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

[ponder719]

Dead last
They can do it
I have faith

Or in Haiku form

To finish dead last
A lack of talent prevails
Torts shall make kids cry

I wish I had your optimistic pessimism. Alas, there are teams in the league that a) know they are bad and b) are trying to be, two logic tests we appear to have failed miserably.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

The Flyers organization to Sean Couturier.

 

[ponder719]

The Flyers organization to Sean Couturier.

If Couts hits the same level for the rest of his career that Mick Foley did after that moment, he'll be, what, our 6th greatest player ever? I'll happily take that.

 

[tnfrs]

If Couts hits the same level for the rest of his career that Mick Foley did after that moment, he'll be, what, our 6th greatest player ever? I'll happily take that.

cant wait for coots' dude love phase

 

[ponder719]

cant wait for coots' dude love phase

That'll be fun, but I'm looking forward to him grabbing a barbed wire 2x4 and going to town.

 

[Cody Webster]

I’m smelling a 7 D game coming up. Just with 8 top 9 skaters. 4th line has to stay intact.

What if they dress 3 goalies instead?

 

[Kelmitchell2]

What if they dress 3 goalies instead?

Risto at wing, sandstrom on d, I love it

 

[tnfrs]

Risto at wing, sandstrom on d, I love it

London puts Bonk in front of the net on the PP sometimes, it never works, but theyve tried it a few times and Torts loves that kind of outside the box thinking

 

[ybnvs]

Dead last
They can do it
I have faith

Or in Haiku form

To finish dead last
A lack of talent prevails
Torts shall make kids cry

John Tortorella
Appeal his authority
God Emperor, Torts

 

[Rich Nixon]

John Tortorella
All appeal his authority
God Emperor, Torts

John Tortorella
Keeper of the True Standard
Only he knows puck

 

[ybnvs]

John Tortorella
Keeper of the True Standard
Only he knows puck

John Tortorella
He makes me f*** up haikus
Five-seven-five, Grrrr

 

[mize370]

Tortosmella is a perfect coach. Brink makes the 1st line RW out of camp just to be scratched the very next game . After playing decent!
Actually its his 2nd line. We know the 4th line is his first.
Last years leading scorer is on the 3rd line.
Andrae has zero chance to stay with the big club. Actually surprised he is still on the roster.
Probably wants Staal to be captain also.
Watch torts make Risto the PP qb

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

STG is doing the morning after game reviews now. That must have been in the contract from the Flyers end.

 

[NateThompson44]

Maybe he can talk to Thompson about how to extend his career.

Happy to offer career advice
Tell him to DM me on twitter

 

[Curufinwe]

Tortosmella is a perfect coach. Brink makes the 1st line RW out of camp just to be scratched the very next game . After playing decent!
Actually its his 2nd line. We know the 4th line is his first.
Last years leading scorer is on the 3rd line.
Andrae has zero chance to stay with the big club. Actually surprised he is still on the roster.
Probably wants Staal to be captain also.
Watch torts make Risto the PP qb

Maybe Sandstrom can fill in on the 4th line if they get another forward injury?

 

[ponder719]

John Tortorella
He makes me f*** up haikus
Five-seven-five, Grrrr

Higgledy Piggledy,
John Tortorella, the
coach of the Flyers
except when he's not.
We'd be much better
if he played the youngins
but he thinks Marc Staal is
the best that we've got.

 

[Matti Mich]

I love the duality, on this board, of...
The Flyers need to be bad and finish at the bottom of the standings,
How dare they sign and play bad vets.

Don't get me wrong I want the kids to play too...

 

[ponder719]

I love the duality, on this board, of...
The Flyers need to be bad and finish at the bottom of the standings,
How dare they sign and play bad vets.

Don't get me wrong I want the kids to play too...

The issue isn't so much the playing of bad vets. It's how we acquire them, and how many vets there are.

In the hypothetical alternate universe where we committed to a rebuild, and started trading some of our better veteran players for future assets, let's say instead of signing Staal, we traded Laughton and Walker to (random team) Vancouver for Tyler Myers, their #1 this year, and a prospect (pulling the name Podkolzin out of hammerspace here, I don't know who they value or how highly.) There's a perfectly serviceable bad vet, and now instead of Staal, Walker, and Laughton, we have Myers and space for Attard and Allison.

Then, if someone wants Myers at the deadline, we trade him, too, and bring up Ginning or w/e. It's better asset management, better player development, better process, and they still get their shitty vets.

 

[Matti Mich]

The issue isn't so much the playing of bad vets. It's how we acquire them, and how many vets there are.

In the hypothetical alternate universe where we committed to a rebuild, and started trading some of our better veteran players for future assets, let's say instead of signing Staal, we traded Laughton and Walker to (random team) Vancouver for Tyler Myers, their #1 this year, and a prospect (pulling the name Podkolzin out of hammerspace here, I don't know who they value or how highly.) There's a perfectly serviceable bad vet, and now instead of Staal, Walker, and Laughton, we have Myers and space for Attard and Allison.

Then, if someone wants Myers at the deadline, we trade him, too, and bring up Ginning or w/e. It's better asset management, better player development, better process, and they still get their shitty vets.

I agree with most of what you are saying. I think at the end of it though, finishing low in the standings wont be a problem. But, to your point, maximizing current assets for future ones has me concerned laughton and TK, to this point, should have been turned into 2 1sts, 2 2nds, A prospect and B/C Prospect.

TK = 1st, 2nd, A prospect, C prospect
Laughton = 1st, 2nd (reported)

 

[flyersnorth]

I love the duality, on this board, of...
The Flyers need to be bad and finish at the bottom of the standings,
How dare they sign and play bad vets.

Don't get me wrong I want the kids to play too...

For me personally, I felt one of Hathaway or Poehling would have been ok (moreso Poehling as a 4C), and didn't see the value in Staal at all.

It's not signing vets so much as signing too many.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

For me personally, I felt one of Hathaway or Poehling would have been ok (moreso Poehling as a 4C), and didn't see the value in Staal at all.

It's not signing vets so much as signing too many.

#sameolsameOL

 

[FLYguy3911]

OK so we don't play kids on the 4th line, so Nicky D, Poehling, and Hathaway are safe. Who are you benching in the top 9?

Coots
Farabee
Cates
Atkinson
Laughton
Frost
Tippett
TK

I know who would be my favorite out of that group, but realistically there is one spot...

Only took a week.

f***ing joke of a team.

 

[Magua]

Only took a week.

f***ing joke of a team.

Torts is identifying the core. Becoming closer to reality!

 

[Beef Invictus]

Torts is identifying the core. Becoming closer to reality!

Is Silver doing satire of himself now

 

[FLYguy3911]

Is Silver doing satire of himself now

Believe it or not, he actually typed that Tweet with his pecs.