2023-24 Roster Thread #5: Where the boos aren't limited to Halloween

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

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2023-24 Roster Thread 4: September is National Bourbon Heritage Month

WTF did Germany go to war with France again? This is f***ing hockey John, not the 1st Reich. I hope he meant "blood and wood," 'cause if they're bringing iron onto the ice, the league is gonna clamp down on that shit! But Magua would probably bring iron hockey sticks out.

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[Magua]

Other: the Flyers going on an early season PDO heater.

 

[PALE PWNR]

I'm going to repost it because i worked really hard on it and it deserves to be seen

 

[Flyerfan4life]

I'm going to repost it because i worked really hard on it and it deserves to be seen

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the double hairline is #chefskiss good.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Halloween 3

 

[usahockey22flyers]

I’m a Charlie Brown guy

 

[Audible Velvet]

I already voted, but then I remembered the best memory.
My uncle made two custom leaves for the dining room table, so there was a hole in the middle. The neighbor was a big dude with a big shaved head which got all made up like uncle Fester. He had a little seat rigged underneath so his head sat on the surface as the centerpiece.
Kids would be in the middle if their trick or treat performance (had to earn that candy back in the day, snowflakes!), and the eyes would open wide, a huge bellowing voice would let out a maniacal laugh.
Man those rascals jumped!

 

[captainpaxil]

Laughton poehling Hathaway would be a good fourth line if we're making a playoff push.

 

[deadhead]

It's fluid. The player to watch is Brink, Foerster is going to be a solid PF, has all the tools for the job, but nothing jumps out at you and says this kid could be speciall.

Brink v Caufield was one of the background themes of that draft. Caufield is 6 months older, faster, better goal scorer. Took Brink an extra year to blossom in college, but leading the NCAA in scoring by 7 points is pretty impressive. Then the shoulder injury basically cost him a year. He can't skate in a straight line like Caufield, but his edge work is similar, his vision and playmaking is better and he's thicker and better able to play in dirty areas.

Caufield last two seasons at ES 113g 37-19 56, prorates to 27-14 41.
Something to watch with Brink this year, how he matches up.

 

[renberg]

Is there something going on with the Flyers' goalie situation? The club is carrying Hart, Ersson and Sandstrom on the roster. Meltzer is reporting that the players left yesterday for a two day bonding trip. Hart was not included due to being under the weather but will rejoin the club for practice on Tuesday. It's unusual for the club to carry three goalies on its active roster. Sandstrom probably own't pass through waivers if he were sent down. Ersson is waivers exempt but they want to keep him. Seems strange.

 

[blackjackmulligan]

Is there something going on with the Flyers' goalie situation? The club is carrying Hart, Ersson and Sandstrom on the roster. Meltzer is reporting that the players left yesterday for a two day bonding trip. Hart was not included due to being under the weather but will rejoin the club for practice on Tuesday. It's unusual for the club to carry three goalies on its active roster. Sandstrom probably own't pass through waivers if he were sent down. Ersson is waivers exempt but they want to keep him. Seems strange.

why wouldn't felix pass through waivers? what track record does he have that a team will want to clam him?

 

[tnfrs]

Is there something going on with the Flyers' goalie situation? The club is carrying Hart, Ersson and Sandstrom on the roster. Meltzer is reporting that the players left yesterday for a two day bonding trip. Hart was not included due to being under the weather but will rejoin the club for practice on Tuesday. It's unusual for the club to carry three goalies on its active roster. Sandstrom probably own't pass through waivers if he were sent down. Ersson is waivers exempt but they want to keep him. Seems strange.

i imagine theres still concerns sandstrom gets picked up on waivers and then we have to run with pat nagle and nolan maier on the phantoms all year, almost ensuring a terrible season, and everyone here will lose their mind. imagine youre wilkes-barre scranton and you have a chance to handcuff your biggest rival for the whole year and you get a decent goalie whos only had 25 games in the shoe

 

[flyersnorth]

Is there something going on with the Flyers' goalie situation? The club is carrying Hart, Ersson and Sandstrom on the roster. Meltzer is reporting that the players left yesterday for a two day bonding trip. Hart was not included due to being under the weather but will rejoin the club for practice on Tuesday. It's unusual for the club to carry three goalies on its active roster. Sandstrom probably own't pass through waivers if he were sent down. Ersson is waivers exempt but they want to keep him. Seems strange.

The simplest explanation is that Hart is sick, and that’s why he didn’t go on the trip. Briere has said Hart is their #1 goalie, Torts has said Ersson won the backup job, so the logical conclusion is Sandstrom will be sent down by Monday.

