Post-Game Talk: #82: Hurricanes at FLYERS, Saturday, Apr. 6, 2019, 7:00 p.m. ET

[pacehimself]

What dramatic nonsense. Only Flyers fans could have:

1) The best young goalie in hockey
2) One of the youngest overall line-ups in hockey
3) One of the best prospect pools in hockey
4) ~$15m in cap space

...and suggest there’s no light at the end of the tunnel.

All the tools are there....just need someone who knows how to use them...

 

[Legion of Gloom]

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

If this season had a face, I would punch it with brass knuckles on.

If this season had a face, it would have a unibrow, snot running down its face and one gold tooth (Hart).

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Fire everyone. Get a competent coaching staff. How long has it been that these kids have had one? There is a stank in this organization. Its starts with the staff and Holmgren. See how the players who really struggled do under a staff that has a goddamn clue

 

[Striiker]

Read on Twitter that exit interviews are today already. Should be interesting.

And apparently Fletcher said the coaching situation won’t be a long process, so we should know our fate semi-soon, I guess.

 

[FLYguy3911]

And apparently Fletcher said the coaching situation won’t be a long process, so we should know our fate semi-soon, I guess.

“It will certainly be done well before the draft, but there’s no time frame”

 

[deadhead]

Teams have seasons like this, Winnipeg had 99 points in 2014-15, 78 points in 2015-16.
Winnipeg did nothing, struggled one more season, then 114 points in 2017-18.

Don't think Fletcher will have that luxury, but I don't see a flurry of moves, rather, one major trade, one major FA signing, and some depth moves trading middle round picks and second tier prospects for veteran contracts with 1-2 years left on them.

Flyers will have a great Phantoms team, but I don't think they want to go through another season shuffling Weise, Lehtera, Weal, Varone, Knight and Bailey on the 4th line. Or depend on prospects like Rubtsov, Kase, Laberge, Bunnaman, etc to be ready in October.

 

[Striiker]

“It will certainly be done well before the draft, but there’s no time frame”

This from the guy who holds our future in his hands.

great

 

[deadhead]

The draft isn't until June 21, it's now April 7.
I think what Fletcher was implying is he's targeting a HC who won't be in the playoffs, but he doesn't have anyone locked up.
So he starts with Q, then goes down the list.

Which means he doesn't know when he'll get his guy, but it won't take two months because he won't have to wait to see who advances in the playoffs.

 

[occultist goat]

correct me if I'm wrong but the Rangers fired their coach as soon after the season ended I think...if so, Fletcher has to do the same.
no more waiting around anymore. JUST DO IT

.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

The draft isn't until June 21, it's now April 7.
I think what Fletcher was implying is he's targeting a HC who won't be in the playoffs, but he doesn't have anyone locked up.
So he starts with Q, then goes down the list.

Which means he doesn't know when he'll get his guy, but it won't take two months because he won't have to wait to see who advances in the playoffs.

Agreed. I don't see the inconsistency in saying that it will be done before the draft, but there's no timeframe. Pretty obvious he simply meant there's no timetable on when it will be done other than it will be done before the draft. Mocking Fletcher about that is some ridiculous nitpicking.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

Fire everyone. Get a competent coaching staff. How long has it been that these kids have had one? There is a stank in this organization. Its starts with the staff and Holmgren. See how the players who really struggled do under a staff that has a goddamn clue

How many years are the players going to keep getting excuses made for them? At some point maybe the players and the roster are to blame, not the coaching.

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

This from the guy who holds our future in his hands.

great

You get your like ability reinstated soon?

 

[Flyerfan4life]

Still no idea how to insert a gif. fml....

much like the Flyers season, no clue what's going on....

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me too, i use @Captain Dave Poulin services... hahaa

 

[wankstifier]

How many years are the players going to keep getting excuses made for them? At some point maybe the players and the roster are to blame, not the coaching.

As long as the coaching staff doesn’t either work to the team’s strengths or appropriately distribute ice time.

This seems like a “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” kinda criticism. Awful hard with no boots to begin with.

 

[kudymen]

Going through the last PGT of the season felt exactly like going through this shit of a season: just one giant nontstop what-the-f***. I am curious as hell what kind of team I'm about to see in Prague in October

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

How many years are the players going to keep getting excuses made for them? At some point maybe the players and the roster are to blame, not the coaching.

So coaching doesn’t matter? We have had a incompetent coaching staff for far too long.
This is a flawed team. I have said it numerous times. But coaching matters.
Have Hakstol and Gordons system of teaching guys how to play been fine?
Again, this roster has issues. But lets not ignore that this organization has had well below average coaching and management for far too long.

 

[Striiker]

You get your like ability reinstated soon?

I think mid May

 

[kudymen]

I think mid May

What year?

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

I think mid May

Shit. Seems like it should be sooner.

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

What year?

LOL. He does misbehave a lot.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

What year?

Striiker doesn't get his privileges back until the Flyers win the Cup again.

 

[kudymen]

Striiker doesn't get his privileges back until the Flyers win the Cup again.

That's the epitome of "Throw the book at him"

 

[StarterHart]

Striiker doesn't get his privileges back until the Flyers win the Cup again.

That's harsh. It could be so long that he might be able to legally drink by then.

 

[deadhead]

Ah, but which book?
I'd pick the Collected Works of William Shakespeare.