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Sombastate said:
well Kraken winning helps.

If Misa, Schaefer and Martone are guaranteed to go in the top 5, we can pick 6th and still get one of Frondell, Hagens and Desnoyers.

So there's a chance
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I agree that 1 of those 6 players are Flyers highest priority choices. We'll have to wait and see what the lottery gives them...finishing in 5th/6th gives them pretty high odds of moving down another pick
 
Just couldn’t wait a few more games to fire Tortorella eh?

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I think a lot of posters are shortchanging Eklund because he’s a wing. He has world class skills, great sense, good wheels, a non stop motor and some sandpaper in his game. I’d absolutely take him over Desnoyers at #6.

None of the top C’s are guaranteed number ones, if I can land a guy with a very good chance of being a quality 1LW, I’ll happily take him.
 
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I’m hoping that with their spot basically set, Ottawa doesn’t lose focus today. Hopefully the combo of b2b and crappy goaltending can help them beat the Flyers. Next up, need Montreal to somehow lose at home to Chicago Monday keeping Columbus in the hunt. Finally, I can see the Sabres who have been playing well, beating Philly in their home finale.

While it’s far from certain, an 0-3-0 finish is certainly a possibility.
 
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MJL66 said:
Speaking of drafts, a past draft. Cutter Gauthier has heated up lately. Now sits at 20 goals and 23 assists for 43 points. On a bad team. Kid is going to be a serious player
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Yeah, this disappoints me as I was a huge Gauthier fan until he burned the bridge. He is what I expected. It is a shame he had to be traded away. I was never a big Drysdale fan, but am now hoping he continues to get better and becomes a somewhat valuable player. He is a long way from that still though.
 
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IronMarshal said:
Yeah, this disappoints me as I was a huge Gauthier fan until he burned the bridge. He is what I expected. It is a shame he had to be traded away. I was never a big Drysdale fan, but am now hoping he continues to get better and becomes a somewhat valuable player. He is a long way from that still though.
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He “had to be traded away” because the Briere and Jones refused the play the game, as they, and had to show him who was boss. Blew up in their faces, I’d say.
 
I'm happy that 4 of the top five are position of need I like Hagens and martone as the defense is clearly going first. So long as they go with a concesus pick I'm content that early. Is really like them to package some of the 2nds to advance as high quality skill is needed more than a volume of players in the later first
 
People are getting a little carried away with the Gauthier stuff. We're doing that thing again where we assume progression is linear. Good for a 21yo rookie is a fine start but on a different scale. The questions with him relative to where he was taken were mostly related to the reasonable (not 98th Percentile outcome) ceiling. That's going to take time to sort.

None of that excuses how the Flyers handled the situation. That was inarguably horrendous process on multiple axes.
 
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I was just thinking about the Eagles comparisons from a few days ago, and the Flyers front office purportedly studying Howie. Eye-roll worthy, but in light of the Flyers never ever believing in tanking, and wanting to win these April games, the Eagles engineered an absolute tank job against the Commanders a few years ago to move from 9th to 6th (sounds familiar). They didn’t give two shits about pride. They didn’t even pick at 6, but you could draw a pretty straight line from that one late season tank (in assets + follow-up decisions) to building their SB team.

Flyers studying that one? No? So much for that 7-25 tier.
 
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BiggE said:
I think a lot of posters are shortchanging Eklund because he’s a wing. He has world class skills, great sense, good wheels, a non stop motor and some sandpaper in his game. I’d absolutely take him over Desnoyers at #6.

None of the top C’s are guaranteed number ones, if I can land a guy with a very good chance of being a quality 1LW, I’ll happily take him.
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Eklund is number 5 on my board. I absolutely f***ing LOVE him. I just don't think the Flyers would even allow us to dream of him.
 
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Magua said:
I was just thinking about the Eagles comparisons from a few days ago, and the Flyers front office purportedly studying Howie. Eye-roll worthy, but in light of the Flyers never ever believing in tanking, and wanting to win these April games, the Eagles engineered an absolute tank job against the Commanders a few years ago to move from 9th to 6th (sounds familiar). They didn’t give two shits about pride. They didn’t even pick at 6, but you could draw a pretty straight line from that one late season tank (in assets + follow-up decisions) to building their SB team.

Flyers studying that one? No? So much for that 7-25 tier.
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Curious how long the Eagles would keep Flahrsy as their personnel guy. Or ride the nostalgia train over and again in the front office, with aging vets, behind the bench, with such terrible results
 
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