Deadpool8812
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LolI don’t agree with many of your opinions, but you are dead right on G choosing Florida and screwing the Flyers.
How did he screw the Flyers?
LolI don’t agree with many of your opinions, but you are dead right on G choosing Florida and screwing the Flyers.
Share a link. I have a tough time believing thatIt was reported by ASF at the time of the trade.
Apparently Giroux wanted to go to Florida but was willing to open his NT list to include other teams to help out the Flyers, so long as Fletcher was willing to guarantee that he'd bring Giroux back to the Flyers next season. Fletcher said no.
It’s at 10:30 of this godawful podcast that these three braindead assholes run.Share a link. I have a tough time believing that
It’s at 10:30 of this godawful podcast that these three braindead assholes run.
All three of them are unbearably stupid, but ASF is someone who gets super butthurt when people question and doubt his reporting (as you can hear at the start of the podcast), so, even if the information is wrong, I can at least believe that he believes it’s true, otherwise he’d be too scared to say it.
We’ll never know the truth but it’s very believable. Chuck is indisputably that stupid.
1000%Whether it's true or not, Giroux using his NTC to dictate where he goes is in no way "screwing over the Flyers." He earned that clause and the right to use it
Now if he would have pulled what Tavares did to the Isles...then that's a different story
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Shots fired!
I did not haha. I’ll take it downYou know thats a satire account right?
Not sure if posted anywhere else? But definitely lol worthy.
Claude Giroux takes shots at the Philadelphia Flyers
Florida Panthers forward Claude Giroux took a solid shot at his former organization, the Philadelphia Flyers.www.hockeypatrol.com
Jesus Christ, it's not a real quote from Claude. It's from a satirical twitter account. What the f*** is wrong with everyone.
Someone should send that article to Sam right before the next media availability, see if he takes the bait.Jesus Christ, it's not a real quote from Claude. It's from a satirical twitter account. What the f*** is wrong with everyone.
Someone should send that article to Sam right before the next media availability, see if he takes the bait.
Oh boy....It’s been a rough couple of seasons where just about all that could go wrong did. No one can blame the fan base for being upset with the situation. However things are never as good or as bad as they seem. There is no reason that with a competent new HC and staff that properly assesses the current talent to utilize its skills and protect it from its weaknesses that the Flyers can’t play competent hockey for sixty minutes.
This is where I am with this bunch. Next season, not to be an embarrassment on skates; after that make the POs and four years from now compete for the Cup. Build and develop the roster while weeding out the stiffs. Asset management will matter.
There is also no reason to expect a competent new HC and staff capable of properly assessing the current talent, given what we know of the people charged with hiring that new HC and staff.There is no reason that with a competent new HC and staff that properly assesses the current talent to utilize its skills and protect it from its weaknesses that the Flyers can’t play competent hockey for sixty minutes.
Jesus Christ, it's not a real quote from Claude. It's from a satirical twitter account. What the f*** is wrong with everyone.
LolIn regard to the discussion of what their near-future looks like, I do think this will undoubtedly be a better team next year. They’ll have Coots back and unless the gypsy really REALLY means to stick it to the organization, Ellis. They’ll have a new coach(es) who can’t possibly be poorer than what they were getting this year (sorry, Mike). There’s simply too many decent players on the roster for them to be in the bottom five*. (*Note that I didn’t write “compete for a Cup”; I’m optimistic at times, not insane.)
What worries me is Fletcher - and his bosses. The set of transactions that are emblematic of these concerns involve Ristolainen. He always had poor possession numbers relative to his teammates, and his traditional statistics have one of the strangest productivity curves. Most players peak at 27; he seems to have peaked at 21. His shot totals (cherry-picked metric) have declined since then and are about half what they were in 2015. What happened? Who knows, but no matter. For Fletcher, the warning signs were there: this guy was a reclamation project. Instead of seeing what was obvious to anyone with working eyes, our GM’s idea was to spend the 14th overall pick, a second still owed, and Hagg - who is RR w/o the salary and term commitment. A fool and his money are always so easy to separate. But wait, there’s more! In order to fit him, we traded the enigmatic Ghost along with carrying costs of this year’s mid-30s overall pick (and a 7th, but that feels like piling on). The cherry on top - or maybe CF’s sadism toward the fans, was that ungodly $25.5M extension. In short, he made a terrible decision that was terrible the moment it was conceived, certainly bidding against himself, then tripled down on it. So when I allow optimism to seep in, the fact that this guy is pulling the strings makes me worry that he doesn’t have the necessary vision and plan to get them where we want them to be. (Then again, he’s the guy who pulled off the Ellis trade; he’s so perplexing!) I hope I’m wrong.
To avoid board (possibly) or my own (definitely) rules on trying to stay on topic, CF worries me because they could have had an easy off-season. There are two excellent FAs this summer who very likely would love to sign here, including the one who is the subject of this thread, but I’m not sure it can be done. Sure, they could probably pay someone to take JVR or just bite the bullet and buyout. He’s a good player, he’s just not worth anything close to $7M of cap space. But they committed $5M to RR when they could have had what he brings for ELC value. It’s depressing.
When has he ever aimed that high?Lol
A full year of no Giroux and whatever other replacement level players Fletch brings in. All he's done is get farther and farther away from the best correlation to winning games (strong offensive and defensive transition metrics) and will double (quadruple?) down this year.
65 points max