Post-Game Talk: Ducks 3 at Flyers 2 | Oct. 20, 2016 | Reg Season game 4 | Home Opener

[Adam Warlock]

Lmfao.

It never ends.

If I were a physical player I would never sign with the Flyers at this point.

The league is fully taking advantage of Snider not being around anymore.

 

[BernieParent]

Cameron's definition of DoPS = Department of Philadelphia Suspensions is hilariously / sadly spot-on.

 

[Rebels57]

Cameron's definition of DoPS = Department of Philadelphia Suspensions is hilariously / sadly spot-on.

That is amazing lol

 

[BernieParent]

That is amazing lol

I had to quote you so we would (for oh so temporarily) have the exact same number of posts.

Twinsies!

 

[Rebels57]

I had to quote you so we would (for oh so temporarily) have the exact same number of posts.

Twinsies!

Haha not anymore but it was special while it lasted

 

[Magua]

Apparently at practice today there were no line changes

 

[SuchySays]

Weise got 3 games.

 

[OzFlyers]

Weise got 3 games.

What a joke!

 

[GKJ]

The suspension itself is whatever. If you're serious about people getting hit in the head, then fine. The wheel of justice is repulsive and the way DOPS hides behind their transparency is cowardly.

 

[Tripod]

Weise got 3 games.

Pretty ridiculous.

No rhyme or reason for these.....yet others get nothing.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

That's a joke of a ruling.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I don't think it's possible to deny that the league has a different set of standards for the Flyers than for the rest of the league. Especially compared to plays that have been let go in this season alone.


Can't wait til all the old fogeys who came up in the 70s, or grew up in that time, can finish retiring or croaking so we can stop being punished for the BSB decades after they all left hockey.

 

[Rebels57]

I don't think it's possible to deny that the league has a different set of standards for the Flyers than for the rest of the league. Especially compared to plays that have been let go in this season alone.


Can't wait til all the old fogeys who came up in the 70s, or grew up in that time, can finish retiring or croaking so we can stop being punished for the BSB decades after they all left hockey.

Thank you. Its undeniable at this point.

Cant wait to see the next headshot on a Flyer go unpunished.

 

[Tripod]

So Williams horse collar, Virtanen turnbuckle head smash, and Shaws slue foot are all deemed ok hockey plays, yet our hits are not.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Won't here a peep out of Hextall or Hakstol on this very likely.

 

[deadhead]

That's just the thing. The league is moving more towards faster and therefore smaller players and systems. Big teams are not supposed to be as successful. But if you are smaller and slower and not physical you are in trouble.

Which is why Hextall is moving toward speed without sacrificing size. The key is to have no slow big players like we've had in the past (three years ago we had Hartnell, Vinnie, Hall, McGinn, Rosehill, L Schenn, Grossman - and of course Rinaldo). You also don't want undersized players with average speed (MacDonald, Schultz and Streit).

The optimal mix is a combination of quick smurfs like Giroux and Konecny, and big forwards like Simmons and Schenn, checkers like Raffl and Weise, and defensemen like Provorov, Sanheim and Morin.

At least Hextall knows what he's building, it's just going to take two more years to get there.

 

[Rebels57]

Won't here a peep out of Hextall or Hakstol on this very likely.

Really pisses me off that they let the league walk all over us.

 

[GKJ]

What are they supposed to do?

 

[Ernest95]

Ridiculous ruling, I can understand if they gave the suspension if it was consistent, but this is bull. Quite annoying.

 

[Maurice of Orange]

Gotta be ****ing kidding me, I just found out that Dale Weise got suspended 3 games for a hit on D Holzer.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Jake Virtanen got zero games for palming a guy's head & slamming it into the boards meanwhile this got three games. You punish the guy who went a little overboard on a hockey play but don't punish the other one who went overboard on a non-hockey play. Virtanen has history, there was no injury, & there was head contact. So there's no different there between those factors for Weise too.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

I guess this is Hal's dream come true because he can make VDV a third liner now...

 

[Appleyard]

What is just stupid is that in the last year there have been quite a few questionable hits vs Flyers that never even got looked at.

Heck, Giroux got chicken-winged by Subban and the whole world just goes 'yeh, he is faking his concussion.' No hearing.

Rinaldo charges Couturier, leaves feet, interferes and rides up into the head of a man ~4-5 inches taller, concussing him on a complete 'non-hockey' play... yeh, thats fine.

We had ~4 pretty nasty boardings last year that were not looked at either vs Flyers.

 

[Magua]

I guess this is Hal's dream come true because he can make VDV a third liner now...

He's mulling over reuniting the vaunted VDV-Giroux-Voracek line. Or maybe VDV-PEB-Voracek.

 

[TCTC]

3 games is too much. Wasn't a good hit, but not that outrageous. Should've been 1-2 games at most.

Their lack of consistency is annoying and at this point it's pretty obvious they really only care about hits to the head. A player could break another player's leg and they'd probably call it a hockey play.