Confirmed Signing with Link: [PHI] F Travis Konecny signs extension with the Flyers (8 years, $8.75M AAV)

[Laphroaig]

Call me crazy but I've always felt that signing your team's best player is a good thing. I'm still pissed off that the Senators passed on this guy for Colin White.

 

[FlyguyOX]

Everyone keeps talking about points per game, but how many guys in the league are really hitting a point per game with 9 power play points? The list is small and those players are in a completely different tier than Konecny and are paid like it.

He's a speedy, undersized forward who can score in multiple ways and will go to the front of the net. He'll never be a PP QB, but he'd have no problem putting up points on a decent unit. The Flyers have by far the worst PP in the league and Konecny's point totals have suffered significantly because of it.

Yep, he'll easily be PPG once the flyers get some actual skill (Michkov) on PP1

 

[EdmFlyersfan]

Get him a center who can pass and watch TK explode...

 

[centipede2233]

Not sure why people were comparing this to the horvat signing. Horvat is a center who is good at face offs. I’d rather have horvat cause of position.

 

[ijuka]

That's a lot of term and a lot of money for a guy who's 28 and who isn't even a point per game player.

 

[Rebels57]

Yeah can’t believe they’re signing this washed up has-been .

Anyone over the age of 22 is worthless.

Im a Flyers fan. He'll be approaching 33-34 by the time this Flyers team turns it around..and thats only if they hit on a few more 1sts. Passing on Buium was already a mistake.

 

[thedjpd]

That's a lot of term and a lot of money for a guy who's 28 and who isn't even a point per game player.

This is what is called a surface level evaluation.

Go deeper.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Not sure why people were comparing this to the horvat signing. Horvat is a center who is good at face offs. I’d rather have horvat cause of position.

Konecny is a far better player, faceoffs be damned

Call me crazy but I've always felt that signing your team's best player is a good thing. I'm still pissed off that the Senators passed on this guy for Colin White.

On HfB if you’re not on the cusp of winning a cup you should never sign anyone who isn’t coming off an ELC.

Rushed the rebuild.

Retool instead of rebuild.

Etc, etc.

 

[Rich Nixon]

Get him a center who can pass and watch TK explode...

It's just that easy!

(Konecny was probably their best trade asset for acquiring a good young center or C prospect)

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Yikes.

Flyers shoulda traded him.

 

[horner]

I get that he's a good player, but I would be a little concerned about the length of this deal.

Are the flyers going to be in a position to contend while Konecny is still worth the deal?

He's a great leader for there young players

 

[Canadienna]

He's a great leader for there young players

Sure, and having him around will help the young guys grow.

But the point of growing the young guys is to contend in a few years right?

Won't this deal be past it's "best before" date by that time?

 

[horner]

Yikes.

Flyers shoulda traded him.

The young Flyers players will benefit having around he would go through a wall to win.

 

[Curufinwe]

Call me crazy but I've always felt that signing your team's best player is a good thing. I'm still pissed off that the Senators passed on this guy for Colin White.

Is it a good thing when your team's two players with the most term are both right wingers who have career highs in points of 53 and 68? Is that how contenders are built?

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

27 year old quality players are not going to sign for 3-4 years. It just doesn't happen. Most guys play until they're in their early to mid 30's. He's basically signing a retirement contract. Why would he sign for a couple years?

Yet, every time a guy is signed, there are concerns raised about the length of the contract. It's like clockwork.

 

[TGWL]

How can you justify this contract when Bobby Clarke, long-time Flyer and HHOF player, only made $100k per season?

I heard he got hush-hush money under the table. They don't tell you about all the milk deliveries the team paid for.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Seems a bit high, he's a 70ish point guy. And offensively will likely decline during this deal.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Seems a bit high, he's a 70ish point guy. And offensively will likely decline during this deal.

If Philly gets him some help (good start with Michkov), I think the decline will be negligible for most of the deal, if there is any.

 

[JRichard]

Yikes.

Flyers shoulda traded him.

Easy to say.
Briere refused to trade him for whom?
Briere called which gms and for whom?

Until i have names i like TK on the team.

15 pts ahead of next scorer.
Best scorer last 3 seasons.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Easy to say.
Briere refused to trade him for whom?
Briere called which gms and for whom?

Until i have names i like TK on the team.

15 pts ahead of next scorer.
Best scorer last 3 seasons.

That's literally his job to do those things. I have no f***ing idea if he did or not. But he should have, and waited for the right deal if he had to.

 

[blackjackmulligan]

The young Flyers players will benefit having around he would go through a wall to win.

Would go through a wall to win yet re-signed for 8 years on a team that has many losing seaosn in front of them. Not even accounting for all the losing he has already been a part of.

He took the bag, end of story

 

[thedjpd]

That's literally his job to do those things. I have no f***ing idea if he did or not. But he should have, and waited for the right deal if he had to.

What's the right deal? Any deal? If best offer was a late 1st? I'd rather keep TK, too. Flyers are swimming in those.

You admit to not knowing at all if he did any of those things - but still proceeded to speculate that the deal is bad because he should have done them!

 

[blackjackmulligan]

Easy to say.
Briere refused to trade him for whom?
Briere called which gms and for whom?

Until i have names i like TK on the team.

15 pts ahead of next scorer.
Best scorer last 3 seasons.

Where they finish in those 3 seasons?

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Where they finish in those 3 seasons?

Not great. Doesn't seem to be his doing.

 

[blackjackmulligan]

Not great. Doesn't seem to be his doing.

Is he a part of it?

Listen he is a good productive player. Where the Flyers are at it is a bad move. Not sure why people cant or wont accept that. It isn't about the player himself. They should have let someone else give him that deal.