Around the League - 2022-23 Season Edition

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Sens before acquiring Chychrun: 10-3-1
Sens after acquiring Chychrun: 3-5-1

Lol

 

[ULF_55]

Okay, this thread is to be about "Around the League - Hockey Related"

There are other social media sites to discuss non-hockey items.

 

[3blizzard4]

So who will win the Stanley Cup?

 

[ACC1224]

Okay, this thread is to be about "Around the League - Hockey Related"

There are other social media sites to discuss non-hockey items.

 

[ULF_55]

Demko is on an island

Took them 10 min into the 3rd to get finally get a shot lol

Demko wins.

 

[GardinerTheForward]

It'd be difficult to even guess since he wasn't traded.

thats the point. I am wondering if we used washing’s first and a prospect would we have been able to get him. We would have flipped gustafson as well. Guatafsson is one of too many D

 

[Buds17]

thats the point. I am wondering if we used washing’s first and a prospect would we have been able to get him. We would have flipped gustafson as well. Guatafsson is one of too many D

I'm just not sure why CBJ moves its team captain who's signed for term? Although the return value you've suggested might very well be fine, I'm skeptical there was any deal to be made.

As for retaining Gustafsson, I suppose Dubas likes the idea of (further) protection from injury and the flexibility to go 11-7 at times? I felt Gustafsson was a secondary addition to that 1st round pick and mused about the possibility of him being dealt again as well. Apparently not.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Jesus Christ it's just barely halfway through the first period and Buffalo is down 3-0 to Boston already.

 

[hockeywiz542]

Sources: Three Flyers legends had no say in Danny Brière’s promotion or Chuck Fletcher’s firing

A new day dawns: CEO Dave Scott did not consult the Three Wise Men, Flyers blue bloods for 50 years and now advisers. And if you think Briere is a product of institutional nepotism, think again.

www.inquirer.com

For five decades the Flyers have been stuck in a toxic trap of nostalgia. They’ve been held hostage to Three Wise Men, legends as players who now sit in secluded offices, operating without accountability, peddling favors and favoritism to connections who see the game through the same mottled, last-century lenses as they still see it.

Last week, after 45 years of institutional nepotism, the Flyers had a chance to turn the page.

The sports wing of parent company Comcast Spectacor had a chance to ignore the Three Wise Men — Bob Clarke, Paul Holmgren, and Bill Barber — all former players and front office executives now ensconced as “senior advisers” along with latecomer and outsider Dean Lombardi. CEO Dave Scott had a chance to fire general manager Chuck Fletcher and promote someone from outside the Flyers’ inbred bloodlines — ideally, someone who would deviate from the incestuous progressions that ruined a once-proud hockey club.

As it turns out, Scott did just that.

Scott fired Fletcher on his own, according to two league sources. Then he named Danny Brière interim general manager — again, on his own. Brière is expected to have the “interim” removed at the end of the season, according to a league source.

But wait. Brière wore the Orange and Black, right? So, same old, same old, right?

Wrong. Brière might be a former Flyer, and he’s close to Holmgren, but he is no Golden Child in the eyes of the Three Wise Men. In 2017, Holmgren sent him to run Spectacor’s ECHL team in Maine, but it was Valerie Camillo, president of Spectacor’s sports wing, who in 2020 sent Brière to the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, which is something of a GM factory. Brière has spent the last year or so tailing Fletcher, but he always was an interloper.

The Three Wise Men would not have approved of the firing, nor the promotion, said one league source.

Scott knew this. So, they were not asked. No consultation. Nothing. He just did it.

 

[willmma]

Jesus Christ it's just barely halfway through the first period and Buffalo is down 3-0 to Boston already.

On an early 1pm game, back end of back-to-back with travel.
Nothing phases this team.

I swear to god, they're just doing it to piss me off.

 

[PromisedLand]

On an early 1pm game, back end of back-to-back with travel.
Nothing phases this team.

I swear to god, they're just doing it to piss me off.

how much “ experimentation” are the bruins doing with their line up?

 

[Peasy]

Sources: Three Flyers legends had no say in Danny Brière’s promotion or Chuck Fletcher’s firing

A new day dawns: CEO Dave Scott did not consult the Three Wise Men, Flyers blue bloods for 50 years and now advisers. And if you think Briere is a product of institutional nepotism, think again.

www.inquirer.com

For five decades the Flyers have been stuck in a toxic trap of nostalgia. They’ve been held hostage to Three Wise Men, legends as players who now sit in secluded offices, operating without accountability, peddling favors and favoritism to connections who see the game through the same mottled, last-century lenses as they still see it.

