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

[Strawberry Fields]

When have you seen the likes of Rantanen sign with a team like Buffalo?

I'm not saying they will, but I'm sure they're deluded enough to believe he'd want to be here.

 

[TCTC]

The Flyers are going to get Zegras, as they are building the future on York, Drysdale and their other running mate.




The likelihood that this is true is very depressing.

I don't think there's a more punchable face in the league than Trevor Zegras.

 

[Larry44]

I don't think there's a more punchable face in the league than Trevor Zegras.

I think you mean “future Flyers Centre Trevor Zegras.” LOL!

 

[Curufinwe]

Are the new guys gonna play tomorrow, or just wait till after the Four Nations?

 

[Beef Invictus]

I've seen you say fire them all repeatedly. I have not seen you say who you would hire.

Read harder, I guess. I'm not going to make a list of replacements every time I call for the obvious thing to be done

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

Are the new guys gonna play tomorrow, or just wait till after the Four Nations?

"What's the rush?"

 

[Rebels57]

Have they looked at the RFA’s?

Briere playing Poker

 

[Boocowski]

Ryan Bowness or Ryan Hardy. Let's hear your opinion on them.

Different young inexperienced guys. I don't see how either is a necessary "better than Briere".

The Flyers just got rid of talent and are now almost all grit. Want to bet who has the better record by the end of the year? The Sabres also have a significantly better goal differential (-13 to -29).

I said this last year to my Sabres friends. I think it's an interesting comparison and it will be interesting to see who (if either) succeeds as the pathways are to some extent opposite. At this point neither.

 

[Boocowski]

Read harder, I guess. I'm not going to make a list of replacements every time I call for the obvious thing to be done

Because you don't have any and you are afraid to look bad by naming someone who later busts somewhere.

Firing people is not an answer unless you have an improvement in mind.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Because you don't have any and you are afraid to look bad by naming someone who later busts somewhere.

Firing people is not an answer unless you have an improvement in mind.

I've actually repeatedly written who I want, and it's weird to soar in with your level of condescension because you missed it; that's a you problem, not a me problem. If I were choosing, then we'd have Tulsky or Zito as GM and Knoblauch or Lavi as coach. I've been thumping for Knoblauch since he designed our controlled entries under Hakstol, which incidentally became the strongest aspect of the team's offense.

Here's the other thing, though: Those positions aren't the real problem. The REAL problem is higher. That piece of shit Clarke has done so much goddamned harm to this franchise that he's undone his legacy as a player, which is meaningless to the strong majority of the fanbase since not many of them were alive for it. He has set the direction and culture of the team, filled it with people who think like him, and then those people hire coaches and GMs and those people also think like them, and as a result they suck ass. All while scouts who think like them have eternal tenure while failing to find talent, and the development team that thinks like them turns all skill into dust.

I remember when there were Commanders fans who told me the same thing you're telling me. I said then, sometimes management is so goddamned bad that it's hard not to improve on them if you've gotten rid of the root of the problem. I've been proven right on that front. The Flyers are the same.

I mean, is that why you think we should keep everything the same and keep doing all the stuff that never works and never will? Because you personally can't think of anyone better?