An alternate explanation is that the Hockey Canada report hasn’t been released, and until it is, the situation with Hart is unresolved.

I don’t know what Hart says privately to the organization, but I imagine in such a high profile situation like this one, his lawyer would advise him to not say a single thing about the investigation.

So even if the org wants to believe he had no involvement, the truth is they can’t know for sure until the report is released.

 

[Curufinwe]

The Flyers currently have 4 waiver exempt guys up that they can move around at will so that gives them roster flexibility.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

What is the “New Era of Orange”? Per Dan Hilferty and Keith Jones, it’s about reconnecting with fans, and reinvigorating Flyers culture - PHLY Sports

The New Era of Orange isn't about remaking Flyers culture. Comcast Spectacor CEO Dan Hilferty wants instead to reinvigorate it.

allphly.com

Charlie was bought off because the Flyers paid for the first $1,000 at the Broad Street Hockey draft party and somehow that's a signal that they're not the same as the old guard.

“I just think that’s awesome,” Jones said with a beaming smile on his face, when told of Hilferty’s donation. “It gives me chills even thinking about it.”


This really is a horrifying read.

 

[deadhead]

What is the “New Era of Orange”? Per Dan Hilferty and Keith Jones, it’s about reconnecting with fans, and reinvigorating Flyers culture - PHLY Sports

The New Era of Orange isn't about remaking Flyers culture. Comcast Spectacor CEO Dan Hilferty wants instead to reinvigorate it.

allphly.com

Charlie was bought off because the Flyers paid for the first $1,000 at the Broad Street Hockey draft party and somehow that's a signal that they're not the same as the old guard.

“I just think that’s awesome,” Jones said with a beaming smile on his face, when told of Hilferty’s donation. “It gives me chills even thinking about it.”


This really is a horrifying read.

Hilferty has been the CEO of a major corporation, he sees this on more than one dimension, there's the internal issues, Briere may or may not be the right choice, but hard to claim he's a dinosaur. Then there's the marketing issue, you're not an expansion team, you're selling a long rebuild to a fan base spoiled by winning. So you don't diss the Sniders, you don't diss the past heroes, etc.

HIlferty isn't Scott, a CFO who was ignorant of hockey in general and the Flyers in specific and who had limited management experience. He's a CEO who's been a lifetime Flyers fan, so he understands both the importance of the "brand" but also has seen where the organization went off the tracks.

 

[Curufinwe]

They also gave away these free jackets to anyone would write a puff piece.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Hilferty has been the CEO of a major corporation, he sees this on more than one dimension, there's the internal issues, Briere may or may not be the right choice, but hard to claim he's a dinosaur. Then there's the marketing issue, you're not an expansion team, you're selling a long rebuild to a fan base spoiled by winning. So you don't diss the Sniders, you don't diss the past heroes, etc.

HIlferty isn't Scott, a CFO who was ignorant of hockey in general and the Flyers in specific and who had limited management experience. He's a CEO who's been a lifetime Flyers fan, so he understands both the importance of the "brand" but also has seen where the organization went off the tracks.

P.S. Your faith in Hilferty isn't based off of anything in reality. It's a fantasy created in your head, once again.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

a fan base spoiled by winning.

As if the last 13 years never happened. It is not difficult to sell this rebuild. Rather, it wouldn't be for competent people.

 

[Curufinwe]

They have't won anything in 50 years.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

This really is a horrifying read.

It really is. Holy f***.

 

[Tripod]

I was just thinking the other day how spoiled I felt being a Flyers fan.

We are 24th in wins the last decade....and 3 of those teams below us are AZ and 2 expansion teams....one in which won a Cup.

Spoiled.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

They have one of the longest championship droughts in the sport & they’ve been utterly irrelevant for a decade plus now with no reasonable sight to the end of this current run. But yeah fans are spoiled.

Sorry there isn’t as much Stepford fans as there used to be that would just eat shit out of this organizations hand.

 

[deadhead]

They have one of the longest championship droughts in the sport & they’ve been utterly irrelevant for a decade plus now with no reasonable sight to the end of this current run. But yeah fans are spoiled.

Sorry there isn’t as much Stepford fans as there used to be that would just eat shit out of this organizations hand.

There's a whole generation of ST holders who supported the "win now" philosophy that got them into this hole. It took bottoming out to build support for a real rebuild.

 

[wankstifier]

The Flyers could've filled out their roster just from waiver pickups