2022/23 Roster Thread I: I Don't Know How Much Time I Have Left So I'm Going To Get Real Weird With It

[Hollywood Cannon]

Guess we should move towards next season?

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[deadhead]

Not a moment too soon, sometimes amnesia is the best way to deal with trauma.

 

[Starat327]

Guess we should move towards next season?

why bother?

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Even if we get a coach we like, there are still so many bad pieces still around or may have the possibility of being re-signed just due to who is in charge of that.

Hell, I don't even trust that we will draft properly due to Chuck saying we need to be bigger and tougher up front.

 

[Beef Invictus]

We are in a hellish position where a good coach just harms draft position without any real upside because management is too terrible to improve the team without a lot of really easy picks. Like, a LOT of very easy-no brainer picks that can contribute fast.

 

[tictactoe]

So is Ellis coming back? ever?

 

[Striiker]

We are in a hellish position where a good coach just harms draft position without any real upside because management is too terrible to improve the team without a lot of really easy picks. Like, a LOT of very easy-no brainer picks that can contribute fast.

The chances of this stupid asshole hiring a good coach is basically zero, so I wouldn't worry about that.

He didn't even want to fire AV and Therrien. He's also the one who hired those idiots to start with, same with Yeo.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

So is Ellis coming back? ever?

We’ll have a better idea in a few weeks where they’ll tell us he’ll need surgery and won’t be ready before opening night.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Not a moment too soon, sometimes amnesia is the best way to deal with trauma.

You spelled "dementia" wrong.

 

[flyerslducks]

So is Ellis coming back? ever?

Honestly might be best for him not to come back the first half of the season. Tank tank tank

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

We’ll have a better idea in a few weeks where they’ll tell us he’ll need surgery and won’t be ready before opening night.

I am expecting the surgery to be in the first few days of September.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Friggin Hextall, man.

 

[Rebels57]

Friggin Hextall, man.

I do fault him for not implementing a better development staff/process...which Fletcher has only made worse.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

I do fault him for not implementing a better development staff/process...which Fletcher has only made worse.

I fault him for many things.

 

[Adam Warlock]

Their development sucks bc they arent interested in making good hockey players...they only wanna make Flyers hockey players.

And Flyers hockey players are not good hockey players.

Its a systemic flaw....not one person.

 

[ajgoal]

 

[Beef Invictus]

Friggin Hextall, man.

Bill has the right idea but almost certainly blames the wrong people.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Fletcher has really built a bright future though!

 

[deadhead]

Bill is totally wrong, you don't judge a draft by the ranking at the time of the draft, but how players look after their D+2 season or in college or the SHL - because that's before the organization has much influence on their development.

What player excelled by that standard then failed to develop? Maybe Frost, but he also lost a year to a shoulder injury.
Who else? Ratcliffe? But he was a project from the get go and did improve this season.
That's about it. All the players who 'failed to develop' were meh before they got to the Flyers.

I'd say it's more about development not turning sow ears into purses, than failing to develop real talents.
Willman and Hogberg showed more than most of Hextall 'middle six' prospects, and they were ECHL projects.
But other than Cousins (3rd rd), the organization has failed to develop marginal prospects into players in the AHL, unless you want to count VdV and Manning! NAK is no more than a 12 forward, Friedman a 7th D-man, the rest are out of the NHL.

 

[AndHeMissedTheNet]

Fletcher has really built a bright future though!

yeah Dick's Sporting Goods is gonna love him. they desperately need that closing cashier shift position filled. he's gonna kill it there.

 

[Beef Invictus]

yeah Dick's Sporting Goods is gonna love him. they desperately need that closing cashier shift position filled. he's gonna kill it there.

Until he's fired for always having a short drawer

 

[captainpaxil]

That's about as obvious shot at O'Brien as I think we'll ever see out of someone employed by the organization

 

[TheKingPin]

Friggin Hextall, man.

Lol to have that highly ranked prospect system and be back in the dumps already.

 

[renberg]

That's about as obvious shot at O'Brien as I think we'll ever see out of someone employed by the organization

From what I saw of JOB this season, there is something there with him. Best player on a good team. His problem was starting off at the wrong school. Then the transfer to BU was suspended for a season because of NCAA rules so he spent a year at a level that really wasn’t suited for development. I’d try to sign him rather than taking the comp pick.

 

[Larry44]

From what I saw of JOB this season, there is something there with him. Best player on a good team. His problem was starting off at the wrong school. Then the transfer to BU was suspended for a season because of NCAA rules so he spent a year at a level that really wasn’t suited for development. I’d try to sign him rather than taking the comp pick.

O’Brien was a swing for the fences. Rubtsov was the one that hurt. So many injuries but he looked like a player coming out of Jr.