2024-25: Phantoms (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL), NCAA, Jrs., Int'l, etc.

deadhead

Registered User
Feb 26, 2014
51,523
22,455
Lycksell gets a hat trick.
Gaucher line had 4 ES goals tonight.
Gaucher had a goal and 3 assists.
Maybe Gaucher deserved that contract?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Sticktape
May 22, 2008
36,543
112,416
Lycksell gets a hat trick.
Gaucher line had 4 ES goals tonight.
Gaucher had a goal and 3 assists.
Maybe Gaucher deserved that contract?

“Maybe we knew this random guy will continue scoring at a higher equivalency rate in the AHL than he ever did in his previous AHL season or the ECHL or QMJHL” is an outstanding summation of who the Flyers are and what the defense of their processes look like.
 

deadhead

Registered User
Feb 26, 2014
51,523
22,455
“Maybe we knew this random guy will continue scoring at a higher equivalency rate in the AHL than he ever did in his previous AHL season or the ECHL or QMJHL” is an outstanding summation of who the Flyers are and what the defense of their processes look like.
Oh come on, we're talking a two way deal. If you've watched the Phantoms, Gaucher is clearly better than Gardner or Abols. At worst he'll be a key player on LHV, providing stability as they cycle through prospects the next few years.

And it's not like they committed to him until now, they let him work his way up from the ECHL to a bottom six AHL to a top six AHL role before they gave him that contract.

Low cost, no risk move.
 
May 22, 2008
36,543
112,416
Oh come on, we're talking a two way deal. If you've watched the Phantoms, Gaucher is clearly better than Gardner or Abols. At worst he'll be a key player on LHV, providing stability as they cycle through prospects the next few years.

And it's not like they committed to him until now, they let him work his way up from the ECHL to a bottom six AHL to a top six AHL role before they gave him that contract.

Low cost, no risk move.

Signing the contract was fine.

The only thing I objected to was the idea that anyone could reasonably predict this kind of scoring and/or using it as evidence of a sound process. But now I also object to the “at worst he’ll be a key player on LHV” take. Because we have to get carried away with everything for some reason. He could turn back into a pumpkin at any point. You won’t hear me hold that against them if he does.
 

deadhead

Registered User
Feb 26, 2014
51,523
22,455
Signing the contract was fine.

The only thing I objected to was the idea that anyone could reasonably predict this kind of scoring and/or using it as evidence of a sound process. But now I also object to the “at worst he’ll be a key player on LHV” take. Because we have to get carried away with everything for some reason. He could turn back into a pumpkin at any point. You won’t hear me hold that against them if he does.
You can say that for virtually any player, all it takes is one injury . . .

Now the harder call is whether a player is progressing or it's just an outlier season, b/c they generally look the same, especially over SSS.

I didn't take Gaucher seriously earlier in the season, but the last two games I saw, the Gaucher line with Lycksell and Wisdom passed the eyeball test. In the AHL, my basic test is if I watch a game, does the player look like one of the best players on the ice. If I have to look for his number, meh.

Of course, if you could predict the small number of marginal prospects who will turn out to be late bloomers, they'd get drafted much higher.
 

deadhead

Registered User
Feb 26, 2014
51,523
22,455
Speaking of Wisdom, after regressing last season and a slow start this season,
last ten games 3-5 8 +6.
Someone to watch going forward.

Desnoyers is a disappointment, seems to have faded into the boards.
Tuomaala can score, but -17 is so far worse than his teammates that you just can't blame goalies. I see another AHL season in his future as he learns how to play.
 

deadhead

Registered User
Feb 26, 2014
51,523
22,455
3rd rd - 22% play 200 games
4th rd - 13%
5th onward - 10%

200 games is an end of the roster player, guy who starts for a year or two or plays part-time, then hangs around the league for a few more years, often bouncing between the NHL and AHL.

4th line/6th D-man types at best.

So if you're talking about development failures, it's really the 1st and 2nd rd picks who showed promise in their D+1/D+2 seasons or in college, then failed to develop once they became pros.

Ginning.
 

Fight4yourRight

“Chuck’s my guy”
Dec 18, 2017
4,015
8,356
Jett and Jr camp:


Nobody could have predicted that Jett Luchanko would have made his NHL debut less than four months after going 13th overall to the Philadelphia Flyers last June. Even Luchanko was surprised.”

1735148675163.jpeg
 

Ad

Upcoming events

Ad

Ad