GDT: #55 | Flyers at Maple Leafs | February 15, 2024 | 7:00 PM | NBCSP

[Magua]

Jim Jackson breathing a sigh of relief the Flyers don’t have to pay Matthews and Marner and can spend that money on depth.

 

[Curufinwe]

Hartnell sounds like he’s in a tin can

 

[Gert B Frobe]

HAHAAAHAAAAA Eat SHIT Leafs

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

1-0
TS without the Elliott.

 

[Magua]

Oh, mama.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Beauty by Sanheim!

 

[BigToe]

Let’s gooo

 

[Beef Invictus]

See? Everything is going well. Bobby "Travis" Sanheim "Orr" out there

 

[Jack Straw]

Woot

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I really don’t understand people who don’t want to be aggressive in transition on the PK. Even if you think it’s risky, how is there not a part of you that at least appreciates the entertainment?

 

[Cody Webster]

Hilarious that they dress both Staal and Delturdbag instead of letting Olle play. Guess their afraid to put him out against the big bad Leafs

 

[Gert B Frobe]

Has Reaves touched the ice yet?

 

[Fire Tortorella]

Has Reaves touched the ice yet?

Not dressed.

Can we get a live thread?

 

[BigToe]

 

[Magua]

I really don’t understand people who don’t want to be aggressive in transition on the PK. Even if you think it’s risky, how is there not a part of you that at least appreciates the entertainment?

I long for the days of the VDV-PEB Power Kill. The potato battery of Power Kills.

 

[Curufinwe]

11F/7D with Deslauriers.....gross.

I dunno why Lycksell is on the team if Torts has no interest in playing him. Get Allison or Laczynski up instead.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

13 SHGs. The Flyers have scored 15 or more SHGs in a season 13 times. The team record is 22 in 1986-87. A collective bleep you to all the injuries that season! Denied that marvelous team a Cup.

 

[trostol]

How's Brink been down on the farm

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

This team is unbelievable shorthanded

 

[Gert B Frobe]

Keefe uses medicated vinegar and water to style his hair.

 

[Deadpool8812]

There's still tickets available for the outdoor game?

Not surprised

 

[JojoTheWhale]

“This might be good for the Leafs,”

— An absolute idiot broadcaster when asked about them winning less games than usual this year.

They have got to fix this broadcast. It’s impossibly bad.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

How's Brink been down on the farm

From less than a week ago....

On the Brink - Lehigh Valley Phantoms

Talented Bobby Brink Logging Big Minutes with the Phantoms to Become Full-Time NHL’er by Bob Rotruck February 10, 2024 Bobby Brink was true to his name entering this season. Not at all a lock to make the Philadelphia Flyers out of training camp, the talented young prospect was very much on the...

www.phantomshockey.com

In his first games back with the Phantoms on Jan. 26 and 27, Brink popped in three goals including an absolute missile cutting across the high slot and connecting to the upper-left corner. On a line with fellow young prospect Samu Tuomaala and experienced center Rhett Gardner, he had the freedom to create and buzz and generate chances all over the place.

But it seems unlikely that Brink will simply be able to score his way back up to the Flyers. There’s more work to be done. Tortorella says he wants to see greater progress and accountability in other areas of Brink’s game as well.

“Everything,” Tortorella said. “Practice habits. How he handles himself. Away from the puck. Everything a young man that has to go through the process does. The part for me is to get out of the way of the offensive skill that he has and teach him plays away from the puck. He has been inconsistent enough to the point where we think other guys are playing better and that we cannot afford to have him sitting.

“He needs to go down and play a ton of minutes in a great league.”

Also key for Brink’s development is a willingness to embrace the challenge and overcome the understandable emotions that any player can feel when they are removed from an NHL roster.

