Confirmed with Link: Attard Traded to Edmonton for Ben Gleason

[renberg]

This is the process problem. They just don't give prospects a chance to find out if they can adjust to the NHL game's speed, size, lack of time and space, quality of teammates and opposition. I like Attard's offensive instincts and hands. Can he play D? Never saw enough. Do I trust the people developing him?

Flyers development strikes again. Attard is just another guy who flamed out in LV. Someone will say that when they flop here, that they don't succeed anywhere else. True perhaps. Maybe its once the Flyers development ruins them then they are not salvageable.

 

[deadhead]

Flyers development strikes again. Attard is just another guy who flamed out in LV. Someone will say that when they flop here, that they don't succeed anywhere else. True perhaps. Maybe its once the Flyers development ruins them then they are not salvageable.

How come when other teams like Buffalo "ruin" players they bounce back when they're gone?
Maybe the players the "Flyers" "ruin" just weren't that good to start with.

Attard was an overage late 3rd rd pick who was a college goal scorer at rover.
They gambled they could take a big D-man who had a plus shot and decent skating and turn him into a real NHL defenseman.

Those are the gambles you should be taking at that point in the draft rather than some "safe" pick.

 

[dats81]

They have put way too much emphasis on size and handedness in the Holmgren, Hextal and Fletcher eras. With Briere it feels a little more balanced but still work in progress.