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

[Appleyard]

Kind of hilarious. "NHL is not what it was in the good old days/new gen are snowflakes and soft" crowd are pretty much a single circle Venn diagram in terms of people complaining about it at the same time.

Tough, team first hockey means making decisions for the team and not individuals.
It also means not getting personally affected and angry by something that is really pretty meaningless.

 

[Taijuan Fedotov]

Yandle could start a new streak tonight: consecutive NHL games not played.

 

[mr4tno]

Wow the lack of hockey awareness by some people is astounding , He was a Veteran in the room to teach the next generation of young stars how to be a pro . He most likely retires at the end of the season with his 1000+ streak and next year Kessel will sign a league minimum deal somewhere and over take his record . Now however every player and up coming youngster will know the Flyers f***ed him for no reason , if they were in a battle for a playoff spot then yes thats one thing , then they should have cut his nuts 2 weeks ago when he could still finish ahead of Kessel and retire but they didn't . This is a classless move that everybody will remember for a very long time .

Keith Yandle flat out sucks. If this does paint them in a bad light, they only have themselves to blame for pandering to an existing player and signing him in the first place. Just like the trade for Ellis this transaction had disaster written all over it from the beginning. These moves plus how he flat out screwed up the post deadline call-up allotment are head scratchers. The fact that the Flyers brain dead GM couldn't see any of this coming is the main cause for concern here.

 

[Curufinwe]

It’s weird they are benching him for Seeler. They were fine with York playing GM his off side with Yandle, but Attard can’t play his natural side with Yandle? It’s very odd.

 

[mr4tno]

"Karma is very powerful" says the man who spent half his career on the IR.....

 

[Deadpool8812]

I love how doing this makes us a classless organization to other fans

Yup. This is the world we live in. Where people that don't deserve things, should get them anyways because...yeah

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Carlo's legacy is a meme gif of him crashing into the boards.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[Deadpool8812]

Loyalty lol

That clown has played 60 more games than he's deserved this season for a team he has zero ties with

I guess loyalty is a more important skill than being good at your job

 

[Starat327]

Yandles a piece of shit just like Nate Thompson.

 

[Juicy Pop]

Do professional athletes just lack shame or something?

If it was one game and he was a replacement-level player then sure, but he's been a dead asset for the entire season and they want him to be dragged along for 11 more?

 

[3mFlyers]

Wow JR’s comments surprise me.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Wow the lack of hockey awareness by some people is astounding , He was a Veteran in the room to teach the next generation of young stars how to be a pro . He most likely retires at the end of the season with his 1000+ streak and next year Kessel will sign a league minimum deal somewhere and over take his record . Now however every player and up coming youngster will know the Flyers f***ed him for no reason , if they were in a battle for a playoff spot then yes thats one thing , then they should have cut his nuts 2 weeks ago when he could still finish ahead of Kessel and retire but they didn't . This is a classless move that everybody will remember for a very long time .

Oh please, Yandle shouldn't have ever played again after the first month of the season. The record is fake, he's an ECHL caliber player who has spent the whole year dodging contact and plays to avoid injuries and chase his precious record. He's a selfish scumbag and deserves this and also the end of his career. He is a humiliation and a joke. Supporting him is pathetic.

If you care so much start a letter writing campaign for your team to start him on a new streak next year and let's see how you feel after watching him.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Yandle will barely play the rest of the season, they got him the streak, but from the team's perspective, time to move on, he's not in their future, neither is Connauton.

They'll evaluate Seeler as a LHD and decide whether to offer him a contract for next season, probably a two way deal that pays him 400K if he goes to LHV. He's what you want in a #7th D-man, can fill in for a few games, sit in the press box on road trips and allow real prospects to practice and play everyday in LHV.

The last recall could be used on Zamula (Hogberg is currently injured). They might want to look at Zamula/Attard as a preview for next season.

Was getting him the streak good management?

 

[Beef Invictus]

Wow JR’s comments surprise me.

When you understand that he's got the cognitive power of a pot roast, his comment isn't surprising

 

[Lindberg]

Oh wait....

 

[Rebels57]

My only regret about Yandle getting benched is that they didnt wait until he reached 999 games first. That would have been perfect. f***ing bum.

 

[kudymen]

"There is no I in the word team"

But the word ironman is in there, apparently

 

[Rebels57]

Also I am drunk

 

[Lindberg]

Also I am drunk

I mean I hope you were drunk before watching this game.

 

[trostol]

Also I am drunk

i am planning on being such shortly..looking for 2 bad but funny movies to watch while i drink and smoke...leaning towards the two Dukes of Hazzard movies

 

[kudymen]

As Gregg Popovich said

No one is bigger than the team, unless of course you have some artificial individual accolades that definitely trump your long term negative on ice contribution

 

[Rebels57]

I mean I hope you were drunk before watching this game.

The only game ive watched since 12/18 was Girouxs last

 

[Striiker]

LOOOOL

 

[dats81]

Wow JR’s comments surprise me.

I'm shocked as well. J.R. has always been a polarizing hockey person but I always thought he valued performance and play over anything else.