2023-24 Roster Thread #6: A Hall of Famer, a doctor, a policeman and a moose walk into a bar with a Bundy...

[bennysflyers16]

This is a guy who definitely jerks off to youtube videos of Torts yelling at reporters

Also imagine he posts here.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

He has a profile picture of him skating. I trust him.

"your not a dentist!!!"....

 

[Curufinwe]

His card would look even better if the PP wasn't an absolute abomination neutering all of Frost's positives.

Tippett, Frost, Farabee would be pushing 60 points on a team where the PP wasn't run by absolute idiots.

 

[RANKKA]

 

[Curufinwe]

SSS of course, but the guy Torts just promoted to be the 3C is 31st out of 32 Flyers in ESP/60 over the past two seasons (minimum 100 minutes). Only Braun found it harder to put up points.

Player Season Totals - Natural Stat Trick

 

[Curufinwe]

If Torts wasn't so in love with having a useless goon on the 4th line, there would be room for all the young players in the lineup.

Atkinson-Couturier-Foerster
Farabee-Frost-Konency
Tippett-Laughton-Brink
Cates-Poehling-Hathaway

 

[Flyerfan4life]

soon Zombie Ellis will have biten everyone on the team

 

[flyersnorth]

I watched two periods of each of the Ducks and Kings games.

Nice to see Tippett and Sanheim put on some power moves and getting rewarded. Both goals were pretty sweet.

Both games were pretty fun to watch.

 

[scumpup]

It's nice that they're winning games but Imagine if we weren't run by an alcoholic and a dinosaur for the last 5 years. Sending the wrong message to the top brass that they can still do things the old way.

 

[Striiker]

He has a profile picture of him skating. I trust him.

lol

 

[Magua]

 

[Striiker]

He’s not an outright idiot

I knew I couldn't trust you. Traitor.

 

[BernieParent]

Probably troutorella.

 

[freakydallas13]

This just occured to me, but if a team and player lie about why they aren't in the lineup (fake injury, fake illness, incorrect injury, etc.), are there repercussions? Can the team just say whatever they want re:player status?

 

[BernieParent]

lol

 

[BiggE]

This is such catch-22 shit. The 6 game scratching occurred after the first 2 games of the year.

I enjoy the arbitrary "hang my hat on something" line. He regularly hangs his hat on others not scoring or not driving play or getting outscored. He could hang his hat on him being the 2nd best Flyer offensively last year in large sample, but he chooses to not do so. He could hang his hat on the plus chances Frost was generating post-scratching, while driving play, while giving up as little defensively as any forward, but he chooses to not do so.

All in all, Tortorella chooses to evaluate Frost in shallow terms as an offense or nothing player. If he's not scoring, he's a negative. When he's actually a detailed and respectable defensive player. And Frost has been an elite PKer at every level, while no NHL time is on the horizon. If your evaluation is this superficial and off-base, then of course you won't hang your hat on what you don't want to see.

I never thought I could hate a member of the Flyers organization more than Billy Tibbets but Torts has passed the rapist on the hot shit parade. I really need that horse to kick him again but much, much harder this time.

Waiting for all 3 to collide…

 

[Deadpool8812]

lol

Tortorella has already admitted that he didn't know TDA's game, while 90% of fans here knew exactly the type of player he was. So yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if fans knew Frost better than he did...it already seems that way

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Staal and Risto in help the tank

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

What decisions are they making with older players?

 

[JojoTheWhale]

So winning now is the priority. Well, that's clear messaging at least.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

lol

ahhh the ol "well numbers dont mean anything anyway" rebuttal...

What decisions are they making with older players?

#rebuild complete

 

[Beef Invictus]

If Torts wasn't so in love with having a useless goon on the 4th line, there would be room for all the young players in the lineup.

Atkinson-Couturier-Foerster
Farabee-Frost-Konency
Tippett-Laughton-Brink
Cates-Poehling-Hathaway

But if he isn't playing, how can he sit on the bench and do nothing as Konency gets run like he did a few games back?

 

[Beef Invictus]

What decisions are they making with older players?

They have to decide who the older players get in over.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

So winning now is the priority. Well, that's clear messaging at least.

So essentially what Ron Hextall did?

 

[Deadpool8812]

Lolz

This summer they say they are rebuilding, and now a month into the season, since they are .500....winning is the priority?