Confirmed with Link: Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee traded to Calgary for Andrei Kuzmenko, Jakob Pelletier, 2025 2nd, 2028 7th

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Feel bad for you guys. Always thought of Philly as a sort of Calgary east so I have some affinity towards the team.

Pelletier should be a decent 3rd line winger, but kuzy is cooked. He might put up some empty calorie pts, and he’s got incredible hands, but he can’t skate.

People still don't understand the value of free cap space, it's sad. Phily gets $6.3M for this postseason plus 2nd, 7th and Pelletier for Farabee and Frost. I assure you, it's not that bad at all.
 
They got away from Farabee and his $5M for next 3 years contract, and he isn't worth even half of the money, at least in his current form. Is this good or bad?

So it's 2nd, 7th, Pelletier and no Farabee (net gain) vs Kuzmenko (who's expiring) and losing Frost (net loss). At the very least the team hasn't become worse. At the very least.

Uh actually yes the team has become blatantly worse
 
I don't see any demonizing, Torts gave Frost and Farabee plenty of chances to prove themselves.

Farabee flatlined, maybe b/c he adjusted quickly with his smarts but over time his physical limitations won out, he never filled out and isn't that strong, he has average speed, average shot though good hands near the net, but lacks the anchor for the dirty area. He's better than he's shown this season (Sh% is half his norm), but never developed into a reliable 2LW. Good scorer who needs to play with better players.

Same with Frost, who had his best season two years ago (under Torts) but hasn't been able to build upon it. He just lacks "it," he's good in open ice but simply isn't a great playmaker in the "half court" or on the PP. Very good but not great speed and he doesn't play as fast as his timed speed. He's never been able to add functional strength and gets knocked off the puck too easily. He's responsible defensively but depends on his stick. A dependable middle six center who was never able to develop into a 2C.

They don't fit the Flyers style, which is fast and physical down the middle (Cates, Poehling, Jett), allowing a mix of size and skill at wing (TK, Brink, Michkov and Tippett, Foerster). Which suggests they're looking for another center in trade/the draft who fits their prototype - full size, above average speed, high IQ, two way player.

This move suggests Briere is ready for a fire sale this spring, if they thought they could stay in the playoff race they'd have waited until June to move Frost.
 
People still don't understand the value of free cap space, it's sad. Phily gets $6.3M for this postseason plus 2nd, 7th and Pelletier for Farabee and Frost. I assure you, it's not that bad at all.

Hahahahahaha oh that's the problem. You don't understand what Philly uses cap space for. Oh, no. They aren't going to use it to improve.

They have gotten worse with this trade and will not get better.
 
I don't see any demonizing, Torts gave Frost and Farabee plenty of chances to prove themselves.

Farabee flatlined, maybe b/c he adjusted quickly with his smarts but over time his physical limitations won out, he never filled out and isn't that strong, he has average speed, average shot though good hands near the net, but lacks the anchor for the dirty area. He's better than he's shown this season (Sh% is half his norm), but never developed into a reliable 2LW. Good scorer who needs to play with better players.

Same with Frost, who had his best season two years ago (under Torts) but hasn't been able to build upon it. He just lacks "it," he's good in open ice but simply isn't a great playmaker in the "half court" or on the PP. Very good but not great speed and he doesn't play as fast as his timed speed. He's never been able to add functional strength and gets knocked off the puck too easily. He's responsible defensively but depends on his stick. A dependable middle six center who was never able to develop into a 2C.

They don't fit the Flyers style, which is fast and physical down the middle (Cates, Poehling, Jett), allowing a mix of size and skill at wing (TK, Brink, Michkov and Tippett, Foerster). Which suggests they're looking for another center in trade/the draft who fits their prototype - full size, above average speed, high IQ, two way player.

This move suggests Briere is ready for a fire sale this spring, if they thought they could stay in the playoff race they'd have waited until June to move Frost.

Here it is everyone. He's done a hard system reset and is fully on board with a blatant Risto-level loss.

Set your phone's to remind you in three years, because that's about when he will be running all over this move as justification for firing Briere and hiring whatever god forsaken slob Clarke knows next.
 
What about $6.3M of the cap space?

Pretty useless once they burn it on redundant depth players instead of talent. Which they now have even less of, despite already being critically short.

This is like trading TK for a 2029 3rd and proclaiming it's good because you have cap space. It makes no sense.
 
Hahahahahaha oh that's the problem. You don't understand what Philly uses cap space for. Oh, no. They aren't going to use it to improve.

They have gotten worse with this trade and will not get better.

So you cry not about what the trade brings right now but about what it will bring?
 
Pretty useless once they burn it on redundant depth players instead of talent. Which they now have even less of, despite already being critically short.

This is like trading TK for a 2029 3rd and proclaiming it's good because you have cap space. It makes no sense.

They haven't lost a lot of talent, though...
 
People still don't understand the value of free cap space, it's sad. Phily gets $6.3M for this postseason plus 2nd, 7th and Pelletier for Farabee and Frost. I assure you, it's not that bad at all.
It's not 2021 and COVID. The cap is going up $9M next year.

Though I suspect Danny's been shopping both players, which tells you how much more this board values them than the NHL if this was his best offer.
 
So you cry not about what the trade brings right now but about what it will bring?

Uh, both. The team has gotten worse in the short and long term, and they will use the cap space to cement bad deals. They always do this.

Briere promised us they would not build with expensive talent. They aren't paying anyone. They're going to overinvest in bottom six grinders that they heavily overrate.

You only just hopped onto the Flyers recently because of Michkov, right? You're gonna learn. Fear not. You'll be grateful when he moves to a competent team by the time this is done.

The next time the Flyers use cap space well will be the first time in...well, since the cap came into being.
 
They haven't lost a lot of talent, though...

Hmm yeah they have, though. Two of their top six gone, with nothing coming close to replacing them. It is true that in any other actually good team they aren't in that tier, but they are here. For this team it's quite a blow, and nothing has come back. And they plan on contending in 2027!

Just because they were playmakers being suppressed under a coach who forbids playmaking doesn't mean they're not talented. They're way better than the players we just got. Expect them to bounce back when they're allowed to actually play their game.
 

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