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Alpha Couturier
Man, can you remember the Giroux and Voracek hysteria from earlier in the season? This forum's come a long way.
I like that sometimes players are switching spots now on the PP.Holy shit, Therrien learned something?
Good stuff and yes I agree being down here in Philly land and being a New Yorker most of my life definitely has given me a different perspective on our respective teams and how we root and support them.
Before I moved down here, all I knew about Philly fans were that they were very passionate about their teams and that they hated pretty much every thing New York.
I happened to move to Dtown when I married a girl down here and my move here just so happened to coincide with the very same year my friggen Mets somehow choked and gagged a 7 game lead with 2 weeks to go to your Phillies.
I had made a bunch of friends here and believe me I was razzed and chirped to no end and deservedly so. It was all done in a good natured way and I got to see that Phillie fans and Met fans like myself had alot in common.
Fast forward 3 years and it just so happens my Rangers and Flyers are playing in a "win and you are in the playoffs" game at your barn and once again my boys don't get the job done and somehow Brian Boucher outplays the King and you guys get in the dance and my boyz go get the golf clubs out. It was as devastating to me as the Mets choke was and once again I'm getting razzed and abused by my buds as once again I have to take it.
Bottom line with Met, Jets, Ranger and Knick fans like me. When it comes to our rooting interests, I have found over the years we both share alot in common. Whether your an Eagle, Phillie, Flyer or Sixers fan over the years, both our fanbases knows what suffering and frustration is all about as it seems like our teams have the worst effin luck of any teams in all of sports.
Yes your Eagles won the Super Bowl a few years ago and I was actually very happy for you guys seeing I'm a Jet fan and we have no issue with each other there. In fact I probably hate the football Giants as much as you guys do and so I was very happy for all my long suffering die hard Eagle fan friends that they finally got a Super Bowl win.
I was envious because I could only hope that one day my Jets will win a SB for me(I was too young to remember the Namath Jets SB win)
Both our fanbases in every sport are very passionate about our teams and are very knowledgeable. And tho we are rivals in 3 of the 4 sports, it's very rare that our teams are good at the same time. It looks like things are changing tho as Met and Phillies should be good this year and very soon both Flyers and Rangers will be good at same time.
Unfortunately my Knicks I'm convinced will never be good again in my lifetime and so you guys will always have us there in hoops unless by a miracle we can draft another Patrick Ewing....lol
Bottom line...tho we have bigtime rivalries, we share so much in common the teams that I root for and your teams, tho I'd love to truly hate you guys...I can't. I love my Philly friends and I know that if one of my teams ever won a title and I went to a parade which hasn't happened much for me...Rangers '94 and Mets '86, they would be happy for me just like I was for Philly fans when they beat the Yankees in '08 and the Eagles in '18.
The camaraderie we all share is pretty damn cool and all the razzing and abuse we all give each other during the season is part of the deal and I wouldn't change it for the world.
I like that sometimes players are switching spots now on the PP.
A lot more rotating going on. (G sometimes going behind the net & TK going to the left wall; Couturier sometimes being a 2nd man down low instead of just slot; G sometimes playing the right). It’s showing a lot of flexibility. But TK playing mostly behind the goal line has helped a lot. It’s a good look with G & V on the off-wings. Having a guy play the Simmonds net screen role wasn’t working anymore, going back to last year.
IRONICALLY...I WAS ACTUALLY HALF KIDDING... HAVENT SEEN HIM PLAY ENOUGH TO MAKE HONEST ASSESSMENT ABOUT HOW BAD/MEDIOCRE HE IS...BUT **** YOU ANYWAY.Hate is a strong word and dumb under the circumstances. The disrespect he has faced on this board is ridiculous. He is a pro, had a career in the show, beat an addiction is a family man...the lack of respect is beyond the pale. It's this shit that makes Philly fans look like douches.
Was it mistake to go back to that "old failing" PP set up?Yes.
LOL at some posters & their constant efforts to play “gotcha!” games. I said many times I had no problem trying G & V back on the off wings. My point was that there was more to the PP struggles than simply one magical setup move that was unproductive the first half of last season.Was it mistake to go back to that "old failing" PP set up?
You should know it is not allowed to say something nice about Hagg on here
He was out there for all 3 PPGs by the Rags, so I'm saying a healthy Couturier = a 5-0 win.
Knicks/Jets is a hard one-two punch to your face annually.
LOL...you have no idea dude...no idea. I blame it all on my Pops. He could have easily been a Giants fan in football but some guy Joe Namath came along, he got a mancrush on him and before you know it, he's taking me and my brother to Jet game at Shea Stadium.
And the Knicks when I was a kid had guys like Clyde Frazier, Willis Reed, Earl the Pearl Monroe...etc and it was hard not to be a Knick fan as they were awesome at the time. For a few years we had Bernard King and to this day he's my favorite player ever...he was amazing back in the day.
That's how it works in NY when your a kid. Unlike here in Philly where you have your 4 teams in the 4 major sports and your choices are made for you when you are born who your a fan of, in NY, there are multiple teams in all the sports and so depending upon who your Dad liked and what part of the NY Metro area you are raised in, that's who you likely will like and support!
I was born in Brooklyn and so my Pops was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan obviously and he hated the Yankees....what do you know...so do I not surprisingly....lol
When they skipped town and went to LA, when the Mets came to town to replace them, he became a Met fan and voila...so was I when he would take us to Shea for both Mets and Jets games.
Anyways, that's how it works and my "bad luck" my Pops god rest his soul just so happened to love the most frustrating teams in NY the Mets,Jets, Knicks and Rangers and so I continue the legacy.
What's interesting tho is most of my Philly friends share alot of the same frustrations as I do with their teams seeing all of our teams haven't had all too many parades over the years and we both hate the Yankees, NY football Giants and the Patriots.
Yeah we may be rivals in hoops, hockey and baseball but the fact that the enemy of my enemy is my friend I believe the saying goes keeps us from hating each other too much.....lol.
I'm a Redskins fan, I get the futility.
THe Rangers have never been the Flyers' biggest rival while I've been alive. The Penguins and Devils are the evilest of evils.
It is interesting though looking at from generation to generation. The boomers hate the Rangers much more than the millennials do. They probably hate the Penguins & Devils less.
It should be interesting what the next generation will think. They probably don’t even care about the Devils as they haven’t really put hard times on us like Dusty Rhodes would say since the 90’s/early 2000’s.
LOL at some posters & their constant efforts to play “gotcha!” games. I said many times I had no problem trying G & V back on the off wings. My point was that there was more to the PP struggles than simply one magical setup move that was unproductive the first half of last season.
I'm a Redskins fan, I get the futility.
THe Rangers have never been the Flyers' biggest rival while I've been alive. The Penguins and Devils are the evilest of evils.