GDT: #55 | Flyers at The "Utah" | Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | 9:00 PM UFO Time | NBCSP, 93.3 FM

[HeadLiceHatty]

Since they’ve already completely neutered and stagnated developing Michkov, there is really no reason at all to watch this team

yup, I was primed to watch today and just decided sleep would be better woke up in the middle of the 3rd wasn't disappointed. I've said it many times, Go Birds, it's the only team this city has, I hope the Flyers sell, fans really need to boycott, buying merch and buying tickets to the point it hurts them.

 

[BillDineen]

on replay ... too bad Ersson stole a point. Richard in OT? Laughton right at OT end with TK instead of Michkov. Glad Torts' "changes" to 3v3 after the Michkov winner in Dec were to make it more defensive and it leads to a goal. F you Torts

 

[BiggE]

I fell asleep after the second.

Winning!

 

[BiggE]

On the plus side, Ovi could get a lot closer to Gretzky after playing us this Thursday.

 

[CerpinTaxt]

Losers can't even lose right

 

[BillDineen]

Torts post game saying he wishes they understood situational play better and to simplify the neutral zone play. He needs to be remined that safe is death in the NHL

 

[Strawberry Fields]

On the plus side, Ovi could get a lot closer to Gretzky after playing us this Thursday.

Ovi four-goal game
Goals by the Hershey boys (McMichael, Protas, Frank)
Tidy 7-0 loss
Inject it into my veins.

 

[bennysflyers16]

It's wild that all the callups are vet scrubs, like we have ZERO skill available for callup.

We are so far from even being an above average team let alone a contender.

Torts , please quit and go do the only thing you are good at and pet dogs.

 

[freakydallas13]

It's wild that all the callups are vet scrubs, like we have ZERO skill available for callup.

We are so far from even being an above average team let alone a contender.

Torts , please quit and go do the only thing you are good at and pet dogs.

Rest easy my friend, at least we have a median second line LW in Noah Cates.

 

[renberg]

Torts post game saying he wishes they understood situational play better and to simplify the neutral zone play.

Uh, isn't that sort of the job of the HC?

 

[Sombastate]

Torts , please quit and go do the only thing you are good at and pet dogs.

This is how i feel. I doubt that Torts is a complete asshole. Everything about his life outside of hockey would indicate that he's probably a bang-up-dude. He also probably is a smart hockey mind. But my god, is he a terrible coach with a completely archaic philosophy.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Who was the last team to win the Cup with an enforcer in their regular lineup? Boston/Thornton? LA/Clifford? Both over a decade ago?

 

[Curufinwe]

I fell asleep after the second.

Winning!

I went to bed at about 11:25pm, when they still led 2-1. Woke up to the very predictable OT loss.

 

[MJL66]

This is how i feel. I doubt that Torts is a complete asshole. Everything about his life outside of hockey would indicate that he's probably a bang-up-dude. He also probably is a smart hockey mind. But my god, is he a terrible coach with a completely archaic philosophy.

He is a smart hockey mind if it's 2003. His smart hockey mind has not adapted or grown in 20 years.

I knew that Tortorella was a complete BS artist when he started talking about the locker room when he was first hired before he event stepped foot in it.

 

[Beef Invictus]

He is a smart hockey mind if it's 2003. His smart hockey mind has not adapted or grown in 20 years.

I knew that Tortorella was a complete BS artist when he started talking about the locker room when he was first hired before he event stepped foot in it.

Another hint was when he was on TV and proclaimed he'd rather have Barkov than McDavid. Also that you don't win by scoring a lot. Those are troubling thoughts.

 

[mr4tno]

This is how i feel. I doubt that Torts is a complete asshole. Everything about his life outside of hockey would indicate that he's probably a bang-up-dude. He also probably is a smart hockey mind. But my god, is he a terrible coach with a completely archaic philosophy.

"Has a smart hockey mind" and "archaic coaching philosophy" are mutually exclusive. Their Venn diagrams do not intersect.....

 

[Sombastate]

"Has a smart hockey mind" and "archaic coaching philosophy" are mutually exclusive. Their Venn diagrams do not intersect.....

You can be a smart guy with a bad philosophy. I'm one of Torts biggest haters, but do i think he knows the sport fairly well? Yes. Do i think i could sit down and learn a lot from him if we spoke about hockey? Yes. Do i think other coaches with better philosophies have passed him by? Yes.

 

[mr4tno]

How do you allow that goal? Dreadful.

Beautiful shot by Guenther, though.

That might have been Ersson's best game in the NHL. Too bad for him.

Problem with Ersson is he one save away from the DL. Also, on 2 of the 3 goals he had a clear view. Very good goalies make those saves in addition the spectacular ones he made

 

[Beef Invictus]

"Has a smart hockey mind" and "archaic coaching philosophy" are mutually exclusive. Their Venn diagrams do not intersect.....

I think they can! For example, Hakstol here had a forward thinking hockey mind. He expressed ideas about Dmen and creating offense from the blueline that were a solid 4-5 years head of everyone else at the time and which would eventually be embraced by a lot of really good teams. The cutting edge stuff. His actual coaching was f***ing horrible though. Whatever the hell his ideas were, he had no methods or systems to make them be realized, despite having a bunch of dmen capable. He even actively preferred the guys who made his vision most impossible.

Rocky Thompson is similar. He expressed all the right ideas once. Valid, good takes. Knowing the theory isn't the same as using it, though. Like how having an exquisite grasp of music theory doesn't make you Bach on its own.

This isn't the same wording that Sombastate used, but as a coach I think Tortorella is proving to be quite adept at getting guys to play and do things the way he wants. He's always done that. It's just that the things he wants are damned stupid. They at least perfectly coincide with his ideas, though. Hakstol had ideas. His methods of achieving those ideas were completely contrary to those ideas. He was also actually good at getting guys to follow those methods, so there's that I guess.

Then there's AV. He was stupid at ideas. He was stupid about his pursuit of the ideas. He was stupid at getting guys to play in any consistent way.

 

[Audible Velvet]

It's wild that all the callups are vet scrubs, like we have ZERO skill available for callup.

We are so far from even being an above average team let alone a contender.

Torts , please quit and go do the only thing you are good at and pet dogs.

The dogs probably don’t like him either. But he does less harm that way, so yes.