Social Media Septic Tank Thread

[Striiker]

This is the ultimate “please pay attention to me” hockey take. Insanity:

Not surprising.

Dogshit players convince themselves that intangibles and toughness are everything so they can pretend that they have value and helped their teams.

 

[Magua]

Not surprising.

Dogshit players convince themselves that intangibles and toughness are everything so they can pretend that they have value and helped their teams.

Never been more sure of anything than if John Scott put on a Flyers jersey, he'd be a pro scout right now.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Patrice Bergeron has been on one Stanley Cup winning team in his entire career. If the key was playing a strong two-way game like these guys always say wouldn’t that have manifested itself in more championships.

Or reality is it isn’t easy to win championships & there isn’t really an exact formula. Just try to build the best teams you can & hope for some luck. So making narratives based around that isn’t really wise.

 

[flyershockey]

Never been more sure of anything that if John Scott put on a Flyers jersey, he'd be a pro scout right now.

Well, this is the same organization that gift wrapped a coaching career to a guy who blocked a shot with his face. You don't get more intangibly than that.

 

[Magua]

Well, this is the same organization that gift wrapped a coaching career to a guy who blocked a shot with his face. You don't get more intangibly than that.

We have a development coach who played 16 career games with the Flyers and 6 games with the Phantoms, who should've been cut in camp if not for our GM salivating over a player who was playing in England the previous season. Lappy's cockroach ability withstanding, how this other schmuck got his Flyers tenure is on its own lazy tier. Hell, even Other Development Guru, Nick Schultz, played 189 games.

Counterpoint:

 

[flyershockey]

We have a development coach who played 16 career games with the Flyers and 6 games with the Phantoms, who should've been cut in camp if not for our GM salivating over a player who was playing in England the previous season. Lappy's cockroach ability withstanding, how this other schmuck got his Flyers tenure is on its own lazy tier. Hell, even Other Development Guru, Nick Schultz, played 189 games.

Counterpoint:

Never underestimate the ability to say yes sir/no sir and desire to ball lick. Seriously, as long as you're willing to swallow all self respect and grovel before the BSB altar, this organization will find a home for you... provided you weren't a soft p***y in your playing days.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[flyershockey]

These guys lose track of the feeler tweet bullshit they put out on behalf of professional organizations....

 

[Lord Defect]

Patrice Bergeron has been on one Stanley Cup winning team in his entire career. If the key was playing a strong two-way game like these guys always say wouldn’t that have manifested itself in more championships.

Or reality is it isn’t easy to win championships & there isn’t really an exact formula. Just try to build the best teams you can & hope for some luck. So making narratives based around that isn’t really wise.

There is not a formula but certain things imo make it easier.
There’s a pro and con to it all.
Two way players are “better” because they ply both sides of the ice. If their ability starts and ends with being able to play both sides that’s an issue. If they don’t do anything past that particularly well, congrats you have a third liner or a good fourth liner.
If they have either stellar offense of defense and can play both sides, congrats you have Bergeron or coots.
If they play one side so/so, you have a third or fourth liner, maaaybe a second liner.
If they specialize in offense, you have a first or second liner, and specialize in defense you have a defenseman.
Chasing every player to play both sides hurts you in any lack of specialization.
Ignoring players that play both sides hurts your fluidity.
You have to either find the happy medium there or also know what your weakness are are AND know how to not just hide but over coach them.

Well, this is the same organization that gift wrapped a coaching career to a guy who blocked a shot with his face. You don't get more intangibly than that.

I do appreciate that they gave him a job and have no doubts that in this current staffing environment, it would never happen. I also think that it did not need to be that job.

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

 

[Ironmanrulez]

We have a development coach who played 16 career games with the Flyers and 6 games with the Phantoms, who should've been cut in camp if not for our GM salivating over a player who was playing in England the previous season. Lappy's cockroach ability withstanding, how this other schmuck got his Flyers tenure is on its own lazy tier. Hell, even Other Development Guru, Nick Schultz, played 189 games.

Counterpoint:

Worst franchise in Sports!

 

[Fight4yourRight]

 

[Striiker]

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That skull is empty.

 

[Fight4yourRight]

That skull is empty.

It sure is. But an empty skull is great for triggering Tortz and inching closer to a freakout at a future press conference.

 

[Magua]

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Wait, why are his comparables stay at home defensemen?

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[Hollywood Cannon]

He says the opposite when the NBCSP cameras are on…

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Imagine thinking that executives from the Flyers, let alone another team actually talk to this guy…

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

What a f***ing loser this guy is.

 

[DAVIDE1333]

Imagine thinking that executives from the Flyers, let alone another team actually talk to this guy…

But he's not even good as the TYPE of player he's supposed to be

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

Clown shoes are funny, Sam. That's the org you work for. You're the spinning bow tie, and you don't even know it.

Imagine thinking that executives from the Flyers, let alone another team actually talk to this guy…

TBF he didn't say what kind of "executive" it was.

 

[Rebels57]

Imagine thinking that executives from the Flyers, let alone another team actually talk to this guy…

I'm fighting this dude if it's the last thing I do

 

[FLYguy3911]

Imagine thinking that executives from the Flyers, let alone another team actually talk to this guy…

 

[gertbfrobe16]

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Wait, why are his comparables stay at home defensemen?

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New comedy act now appearing nightly for your entertainment.

Imagine thinking that executives from the Flyers, let alone another team actually talk to this guy…

Another comedy act.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

This is the ultimate “please pay attention to me” hockey take. Insanity:

Yzerman, Ovi and MacKinnon were "guys you can't win with in the playoffs" and branded chokers until they weren't.

In McDavid's case, I don't see how anyone with a brain can blame him. Short of an effort even better than last year's POs, ntil he and Drai are surrounded by better depth and backed by actual NHL defense and goalies, they're not winning, and it's not their faults.