2020/21 Roster Thread XII: Heartache Spoken Here

[Beef Invictus]

When I was young, the sky was filled with stars. I watched them burn out one by one.



I cannot think of a better song for Flyers Hockey.

Previous: 2020/21 Roster Thread XI: A Jambalaya of Suffering

Click to read more...

 

[Striiker]

Nearly all of Fletchers moves since becoming GM have been somewhere between bad and horrific, so there's almost zero chance he successfully navigates this offseason and we end up a better team on the other side.

 

[Magua]

 

[Tripod]

Let's get this started out right. These ARE NOT the same play. These are 2 different times when Jakes never even pretends he is going to shoot. Both times he passed and the pass was stopped.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows. I don't wanna see their faces. I don't wanna hear them scream.

 

[Beef Invictus]

 

[Magua]

I’m trying to come up with a single 20th century figure who less resembles Chuck Fletcher than Lawrence of Arabia......and I got nothing.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I’m trying to come up with a single 20th century figure who less resembles Chuck Fletcher than Lawrence of Arabia......and I got nothing.

Boy George?

Edit: no, Boy George is way more bold and creative. Too much like Lawrence compared to The Flutch

 

[Beef Invictus]

Brezhnev. The Flutch is Brezhnev.

And I'm realizing I read your post backwards now. My points stand.

 

[macleish1974]

What is going to happen when 18, 28, 93 retire or are traded?

Can you at this moment in time.......say which Jersey and Number/Player you would pick and spend lots of money on..........me............zero......none ......nada..... after those guys leave.........

thus creating a vacuum that cannot be solved with 14th picked players let alone a 50th or 70th.

I still watched. I watched part of the Phantoms game [ they lost 3-2], bad play by Pouliot for the 3rd one. Other than Zamula and Foerster, sort of Radcliffe [ had 1 goal], not much to speak about.
Baby Devils are playing guys like Holtz who dazzles with his speed and puck handling.

So if you are hoping for the farm to produce Top6 and Top4 players; maybe.

York did not play.

Playing a 60s garage band song. " I am so down" Orange Rooftops. Apropos.....

"She's so awful, she cheats and flirts so bad,
But she's the only girlfriend I every had,"

"I don't know what to do or what to say,
I do know she hurts me every single day."

"It is so sad, I am so down,
Making me so mad, I should blow this town."

 

[Magua]

Brezhnev. The Flutch is Brezhnev.

And I'm realizing I read your post backwards now. My points stand.

“Flahrsy” reminds me of Winston Churchill, if he had Neville Chamberlain’s adroitness and lost the war.

We shall fight for the playoff bubble, we shall fight on overpriced free agents, we shall fight to have incompetent coaches, we shall fight to tread water; we shall never surrender, and if, which I’m not ruling out, we do, then Chuck and I will find a new job somewhere else. ​

 

[Beef Invictus]

“Flahrsy” reminds me of Winston Churchill, if he had Neville Chamberlain’s adroitness and lost the war.

We shall fight for the playoff bubble, we shall fight on overpriced free agents, we shall fight to have incompetent coaches, we shall fight to tread water; we shall never surrender, and if, which I’m not ruling out, we do, then Chuck and I will find a new job somewhere else. ​

MT is Von Ribbentrop. Given a job despite no evidence he should have that job because he was buddies with the right guy. Given a task (the PP, or an alliance with the UK) and then being so massively terrible at that job you accomplish the exact opposite of what you were supposed to. Nobody likes you. You urge your boss to declare war on the US (or forcefeed Provorov PP time), demonstrating a legendary inability to read reality.

 

[deadhead]

Let's get this started out right. These ARE NOT the same play. These are 2 different times when Jakes never even pretends he is going to shoot. Both times he passed and the pass was stopped.
View attachment 428668 View attachment 428669

But, but he accumulates lots of secondary assists.

 

[deadhead]

One little thing, why do people think Fletcher has the authority to fire AV and saddle Comcast with a $15M loss?

 

[CutOnDime97]

 

[TheKingPin]

Fletcher will absolutely bomb things. Part of the reason I want him to go after Eichel. The worst case practical scenario still has us ok.

After the bomb - to fire AV with term, all three assistants, Gordon, and Fletcher would likely take a year or two more of what we just saw. Corporate places just don’t move fast enough to fix things.

If I won one of those if near billion dollar jackpots I would buy the flyers and fix this bullshit. I would be the GM and listen to you guys to pick up the underrated guys and Robertsons of the world haha

 

[Beef Invictus]

One little thing, why do people think Fletcher has the authority to fire AV and saddle Comcast with a $15M loss?

Why would anyone presume The Flutch is even competent enough to fire any of the failed coaches to begin with?

 

[deadhead]

You mean the 7th rd pick who was marinated in the ECHL and AHL for three seasons?

 

[Beef Invictus]

You mean the 7th rd pick who was marinated in the ECHL and AHL for three seasons?

Only 3 from the 7th round? That's radically fast by Flyers standards. He'd have never seen the NHL here.

 

[Striiker]

Only 3 from the 7th round? That's radically fast by Flyers standards. He'd have never seen the NHL here.

We don’t develop players.

We try our best to ruin them and if they manage to succeed anyways, the coach cries about them to the media.

 

[TheKingPin]

Hamilton would make Provy “stay at home”. Synergistic effect that could actually give us a legit top pair.

Playing GM: Flyers hypothetically sign UFA defenseman Dougie Hamilton

These guys think 6 million a year. I say no way. What’s he going to cost? Maybe we can do the Philly special and send them a 2nd rounder for early negotiation rights!!!

 

[Redpath]

Why would anyone presume The Flutch is even competent enough to fire any of the failed coaches to begin with?

Wild fire Richards after two seasons, no playoffs

Fletcher literally has a precedent of firing a failed coach, who he hired, two years into said coach's tenure.

 

[Rebels57]

Wild fire Richards after two seasons, no playoffs

Fletcher literally has a precedent of firing a failed coach, who he hired, two years into said coach's tenure.

Richards didnt have 3 years $15 million left.

 

[Rebels57]

Hamilton would make Provy “stay at home”. Synergistic effect that could actually give us a legit top pair.

Playing GM: Flyers hypothetically sign UFA defenseman Dougie Hamilton

These guys think 6 million a year. I say no way. What’s he going to cost? Maybe we can do the Philly special and send them a 2nd rounder for early negotiation rights!!!

Hamilton will get at least $8

 

[Redpath]

Richards didnt have 3 years $15 million left.

So the issue is not that Fletcher is not competent enough to fire an under performing coach, but the powers that be wont allow him to because of money concerns.