Last week, after 45 years of institutional nepotism, the Flyers had a chance to turn the page.

The sports wing of parent company Comcast Spectacor had a chance to ignore the Three Wise Men — Bob Clarke, Paul Holmgren, and Bill Barber — all former players and front office executives now ensconced as “senior advisers” along with latecomer and outsider Dean Lombardi. CEO Dave Scott had a chance to fire general manager Chuck Fletcher and promote someone from outside the Flyers’ inbred bloodlines — ideally, someone who would deviate from the incestuous progressions that ruined a once-proud hockey club.

As it turns out, Scott did just that.

Scott fired Fletcher on his own, according to two league sources. Then he named Danny Brière interim general manager — again, on his own. Brière is expected to have the “interim” removed at the end of the season, according to a league source.

But wait. Brière wore the Orange and Black, right? So, same old, same old, right?

Wrong. Brière might be a former Flyer, and he’s close to Holmgren, but he is no Golden Child in the eyes of the Three Wise Men. In 2017, Holmgren sent him to run Spectacor’s ECHL team in Maine, but it was Valerie Camillo, president of Spectacor’s sports wing, who in 2020 sent Brière to the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, which is something of a GM factory. Brière has spent the last year or so tailing Fletcher, but he always was an interloper.

The Three Wise Men would not have approved of the firing, nor the promotion, said one league source.

Scott knew this. So, they were not asked. No consultation. Nothing. He just did it.

Imagine seeing the work Fletcher did and still thinking that this guy should be employed?

Biases are weird.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Jesus Christ it's just barely halfway through the first period and Buffalo is down 3-0 to Boston already.

It looks like a Bruins home game, too

 

[ULF_55]

It looks like a Bruins home game, too

Sabres look like they've accepted their fate.

 

[BallardEra]

Extra point in Buffalo is good.

TOUCHDOWN!!!

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

The Wild have had 16 5v3 powerplays this year, must be nice!

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

The Wildcard race in the East still isn’t settled, but the contenders for those final spots have certainly dwindled. Buffalo and Ottawa have both fallen off, with the Sabres 2-6-2 in their last 10, and the Sens 4-5-1 over their last 10, having lost 4 straight in regulation before squeaking out a point against us last night thanks to the zebras.

It’s basically a three way race between the Islanders, Penguins, and Panthers, with the Caps more of a long shot to get involved.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Sabres look like they've accepted their fate.

They were right in the playoff race when they beat Washington in late February.

2-7-2 since then while being outscored 52-28
(Leafs really mailed it in for one of their wins...)

 

[leafsfan5]

I love you Jeremy Swayman

Saved my fantasy season with 2 shutouts

 

[1specter]

Sabres look like they've accepted their fate.

They really blew it. They were right behind the Islanders and had 5-6 games in hand at one point. It's kinda funny, seems like none of Detroit, Buffalo or Ottawa could really capitalize and just accepted defeat. Florida is the only team at this point that could usurp the Penguins or Islanders IMO.

 

[LaPlante94]

They were right in the playoff race when they beat Washington in late February.

2-7-2 since then while being outscored 52-28
(Leafs really mailed it in for one of their wins...)

The crazy thing is during most of that stretch they've been in like 1 or 2 goal difference games but like 3 games and 2 of them were against the Bruins have made that goal ratio look awful. Bruins scored 14 on them in 2 games this month and Buffalo only 1 and then I think it was Dallas that scored like 10 on them not long ago either to really hurt that ratio. Just those 3 games alone they were outscored 24-5 lol.

 

[PROUD PAPA]

Why would someone feel good about doing this? I don't understand what compels a human being to act this way.

Johnny Walker wisdom would be a good guess.

 

[Cleetus]

come on Devils lets get it back on track tonight against the Lightning!

 

[Arzak]

how much “ experimentation” are the bruins doing with their line up?

They rested DK today, but I don't think that it counts

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

They really blew it. They were right behind the Islanders and had 5-6 games in hand at one point. It's kinda funny, seems like none of Detroit, Buffalo or Ottawa could really capitalize and just accepted defeat. Florida is the only team at this point that could usurp the Penguins or Islanders IMO.

All those teams have shown during this stretch that they are at least a year away from being playoff contenders. None of them could maintain momentum. Hell Detroit sold at the TDL.