Prospect Info: Phantoms (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL), NCAA, Jrs., Int'l, etc. [The Fall 2022 Edition]

[Beef Invictus]

Now that he's working on the little things, like rehabbing his meniscus and ACL, he'll be more trustworthy in the NHL

Think of how fat he can get now. Flahr is happy.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

The notion that, in 2022, the AHL is some wild west goon league is so laughably outdated. I watch the AHL probably just as much as, if not more than the NHL anymore. I have a 12 game season ticket package for the Bears for the second year in a row and haven't seen a fight in person in a year and a half (granted there was one in a game I couldn't attend last season). Scrums are usually once or twice a game at most and get broken up by the refs in 5 seconds or less. There is a recent rule that suspends players after their tenth fight of the season. It's not even as intense as it was 10-15 years ago.

 

[Fight4yourRight]

Cuck is still holding out hope to promote Lappy to the big club. Results and competence be damned!

 

[Fight4yourRight]

Think of how fat he can get now. Flahr is happy.

Zamula and/or York at next year’s medical.

 

[deadhead]

Where this myth that Fletcher/Flahr prefer big players comes from?

York, Brink, Andrae, Tuomaala, it's not like he drafted Ginning, Bunnaman, Twarynski, etc.
In the top 3 rounds, Attard, Gauthier and Kaplan in four drafts - and all are offense first types.
Traded for Atkinson, signed Hayes, traded for Risto.

So the trade for Risto is the only move where size/physicality was a priority in four seasons.
MacEwen/NAK is just a taller version of the same player.

 

[04hockey]

WTH happened to Ratcliffe ?
7 gp - 0 goals 0 assists

 

[captainpaxil]

The notion that, in 2022, the AHL is some wild west goon league is so laughably outdated. I watch the AHL probably just as much as, if not more than the NHL anymore. I have a 12 game season ticket package for the Bears for the second year in a row and haven't seen a fight in person in a year and a half (granted there was one in a game I couldn't attend last season). Scrums are usually once or twice a game at most and get broken up by the refs in 5 seconds or less. There is a recent rule that suspends players after their tenth fight of the season. It's not even as intense as it was 10-15 years ago.

Watching games isn't important it reduces the importance of the advanced metrics which are all that matters

 

[Ghosts Beer]

Where this myth that Fletcher/Flahr prefer big players comes from?

York, Brink, Andrae, Tuomaala, it's not like he drafted Ginning, Bunnaman, Twarynski, etc.
In the top 3 rounds, Attard, Gauthier and Kaplan in four drafts - and all are offense first types.
Traded for Atkinson, signed Hayes, traded for Risto.

So the trade for Risto is the only move where size/physicality was a priority in four seasons.
MacEwen/NAK is just a taller version of the same player.

This board is full of myths, confabulations, and fabrications that are repeated ad nauseum as fact.

 

[Rebels57]

The notion that, in 2022, the AHL is some wild west goon league is so laughably outdated. I watch the AHL probably just as much as, if not more than the NHL anymore. I have a 12 game season ticket package for the Bears for the second year in a row and haven't seen a fight in person in a year and a half (granted there was one in a game I couldn't attend last season). Scrums are usually once or twice a game at most and get broken up by the refs in 5 seconds or less. There is a recent rule that suspends players after their tenth fight of the season. It's not even as intense as it was 10-15 years ago.

Be that as it may, every single time we send a player to the AHL that deserves to be in the NHL, they sustain a serious injury.

 

[Curufinwe]

Sanheim didn't.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Sanheim got kneed by a plug in the AHL playoffs when he had no business being there.

 

[deadhead]

Be that as it may, every single time we send a player to the AHL that deserves to be in the NHL, they sustain a serious injury.

Of course, our players never get hurt in the NHL.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Where this myth that Fletcher/Flahr prefer big players comes from?

York, Brink, Andrae, Tuomaala, it's not like he drafted Ginning, Bunnaman, Twarynski, etc.
In the top 3 rounds, Attard, Gauthier and Kaplan in four drafts - and all are offense first types.
Traded for Atkinson, signed Hayes, traded for Risto.

