Post-Game Talk: #57 | Flyers at Canucks | February 17, 2023

[Beef Invictus]

Everyone knows you don't win a hockey game by scoring goals.

Well at least they're way better defensively. What's that? They're about the same?

Ah.

I guess committing to defending down low and yielding the rest of the ice to try and lean on shot blocking isn't ideal in 2023.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

You know what happens when you lead the league in blocked shots and hits? You don’t have the puck very much. Only The Flyers organization doesn’t understand this.
But hey, we lead the league in fighting majors so that is the most important thing right?

 

[mr4tno]

You know what happens when you lead the league in blocked shots and hits? You don’t have the puck very much. Only The Flyers organization doesn’t understand this.
But hey, we lead the league in fighting majors so that is the most important thing right?

Flyers hockey baby. It is a piece of shit identity......

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Oh we are absolutely going to hear about how the December team is the Real Flyers, and not all the other months of the seasons.

yea the walls will come outa hiding if they manage 3 wins in a row again...

"look how good this team is"... hahaa

 

[deadhead]

They outplayed Vancouver, eyeballs and metrics, but they keep having breakdowns and Hart is playing below par right now, so those mistakes hurt more. And some bad luck, the 3rd goal was a lucky deflection, doubt he could make that play from that distance (right under the crossbar) more than once in a 100 tries.

Deslauriers has been solid with TK, because you can put one guy to do the dirty work on a scoring line, and he does do that, wins board battles and gets the puck to players who know what to do with it. He's actually much worse when he plays with Brown and MacEwen b/c you have three muckers and no one can make a play.

Right now I think Torts is just shaking up things and trying to get a different look at players for next season.
Now a bad combination is Hayes and Frost.

The team may also be going through mid-season blues, every team, even the best teams, have bad stretches in an 82 game season, and the West Coast swing tends to bring out the worst in East Coast teams.

 

[Crescent Street]

They outplayed Vancouver, eyeballs and metrics, but they keep having breakdowns and Hart is playing below par right now, so those mistakes hurt more. And some bad luck, the 3rd goal was a lucky deflection, doubt he could make that play from that distance (right under the crossbar) more than once in a 100 tries.

Deslauriers has been solid with TK, because you can put one guy to do the dirty work on a scoring line, and he does do that, wins board battles and gets the puck to players who know what to do with it. He's actually much worse when he plays with Brown and MacEwen b/c you have three muckers and no one can make a play.

Right now I think Torts is just shaking up things and trying to get a different look at players for next season.
Now a bad combination is Hayes and Frost.

The team may also be going through mid-season blues, every team, even the best teams, have bad stretches in an 82 game season, and the West Coast swing tends to bring out the worst in East Coast teams.

It's amazing how much weed you have to smoke to become this disillusioned. I'd love to be your dealer.

 

[Beef Invictus]

We just saw support of putting Deslauriers, who is on the short list for least effective forwards in the league, on the top line.


Never again claim you don't defend every single thing the team does. You'll be lying.

 

[kudymen]

Deslauriers has been solid with TK, because you can put one guy to do the dirty work on a scoring line, and he does do that, wins board battles and gets the puck to players who know what to do with it. He's actually much worse when he plays with Brown and MacEwen b/c you have three muckers and no one can make a play.

I love the idea that Chuck Fletcher over a period of 4 years managed to build a roster where you have to come up with such argumentation.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

It's amazing how much weed you have to smoke to become this disillusioned. I'd love to be your dealer.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I love the idea that Chuck Fletcher over 4 years built a roster where you have to come up with such argumentation.

A line of three terrible players is worse than a line with one terrible player, one middling player, and one very good player.

Who could have guessed

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Bahahahahahahahahahahahahaah.

Holy f***.

 

[Magua]

We’ve gone from “Deslauriers doesn’t matter” to “he’s a wonderful complement to Konecny” in record time.


The one not being paid millions of dollars with a vested interest in continuing to be paid millions of dollars.

 

[Beef Invictus]

"Tortorella will sit Deslauriers for youth" did turn into "it is good he is on the 1st line" in a flash.

 

[freakydallas13]

Deady or Chuck, who is more delusional?

Chuck Fletcher, also known as CF.

The "C" in "Chuck" is the first letter of his name. C + 1 equals "D".

"F" for Fletcher, his second name. F + 2 equals "H"

CF equals DH. DH for Deadhead.

Chuck Fletcher is Deadhead.



Boom.

 

[deadhead]

Deslauriers played 3 minutes with TK. People getting carried away as usual.
Raffl played a whole season with G and Voracek.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Deslauriers played 3 minutes with TK. People getting carried away as usual.
Raffl played a whole season with G and Voracek.

1) Raffl was a hell of a lot better than Deslauriers. They aren't comparable.
2) Nobody was excited about that or fine with it. I'd bet you defended it though.
3) 3 minutes is an idiotic amount of time to spend willingly ruining your top line.

 

[freakydallas13]

Deslauriers played 3 minutes with TK. People getting carried away as usual.
Raffl played a whole season with G and Voracek.

Michael Raffl put up a 21 goal season.

Deslauriers has 44 goals. In his career.

 

[kudymen]

Deslauriers played 3 minutes with TK. People getting carried away as usual.

Yay, I may have thought it was a good idea to drive the whole 200 miles of a trip with first gear only. After 40 miles someone told me that I can gear up for the other 160 miles.
All in all, no damage to the gearbox or the engine. YAY,




Minor lineup decisions do not matter, do not add up. Minor overpayments do not matter, do not add up. Minor point losses do not matter, do not add up (because I loved the effort, the hunger)

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Chuck Fletcher, also known as CF.

The "C" in "Chuck" is the first letter of his name. C + 1 equals "D".

"F" for Fletcher, his second name. F + 2 equals "H"

CF equals DH. DH for Deadhead.

Chuck Fletcher is Deadhead.



Boom.

#NCIS level detective work there

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

I can’t wait for the “I wasn’t defending the decision, I was just explaining the rationale behind it” comment.

 

[BernieParent]

I, too, am perfectly fine with Deslauriers on the top line. I would also be in favour of a myopic quadriplegic on the top defensive pairing. And, no, Ellis is not myopic.

 

[CerpinTaxt]

Chuck Fletcher, also known as CF.

The "C" in "Chuck" is the first letter of his name. C + 1 equals "D".

"F" for Fletcher, his second name. F + 2 equals "H"

CF equals DH. DH for Deadhead.

Chuck Fletcher is Deadhead.



Boom.

Don't forget deadhead is also AV

 

[mr4tno]

1) Raffl was a hell of a lot better than Deslauriers. They aren't comparable.
2) Nobody was excited about that or fine with it. I'd bet you defended it though.
3) 3 minutes is an idiotic amount of time to spend willingly ruining your top line.

Well, by dressing 11 forwards he willingly gave Brown and ND 12% more playing time. Playing ND on the first line does not seem out of context....

 

[bennysflyers16]

Raffl prob made less money too LOL !!

 

[deadhead]

Well, by dressing 11 forwards he willingly gave Brown and ND 12% more playing time. Playing ND on the first line does not seem out of context....

What top line? They don't have a top line, they barely have a 2nd line, basically they've been rolling out (3) 3rd lines and a 4th line.

As usual, much ado about nothing.