade

I only watched him play in one game during their playoff off run and was completely floored how good he was. I can not believe he fell and did not draft him

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I only watched him play in one game during their playoff off run and was completely floored how good he was. I can not believe he fell and did not draft him

If he was bigger, not as skilled and a slower skater they would of drafted him.

 

[PDX Flyer]

If he was bigger, not as skilled and a slower skater they would of drafted him.

That and apparently being afraid of an agent

 

[EdmFlyersfan]

Good grief, Zev Buium skates like Mark Friggin' Howe. What a disaster.

Have you seen Mark Howe skate lately?

 

[CerpinTaxt]

Have you seen Mark Howe skate lately?

No but he's still probably a better skater than risto seeler zamula and johnson

 

[Larry44]

Have you seen Mark Howe skate lately?

Still skates better than Johnson! LOL!

 

[TheKingPin]

If Drysdale stays the same or gets worse this year then we have a lot more pressure on Briere for passing on Buium.

 

[Rebels57]

I only watched him play in one game during their playoff off run and was completely floored how good he was. I can not believe he fell and did not draft him

When you already have ELITE undersized defensemen like Cam York, Jamie Drysdale, and Emil Andrae...adding Buium would have been redundant.

 

[deadhead]

Phantoms bring back Marody for two years.

Not sure how I feel about that, on the one hand, he's a proven AHL scoring veteran, on the other hand he's a defensive liability at center. Just too slow of a skater.

Hopefully, he'll move to RW where his defensive struggles will be less of a problem, and if healthy, can help the PP.