Confirmed with Link: Flyers Re-Sign Nick Seeler To Two Year Deal ($775K) (One-Way/Two-Way)

[Beef Invictus]

League. Minimum. Depth.

If only that's what he were in their eyes.

Is it good management to not try and improve their terrible depth?

 

[Ghosts Beer]

If only that's what he were in their eyes.

Is it good management to not try and improve their terrible depth?

I think Nick Seeler is perfectly fine league minimum cap depth on D. Plenty of worse D around the league make more.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I think Nick Seeler is perfectly fine league minimum cap depth on D. Plenty of worse D around the league make more.

He's an AHL player. He was a major feature of a horrible defense. That defense needs to get better. It's good management to bring him back without even attempting to try someone else?

 

[Ghosts Beer]

He's an AHL player. He was a major feature of a horrible defense. That defense needs to get better. It's good management to bring him back without even attempting to try someone else?

I think Nick Seeler is about as good as you're gonna get at $775k.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I think Nick Seeler is about as good as you're gonna get at $775k.

He's not, though. We have players who will play a lot less than him but who are better in our own farm system. Much less everyone else around the various hockey leagues.

So it's good management to not bother trying to upgrade an area that needs an upgrade?

 

[Ghosts Beer]

He's not, though. We have players who will play a lot less than him but who are better in our own farm system. Much less everyone else around the various hockey leagues.

So it's good management to not bother trying to upgrade an area that needs an upgrade?

Is it good management to have young players sit on the bench instead of playing?

 

[Beef Invictus]

Is it good management to have young players sit on the bench instead of playing?

They won't be sitting on the bench. They'd be playing. Do you not know about Ellis? I'm not sure if you realized this, but Seeler played a lot last year. Over half the season. Those games could have gone to others.

You believe Seeler won't play. The team proved that wrong already.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

League. Minimum. Depth.

He’s not paid league minimum.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

He’s not paid league minimum.

Ok, poindexter. 13,500k over minimum. Whoopdeedamndoo.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Ok, poindexter. 13,500k over minimum. Whoopdeedamndoo.

Wild concept. It matters.

 

[Magua]

 

[Beef Invictus]

Is that the woman who changes peoples' houses with her annoying husband and her dumb farm and kids who live on the farm and the show insists on showing their farm and family for no reason when it's supposed to be about changing the houses and nobody gives even half a damn about their contrived personal lives?

 

[Magua]

Is that the woman who changes peoples' houses with her annoying husband and her dumb farm and kids who live on the farm and the show insists on showing their farm and family for no reason when it's supposed to be about changing the houses and nobody gives even half a damn about their contrived personal lives?

No. And don’t talk about Joanna like that.

 

[Tripod]

Is it good management to have young players sit on the bench instead of playing?

Is it good mgt to dress Seeler 43 games instead of young players?

 

[Larry44]

7th D definitely do not usually play 40-50 games. And Seeler was "limited" to 43 games because of COVID and injury, otherwise that would be higher. For a team in the Flyers' position with anemic depth and a bunch of prospects they're attempting to develop, that's the worst usage for a #7. The #7 in that case should only play in scenarios where the callup won't make it in time. Of course the Flyers are horribly managed so they can't realize that obvious fact.

With Ellis likely out for much or all of the season, Seeler will play in every game they can fit him in. And they will prefer him to youth because they always do. They already have. The team has shown us exactly how they view him and how they'll use him, you should believe them.

Yet another player who couldn't crack the NHL anywhere else but becomes a favorite of Fletcher's.

Jones, Seeler, Connauton, Thompson, Brown and MacEwan, when they are all re-signed, will be the worst starting 6 ever iced by the Flyers in team history.

 

[Curufinwe]

Is it good mgt to dress Seeler 43 games instead of young players?

The real problem was dressing Yandle 77 times.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

The real problem was dressing Yandle 77 times.

and a bunch of similar plugs going back over a decade..

#sameasiteverwas

 

[ajgoal]

The real problem was dressing Yandle 77 times.

The real problem was promising him that they would.

 

[Rebels57]

I can't get over the hilarity of them giving this scrub not 1, but 2 years, lmfao

 

[Flyerfan4life]

I can't get over the hilarity of them giving this scrub not 1, but 2 years, lmfao

and jumping to sign him so early... like if they didnt, they would miss out on him.

hahaaa... typical Fletch signing..

gotta collect all the plugs...

 

[flyers0909]

To be fair, there were 3 defensemen in the entire league with worse xGF% last season. It's gotta count for something that he wasn't last.

 

[volnoir]

To be fair, there were 3 defensemen in the entire league with worse xGF% last season. It's gotta count for something that he wasn't last.

Bet you can't guess which 2 Flyers had the highest xGF% last season!

 

[Diaper Mask Bandits]

Is there even question that Seeler will not be a healthy scratch next season,

He's marked down as the #6 dman or who knows maybe this organization views him as 2nd pairing. They viewed Mcdonald and Manning as legit second pairing guys

 

[deadhead]

Seeler with Yandle, xGF 35.76%, xGFrel -9.83
Seeler with Sanheim xGF 60.02%, xGFrel +16.34
Yandle with Sanheim, xGF 47.92%, xGF +2.09

Yandle was an advanced metrics black hole with every D-man, except strangely enough, Zamula, and to a lesser extent, York.
Seeler is not a good player, but pair him with a decent RHD and he'd probably be a passable 3rd pair guy.
Which is what you want from your #7 D-man.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Well they almost certainly see him as a #5 or a #6, so maybe they should be shooting higher.

#7s don't play over half a season and have that cut short only due to injury and plague.