GDT: #81| Saturday, Apr 8 2017| Blue Jackets at Flyers |12:30 p.m. ET| CSN

[MacDonald4MVP]

So Lavi drove Bob out of town, Berube Hartnell and now Hak is doing same with Mase? Good god our coaches have a penchant for shooting themselves in the foot. Did he scratch VDV at least?

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Panotch is a mongoloid.

 

[Striiker]

I would pay an obscene amount of money to watch someone punch our beats in the face.

 

[trostol]

I would pay an obscene amount of money to watch someone punch our beats in the face.

Al, who i used ot think wasn't so bad, just said PEB is loved by the fans

 

[BernieParent]

Hak gave some weird answers when asked about Mason being "outspoken" (asked by Loki Panotch, who else).....talking about how he likes team-first players and team-first attitude is absolute.

Then point blank called him "streaky" this year when asked to assess him, which has been true, but he didn't even coach speak around it or soften it. Just blurted it out and said, "That's my answer."

It sounds like a passive-aggressive war of words between the two, with Mason saying he got tired out by the strings of consecutive games.

 

[Stizzle]

I would pay an obscene amount of money to watch someone punch our beats in the face.

Morganti and Boruk also. Morganti said earlier this year he expected more out of Provorov. I almost died.

 

[trostol]

hey Timmy..can you draw out the question a bit longer there

 

[Curufinwe]

Panotch is a mongoloid.

This is who Timmy reminds me of.

 

[Striiker]

Morganti and Boruk also. Morganti said earlier this year he expected more out of Provorov. I almost died.

Very good point.

Let me add everyone at CSN too. Morganti, Boruk, and Barkann.

Also the guys at NBCSN, with the exception of Bobby Mac who sometimes makes appearances there.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Hak gave some weird answers when asked about Mason being "outspoken" (asked by Loki Panotch, who else).....talking about how he likes team-first players and team-first attitude is absolute.

Then point blank called him "streaky" this year when asked to assess him, which has been true, but he didn't even coach speak around it or soften it. Just blurted it out and said, "That's my answer."

This concerns me more than the dopey AMac STH comments. I have no problem with defending your players in the media, but to make this an exception? Needs to go.

 

[Flyerfan4life]

i simply cant wrap my head around the idea that Hex will choose Hakslogic over Mase.

this is going to blow up in his face if Mase leaves and Haks ends up back in goalie hell with a guy who cant stay healthy and a unknown source in Stolie.

take about playing russian roulette

 

[04' hockey]

Hak gave some weird answers when asked about Mason being "outspoken" (asked by Loki Panotch, who else).....talking about how he likes team-first players and team-first attitude is absolute.

Then point blank called him "streaky" this year when asked to assess him, which has been true, but he didn't even coach speak around it or soften it. Just blurted it out and said, "That's my answer."

telling..... "mace" isn't gone get resigned.....word is Flyers might take a run @ http://www.espn.com/nhl/player/_/id/5657/philipp-grubauer
Caps have major Cap issues

we'll see

 

[RoDu]

I can't see Neuvirth/Stolarz as an option for next year. I wonder if Mason other than not getting along with coach is asking for to much money and is going to Biron his way out of town

 

[Striiker]

i simply cant wrap my head around the idea that Hex will choose Hakslogic over Mase.

this is going to blow up in his face if Mase leaves and Haks ends up back in goalie hell with a guy who cant stay healthy and a unknown source in Stolie.

take about playing russian roulette

... it isn't a choice between Hakstol and Mason.

If Mason isn't back then it either means he wanted too much/long, wanted to leave, or Hextall doesnt trust him to continue being starter, for whatever on- of off-ice reason.

And, once again, don't be sure he isn't back. If he does get signed it would be after the expansion draft, not before for obvious reasons.

 

[Rebels57]

He wants to see RebelBully running naked through the streets covered in green jello.

No one wants to see that

 

[Rebels57]

Missed the game but saw the press conference. I wanted to reach through my TV and strangle Hakstol.

 

[Sombastate]

Hak is a nit wit.

I tried very hard to like him.

But his treatment of Neck, Ghost and Mason really made me sour on him.

 

[Striiker]

No one wants to see that

I don't want to see it, I want to read about it on the news.

 

[Rebels57]

I don't want to see it, I want to read about it on the news.

Well thankfully his GAA. is at 2.66 so I am safe. I cant believe it was that close.

 

[Tripod]

From the sounds of it, I am glad that as soon as the games end, I lose coverage of the game. I feel I would lose it seeing the Tim P's of the world asking questions.

 

[Striiker]

Well thankfully his GAA. is at 2.66 so I am safe. I cant believe it was that close.

For a long time you were in danger. It was his last 15-20 games that really brought it up.

 

[04' hockey]

"mace" became the Curt Schilling of the Flyers..... and you saw what happened to Schilling .....
too much mouth

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Missed the game but saw the press conference. I wanted to reach through my TV and strangle Hakstol.

Hak is a nit wit.

I tried very hard to like him.

But his treatment of Neck, Ghost and Mason really made me sour on him.

What did he say at the press conference?

 

[BernieParent]

So to the surprise of none on here, the Flyers do what they usually do and perform masterfully in meaningless games. I am displeased with my hope over the past couple of weeks that they would continue to lose for the best possible raft pick, but the alternative is to take pleasure in the success of a team that showed itself to be inept when it mattered.

These games are stat padding, nothing more. I don't believe in creating momentum for next season. Momentum ebbs and flows from one faceoff to the next, and too many factors happen over a nearly five-month period, including an extended stretch of watching the playoffs, to believe that plusses in play right now will have any effect to start next season. This is particularly true with the questionable coaching decisions that was too often counterintuitive to player ups and downs.

What's worse, the attitudes from the coach, as expressed here and throughout the season, and some of the emerging decisions going into next season are already starting to sour my optimism for progress going into 2017-18. Patience, as Hextall encouraged, does not equate to acceptance of mediocrity in effort, game plans, or contract renewals. Even the wonderful season Provorov is completing is paled by great players having a good season, good players doing okay, and poor players being rewarded for hitting their low ceilings.

One of the few benefits of missing the playoffs -- again -- would be to land a promising draft pic. Yet the can't even seem to do that right. Of course there is a chance that Hextall and the scouts can find a later-round gem, but the odds drop with every slot they give up.

Few seasons in the 42 I have followed the Flyers have left as bad a taste in my mouth as this one.

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

Hak can't even tank right.