Regarding the Carlson Offer Sheet (we have a massive feature article and full analysis forthcoming when @slimcliffy puts it in) - this is a ploy to get ANA to match, which they obviously will.
Then they become more susceptible to Philly's real target - Pavel Mintukov
That's my guess - let's see how it plays out.
#FlyTogether #Flyers
FL is improved and WA is improved. It could be argued OTT and BOS are not. If PHL "takes a step back" they'll miss the playoffs. Hope would be that their step back isn't as great as any step forward CBJ under Bowness, NJ, and NYI might make. And that OTT truly is worse.
He re-signed Dvorak to an awful term. He kept both Tippett and Ristolainen. He re-signed Vladař. And yet, he said this.
WHAT THE FUCK?
But yeah, as I've said many times before, there's ZERO concept.
@Anth_Chatburn@FlyersAnt Of course. Perpetual mediocrity requires under performance after over performance. How else can mediocrity be sustained. They have it down to a science.
Briere was hired in 2023.
2026 is half way over and his is telling fans that the team is probably taking a step back after making the playoffs for the first time since 2020.
And media will tell fans they’re not allowed to be frustrated.
Being a Flyers fan is never boring.
@Pushit82@NHLFlyersHockey It’s bec at least one thing I’ve learned after following this team for 50+ years is that but for one little blip in the mid 70’s - counting on, or even hoping that, “fun” things repeat or “fun” incrementally grows, is a fool’s errand. Let’s regroup 1 year from now.
@B_Sommermann This not going to make a move just to make a move thing is illusory. Who actually does that? What GM ever said we made this move just to make one - you know nothing else to do. To take credit for not doing something literally no one does is a strange explanation.
@BrendanCull3@SuitableAlias I think only if the emphasis Mtl placed on Marty St Louis attracting FAs as one of his main attributes was the same as Phl placed on Tocchet, then yes they failed too.
@BroadStBull@iamtheeagle1@NHLFlyers not a bum sam. from the perspective of the rebuild, multiple young for one old now is misaligned. The 1C they need is one that will emerge as a star in 3 years. Not one now. Esp in exchange for any asset previously deemed key to the rebuild.
Anthony Di Marco: Beyond looking for help on the backend, the Flyers top priority remains finding a center capable of playing in the top-six; two targets that the Flyers like are the Ducks’ Mason McTavish and Seattle Kraken’s Matty Beniers - Daily Faceoff (6/2)
“Flyers fans shouldn’t verbalize their support for Matvei Michkov online because it makes his teammates angry and hurts their feelings” is hands down one of the most deranged things I’ve ever heard.