Flyers' History: When Is The Last Time You Felt Good About This Team?

[Beef Invictus]

I'm uncertain Barber stands out as much in an expanded talent pool. He played in the most watered down era. Really good player, but also shines in part because of when he played

 

[EdmFlyersfan]

Mid-late 80's (Kerr, Howe, Poulin, Propp, etc)
When Lindros was traded to Philly (also his MVP awards speech)
Primeau became a beast in the playoffs (I believe we went to semi-finals that year vs TB)
When Pronger joined the club and our 2010 run
When Michkov was drafted

 

[Shrike]

When Lavi called Giroux the best player in the world, I had no argument. It was him or Crosby and he was outscoring over several seasons.
BiggE’s top ten is fine by me. I was wondering if I could think of someone to beat out MacLeish for the last spot and Hexy was all I could think of. After Pelle, finding Hextall shooting pucks and attacking opponents while smacking the pipes with his stick was pretty damn exciting. But Rick scored a lot of big goals

 

[Juicy Pop]

Probably at the end of the 17-18 season...

-Giroux, Voracek and Ghost posted career highs
-Couturier broke out offensively
-Acceptable sophomore seasons from Provorov and TK
-Acceptable rookie seasons from Patrick and Lindblom
-We had Sanheim finally stepping in and had a few prospects still floating around [Frost, Allison, Hart etc.] that we knew less about and could still be hopeful on

It wasn't all great [Hakstol lol], but there was enough talent there that you could see a window with some trades, FA pickups and good rolls of the dice.

I think they could have looked like Dallas with Giroux and Voracek remaining productive *with Patrick, TK, Provorov and Ghost taking the lead.

 

[GapToothedWonder]

2017 summer into 2018 fall. You had Patrick just drafted, career years from all their best players (Giroux started the season at age 29!). Even if we didn’t like Hakstok — and he dicked around hard with Sanheim that year — it still felt like there was time enough to fix that, although that’s where the Hextall doubt started creeping in. You had Hart *eek* on the horizon, JVR signing in the 2018 summer, Lindblom had recently come over. Just a lot of reasons to think it could coalesce quickly the following season or two.

The Covid season just felt like a dead cat bounce. That’s the only possible answer? I definitely enjoyed much of that year — it’s the last time I remember caring — but it never felt like a window.

Thats about the same time frame for me. What really started to kill off the good feelings was the realization that they had no ability to consistently develop talent even when they did manage to draft a decent amount of raw talent into the system.

 

[GapToothedWonder]

Neither Richards or Giroux were franchise players in my opinion.

So the answer is a lot of paint chips.

 

[snoop88]

I thought the 2019-20 team was the best (only) realistic chance at a cup run since 2010.

Basically I’ve viewed this as a mediocre to bad franchise since summer 2010. I enjoyed the 2011 or 2012 teams but never thought they were realistically a threat. And since then they’ve just been a flat out bad organization.