Chris VandeVelde

[BillDineen]

Solid play + Rinaldo not playing = double win.

 

[Rebels57]

I still think Cousins should start as our 4th line center next season. If we can get another top 9 winger at some point, then have Raffl-Cousins-Vdv as our 4th. That looks good.

I'd be okay with Raffl in the top 9 and Bellemare on the 4th line.

Raffl > Umberger on Couturier or Laughtons wing.

 

[Chuck Downie]

I was looking to see if there was any news on him. This is all I found:

http://www.inforum.com/sports/42983...rhead-hockey-bushy-has-given-everything-spuds

Doubt he gets any NHL offers. Maybe Europe or KHL?

 

[PALE PWNR]

In the TV series Dragonball. Goku fights a gang of people that go by the moniker, the Rabbit Gang. The Rabbit boss is an actual rabbit who turns people into carrots and eats them. Goku kicks his ass and takes him to the moon via his power pole and tells him if he works as a slave making candy for children for a year he'll bring him back to earth. Goku then leaves and forgets about him forever. What I'm getting at is Chris Vandevelde is the Rabbit Boss.

 

[Magua]

Half of this thread I can't tell if it was written in 2014 or 2017.....look at this classic "deadhead v Striiker" battle:

Problem isn't VV, it's that they have no one better who's NHL ready.
You could rush Cousins, Straka or Leier, but you won't get much production and you might set their development back a year.
You could try Jones, but he played worse than VV.
You could bring back Akeson, but even Edmonton didn't claim him, so talentwise he's the same thing, an AHL player.

This seems to be a problem that Flyers fans don't want to face, the reason they play VV, Umberger and Vinnie is there aren't a lot of viable options in the organization and Hextall isn't going to rush players for a marginal improvement.

VV is awful (Jones was, Manning was), he's just meh. A JAG.

Did Bellemare die or something? He's obviously a large step above VV but our idiot coach, who you pathetically defend, doesn't realize that.

Different players, different coach, 3 years later.....it's all the same

If he could learn how to PK that would be like whipped cream on the cake. But that would increase his value and cap hit as well.

Oh man, did he learn how to PK.

 

[kelmitchell]

Just in flyers resign vdv 8 years 995k one way deal

 

[BritainStix]

Jesus christ, why did you bump this, almost gave me a heart attack.

For a guy that couldn't get a gig on the worst team in the NHL at the time, to come and play for so long at the flyers, christ, that shows just how bad our personnel were at the time.

Good luck in the AHL/Europe Chris, you don't really belong in the NHL.

 

[deadhead]

Half of this thread I can't tell if it was written in 2014 or 2017.....look at this classic "deadhead v Striiker" battle:

Different players, different coach, 3 years later.....it's all the same

I was right then, and I'm right now.
VdV wasn't the disease, he was just a symptom.
The disease was a putrid farm system and lack of depth on the big team. And that was a decision made by Hextall.

And Hextall was right, as painful as it's been watching JAGs the last three years, look at our ridiculous polls on the skater prospects to realize the fruits of his benign neglect of the NHL roster.

 

[Striiker]

Sure, Vandevelde playing is a symptom, like having the runs with food poisoning.

And then our genius coach, instead of deciding to minimize the issue, goes out and gets a truck load of Taco Bell and some ghost peppers, making the symptom even worse than it needs to be... as if it wasn't bad enough to start with.

But wait wait wait wait, Taco Bell was the only option right? There's no alternative available, like a nice safe bowl of Couturier Noodle soup.




I'm still just wondering how deadhead rationalizes putting Vandevelde on the 1st PK unit if Hakstol recognizes what Vandevelde really is and is only using him as a last resort. Seems to destroy his entire theory, doesn't it?

 

[deadhead]

Well, he could have ordered from Chipolte.

 

[Striiker]

This is true.

 

[Rebels57]

Delete this ****ing thread so I never have to read this crumb bums name EVER AGAIN!!

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

Started in 250 games for flyers, have some respekt bro.

 

[Rebels57]

Started in 250 games for flyers, have some respekt bro.

Nah **** all that

 

[kelmitchell]

I was right then, and I'm right now.
VdV wasn't the disease, he was just a symptom.
The disease was a putrid farm system and lack of depth on the big team. And that was a decision made by Hextall.

And Hextall was right, as painful as it's been watching JAGs the last three years, look at our ridiculous polls on the skater prospects to realize the fruits of his benign neglect of the NHL roster.

Incorrect

 

[BackWithaVengeance]

Started in 250 games for flyers, have some respekt bro.

No!

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I was right then, and I'm right now.
VdV wasn't the disease, he was just a symptom.
The disease was a putrid farm system and lack of depth on the big team. And that was a decision made by Hextall.

And Hextall was right, as painful as it's been watching JAGs the last three years, look at our ridiculous polls on the skater prospects to realize the fruits of his benign neglect of the NHL roster.

Some days, reading your posts makes me want to go skydiving, just so I can cut the strings on my parachute and plummet to my death.

 

[kudymen]

Some days, reading your posts makes me want to go skydiving, just so I can cut the strings on my parachute and plummet to my death.

The good news is that a disclaimer like I was right, I still am right!!!11!ONE! at the very beginning already makes you stop reading.

 

[SheasRebellion6]

Forget Jagr, VDV still not having a contract is the real atrocity of this offseason. I mean you wanna talk about guts and laying it all on the line, woof. My man had jam. And no crotchal region injuries against all odds, at least as far as I can recall.

 

[04' hockey]

nobody respects a HAK warrior

 

[dingbathero]

Started in 250 games for flyers, have some respekt bro.

250 too many.

 

[Hockeypete49]

250 too many.

249 to many for me. It only took one game for me to realize he belonged in the AHL.

 

[Alchemy]

Even with him gone you still are all talking about VDV.

Maybe you guys secretly really loved him.

 

[GKJ]

For some reason, nobody has signed him.

 

[Brayden Fattison]

Why does a player in the Mongolian Semi-pro Hockey League have his own thread? Seriously, don't jinx this ****.