Confirmed with Link: Keith Yandle Signs One Year Deal With Flyers ($900K W/ NTC)

[Magua]

If Yandle missed a game because of Covid, they’d absolutely trot him right back out after to save face and pretend he’s been playing because of merit. Benching him immediately is too obvious.

 

[Rebels57]

I still think we should all chip in $5 and just pay some junkie to take his leg out the day before. nothing too serious, just enough that he misses the game.

Or even better - just kidnap him for the day. Thats probably better.

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[renberg]

I see Yandle as an arrogant self centered guy. I don't know how he can look at his teammates when night after night he costs the club goals. It's not a fluke. He doesn't belong here. He ought to have the decency to know this and just leave. He's made enough money. Go away and preserve some dignity.

 

[BrindamoursNose]

ALRIGHT UNCLE, UNCLE

I give up.

I said this was a can't miss signing at under a million...right now I think it's missed.

Just bench this guy

 

[Beef Invictus]

One thing that concerns me is he has an Ironman steak going that played into decision making with Florida this season, and the players won out over the coach in that scenario so make of that make what you will because we trust the coaches a whole lot less. But this is a heavily sheltered player even though the cost isn’t prohibitive.

The first to call it.

 

[GKJ]

The first to call it.

Only took 8 pages

 

[Beef Invictus]

Yes, we could have used a $4.5M 7th D-man.

See what I mean Deady? You went beyond saying "oh they're both 3rd pair sheltered PP specialists, here's a bad usage of stats showing Yandle is better."

You had Ghost pegged as a clear downgrade compared to Yandle.

 

[ponder719]

I still think we should all chip in $5 and just pay some junkie to take his leg out the day before. nothing too serious, just enough that he misses the game.

Or even better - just kidnap him for the day. Thats probably better.

Nah, no need to do anything to him directly. Just contaminate his COVID test.

 

[Starat327]

Nah, no need to do anything to him directly. Just contaminate his COVID test.

You think they're even making him take tests?

 

[ponder719]

You think they're even making him take tests?

That is a depressingly fair point. Well, then, only thing to do is contaminate everyone's test. Can't make us watch him if the team has to forfeit the season.

 

[Curufinwe]

Yandle leads the league in consecutive games played, and in goals allowed on the PP this season with 6. With 10 PP GF to his credit, he's only +4 on the PP in 91 minutes.

Player Season Totals - Natural Stat Trick

Dougy is struggling on NJ's PP. 8 GF and 5 GA in 72 minutes.

 

[Embiid]

You think they're even making him take tests?

Dude got a 400 on his SAT .....it's pity on the Flyers part.

 

[tytech]

This ironman streak is b.s.
We let him get it and then what? We cant just bench him. He has to finish the season cause Kessel and Marleau are right behind.
So he gets the new record but will finish the season playing.
I cant see him outlasting Kessel in the NHL. Kessel's utility is higher than Yandle's and Kessel is only 24 games behind. It'll be broken again next year when Yandle is not signed anywhere and Kessel is.

 

[deadhead]

Yandle leads the league in consecutive games played, and in goals allowed on the PP this season with 6. With 10 PP GF to his credit, he's only +4 on the PP in 91 minutes.

Player Season Totals - Natural Stat Trick

Dougy is struggling on NJ's PP. 8 GF and 5 GA in 72 minutes.

Except Yandle has his normal xGA/60 on the PP.
Last four seasons, 1.18, 1.20, 1.28, 1.19
GA/60: 1.64, 0.94, 0.73, 3.94

Every mistake Yandle has made this year has ended up in the back of his goal, despite the goalies playing well.
Just one of those freak seasons.

 

[Embiid]

So much for promoting team success over individual accomplishments.

 

[Fight4yourRight]

Yandle’s streak makes so much more sense now that I’ve had an up close and personal view of his play. You know exactly why he’s managed to evade any injury for so long.

 

[ugiswrong]

Every mistake Yandle has made this year has ended up in the back of his goal, despite the goalies playing well.
Just one of those freak seasons.

Dude

 

[Beef Invictus]

Except Yandle has his normal xGA/60 on the PP.
Last four seasons, 1.18, 1.20, 1.28, 1.19
GA/60: 1.64, 0.94, 0.73, 3.94

Every mistake Yandle has made this year has ended up in the back of his goal, despite the goalies playing well.
Just one of those freak seasons.

Even if the goalies were bailing him out his mistakes are nonstop and atrocious. You can assume the goalies stop his mistakes at a more expected rate and it doesn't change that he sucks, Fletcher was wrong, you were wrong. We went from having one dman on the shortlist of Worst Defense In League to three, with Yandle leading the way.

 

[Curufinwe]

The mistakes he has made on the PP aren't freakish. They happen over and over again. And they haven't all ended up in the back of the net.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Yeah, that's the other thing. These major, critical mistakes aren't flukes. They're routine. They're the norm.

 

[deadhead]

There's a random factor between mistakes and goals.

Look at Ghost on the PP
xGA/60: 1.04, 1.06, 0.62, 1.18
GA/60: 1.11, 2.17, 1.07, 0.00

Or Provorov:
xGA/60: 1.32, 1.52, 0.62, 0.58
GA/60: 2.35, 1.14, 0.89, 0.00

Or Hamilton:
xGA/60: 1.24, 0.65, 1.24, 1.65
GA/60: 1.16, 0.40, 1.10, 4.14

 

[Beef Invictus]

There's a random factor between mistakes and goals.

Look at Ghost on the PP
xGA/60: 1.04, 1.06, 0.62, 1.18
GA/60: 1.11, 2.17, 1.07, 0.00

Or Provorov:
xGA/60: 1.32, 1.52, 0.62, 0.58
GA/60: 2.35, 1.14, 0.89, 0.00

Or Hamilton:
xGA/60: 1.24, 0.65, 1.24, 1.65
GA/60: 1.16, 0.40, 1.10, 4.14

You've listed 3 dmen who don't habitually hang their team out to dry on the PP.

I don't think you can even find any equivalent comparison. Every other team is smart enough to stop playing someone like that.

 

[Rodu58]

he has a spot on the all time bad Flyers team

 

[Bruckuss]

Happy Ghost is doing well in AZ, hated this move from the start.

Fletcher is a stupid head, or maybe it was AV? Probably both.

Just wanted to come dump on the Ironman thread at the end of the day, but it doesn't make me feel any better lol

 

[Starat327]

Defending the yandle move in a.d. 2022.

Some of you people have no shame. It's pathetic, really.