“You can’t take it as a disappointment or else it’s just going to affect the way you play down here,” Brink said. “I mean, you get some adversity and it’s all about how you face that adversity. I’m coming down here and I’m trying to have a good attitude and be a part of this team and help this team win. It’s a great group of guys in there. You come to the rink and everyone’s having fun so that helps you come in with a good attitude.

“And I don’t have a choice. I have to come in and play well.”

Brink has received the message and he’s going to get repeated opportunities from Laperriere, who says he is going to continue to play him a lot for as long as he has him on the Phantoms roster.

“Just play your game,” Laperriere said. “Play hard and make plays. That’s what we want him to do. That’s what they want him to do, the organization.

“Bobby’s a great kid. He wants to get back to the next level and I can’t blame him. That’s the best league in the world. But Bobby is Bobby. He’s going to be fine. I’m not expecting to have him too long because he’s so talented. The message is he needs to play. And he will play.”

How long will it be before he returns to the Flyers? Nobody knows the answer to that of course. But ask some of his teammates and they will quickly tell you what they think of Brink’s potential time frame with the Phantoms – as well as his incredible playmaking abilities.

“He’s incredible with the puck,” Wade Allison said. “Just the way he sees the ice is something else. He won’t be here for long.”

 

[Deadpool8812]

From less than a week ago....

On the Brink - Lehigh Valley Phantoms

Talented Bobby Brink Logging Big Minutes with the Phantoms to Become Full-Time NHL’er by Bob Rotruck February 10, 2024 Bobby Brink was true to his name entering this season. Not at all a lock to make the Philadelphia Flyers out of training camp, the talented young prospect was very much on the...

www.phantomshockey.com

In his first games back with the Phantoms on Jan. 26 and 27, Brink popped in three goals including an absolute missile cutting across the high slot and connecting to the upper-left corner. On a line with fellow young prospect Samu Tuomaala and experienced center Rhett Gardner, he had the freedom to create and buzz and generate chances all over the place.

But it seems unlikely that Brink will simply be able to score his way back up to the Flyers. There’s more work to be done. Tortorella says he wants to see greater progress and accountability in other areas of Brink’s game as well.

“Everything,” Tortorella said. “Practice habits. How he handles himself. Away from the puck. Everything a young man that has to go through the process does. The part for me is to get out of the way of the offensive skill that he has and teach him plays away from the puck. He has been inconsistent enough to the point where we think other guys are playing better and that we cannot afford to have him sitting.

“He needs to go down and play a ton of minutes in a great league.”

Also key for Brink’s development is a willingness to embrace the challenge and overcome the understandable emotions that any player can feel when they are removed from an NHL roster.

“You can’t take it as a disappointment or else it’s just going to affect the way you play down here,” Brink said. “I mean, you get some adversity and it’s all about how you face that adversity. I’m coming down here and I’m trying to have a good attitude and be a part of this team and help this team win. It’s a great group of guys in there. You come to the rink and everyone’s having fun so that helps you come in with a good attitude.

“And I don’t have a choice. I have to come in and play well.”

Brink has received the message and he’s going to get repeated opportunities from Laperriere, who says he is going to continue to play him a lot for as long as he has him on the Phantoms roster.

“Just play your game,” Laperriere said. “Play hard and make plays. That’s what we want him to do. That’s what they want him to do, the organization.

“Bobby’s a great kid. He wants to get back to the next level and I can’t blame him. That’s the best league in the world. But Bobby is Bobby. He’s going to be fine. I’m not expecting to have him too long because he’s so talented. The message is he needs to play. And he will play.”

How long will it be before he returns to the Flyers? Nobody knows the answer to that of course. But ask some of his teammates and they will quickly tell you what they think of Brink’s potential time frame with the Phantoms – as well as his incredible playmaking abilities.

“He’s incredible with the puck,” Wade Allison said. “Just the way he sees the ice is something else. He won’t be here for long.”

Forgot about Allison

 

[Deadpool8812]

You guys remember Bryan McCabe? The Flyers worked him so hard during that 2004 playoff series...he was a disaster