2024-25 Roster Thread #1: The Beginninging

volnoir

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I can see that maybe the last couple years this team still belonged to the older guys like Laughts, TK and Couts. However if game 1 is any indication of anything the *kids* (they aren't that young anymore) have graduated and have taken over this team. TK still has it, but Coutourier and Laughton are on the outside looking in.
 
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At least some horse. Team's coached by a gigantic horse's ass.

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Curufinwe

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At 37.5%, Frost now has the second best SO% in Flyers history (minimum 8 attempts). Briere and Patrick are tied for third at 36.4%.

Can you guess who’s number one at 45.5%?
 

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I can see that maybe the last couple years this team still belonged to the older guys like Laughts, TK and Couts. However if game 1 is any indication of anything the *kids* (they aren't that young anymore) have graduated and have taken over this team. TK still has it, but Coutourier and Laughton are on the outside looking in.
This is a very young team, and we're not talking marginal "youth" like Twarynski, Bunnaman, etc a few seasons ago - Brink and Zamula might be the only young players on this team who aren't NHL locks going forward.

Not sure anyone from the AHL will make this team in the future, a few have a shot.
But they got a bunch of solid prospects in the pipeline, this last draft is looking pretty good so far, but SSS. Berglund, Gill, Ruohonen off to good starts, Bonk, Barkey, Ciernak, etc.

The one prospect faltering this season is Sotheran, but I suspect he's out of shape due to his heart condition, he hardly played in camp so they might have shut him down for tests/treatment? We'll learn more at some point.

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Carter Sotheran wasn't on the ice today. He revealed he's dealing with a flare up of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, which he's dealt with for four years. He's hopeful he'll be able to play this weekend and they can get it under control.
 

Adam Warlock

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Im listening to the snow the goalie interview with the "brain trust".

Literally every interview ive heard with Jones, he brings up how our cap is tied up but in 2 years theyll have the ability to spend big. Hes openly admitting theyre gonna spend for the sake of spending. They get off on the idea that a big FA would choose to sign here.
 
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deadhead

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Im listening to the snow the goalie interview with the "brain trust".

Literally every interview ive heard with Jones, he brings up how our cap is tied up but in 2 years theyll have the ability to spend big. Hes openly admitting theyre gonna spend for the sake of spending. They get off on the idea that a big FA would choose to sign here.
He says that, but when they roll out the spreadsheet with extensions built in, that money is going to disappear.

Plus after this summer's draft, not sure there will be a lot of openings in 2-3 years.

What is more likely is a "compression" trade with prospects and draft picks like Vegas has done, for a top young player in his last couple RFA seasons who they then extend.
 

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Im listening to the snow the goalie interview with the "brain trust".

Literally every interview ive heard with Jones, he brings up how our cap is tied up but in 2 years theyll have the ability to spend big. Hes openly admitting theyre gonna spend for the sake of spending. They get off on the idea that a big FA would choose to sign here.

The Flyers are telling us in no uncertain terms they don’t want a Panarin-type UFA, not that they’d ever pull one. They want multiple depth players with cap space. That they can achieve.
 
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Does that mean it was a rebuild from 2017-2020, when almost all these players were picked? Seems disingenuous! There's Michkov, and then there's Luchanko (youngest player in team history skewing that), for whom no rebuilding team would ever burn an ELC year in his D+1.

You could play an entire team of teenage draft picks, but it doesn't make it a rebuild. The Sharks are older than the Avs. It's noise.
 
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