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

[Audible Velvet]

All the rolls!

I will never quit carbs. Too tasty.

I baked some sweet rolls last week. So good when they’re warm!

 

[Chinatown88]

I baked some sweet rolls last week. So good when they’re warm!

 

[Audible Velvet]

 

[flyersnorth]

Thought this thread was interesting... not a lot of love for Gaudreau.

Is Johnny Gaudreau Cooked?

This guy is absolutely brutal now, plays almost 21 minutes a game, has zero goals and just four assists through 9 games? How did he score 115 points 2 years ago?

forums.hfboards.com

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Thought this thread was interesting... not a lot of love for Gaudreau.

Is Johnny Gaudreau Cooked?

This guy is absolutely brutal now, plays almost 21 minutes a game, has zero goals and just four assists through 9 games? How did he score 115 points 2 years ago?

forums.hfboards.com

Gaudreau is an excellent Voracek arc comp. He’s still the same very good player he’s always been. He just timed his career year as he was hitting UFA and now the expectations are way out of whack.

 

[Rebels57]

Over the full season Frost led the Flyers in ES scoring.

Not arbitrary, but people who are desperate to downplay Frost will happily ignore it.

Yeah the correct way to frame his accomplishment would be "Frost led the Flyers in ES scoring for the entire season despite low ice time and ineffective linemates the first 15-20 games of the season."

 

[deadhead]

Gaudreau is an excellent Voracek arc comp. He’s still the same very good player he’s always been. He just timed his career year as he was hitting UFA and now the expectations are way out of whack.

He's also facing the age curve, the fact that Giroux has been an outlier doesn't mean most players will be - betting on a player to avoid age related decline is like betting on an inside straight - you'll hit once in a while but it's not a smart strategy.

Basic rule of free agency - career seasons are just that, and odds are they're a random spike rather than an indication the player has reached a new permanent threshold of performance. Pay for future production (expected value), not past production.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Wut? I genuinely have no idea what they're trying to say here.

 

[Curufinwe]

Wow, it's already been a year since authentic fans were singing the praises of Zack MacEwen and predicting the Flyers would be in a dogfight for a wild card spot. Where does the time go.

Any news on how Torts is holding Cates accountable for gifting Carolina the GWG with that flakey turnover on Monday?

 

[deadhead]

Talk about fiction.

 

[Curufinwe]

Talk about fiction.

I have links to the posts that I'm happy to share, but I have a feeling you don't want to actually see these receipts.

 

[ponder719]

I have links to the posts that I'm happy to share, but I have a feeling you don't want to actually see these receipts.

I read that as a request: the facts are inconvenient, talk about fiction instead.

 

[landsbergfan]

https://x.com/mikekellynhl/status/1719441178767073552?s=46&t=TuC-bWeB1lBXt37lb2MzJA

Slow tho

 

[deadhead]

I have links to the posts that I'm happy to share, but I have a feeling you don't want to actually see these receipts.

Oh, I don't worry abut the posts, it's the "cherry picking" you engage in constantly that's irritating.

 

[Audible Velvet]

https://x.com/mikekellynhl/status/1719441178767073552?s=46&t=TuC-bWeB1lBXt37lb2MzJA

Slow tho

He’s catching those bastards somehow!
What a gem.

 

[Starat327]

Oh, I don't worry abut the posts, it's the "cherry picking" you engage in constantly that's irritating.

This is rich.

Take Lahoe baby.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Oh, I don't worry abut the posts, it's the "cherry picking" you engage in constantly that's irritating.

You mean like when it is shown that you did exactly what he said you did, and when you go check the context you'll find there isn't cherrypicking?

 

[BillDineen]

Starting to think Charlie is Torts' peg boy. His Frost take is out of character and he can't help but always praise him.

 

[Curufinwe]

Flyers Assign Felix Sandstrom To AHL On Conditioning Loan

The Philadelphia Flyers have assigned goaltender Felix Sandstrom to AHL Lehigh Valley on a conditioning loan.

www.prohockeyrumors.com

A conditioning loan can last for a maximum of 14 days and there are no restrictions on how many games he can play in that stretch (unlike a post-LTIR conditioning loan). While he’s with Lehigh Valley, Sandstrom will count in full against Philadelphia’s salary cap and will technically remain a part of the Flyers’ active roster, meaning they won’t be able to call up a skater to temporarily take Sandstrom’s place.

This is the list of teams with 3 goalies on their active roster.

Anaheim
Gibson - 5 GP
Dostal - 5 GP
Stalock - 0 GP (Emergency Loan)

Detroit
Husso - 7 GP
Reimer - 3 GP
Lyon - 0 GP

Montreal
Allen - 4 GP
Montembeault - 4 GP
Primeau - 1 GP

Philly
Hart - 7 GP
Ersson - 2 GP
Sandstrom - 0 GP (going to the AHL on a conditioning loan)

 

[Nizzle]

1. Belpedio
2. NONE
3. Ellis

 

[BrindamoursNose]

This one is for you buddy @deadhead

 

[BillDineen]

This one is for you buddy @deadhead

Lucky it only cost a 2nd to get rid of him!

 

[Starat327]

This one is for you buddy @deadhead

Also, @FlyerNutter

 

[deadhead]

This one is for you buddy @deadhead

Since he left Philly, he's been essentially a 3rd pair, PP specialist.
Not a bad player, but nothing special either.
I mean who cares.

Sure, AV should have just put him on the 3rd pair and never gotten Risto, but it would have made little difference, the team still would have sucked.
Ghost couldn't make Zona a good team, he wasn't making the Flyers a good team.

Carolina put him on the 3rd pair, let him walk so they could sign TDA at a lower cost.
That tells you want a good team thought of him.

 

[Curufinwe]

He was never on the third pair in Arizona which is where he spent the vast majority of his time since being traded.

Another obvious lie, easily disproved.