Tribute The Official "Fire Tortorella" Thread

[wankstifier]

I'll defend Steve Mason for as long as I live

 

[VladDrag]

I loved Darroll Powe.

 

[freakydallas13]

I loved Darroll Powe.

Everyone loved Powe. He was the perfect 4th liner.

The Powe-Betts-Lapierre 4th line was a lot of fun to watch.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I loved Darroll Powe.

This should be the default position. Human cannonball.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Everyone loved Powe. He was the perfect 4th liner.

The Powe-Betts-Lapierre 4th line was a lot of fun to watch.

Knowing how completely ruined Betts body was, all the more impressive in hindsight.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

I'll defend Steve Mason for as long as I live

he was not a miss... thats my final hilltop and ill die on it

 

[Embiid]

I thought Sbisa would be our #1 offensive defenseman for years ....

Clearly an Italian bias (parents Italian from Switzerland) factored too...

 

[Beef Invictus]

7 years in TB, 4 in NYR, 6 in CBJ (and the GM pushed him out by trading for Laine - the anti-Torts player).

I think he values high end skill, he's had St Louis, Panarin, etc. Look how fast Brink's minutes went up.
But he demands that high skill players still try on defense, and some scorers don't want to work on defense. He could never deal with someone like Patrick Kane. But he'd love Sidney. If Michkov is as competitive as they say, he'll get along fine with Torts.

I don't think he gives more rope to "his guys," rather, you become his guy by doing the things he asks of you, and he's patient with players who do so. I mean look at TK, he'd drive a lot of HCs crazy with his mistakes, but he plays with a high motor, is highly competitive, and tries to play defense. So Torts grits his teeth and keeps throwing him out there. We're seeing a similar thing with Tippett.

Yes, he wants his guys, most top HCs clear out the guys who won't play the game the way they want. If you take over a competitive team, you coach around the guys you have until you can get rid of the ones you don't want, when you're rebuilding, you don't have to bother with that.

I noticed you forgot a team.

If a coach "can't deal with" Patrick Kane then that's a super shitty coach.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

I loved Darroll Powe.

 

[Striiker]

I'll defend Steve Mason for as long as I live

He was irritating but not because of his play

 

[wankstifier]

He was irritating but not because of his play

Agreed, his face bothers me.

 

[Striiker]

Agreed, his face bothers me.

well i meant post-game interviews but yeah i guess we can say he has a stupid face too

 

[JojoTheWhale]

I loved Darroll Powe.

I’ve only ever owned one Flyers jersey. It was Shjon Podein.

So yes, I’ve always been defective.

 

[Striiker]

Speaking of bottom six players, I still have absolutely no idea how Raffl was hated and Pitlick was so loved by this stupid ass fanbase,

Raffl is probably one of the most underrated bottom of the lineup guys we've had recently.

 

[wankstifier]

Speaking of bottom six players, I still have absolutely no idea how Raffl was hated and Pitlick was so loved by this stupid ass fanbase,

Raffl is probably one of the most underrated bottom of the lineup guys we've had recently.

Stud

 

[Striiker]

Stud

Guy was a Swiss Army Knife. Could do any job on any line.

Seemed like a really cool guy off the ice too.

 

[trostol]

I’ve only ever owned one Flyers jersey. It was Shjon Podein.

So yes, I’ve always been defective.

underrated

 

[CerpinTaxt]

Everyone loved Powe. He was the perfect 4th liner.

The Powe-Betts-Lapierre 4th line was a lot of fun to watch.

To think the Flyers iced such a 4th line and then we look at the slop they've trotted out since then. They even lost a better center in Glen metropolit to waivers that season
Edit: or the season prior

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Speaking of bottom six players, I still have absolutely no idea how Raffl was hated and Pitlick was so loved by this stupid ass fanbase,

Raffl is probably one of the most underrated bottom of the lineup guys we've had recently.

PEB was another... shame he was surgicaly grafted to f***ing VdV here.

 

[Kelmitchell2]

This franchise believes that Nicky d is what Brashear actually was and that's wild to me

 

[deadhead]

Nicky D isn't horrible, we've seen much worse on the 4th line. He's meh, he fights, hits and tries to keep up, but has no skills. Poehling's speed covers for his skating, but you wouldn't want him with a center like Laczynski.

Poehling is what he is, speed, makes things happen but how he got drafted in the 1st rd??? Don't think he could finish if his life depended upon it.

Hathaway is a bit of a disappointment so far, it's not that he's bad, but he doesn't look like a guy who is a top 4th liner with the ability to play on the third line. More of a decent JAG.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Nicky D isn't horrible, we've seen much worse on the 4th line. He's meh, he fights, hits and tries to keep up, but has no skills. Poehling's speed covers for his skating, but you wouldn't want him with a center like Laczynski.

Poehling is what he is, speed, makes things happen but how he got drafted in the 1st rd??? Don't think he could finish if his life depended upon it.

Hathaway is a bit of a disappointment so far, it's not that he's bad, but he doesn't look like a guy who is a top 4th liner with the ability to play on the third line. More of a decent JAG.

Nah Deslauriers is horrible.

 

[Curufinwe]

I'll defend Steve Mason for as long as I live

I doubt the Flyers will have a goalie put up numbers better than what he did over a four year stretch while we're still alive, even if that's another 50 years.

 

[Audible Velvet]

I like the reminiscing.

I hate that we have Torts

That’s it.

 

[Curufinwe]

Stud

You could always spot an Authentic Clown by the way they talked about Raffl. Just about the perfect bottom 6 forward, aside from his regular injuries and poor shot blocking technique.

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And for a guy who had 160 P (151 ES, 4 PP, 6 SH) in 504 games for the Flyers, he was cheap.

2 x $1.1m

3 x $2.35m

2 x $1.6m