Miscellaneous NHL Discussion C: The centenarian of threads

[Flyerfan4life]

They have more than a goalie problem

can we ship them Torts ?

hes a offensive guru i hear..

 

[Rebels57]

It's gonna be pretty great for the league if McDavid decides to leave Edmonton at the end of his current deal.

Maybe the prestige surrounding Philadelphia sports at the moment can convince McDavid to come here in 2026 and play with Michkov to bring the Flyers back from the dead? A boy can dream.

 

[GapToothedWonder]

McDavid has to change his game a bit. Not turn into a checker, obviously. He's talked about culture, he's talked about standards, he's talked about winning. You're not just going to fill the net during the regular season and outscore teams. You have to play on the other side of the puck.

This looks extra dumb with the clip of that awful Campbell goal posted right underneath it.

 

[landsbergfan]

 

[flyers0909]

Another in a long line of Fletcher non-mistakes.

 

[Curufinwe]

That's funny. He's currently pacing for 63 points and his career high was 62 in 16-17.

 

[Beef Invictus]

McDavid has to change his game a bit. Not turn into a checker, obviously. He's talked about culture, he's talked about standards, he's talked about winning. You're not just going to fill the net during the regular season and outscore teams. You have to play on the other side of the puck.

He does, though. He turns in acceptable, average defense, on top of being a possession monster; typically, he doesn't have to defend for much of his shifts. Which, with his offense, is fantastic. This isn't a situation like Malkin at his worst where his horrendous defense actually cancels out almost all his offense.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I called this last year, around the midway point when it was profoundly obvious that he was being a good team-first guy and playing the exact hockey Tortorella wants, instead of the hockey he's best at. A rebound was always going to happen once he got free.

 

[Curufinwe]

Edmonton had 109 points just last season, outscoring teams 3.96 to 3.12.

 

[Magua]

Not even trading JVR for a 4th or something was one of the funniest displays of minor move incompetence I've ever seen. The 17 phone calls on deadline day bit, after every team made their trades 1-2 weeks prior, was a real sidesplitter.

Take a team bad at puck possession, weak in centers, poor at passing, with the worst designed PP in the league.....JVR has no purpose in that environment. It's like buying a bicycle and riding it in a lake. He's scoring at 5v5 right now, his underlyings are all his usual positive stuff. Visually, he didn't look any different last year than in the first years of his contract.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

I called this last year, around the midway point when it was profoundly obvious that he was being a good team-first guy and playing the exact hockey Tortorella wants, instead of the hockey he's best at. A rebound was always going to happen once he got free.

"be a f***ing Flyer"

hahaa

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

It is remarkable how many games Toronto and Tampa have allowed 3+ goals.

*I am only aware of this fact due to rocking Woll and Johansson in my hockey pool.

 

[Curufinwe]

Guess who’s back, NAK again

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

It is remarkable how many games Toronto and Tampa have allowed 3+ goals.

*I am only aware of this fact due to rocking Woll and Johansson in my hockey pool.

8 straight games of allowing 4 plus goals at home for Toronto.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

8 straight games of allowing 4 plus goals at home for Toronto.

Squeaked out a win, though.

 

[Rebels57]

Not even trading JVR for a 4th or something was one of the funniest displays of minor move incompetence I've ever seen. The 17 phone calls on deadline day bit, after every team made their trades 1-2 weeks prior, was a real sidesplitter.

Take a team bad at puck possession, weak in centers, poor at passing, with the worst designed PP in the league.....JVR has no purpose in that environment. It's like buying a bicycle and riding it in a lake. He's scoring at 5v5 right now, his underlyings are all his usual positive stuff. Visually, he didn't look any different last year than in the first years of his contract.

Only plus is that the JVR fiasco finally got him fired.

 

[ponder719]

Take a team bad at puck possession, weak in centers, poor at passing, with the worst designed PP in the league.....JVR has no purpose in that environment. It's like buying a bicycle and riding it in a lake. He's scoring at 5v5 right now, his underlyings are all his usual positive stuff. Visually, he didn't look any different last year than in the first years of his contract.

Fletch built a bicycle once. It had no wheels, the seat was an empty toilet paper roll affixed vertically, the handles were wrapped in prosciutto that had been left out in the sun too long, and the chain was a bunch of paper clips linked together.

 

[BigToe]

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Another team that makes absolutely no sense. That’s top 6 picks in consecutive years thrown by the wayside to gain nothing. These things don’t require deep dives. They’re the orgs that hire Babcocks and Tortorellas.

 

[FLYguy3911]

And you guys want to draft two defensemen in the first round. Columbus did it last year and can't even fit one into the lineup.

 

[kudymen]

Is it too early for a Brink in the rebuild? This question stumped me!

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Is it too early for a Brink in the rebuild? This question stumped me!

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Look at what you did.

 

[kudymen]

Look at what you did.

Man's stupidity is apparently Beetlejuice. Just recall it and talk about it and boom, it comes back tenfold


Anyway, at least one person was not stumped by the question. John StL creator Tortorella

 

[Curufinwe]

The hockey haircut, perfected: NHLers react to a youth player's 'genius' method

A youth hockey player in St. Louis wears his helmet into a local salon when he gets a haircut so that the stylist doesn't take off too much.

theathletic.com

Future Flyers, and future Cup Champions

 

[Cody Webster]