So the trade for Risto is the only move where size/physicality was a priority in four seasons.
MacEwen/NAK is just a taller version of the same player.

Their own stated emphasis on size and insistence that players get big.

Also their actions. Try to avoid the cherrypicking.

 

[BernieParent]

Tale as old as time

If only York had been in the NHL, the hit would have been prevented by Deslauriers and McEwen.

 

[Angry Hockey Dad]

WTH happened to Ratcliffe ?
7 gp - 0 goals 0 assists

I had really high hopes for Ratcliffe but I doubt he makes it at this point. Still rooting for the kid!

 

[Tripod]

Where this myth that Fletcher/Flahr prefer big players comes from?

York, Brink, Andrae, Tuomaala, it's not like he drafted Ginning, Bunnaman, Twarynski, etc.
In the top 3 rounds, Attard, Gauthier and Kaplan in four drafts - and all are offense first types.
Traded for Atkinson, signed Hayes, traded for Risto.

So the trade for Risto is the only move where size/physicality was a priority in four seasons.
MacEwen/NAK is just a taller version of the same player.

Yeah....Deslauriers never even happened. Risto is the ONLY one.

 

[deadhead]

Deslauriers is a 4LW making less than $2M.
MacEwen was a waiver wire acquisition.
A little less resources invested than say Allison and NAK, both 2nd rd picks, or Weise, $2.3M when the cap was 20% smaller.

Dear Cassandra:

Flyers assistant GM Brent Flahr announces via the Phantoms that Cam York is "day-to-day" with a lower body injury sustained in Sunday's game at Hershey.

 

[deadhead]

Some good injury news:

Flyers rehab skate participants this morning: Artem Anisimov (foot), Bobby Brink (hip) and Patrick Brown (back).

 

[Magua]

Excellent news. Anisimov and Brown have been sorely missed.

 

[Tripod]

Deslauriers is a 4LW making less than $2M.
MacEwen was a waiver wire acquisition.
A little less resources invested than say Allison and NAK, both 2nd rd picks, or Weise, $2.3M when the cap was 20% smaller.

Dear Cassandra:

Flyers assistant GM Brent Flahr announces via the Phantoms that Cam York is "day-to-day" with a lower body injury sustained in Sunday's game at Hershey.

This is classic Dead.

The whole discussion was on Fletch favoring size or not. He says Risto is the only one who fits the bill. Deslauriers is pointed out.

Instead of just saying, oops, forgot him. Instead goes off on another tangent that no one was discussing, thinking it helps his argument.

Classic Dead move.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

Good news on York, at least.

 

[captainpaxil]

This is classic Dead.

The whole discussion was on Fletch favoring size or not. He says Risto is the only one who fits the bill. Deslauriers is pointed out.

Instead of just saying, oops, forgot him. Instead goes off on another tangent that no one was discussing, thinking it helps his argument.

Classic Dead move.

Not unlike Fletcher who has switched things up from big untalented players to small untalented players. Everyone aknowledges the gm sucks but when waiver fodder is legitimately competitive with first round picks it's time to talk about the players

 

[deadhead]

The point is simply that FLetcher has invested less draft capital and money in big physical players.
The one exception was Risto.

He has added speed, Atkinson, Tippett, Sedlak and skill, York, Andrae, Brink.

The big players they signed and drafted were skill first types, Hayes, Gauthier, Attard, Kaplan.

The emphasis on size and physicality has been a Flyer tradition, ironically, when Fletcher took over they were one of the smallest (and slowest, bad combination) teams in the league.

It's Hextall who drafted Ginning, Ratcliffe, Twarynski, Allison, NAK in the top 3 rounds. And Bunnaman, Vorobyev, Strome, St. Ivany and Dove-McFalls in the 4th rd.

 

[Magua]

The point is simply that FLetcher has invested less draft capital

Could’ve stopped there, boss.

 

[Beef Invictus]

But I was told that Fletcher is good at building through the draft.