Rumor: Things Not Left Unsaid 3 - Flyers Rumors and Media Mentions: Never Ending Circles

GKJ

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This guy is gonna get paid more than Staal was last year.

Which means other teams wanted him.

But we’re gonna get him
 

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I dont care "that" much about Johnson being re-signed in a vacuum... he sucks these days and will be paid too much but he will be the #7 in theory.

BUT yeh, if I am Ronnie Attard at this point I am like "what the f*** do I have to do". They just keep blocking him and finding ways for him not to play even when he plays well when given a chance.
 

JojoTheWhale

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BUT yeh, if I am Ronnie Attard at this point I am like "what the f*** do I have to do". They just keep blocking him and finding ways for him not to play even when he plays well when given a chance.

Even as an organization, finding out what you have has value. If Attard falls on his face, fine. You still made a more informed decision.
 

BiggE

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I dont care "that" much about Johnson being re-signed in a vacuum... he sucks these days and will be paid too much but he will be the #7 in theory.

BUT yeh, if I am Ronnie Attard at this point I am like "what the f*** do I have to do". They just keep blocking him and finding ways for him not to play even when he plays well when given a chance.
He’ll get his chance, the odds of both Drysdale and Fisto staying healthy are right up there with the odds of someone winning the Powerball jackpot.
 

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Even as an organization, finding out what you have has value. If Attard falls on his face, fine. You still made a more informed decision.

Yeh. Not letting young guys play is awful asset management for a re-building team.

Hell, even if internally you dont like him? If he plays 60 games and gets like 20 points with 18 minutes a night and some PP2 time? He is probably worth given his age like a late 2nd round pick (or a 3rd+) at the deadline if even ONE team thinks he helps them. Which as a bigger righty is likely.
 

LegionOfGloom

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Yeh. Not letting young guys play is awful asset management for a re-building team.

Hell, even if internally you dont like him? If he plays 60 games and gets like 20 points with 18 minutes a night and some PP2 time? He is probably worth given his age like a late 2nd round pick (or a 3rd+) at the deadline if even ONE team thinks he helps them. Which as a bigger righty is likely.
Maybe you can explain this to your friend Charlie
 

Random Forest

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Even as an organization, finding out what you have has value. If Attard falls on his face, fine. You still made a more informed decision.
It’s even worse than that because Attard was actually a pretty good draft pick too. You have a guy you drafted in the 3rd round who had solid potential and then progressed reasonably well… and you’re just going to hold him back instead of giving the pick a chance to actually pay off? What is that plan? Maybe if he was an undrafted free agent, I could shrug, but they actually developed this player!
 

Danko

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Whats funny to me to is that he isn't worth 2 million at this point, but they are gonna give it to him anyway to convince him not to retire
 
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Appleyard

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Maybe you can explain this to your friend Charlie

Tbf Charlie has to toe the line faaaar more than I do. Especially with how sensitive some people are in NHL front offices and behind NHL benches...

We differ on opinion on some things related to the Flyers but we are not a million miles away opinion wise on most things...

A career as an NHL beat writer - well - just look around the league.

People like Russo were probably the most "critical" we have seen in terms of guys who made a long career of it while still keeping the good relationship with a front office you need to have, and while I respect Russo a hell of a lot he was never really ruffling too many feathers and still flew dangerously close to the sun with Fenton just for basically doing his job.
 

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