Around the NHL: Part XXV

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Binnington pumpkin status?

 

[bobbop]

Islanders fans are always @%%&% and they'll rub their success in for all eternity.

What have the Flyers really done to be hated or heels (bad guys for you non-wrestling fans) in the last 20 years? Carcillo punched Gaborik in the face ten years ago and then he became a Ranger and the image of him scoring that goal and getting flipped off by the fans is one of the most iconic Rangers photos in my lifetime. Simmonds cheapshotted McD and then McIlrath kicked his ass.

The Flyers have been more the Rangers ally than enemy since NHL Reboot 05. Blah blah blah Dale Rolfe that was 45 years ago.

I'd honestly say of all the teams in the Metropolitan the Rangers have more beef with the Penguins, Islanders, Capitals, and even Canes at this point.

Well I have a much more specific reason to hate the Flyers.

Many years ago, the Flyers approached me about a position in the organization. A pretty big position. I went to games with their senior management (including a game at MSG) , negotiated with them for several weeks and had a bunch of interviews including one with Bobby Clarke. I patiently waited for an offer that never came and I found out the day after a Christmas (by reading the newspaper) that they had hired someone else. The Flyers can go f*** themselves.

 

[bobbop]

He must've seen that he wouldn't be very busy the next two years and packed his bags

He was very quickly hired by the Minnesota Wild.

 

[n8]

If AV loses in the Cup finals, that will be a hat-trick for him.

 

[aufheben]

 

[NYRFANMANI]

It is my sentiment that hockey is on its way to become way bigger. The talent amassed around the league is just getting better and better.

I'm really excited to see the Nucks and Avalanche become nasty teams. Ottawa has the draft capital to do something special.

Detroit will be the team I'll watch most outside from NYR. Seider will be the cornerstone of Red Wings and German hockey.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

Goalies recently have become de-emphasized, there will come a time in the NHL when elite goalies are cool again.

“It’s the circle of liiife...”

 

[NYSPORTS]

Well I have a much more specific reason to hate the Flyers.

Many years ago, the Flyers approached me about a position in the organization. A pretty big position. I went to games with their senior management (including a game at MSG) , negotiated with them for several weeks and had a bunch of interviews including one with Bobby Clarke. I patiently waited for an offer that never came and I found out the day after a Christmas (by reading the newspaper) that they had hired someone else. The Flyers can go f*** themselves.

wow, that’s rough. Appears you were close yet from a distance it appears Bobby Clarke runs that organization. I would hate them too.

i do get confused these days when people say i “negotiated”. Appears these days it’s the opposite. With a the competition so fierce you land the job and after a year negotiate and win b/c the company doesn’t want to lose what they already invested in you.

 

[NYSPORTS]

If AV loses in the Cup finals, that will be a hat-trick for him.

both the Bruins and Flyers handled the Rangers very well. Start of the playoff i wouldn’t have been shocked to see a Flyers/Avs Final yet the Flyers had better not win. That would be awful

 

[bobbop]

wow, that’s rough. Appears you were close yet from a distance it appears Bobby Clarke runs that organization. I would hate them too.

i do get confused these days when people say i “negotiated”. Appears these days it’s the opposite. With a the competition so fierce you land the job and after a year negotiate and win b/c the company doesn’t want to lose what they already invested in you.

Actually Clarke couldn’t have been nicer. He wanted to hear all about my times in the minor leagues. We had some mutual connections and he told me a few great stories. We really hit it off.

The problem then (and now) was the assholes at Comcast.

 

[HFsNumber1Heel]

Well I have a much more specific reason to hate the Flyers.

Many years ago, the Flyers approached me about a position in the organization. A pretty big position. I went to games with their senior management (including a game at MSG) , negotiated with them for several weeks and had a bunch of interviews including one with Bobby Clarke. I patiently waited for an offer that never came and I found out the day after a Christmas (by reading the newspaper) that they had hired someone else. The Flyers can go f*** themselves.

Yikes I'm sorry about that. I can understand your hatred plus being a Ranger fan doesn't help.

