2024-25 Roster Thread #2: Midseasonnar

[Beef Invictus]

Thanks. I should have paused immediately after the trade talk, but ended up hearing Briere stroke himself off for having Staal, Johnson, Hathaway and Deslauriers working resurrecting the team's culture.

But I was told he doesn't value them for nonsense reasons

 

[dragonoffrost]

But I was told he doesn't value them for nonsense reasons

I thought the new word for them was meaningless....

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Thanks. I should have paused immediately after the trade talk, but ended up hearing Briere stroke himself off for having Staal, Johnson, Hathaway and Deslauriers working resurrecting the team's culture.

not one person here could have called that he was selected becuz he bows to the oldboisclub..

 

[deadhead]

It's like this we hear at least once per season. "We wanted a veteran with experience for our playoff run. " But how do you become a veteran with experience for playoff runs??

Be good enough to break into the lineup, say like Andrae has?

Rookies this year, Michkov, Andrae, Kolosov, Fedotov.
2nd year, Foerster, Brink, Zamula, Ersson

The oldest players in the top 20 (play every day)
Hathaway (33), Couts (32), Seeler (31), Laughton (30), Risto (30)
We'll see how many are left by May. Risto and Laughton already mentioned in trade talks.

The only other players older than 25
Sanheim (28), Fedotov (28), TK (27), Poehling (26)

 

[dragonoffrost]

Be good enough to break into the lineup, say like Andrae has?

Rookies this year, Michkov, Andrae, Kolosov, Fedotov.
2nd year, Foerster, Brink, Zamula, Ersson

The oldest players in the top 20 (play every day)
Hathaway (33), Couts (32), Seeler (31), Laughton (30), Risto (30)
We'll see how many are left by May. Risto and Laughton already mentioned in trade talks.

The only other players older than 25
Sanheim (28), Fedotov (28), TK (27), Poehling (26)

Other than Fedotov the bolded all have over 6 years of NHL experience aka Veterans.

 

[BernieParent]

Damn that ends up being at least 17 phone calls!

That's the brilliance of Briere's tactics. He doesn't make the phone calls; others do. And if they don't want to pay the Flyers' sky-high prices, then too bad. There is a bias for inaction.

 

[deadhead]

Other than Fedotov the bolded all have over 6 years of NHL experience aka Veterans.

And TK and Sanheim are going to be part of the veteran core going forward.
Poehling not so sure, depends on the development of young centers behind him.

 

[BernieParent]

That's because it's triflingly easy to look at a player who may have overcooked in the AHL and claim it was because they never had the talent to begin with. One can always concoct a number of explanations for why someone or something fails, and simply adopt the one that best suits their preferred narrative.

A coach's job is to identify those players who have regressed because they weren't ready, and help them identify and overcome those deficiencies. Good teams do that, bad teams don't.

Some coaches just know these things. They don't need video or even live on-ice examples. They just know. Like Tortorella and Hartnell; he didn't let Hartnell's actual stats get in the way of knowing he was bad.