PTO: [PHI] F Artem Anisimov signs PTO with the Flyers

[BurgoShark]

Arty Party is versatile though. Forward and backup goalie.
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Flyers doing the ultimate tank. Arty plays all 82 games in net.

 

[thebus88]

Anisimov played with the Rangers and Columbus before the Hawks. He was decent with the Rangers.

He was actually more than decent with the CBJ.

Dubinsky and Anisimov (while not “gamebreakers”) were instrumental in helping the CBJ team become a respectable and GOOD team. Both (were) very versatile guys with the ability to match up fine against nearly any opposing players, other than some of the best in the league, while unlike Anisimov, Dubinsky sometimes actually excelled against.

As a CBJ fan, I miss those guys, along with Jones AND Torts, and just how Torts had those CBJ teams playing for a few years.

If you really want a team to be successful in the NHL, they need to have a SOLID group of TWO WAY centers and the team AS A WHOLE need to focus on the defensive side of the game JUST AS MUCH as the offensive side.

While the game may have now moved past Anisimov, or he is just past his prime, I think all the negative shit said about Torts on this site (and the “internet”) about his apparent coaching style and focus on defensive play is all BS and based on many misrepresented things regarding Torts as a coach/human being and what actually makes an NHL team “successful”.

 

[CanuckistanFlyerfan]

This begs the question....is Fletcher the worst GM in the history of pro sports, or the worst GM in the universe?

 

[1865]

This guy was my finishing piece in in NHL 11/12 Be a GM mode

Always did great in the game

I feel like you’re not a million miles away from Fletch’s exact thought process.

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

I had the over/under at two posts before this came up.

 

[Ignatius]

I had the over/under at two posts before this came up.

The only thing that is maybe better is either the fact that Lecavalier attacked him afterwards or that Gaborik did this to Lundqvist after he lit them up in the All-Star game

 

[Flyer lurker]

This begs the question....is Fletcher the worst GM in the history of pro sports, or the worst GM in the universe?

Well this is what the aliens think.

 

[BrindamoursNose]

Telling ya.

Get ready for Anisimov to be on this team.

 

[Curufinwe]

I hope they claim Martinook which would take them up to 50 contracts

 

[ponder719]

I hope they claim Martinook which would take them up to 50 contracts

I'm half expecting them to claim Khudobin, continuing the trend of picking up guys I'd have loved to see on the Flyers before they needed a walker to get around the ice.

 

[MMC]

What's the deal with him? Is he signing?

 

[Maple Leaf]

Reminds me of a young Maxim Afinogenov

 

[BrindamoursNose]

What's the deal with him? Is he signing?

I'd imagine he is, but Torts said he's injured...so they may keep him on that PTO until necessary.

 

[biturbo19]

Anisimov played with the Rangers and Columbus before the Hawks. He was decent with the Rangers.

Yeah. He was a very decent middle-6 guy for a bunch of years and a couple different teams. The Blackhawks run was obviously an outlier driven by Panarin and Kane. That was never his real level of play. That said, even while he was riding those coattails, he did play a responsible two-way game between those guys that let them just run wild and generate offense. So it's not like he was just a totally useless lump getting completely dragged along and contributing absolutely nothing whatsoever.

Looked pretty cooked in recent years though, in terms of his skating. Not really an NHL caliber player when he can't physically keep pace with the game anymore.

 

[CanuckistanFlyerfan]

Looked pretty cooked in recent years though, in terms of his skating. Not really an NHL caliber player when he can't physically keep pace with the game anymore.

Ya, but he mentioned "Minnesota" in conversation one time and Fletcher heard about it, so he signed him.

 

[Curufinwe]

Flyers just shed a contract by letting Linus Sandin go back to Europe

 

[BrindamoursNose]

Flyers just shed a contract by letting Linus Sandin go back to Europe

Only a matter of time.

 

[Kipper933]

Signed a PTO with Flyers' AHL team.

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[Curufinwe]

Only a matter of time.

Back up to 50 after claiming Bellows