The Flyers are the perfect remedy for this brutal flu season no doubt. The wheel spinning is frustrating. I mean c'mon...the Vegas Golden Knights have iced a better team this season.
Hextall wants his cake & wants to eat it too. He wants to rebuild but he wants to make the playoffs too. It could probably be done but the player evaluations by both him & Hakstol are so bad that they’re handcuffing the team. So we get no playoffs, a boring product, while seeing trash veterans take over spots that could go to younger players. Maybe they still don’t make the playoffs but it’s better than what’s currently going on. At least you could hang your hat on getting some young guys some playing time at the NHL level. Last year they could have done this but chased a long shot playoff opportunity all the way up the last few games when they were officially eliminated. Guys like VandeVelde played right up to the end & we didn’t even bring him back for this year.
Ultimately they can’t see that this team just isn’t very good & is being carried by a few players while having a good amount of deadweight that they actually think is good somehow. The only three forwards that score for us are Giroux, Voracek, & Couturier. All of them were kept off the scoresheet last night & unsurprisingly it wasn’t pretty.