I never liked Stan Fischler for the same reason. I don't want to say I hate him because the guy is nearly 90 and I finally got a career break in my late-30s after years of being at mostly trash jobs, but in the early 2000s when I was young and right out of college and looking to shape my career, I spoke to him on the phone about interning and he just seemed to be in such a bad mood and grump that day. I was trying to compliment him on one of his articles he published a week before and ask about hockey and he gave me the "I just got out of bed and haven't had my black coffee" vibe. We never spoke again.

I already had an issue with him because of all the cheap shots he'd take at the Rangers throughout the 80s and even the early 90s when he was on the Sportschannel payroll and lets just say I have acquaintances and I've worked with people throughout my life who have worked with him and it's very hard for me to stay cordial and not just say "%#% that guy."

 

[NYR94]

Goalies recently have become de-emphasized, there will come a time in the NHL when elite goalies are cool again.

There was a time when it felt like a star/future HOF goalie won the Cup or at least made the finals every year like Roy, Brodeur, Belfour, Hasek. But in the cap era we've seen rookies or very inexperienced goalies win it all like Ward, Niemi, Murray and Binnington.

 

[bobbop]

Yikes I'm sorry about that. I can understand your hatred plus being a Ranger fan doesn't help.

I never liked Stan Fischler for the same reason. I don't want to say I hate him because the guy is nearly 90 and I finally got a career break in my late-30s after years of being at mostly trash jobs, but in the early 2000s when I was young and right out of college and looking to shape my career, I spoke to him on the phone about interning and he just seemed to be in such a bad mood and grump that day. I was trying to compliment him on one of his articles he published a week before and ask about hockey and he gave me the "I just got out of bed and haven't had my black coffee" vibe. We never spoke again.

I already had an issue with him because of all the cheap shots he'd take at the Rangers throughout the 80s and even the early 90s when he was on the Sportschannel payroll and lets just say I have acquaintances and I've worked with people throughout my life who have worked with him and it's very hard for me to stay cordial and not just say "%#% that guy."

I was on a hockey discussion panel with Fischer at Syracuse University in 1975. I’m an alum and this is when I was working in minor league hockey.

Let’s just say Stan was a jerk that day and loaded with preconceived notions about minor league hockey. He had no interest whatsoever in talking with a young guy trying to find his way in the world of hockey. Being from New York, I was pretty astounded at how poorly he treated me. It’s all about Stan. He lost a potential fan for life that day.

I was always amused about how he would badmouth a player and then write a book with/about them. We have a name for that where I come from but I’d rather not write it here.

 

[NYR94]

Is Fischler retired from TV? I can't remember the last time I saw him on one of the local teams broadcasts.

 

[HFsNumber1Heel]

Is Fischler retired from TV? I can't remember the last time I saw him on one of the local teams broadcasts.

He's 99% retired (ironic use of the number for how he used to give Gretzky crap back in the day) but he'll show up for the occasional big presser. I think when they hired DQ or signed Panarin he was around.

 

[duhmetreE]

Dubinsky retiring... Torts sucked the life out of that team

 

[NYSPORTS]

Actually Clarke couldn’t have been nicer. He wanted to hear all about my times in the minor leagues. We had some mutual connections and he told me a few great stories. We really hit it off.

The problem then (and now) was the assholes at Comcast.

so it wasn’t the Flyers

 

[bobbop]

so it wasn’t the Flyers

Comcast owns the Flyers

 

[nyr2k2]

Dubinsky retiring... Torts sucked the life out of that team

He has some chronic injury, he didn't even play this year. And the past few years he kind of sucked. Really no different than what happened with Callahan. Those guys played a tough style, being done because of injury at 34-35 is about right.

 

[Edge]

Dubinsky retiring... Torts sucked the life out of that team

I will say that it's amazing to see how many key guys from those teams (and carried over into the AV years), were done on the earlier side of the career spectrum.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

He has some chronic injury, he didn't even play this year. And the past few years he kind of sucked. Really no different than what happened with Callahan. Those guys played a tough style, being done because of injury at 34-35 is about right.

Yeah, this is not Torts' fault

 

[BKGooner]

Comcast owns the Flyers

Why me and my buddies used to call Ryan Callahan Comcast.

 

[RangersFan1994]

NBC removes Mike Milbury from broadcast after ‘insensitive and insulting comment’ about women

 

[Raspewtin]

good f***ing riddance

 

[nyr2k2]

Yeah f*** Millbury. Amazing he hung on as long as he did, he brought nothing.