GDT: #47: Flyers at Capitals, Wednesday, January 27, 2016, 8:00 pm ET

[Rebels57]

Wait. Why are Ghost and MDZ playing together?

Seeing the Bellemare line actually listed as the 3rd line is nauseating.

Why has God forsaken us?

 

[bennysflyers16]

Little off topic, watch the TSN story on Rick Rypien if you can, very well done.

 

[Karma]

Obviously Weal doesn't bring the structure that Umberger does

 

[Jaraco]

Yup, looking at that line-up without Couturier in it makes me nauseous.

 

[Curufinwe]

letting umberger, raffl, or vv play over Weal just astounds me

It's more astonishing that you think Weal is anywhere close to Raffl.

 

[Flyotes]

Jakub Voracek (good but percentages down)- Claude Giroux (on an island) - Wayne Simmonds (weaker 5on5)

Matt Read (please return to form) - Michael Raffl (please return to last year's form) - Brayden Schenn (good inconsistently)

Chris VandeVelde (tweener) - Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (followed up a solid last year with being invisible this year) - Ryan White (last 20 games been brutal)

R.J. Umberger (buy out candidate) - Scott Laughton (they will never help you) - Sam Gagner (buy out candidate, too soft for bottom 6)

Michael Del Zotto (playing on too high a pairing) - Shayne Gostisbehere (great)

Nick Schultz (slipping) - Mark Streit (still recovering from injury - long in tooth)

Brandon Manning (tire fire) - Radko Gudas (good in some ways)

Mark this down as a W for the Flyers.

 

[Jaraco]

Jakub Voracek (good but percentages down)- Claude Giroux (on an island) - Wayne Simmonds (weaker 5on5)

Matt Read (please return to form) - Michael Raffl (please return to last year's form) - Brayden Schenn (good inconsistently)

Chris VandeVelde (tweener) - Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (followed up a solid last year with being invisible this year) - Ryan White (last 20 games been brutal)

R.J. Umberger (buy out candidate) - Scott Laughton (they will never help you) - Sam Gagner (buy out candidate, too soft for bottom 6)

Michael Del Zotto (playing on too high a pairing) - Shayne Gostisbehere (great)

Nick Schultz (slipping) - Mark Streit (still recovering from injury - long in tooth)

Brandon Manning (tire fire) - Radko Gudas (good in some ways)

Mark this down as a W for the Flyers.

Looks good to me, but I'd just have to correct you on three guys:

VdV - Is most definitely worse than a tweener, unless by tweener you mean an ECHL - AHL tweener.

Bellemare - Dumb dumb coach playing him higher than he should be. When he plays in his correct place, like last year, he's great for what he is.

Bumberger - Didn't say enough negative things about him.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

that gudas manning pairing is going to be a trainwreck

poor Gudas from 1st pair with MDZ to bottom pairing with Mannning... ouch

 

[CodyTheHuman]

This game is going to be terrible. Somehow we'll win

 

[bb12]

NHL rivalry night on NBCSN just finished about how intense the fights 14/15 was. Ohh man that gets me riled up

 

[WastedTalent]

Lol. Some of Hakstol's decisions this year you can only laugh at...hopefully he learns something this year and applies it to next year

 

[GingerFetish]

It's more astonishing that you think Weal is anywhere close to Raffl.

His play in the last few games just hasn't been good. He's basically a non-factor, Weal is an x-factor at least.

 

[Rebels57]

Looks good to me, but I'd just have to correct you on three guys:

VdV - Is most definitely worse than a tweener, unless by tweener you mean an ECHL - AHL tweener.

Bellemare - Dumb dumb coach playing him higher than he should be. When he plays in his correct place, like last year, he's great for what he is.

Bumberger - Didn't say enough negative things about him.

Hakstol has no choice but to give Bellemare 3rd line minutes because Laughton cant win a faceoff and hasnt been reliable defensively.

 

[OriginJM]

i love me some gudas but putting him with manning is going to be a feast for the capitals

 

[Striiker]

As long as Hakstol get all this stupidity out of his system before our other prospects come up I'll be fine with it. But if his dumbass obsessions get in the way of Morin, Provorov, Sanheim, Konecny, etc, I'm going to lose my mind.

Luckily that's extremely unlikely since most of this trash will be gone before then and I have 100% faith in Hextall to not give the coach the tools to be stupid by keeping around bad players.

 

[Rebels57]

Liam McHugh and Mike Milbury going at it during the pregame show. McHugh clearly doesn't like this guy. Can't believe NBC is still using that jackass Milbury during Flyers game.

 

[Jray42]

Milbury is a jackass, what a ****ing whiner

 

[bb12]

NBCSN is saying...

Gagner - raffl - schenn
Read - Laughton - weal
Hak line

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Starters: Neuvirth (vs. Holtby), Gostisbehere-Del Zotto, Voracek-Giroux-Simmonds

Non-IR scratches: Mason, Medvedev and Weal (Couturier has been placed on IR)

Referees: Kevin Pollock and Dean Morton

 

[Domino666]

I do like how Jonesy throws little digs in at Milbury all the time

 

[BringBackHakstol]

This has the potential to be real ugly

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

NBCSN is saying...

Gagner - raffl - schenn
Read - Laughton - weal
Hak line

Weal is scratched for this game.

 

[OriginJM]

may god have mercy on philadelphia sports tonight

 

[Domino666]

Not going to lie I want to see Ovi finally win a cup, hopefully they can make good on it this year

 

[Flyerfan4life]

i wonder how long before Milbury *****s about Mason...

even thou hes neither playing nor backing up... i bet he still goes at him about something...