2023-24 Roster Thread #7: A shave and a haircut, two bits

[Beef Invictus]

Listen, I may have done math wrong. And forgotten that Richards/Carter even existed.

It has not been a banner morning for me so far.



How could I have forgotten?! I was one of the girls who partied with them in Old City in that one photo on the internet.

Please tell me this is real. You'd be a Flyers legend.

 

[BrindamoursNose]

Please tell me this is real. You'd be a Flyers legend.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Who knew Gina Lynn posted here?

 

[FLYguy3911]

Who knew Gina Lynn posted here?

Gina Lynn taking a picture with Eminem randomly showed up on my feed yesterday. No idea why.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Gina Lynn taking a picture with Eminem randomly showed up on my feed yesterday. No idea why.

Probably because you responded to a @BrindamoursNose post.

Just a suggestion of "people you may know" in the algorithm.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

You can do this! 2003 is my hint to you

Colin Fraser

 

[Beef Invictus]

When I think of "famous Richards and Carter partying" images my go-tos are "Carter groping" and "Richards chugging liquor." Those seemed to be posted everywhere on blogs and discussions as a rather large chunk of the fanbase turned on them and rumors became ever more extravagant.

 

[Kelmitchell2]

This is a fun guessing game as to who the 5 Top 6 centers are

Giroux
Forsberg
Couturier
Frost

You've got me on the 5th (assuming the previous 4 are considered correct)

Giroux, richards, Carter, couts, frost

 

[deadhead]

Tbf Tippett and Foerster are already playing LW! (well, Foerster spent most of this year there)

I think that's been part of Torts shuffling lines, Briere wants to evaluate how different players fit different roles before giving extensions and the TDL. I think Tippett being comfortable on the left side probably played into the decision to extend him - has more value if he can play both sides. Foerster has also played well there, impressive for a 21 year old rookie, to both break into the NHL and do so on his off side.

That's an important part of rebuilding, if they were serious PO contenders, they'd trade a RW for LW to balance lines rather than experiment to see who can play on their off side. Same on defense, playing Sanheim at RHD, etc. Some players are comfortable on their off side, others struggle. Knowing what you have tells you what you need.

I think Briere would love to see Michkov move to center, just to get a read on whether that's an option down the road. But no control over that situation.

 

[deadhead]

Deady knows a lot more about these types of numbers than I do. My advanced training background is largely cryptography. The second you assume knowledgeable people can't teach you anything, you've failed yourself.

That shit is over my head, same way the Schrödinger equations are the reason I eventually ended up in economics rather than physics.

I have an examined field in econometrics, but truth is I brute forced my way through it (memorized a lot of equations), I don't have an intuitive feel for statistics - did it more to get a feel for the intuition when I read applied economic and social science articles - "a man has to know his limitations." It has served me well over the decades, I'm not intimidated by applied research, whether economics or medicine b/c I have basic understanding of modeling, sampling and inference (and a lot of articles on my hard drive on how to cheat with statistics, know thy enemy!)

It's weird how higher maths work, no problem with Calculus and Calculus II, taught myself Dynamic Programming in graduate school, Set Theory (first chapter of Debreu's Theory of Value). But advanced undergraduate Probability and Statistics was really hard for me. The same brain that was comfortable with n-dimensional hyperplanes intersecting with convex functions couldn't deal with the basics in those areas.

Now I'm too old for higher maths, so I write policy history.

You lose your analytical sharpness as you age (I was brilliant at 21 on coffee and cigarettes), but gain wisdom and perspective (one would hope).

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

"a man has to know his limitations."

Do you ever smoke a bowl and go "F*** them limitations!" ?

 

[VladDrag]

When I think of "famous Richards and Carter partying" images my go-tos are "Carter groping" and "Richards chugging liquor." Those seemed to be posted everywhere on blogs and discussions as a rather large chunk of the fanbase turned on them and rumors became ever more extravagant.

I knew a girl who claimed she used to party with the Flyers in Sea Isle back in 2009.. She was a waitress at a place I worked during my time in college. She was attractive and so where all of her friends, so the story checks out. It was the first summer when the Flyers signed Emery, and she said Emery used to do the biggest lines of the group.

 

[Audible Velvet]

Do you ever smoke a bowl and go "F*** them limitations!" ?

Lord knows I’ve tried.

I knew a girl who claimed she used to party with the Flyers in Sea Isle back in 2009.. She was a waitress at a place I worked during my time in college. She was attractive and so where all of her friends, so the story checks out. It was the first summer when the Flyers signed Emery, and she said Emery used to do the biggest lines of the group.

“Razor”. A Flyer origin story

 

[thedjpd]

I think that's been part of Torts shuffling lines, Briere wants to evaluate how different players fit different roles before giving extensions and the TDL. I think Tippett being comfortable on the left side probably played into the decision to extend him - has more value if he can play both sides. Foerster has also played well there, impressive for a 21 year old rookie, to both break into the NHL and do so on his off side.

That's an important part of rebuilding, if they were serious PO contenders, they'd trade a RW for LW to balance lines rather than experiment to see who can play on their off side. Same on defense, playing Sanheim at RHD, etc. Some players are comfortable on their off side, others struggle. Knowing what you have tells you what you need.

I think Briere would love to see Michkov move to center, just to get a read on whether that's an option down the road. But no control over that situation.

I think they 100% do this. He's been effective there in a men's league, albeit in some mitigating circumstances, but I think he becomes the next Giroux hybrid with a bit more of a scoring touch. His IQ is off the charts and he has been on the record stating that he'd like to play center but as he's still developing his game it's best not to fiddle with that too much. I think he starts adding that part of his game after around 21ish.

 

[Curufinwe]

ND and GH are the 2nd and 3rd lowest scoring forwards in the entire league (minimum 300 minutes).

Player Season Totals - Natural Stat Trick

Interestingly, the worst forward is Lomberg of Florida, but he has a very respectable ES GF% of 50% despite his lack of production. Philly's prized pair of overpaid plugs are rocking the team's worst GF% at 23.53 and 25.

 

[deadhead]

Do you ever smoke a bowl and go "F*** them limitations!" ?

Vape man. Easier on the lungs than the dirt Columbian of the 1970s.

The only advantage of approaching 70 is with death around the corner, you learn to let the little shit go, life is literally too short to sweat the small stuff.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Vape man. Easier on the lungs than the dirt Columbian of the 1970s.

The only advantage of approaching 70 is with death around the corner, you learn to let the little shit go, life is literally too short to sweat the small stuff.

I plan on becoming eternal, so therefore I can and should sweat everything of all sizes

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

ND and GH are the 2nd and 3rd lowest scoring forwards in the entire league (minimum 300 minutes).

Player Season Totals - Natural Stat Trick

Interestingly, the worst forward is Lomberg of Florida, but he has a very respectable ES GF% of 50% despite his lack of production. Philly's prized pair of overpaid plugs are rocking the team's worst GF% at 23.53 and 25.

But they are great in the room man. You can’t replace that!

 

[deadhead]

I plan on becoming eternal, so therefore I can and should sweat everything of all sizes

Plan away.

“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley.”.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Plan away.

“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley.”.

I'm not mice or men. I am electrified meat.

 

[WolfOfBroadStreet14]

I'm not mice or men. I am electrified meat.

hawt

 

[trostol]

 

[flyerslducks]

On a side note, do fedotov or kolosov make their way to NA next year? Both having solid seasons in khl

 

[Appleyard]

On a side note, do fedotov or kolosov make their way to NA next year? Both having solid seasons in khl

Kolosov is coming this year...


should be over once his KHL year is done. Mid March.