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

[Fire Tortorella]

Honestly if they are able to move both Walker and Risto I could potentially be OK (as in not angry, but not really liking it) with a Seeler re-signing.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Not saying they haven’t overachieved in other areas this year so far but I do think in the short term losing Hart is a big loss. They never really got sunken yet this year with extended stretches of poor goalie play rotating between Hart & Ersson. Now Ersson is gonna have to shoulder a true 1G workload & Peterson/Sandstrom aren’t nearly as good behind him.

Ersson being so young I wonder how well he would handle the #1 without anyone pushing him. He worked well with Hart because it seemed they pushed each other. I think Ersson is going to be a great goaltender but I just don’t know if he’s ready to be the clear #1. It’s a lot more pressure than what he had before Hart left the team

 

[trostol]

Culture...any time I see it

 

[FromOyVey2Matvei]

Charlie is the guest on the Evolving Hockey podcast this week. Here are the bullet points:

• Vigneault quit during the pandemic. He spent the first 15 minutes ripping the previous coaching staff. Sometimes it was direct. Sometimes not.
• He thinks there is now at least a chance of him staying now that Frost passed the creepy (my word, not his) Tortorella test about confronting him in return. No one is willing to tell him what was said in that meeting.
• He continues to not default to the metrics with Frost specifically. (This continues to be weird.)
• The Foerster discussion was mostly generic hockey terms with no specificity whatsoever like “hockey IQ” and “getting into open spaces”. A complete waste of time, including a “best case outcome for (Foerster) is Mark Stone” with a caveat of “the chances are probably in the single digits.”
• Sean Couturier: Still Good
• Laughton has had an absolutely terrible year. (cough)
• He thinks they’re not going to add. He does think Walker gets moved in part because they acquired Drysdale. Seeler probably stays.

There was various and sundry other discussion about topics like the Flyers being a rush team, but it’s stuff everyone here already knows.

I appreciate you wasting your time listening to Charlie’s drivel so the rest of us don’t have to.

Truly doing the lord’s work.

 

[renberg]

Ersson being so young I wonder how well he would handle the #1 without anyone pushing him. He worked well with Hart because it seemed they pushed each other. I think Ersson is going to be a great goaltender but I just don’t know if he’s ready to be the clear #1. It’s a lot more pressure than what he had before Hart left the team

With the upward trajectory of his play, it was just a matter of time as to when Ersson took the starting job from Hart. So it's now instead of next season. I wouldn't underestimate SE's ability to handle the job. If the guys play well in front of him, he'll handle the job. If they play like ****, like they did against Boston, he'll get bombed but that won't be his fault. He's an ace. Could well be the next great Swedish goaltender.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

With the upward trajectory of his play, it was just a matter of time as to when Ersson took the starting job from Hart. So it's now instead of next season. I wouldn't underestimate SE's ability to handle the job. If the guys play well in front of him, he'll handle the job. If they play like ****, like they did against Boston, he'll get bombed but that won't be his fault. He's an ace. Could well be the next great Swedish goaltender.

tell me again why Errson in his small sample is better then Hart when Harts stats show he's a #1 ?

you guys are setting yourself up for disapointment when Errson turns out to be nothing special..

 

[mize370]

tell me again why Errson in his small sample is better then Hart when Harts stats show he's a #1 ?

you guys are setting yourself up for disapointment when Errson turns out to be nothing special..

That has never happened here before. lol the disappointment part.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

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