Flybynite
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People keep saying Wawa, but the ones who should step in and try to one-up Wawa are their competitors.
Sheetz Center rolls off the tongue and would never be problematic with a word flub
Rumor: Things Not Left Unsaid 3 - Flyers Rumors and Media Mentions: Never Ending Circles
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People keep saying Wawa, but the ones who should step in and try to one-up Wawa are their competitors.
Sheetz Center rolls off the tongue and would never be problematic with a word flub
BiggE
SELL THE DAMN TEAM
This organization is such a shitshow
freakydallas13
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This team is a caricature of itself.
Briere, did you show Michkov the clip of Deslauriers drooped over Trouba while Trouba obliterates Hathway?
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Adtar02
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Wells Fargo is pulling a lot of sponsorship money. There isn’t as much right off as their use to be.People keep saying Wawa, but the ones who should step in and try to one-up Wawa are their competitors.
Sheetz Center rolls off the tongue and would never be problematic with a word flub
GKJ
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Absolutely notPeople keep saying Wawa, but the ones who should step in and try to one-up Wawa are their competitors.
Sheetz Center rolls off the tongue and would never be problematic with a word flub
ponder719
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And, conveniently, this comes at a time when the team is the drizzling Sheetz.People keep saying Wawa, but the ones who should step in and try to one-up Wawa are their competitors.
Sheetz Center rolls off the tongue and would never be problematic with a word flub
FlyerNutter
In the forest, a man learns what it means to live
There is a part of me that would like to know why he fell in love with them so much.
Is he wanting to milk them for as much money as possible? Or is his ego so big that he wants to be seen as the messiah of the franchise.
Is he wanting to milk them for as much money as possible? Or is his ego so big that he wants to be seen as the messiah of the franchise.
Chicken N Raffls
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Too bad the “braintrust” gave away Cutter Gauthier, passed on Zeev Buium, and don’t have a top 6 center on the team or in the pipeline. Otherwise, all good.
Flybynite
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If they really want to indoctrinate him on appropriate Flyers culture they should have showed this clip
TheKingPin
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Don’t know how we are even here. Michkov has to get all of these fools fired.
if we had a real..what ever the old dude is..governor..owner..CEO or what ever he is..if we had someong that wasnt a fanboy of the old players..i would give managmenet a realistic 3 to 5 year window where they need to be in the PO's and not just fodder...maybe get them to actually get some better talent around the "franchise savior" before he sees how bad it is here and decided he also wants out
Hollywood Cannon
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It’s more than likely that like a good portion of Europeans he views the Flyers as a premier franchise. They have a mythos to them. They’re a well known team over there.
They used to have that here in the States also but that’s gone to the wayside as the incompetence runs rampant but those across the pond don’t see the organization on an every day basis so the allure hasn’t been lost.
Or Comcast cut SKA a big fat check that’s going to result in the Flyers having international sanctions placed on them. There’s always a new level to #MaximumPain.
FlyerNutter
In the forest, a man learns what it means to live
Wouldn’t it make more sense that the Flyers in particular would be viewed in not the most favourable light because of the whole Bully/Red Army thing?
Alas, you might be right - just seems weird to me how he’s seemingly so in love with them.
I don’t for a second doubt this somehow goes sideways, but would be nice to have a fun/healthy star to follow. I’m basically at Fletcher levels of nothing mattering until an actual regime change happens.
They are wasting his time (if he truly cares about winning), until that happens. Not sure he plays good soldier like Claude.
Amorgus
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This. This is why the team will continue to be trash. No, they can't show him a player that actually has skill to be his new best friend. They have to show him an ineffectual goon.
Appleyard
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Yeh, Flyers definitely still have the mythos in Europe... mainly based off the 1990s actually. (the last time the NHL was really massive in Europe overall and the age-range a lot of Euro fans outside of the Nordics come from.)
Leafs
Red Wings
Bruins
Rangers
Canadiens
Flyers
Penguins
Avalanche
Devils
Blackhawks
I would guess are the 10 most popular teams here... probably roughly in that order. Rare to see anyone wearing a jersey, hat etc that is not from one of those 10 teams tbh. (though Isles, Canucks, Oilers and Wild I see here and there actually)
What is funny is I would probably say that the Canadiens and Blackhawks are the two least followed of the 06.
Though teams with big Euro stars also have exposure in cycles... for example right now the Panthers and Canucks with Barkov and Pettersson ofc get bigger followings in Finland and Sweden.
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I should watch the press conference before I fully blow up, but this sentence makes me so god damn angry.
GKJ
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I would’ve thought the Canucks would be huge in Sweden, they’ve had a strong Swedish presence going back to Markus Naslund, but he obviously wasn’t bigger than Sundin, Forsberg, or Lidstrom.
Appleyard
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I think they are... but not as big across the rest of Europe. And even still the Leafs and Red Wings likely have more followers in Sweden.
From the time I spent in Sweden I guess Leafs, Red Wings, Rangers, Canucks, Penguins, Capitals, Flyers, Avalanche are the biggest eight there (in roughly that order). But every other Euro country I doubt the Canucks hit top 10.
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The Flyers best country is likely Sweden, they probably should’ve played a game there when they were in Europe, but with Voracek being their best European player, Czechia made sense. They were one of the first teams to be pulling guys out of Sweden.
Appleyard
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I feel like the Flyers are probably not top 4-5 in any country... but in slot ~6-10 in basically every country...
honestly, the NHL exposure in the 1990s in Europe was somehow far higher/better and aside from the Nordics everyone else is still kind of "stuck" in that timeframe team wise. And a lot of people my age who have kids/are having kids pass their team on to their children too, as that is kind of how it is in Europe for almost every sport, kids support same team as parents did, kind of blindly aha.
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I became a Flyers fan in 1993 cause of Lindros. We only started getting hockey on satellite TV in 1992 in New Zealand.
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Part of me does seriously wonder if it's just a matter of deep pockets and a willingness to be a bit unscrupulous. All of the Russian publications, via translation, put it as the Flyers buying out the deal. Michkov himself yesterday, as translated, said he wasn't involved in the "negotiation between SKA and Philadelphia." Seems to be the open secret.
Based on the kid's really unfortunate family situation, not unthinkable that he'd want to have gotten out of Russia faster--so finding a dance partner to make that happen may've been important to his process.
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