Miscellaneous NHL Talk V10.0 - 2018/19 Regular Season

[Tripod]

Just think, 3 years ago the Flyers defence had both MDZ and Schenn on it.oh, it also had:

Streit
Ghost
Schultz
Manning
Gudas
Medvedev
MacDonald

And somehow, Mason posted a.918 SV% and Neuvirth a .924 SV%. Hell, 3 years later and only Ghost and Gudas are not waiver fodder or retired!

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

True and all the teams that win have atleast three of him on the team that make you pay a price. He doesn't have a stable partner either.

Three Hagg's?? We'd never get the puck out of the D zone

 

[hatcher]

Three Hagg's?? We'd never get the puck out of the D zone

Three Hagg's?? We'd never get the puck out of the D zone

Yes we would. All the top teams d finish checks and play the opposing forwards hard and thats puck mover included.

 

[hatcher]

Just think, 3 years ago the Flyers defence had both MDZ and Schenn on it.oh, it also had:

Streit
Ghost
Schultz
Manning
Gudas
Medvedev
MacDonald

And somehow, Mason posted a.918 SV% and Neuvirth a .924 SV%. Hell, 3 years later and only Ghost and Gudas are not waiver fodder or retired!

And that unit played better.

 

[Striiker]

Imagine knowing so little about hockey that you think EVEN ONE Hagg is a good thing.

Three? That's just embarrassing for the little fella.

I guess it makes sense that a player with no skill or brains attracts a certain type of fan.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

One can only imagine the amount of horndogging MDZ is going undertake in Anaheim...

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

Yes we would. All the top teams d finish checks and play the opposing forwards hard and thats puck mover included.

Hatch, are you saying that Hagg is a puck mover?

Good D men make it hard to enter a zone, get on the forecheckers and get the puck out fast.

I understand you like tough but Hagg..kind of sucks. He's been decent on the PK at times, I'll give him that.

The best you can hope is you don't notice him.

Myers and Morin are the tough you should want.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

Hatch, are you saying that Hagg is a puck mover?

Good D men make it hard to enter a zone, get on the forecheckers and get the puck out fast.

I understand you like tough but Hagg..kind of sucks. He's been decent on the PK at times, I'll give him that.

The best you can hope is you don't notice him.

Myers and Morin are the tough you should want.

Morin is no gem with the puck on his stick. I’d like him on the 3rd pair, but he’s another defenseman who struggles with turnovers on a D chock full of them.

 

[deadhead]

Let's see what Morin does, right now he's an urban myth, "did you hear about the 235 lb D-man who can skate in a straight line?"
Myers is for real, but watching Sanheim, he may need a couple years before he's a reliable NHL defenseman.
Skill is one thing, but the experience and hockey IQ to squelch opposing teams in your D-zone takes time.

Hagg is a limited player, though he looked great on the PK, and needs a puck mover at RHD (Friedman?) to be effective.
But the same can be said about Gudas, who plays much better with a puck mover at LHD.

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

Morin is no gem with the puck on his stick. I’d like him on the 3rd pair, but he’s another defenseman who struggles with turnovers on a D chock full of them.

He still has to get into NHL action to show us but he has the potential to be at least efficient at zone exits if not good.

He can also skate circles around the Hagg's of the world.

 

[hatcher]

Imagine knowing so little about hockey that you think EVEN ONE Hagg is a good thing.

Three? That's just embarrassing for the little fella.

I guess it makes sense that a player with no skill or brains attracts a certain type of fan.

Hiding again lol? Block block block but respond. I get to you every time boy.

 

[hatcher]

Hatch, are you saying that Hagg is a puck mover?

Good D men make it hard to enter a zone, get on the forecheckers and get the puck out fast.

I understand you like tough but Hagg..kind of sucks. He's been decent on the PK at times, I'll give him that.

The best you can hope is you don't notice him.

Myers and Morin are the tough you should want.

Those two will be on the team with him. Haggs job is to chip pucks out like you saw with Boston d all night. Around the boards and chips off glass but Boston d sucks I guess for playing that way. To be fair if we had more then one. Forward come back and do something in the dzone all of our d would look better.

 

[baudib1]

Our forwards are very poor at supporting the defense on zone exits.

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

I just see him make a lot of mistakes getting the puck out and with positioning. Guys like Ghost, Provy and Sanheim have all had bad games/plays/turn overs and Ghost seemingly can't hit the net on offence.

The difference is they are very good/great players making bonehead plays, for which they deserve criticism.

Hagg is young but I don't see that he's more than he is. Basically below average in all facets.

A hot woman can have a bad hair day (Ghost/Sanheim) but she's still hot.

An ugly woman is...always that. (Hagg)

Anyway, agree to disagree Hatch.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

He still has to get into NHL action to show us but he has the potential to be at least efficient at zone exits if not good.

He can also skate circles around the Hagg's of the world.

I don’t think “skate circles” is the best way to put it. Hagg is a better skater than Morin in tight. Morin struggles with pivots & agility. But Morin certainly can eat up way more territory in straight lines & would win a race. (At least before the knee reconstruction.)

 

[Striiker]

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

Sure, with his size that is logically going to take longer to master. I'd like to see him in action after the reconstruction. That will give us a better measuring stick for his ability.

 

[flyers0909]

Hagg is decent on the PK because the one thing he does great is blindly blast the puck out of the zone. He has absolutely zero vision on the breakout.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

We need twenty Haggs tbh.

 

[hatcher]

Fletcher will help you all understand soon. You guys loved hexy and his lame ways but that's over Now.

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

I have not soured on Fletch whatsoever apart from the Myers bull****.

Hexy had to go without question.

Just wanted to clarify. Disliking Hagg has nothing to do with that.

 

[Striiker]

I'm still waiting for Fletcher to blow it up and trade away all the stars like Little Fruit promised.

Surely he wasn't talking out of his ass, was he?

Get rid of all the skill and then add more Hagg types. That's how you win! Goals don't matter. Only hits.

 

[kudymen]

Fletcher will help you all understand soon. You guys loved hexy and his lame ways but that's over Now.

I have read this post in various wording about 1000 times from you for the past 50 days

 

[hatcher]

I have read this post in various wording about 1000 times from you for the past 50 days

And you'll read it again and again. This team should have been dropped three years ago and we would be in way better shape. Watching Boston vs Toronto on saturday really shows how much the good teams drop there play against the flyers and it sucks because we were the team everyone would wanna match up against.

 

[deadhead]

There was nothing wrong with Hextall's moves, it was his inability to function in an organization, from communicating and handling his superiors, delegating authority and holding subordinates accountable, to getting his message out through the media that doomed him.

And having all his goalies go down with injury, as well as Couts' hurting his knee, leading to a horrible start this season.

And not signing Stastny, the player he needed, and having to settle for JVR as a consolation prize who is a poor fit for this team.