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The way people are making it, its almost as if frost was the reason we were bad last year. FYI, one of our best forwards was a young player ---> Farabee lol
 
flyerslducks said:
The way people are making it, its almost as if frost was the reason we were bad last year. FYI, one of our best forwards was a young player ---> Farabee lol
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I don't know how you're arriving at that interpretation.
 
Beef Invictus said:
I don't get this fanbase, they've watched the team force trash veterans into the lineup for a decade and can't win anything and yet for some reason you think that will work for us even though we were a laughingstock of the league last year?
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True...but theyve also made the mistake of penciling in young players into spots they didnt live up to...and its burned them multiple years now. Patrick wasnt ready to be a 2C. Provorov hasnt stuck as a 1D. TK hasnt been consistent enough to be RW1. Myers wasnt good in a top 4 role. Hart hasnt been able to be a clear 1. Sanheim is the only one thats really settled into his role.

Back when it was the manning vs sanheim days...it didnt matter if sanheim struggled as a rookie bc the teams ceiling was low. Now its pretty costly if a young player doesnt perform in a key role. I can understand not wanting to gift Frost the 3C spot just yet.

That said, if Brassard and Thompson hurt the team with poor play, then chuck needs to take away AVs toys.
 
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Something I haven’t seen noted anywhere on this site is shortly In Canada you will not be able to fly unvaccinated. It’s an issue with the CFL as unvaccinated players will not be allowed to fly. So from a roster perspective It won’t affect a lot of games but will have an impact on player availability. I haven’t read much more on it but if CFL players aren’t exempt neither will NHL players be.
 
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Something I haven’t seen noted anywhere on this site is shortly In Canada you will not be able to fly unvaccinated. It’s an issue with the CFL as unvaccinated players will not be allowed to fly. So from a roster perspective It won’t affect a lot of games but will have an impact on player availability. I haven’t read much more on it but if CFL players aren’t exempt neither will NHL players be.
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arent all NHL players jabbed by now ?

i woulda thought that was a requirement.
 
Flyerfan18 said:
Something I haven’t seen noted anywhere on this site is shortly In Canada you will not be able to fly unvaccinated. It’s an issue with the CFL as unvaccinated players will not be allowed to fly. So from a roster perspective It won’t affect a lot of games but will have an impact on player availability. I haven’t read much more on it but if CFL players aren’t exempt neither will NHL players be.
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I fully understand why Niskanen retired.
 
This “gifting” of roster spots to young players POV is…interesting.

They’re not gifted anything w/ this team. This team creates fake adversity under the guise of “competition.” They generally have to have HOF preseasons and training camps to make the team. While the standard for the vets is: as long as you don’t f*** up too much this job will be handed to you, no questions asked.
 
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TB87 said:
This “gifting” of roster spots to young players POV is…interesting.

They’re not gifted anything w/ this team. This team creates fake adversity under the guise of “competition.” They generally have to have HOF preseasons and training camps to make the team. While the standard for the vets is: as long as you don’t f*** up too much this job will be handed to you, no questions asked.
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Just because things are repeated ad nausem doesn't make them true.
When a kid is ready, it's obvious, and the veterans sit behind him. But more often a kid is forced to play before he's ready and that's also obvious.

Bunnaman and Twarynski both made the team in 2019-2020 (under AV) with good but not spectacular training camps, Farabee made the team but was sent down until the team returned from the road trip from hell, then immediately promoted. Bunnaman played 21 games, Vorobyev 20, Frost 20, Twarynski 15. Allison in 14 games last year grossly outplayed all four. That's how you earn a job.

We saw last year why NAK struggled to make the team in 2019-20, his motor runs hot and cold, when he's not giving 100% effort, he's a meh forward. When he came up he played with energy, last year he didn't and had a poor season.

Sanheim started with the team in 2017-18 at age 21, should have been sent down earlier, but when he returned the same year was a fixture in the lineup from that point on. Lindblom played 23 games that year after an AHL stint, played 81 games the next season.

This training camp, I'll bet York, Zamula, Laczynski (if healthy), J Cates, Foerster, and Hogberg get a lot of playing time to gauge how ready they are for the NHL. And if they go to the AHL, it's up to them to dominate and show the FO it was a mistake to send them down.

Pittsburgh did that with their young prospects during their Cup years, burying them behind players like Scuderi (37), Dupuis (36), Cullen (39), Fehr (30), Porter (29), only Cullen and Fehr dressed for the playoffs that year.

It's not who starts a season, it's who ends a season that counts.
 
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Extension incoming?
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OK, this is the big one. I've been very negative about this offseason, but this can salvage everything if the number and length are good.
 
The term is a lot, but you weren't realistically getting him for less than 8. 7.75 AAV is very good for what Couturier is today.

It's Cucks 2nd deal in his Flyers tenure where he didn't piss away value or margins, so Bravo, Cuck.

Your offseason is still abysmal, though.
 
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