GDT: #45 | Flyers at Blue Jackets | Tuesday, January 14, 2025 | 7:00 PM | NBCSP+, 93.3 FM

[trostol]

 

[renberg]

Laughton was terrible the entire game. He’s cooked.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

I actually think Drysdale has improved a lot recently. And I thought he was mostly good tonight.

But he took a terrible defensive angle after Laughton's brutal neutral zone turnover which led to CBJ's late tying goal.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Hextall drafted him, so I think we know where the real blame lies

godam Niskanen...

 

[FLYguy3911]

And that move by Marchenko was balls out. You love to see it

Went a pick before Adam Ginning. We got an NHL lock in the second round so can’t complain about that but Hextall should have traded up.

 

[deadhead]

If the Flyers had taken either of the Russian forwards, people would have whined for years.
Why are we drafting these big Russians who can't even score in the MHL and VHL!
Just another example of the Flyers drafting size over skill.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

Went a pick before Adam Ginning. We got an NHL lock in the second round so can’t complain about that but Hextall should have traded up.

Changed my mind on your tagline. "The scouts wanted Ginning!"

 

[Ghosts Beer]

I pumped my fist when we drafted Provy. Was the slam dunk pick at the time. Them botching development once again was the problem.

I wouldn't say Provorov was the slam dunk pick at the time.

I badly wanted Barzal at 7. I liked Werenski better than Provorov, but I did still like Provorov even though as the draft approached I felt he was being overrated. Unfortunately, Provorov was the wrong choice over what turned out to be multiple much better players. I don't think botched development is the reason.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Wow. Bob Clarke was just on the postgame show and said the scouts unanimously had Werenski over Provorov in 2015.

Only until the next time we get dummied by the Avs, in which case they really wanted Rantanen all along.

 

[Magua]

Went a pick before Adam Ginning. We got an NHL lock in the second round so can’t complain about that but Hextall should have traded up.

I wasn’t a bang on the table Marchenko guy — he had major tunnel vision in his draft tape — but he had tools/skill for DAYS. Then there’s Serron Noel on the other end of possible results. People can play the hindsight game, but guys like Ginning/Berglund/Gill are nothing and will be nothing. Some guys you don’t see it all clicking, but you understand why it could click. That’s a philosophy this team fails repeatedly.