1) OK so whose spot will Chisson take on the pp?
1)Giroux-Voracek-JVR-Provorov-Couturier
2)Konecky-Lindblom-Hayes-Gus-Ghost(or if Ghost traded Sanheim)
I am not even including Patrick who you hope stays healthy and progresses, Farabee, Frost or a .5 ppg Laughton. There is no shot in hades Chiasson sniffs the pp. If someone offers a star (Laine, Johnny Hockey)and asks for the moon because it helps the pp, ok I get the reasoning. Chiasson is the 11th pp forward option listed above.
We are opposite sides of the fence here. The issue AV had in the playoff was he chose size and experience over skill. AV thought the size and experience of Nate Thompson would be able to control the skill and speed of Barzal and Suzuki. It was a miserable failure. Size was no where near the biggest factor in the playoffs. The fear I have as a Flyers fan is AV is looking more at 6ft 2in 215lbs over pure skill. Frost not being used is concerning right now. You have MTL throwing a poor defensive winger in Drouin and you are putting out Derek Grant to defend him. It was Christmas, Happy Birthday, Valentine's day all rolled into one for habs. If you are a habs fans and Drouin messes up, its not like Derek Grant was going to make you pay.
How much did Chiasson's stanley cup experience help EDM last year again?
HUGE factor your reply ignored. Flyers lost Pitlick, Grant, Thompson on the PK and will have to play Rafll on pk. Would you rather have an 11th f option on pp or top 4ish option on pk.
Easy easy call. Pass on Chiasson.
Ok I see your point about the Chiasson PP talk. Forget about that I agree with what you said about that.
What I don’t agree with is the size thing you were talking about.
I watched the same games you did as a Flyers fan and wasn’t pleased at all with either series.
AV shouldn’t have been rolling 4 lines aimlessly or putting Thompson and Grant out against the opposing teams best line after the Flyers just scored.
A lot of the problems came from poor coaching decisions from top to bottom but that’s not what we are talking about here.
It’s size and shot Chiasson verse speed and skill Raffl at about a 500k difference. Raffl is a good PK player. Chiasson wont be used on PP at all.
Flyers have plenty of forwards that can PK, I’d say the only ones that can’t or won’t are Voracek, JVR and maybe Frost.
This might sound odd but I don’t want Chiasson except for ES and possession. Yea 8 goals and 20 points might be lost without Raffl but Lindblom is back Farabee will have more experience Frost should emerge and the prodigal son Patrick may return so there should be plenty of goals to go around for philly in 20-21, also it’s not goals I’m worried about it’s stopping them from being scored on Philadelphia that concerns me I don’t believe Raffl makes a difference for that matter on PK or ES.
Also Edmonton as a whole team struggled that’s why they didn’t make it, didn’t matter if Chiasson was there or not.
What kinda question was that though, I don’t want you mad at me lurker just having a friendly conversation, if it helps I am a Flyers fan just trying to come from an unbiased POV and I have nothing against Raffl as a player.
He’s been a good Rafflchopper....