I won’t go that far, but the organization really needs a brand new philosophy and it’s not clear how that’s going to happen while all these ghosts of the past continue to roam the halls.
You are expecting Chuck Fletcher to be creative?
And the point doesn’t even need to be that someone “care about them,” where that equals “an impact player.” If they simply milked out their cost-controlled years, that means they’re not paying free agent prices to fill those roles, which means they have more money under the cap to spend it for a true need. Trading draft picks is a strategy for specific uses, not an involuntary bodily function. The value in keeping and having X% contribute to your team is that you control their costs. I don’t think any franchise is poorer in implementing this than the Flyers.
I was expecting to have a 2nd round pick this decade. SILLY ME!
Right-handed defensemen are much rarer and valuable than we could have predicted.
