Flyers player Milestones 2018-19

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

I doubt we could see more glaring proof of how terribad we have been at bringing D-men through than this. Nothing against Ghost, obviously, but he's just gotten started.

I will assume for the moment this website is correct with the info. If so, it is informative. Stats can be misleading based on the era, style of play but the Flyers also made some beneficial and lopsided trades to acquire the talent near the top of this list.

Philadelphia Flyers ‑ Defensemen All-Time NHL Leaders

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Rank	Born	Name	DOB	Pos	Games	Goals	Assists	Points	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG	G/GP	A/GP	P/GP
1		Mark Howe	1955	D	594	138	342	480	323	351	39	24	15	0.232	0.576	0.808
2		Eric Desjardins	1969	D	738	93	303	396	406	143	39	4	17	0.126	0.411	0.537
3		Tom Bladon	1952	D	463	67	163	230	281	186	26	1	8	0.145	0.352	0.497
4		Behn Wilson	1958	D	339	59	155	214	873	83	20	2	10	0.174	0.457	0.631
5		Bob Dailey	1953	D	304	56	138	194	397	125	11	3	7	0.184	0.454	0.638
6		Andre Dupont	1949	D	549	42	135	177	1505	270	9	0	8	0.077	0.246	0.322
7		Kim Johnsson	1976	D	291	40	107	147	140	44	17	0	6	0.137	0.368	0.505
8		Shayne Gostisbehere	1993	D	235	39	118	157	83	-12	19	0	8	0.166	0.502	0.668
9		Jim Watson	1952	D	613	38	148	186	492	295	3	3	5	0.062	0.241	0.303
10		Kimmo Timonen	1975	D	519	38	232	270	304	44	15	5	4	0.073	0.447	0.520
11		Braydon Coburn	1985	D	576	37	124	161	470	24	10	1	4	0.064	0.215	0.280
12		Joe Watson	1943	D	746	36	162	198	399	188	2	0	7	0.048	0.217	0.265
13		Kjell Samuelsson	1958	D	545	35	106	141	815	101	4	1	5	0.064	0.194	0.259
14		Doug Crossman	1960	D	392	35	158	193	255	64	18	1	5	0.089	0.403	0.492
15		Brad McCrimmon	1959	D	367	35	152	187	355	225	7	2	8	0.095	0.414	0.510
16		Dan McGillis	1972	D	340	32	108	140	303	65	16	0	10	0.094	0.318	0.412
17		Gord Murphy	1967	D	261	31	97	128	254	-21	13	0	4	0.119	0.372	0.490
18		Mark Streit	1977	D	274	30	110	140	120	-16	11	0	4	0.109	0.401	0.511
19		Chris Therien	1971	D	753	29	130	159	583	126	8	2	6	0.039	0.173	0.211
20		Terry Carkner	1966	D	376	29	103	132	867	-25	9	2	3	0.077	0.274	0.351
21		Garry Galley	1963	D	236	28	144	172	260	8	12	2	4	0.119	0.610	0.729
22		Joni Pitkänen	1983	D	206	25	91	116	210	12	11	0	5	0.121	0.442	0.563
23		Ivan Provorov	1997	D	179	25	52	77	58	5	2	0	3	0.140	0.291	0.430
24		Kerry Huffman	1968	D	207	23	61	84	158	-7	7	0	6	0.111	0.295	0.406
25		Thomas Eriksson	1959	D	208	22	76	98	107	45	7	1	2	0.106	0.365	0.471

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[pit]

If Provorov scores 5 more goals this season, he'll already in in the top 20 for goals scored by Flyers defensemen all-time. If he manages to score as many goals as last year, he would be top ten.

No knock on Ivan, but that's pitiful. And everyone craps on us for goalies. Eesh.

 

[Appleyard]

Ofc, we all know that last night Giroux became just the 4th Flyer all-time to hit 700 points.

He also became the 238th player in NHL history to reach that mark.
And the 22nd active player to reach the mark.

But two other interesting milestones happened:

 

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[Chuck Downie]

Hagg played his 100th game in O&B last night.

 

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[CanadianFlyer88]

7th all time already with 41. Ouch.

 

[Sawdalite]

7th all time already with 41. Ouch.

Scoring D-Men have always had a short shelf life with the Flyers... Add Ghost's 41 Goals to Rico's Totals and you still don't reach Howe's... You have Howe at 138, Rico at 93 and then a bigger dropoff to Bladen at 67.

If Ghost can hold on and recapture his mojo, he should be able to climb up the ranks pretty well... but if he wears out his welcome and moves on, he'll be yet another trivia memory in Philly... I wouldn't want to stake the odds.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

7th all time already with 41. Ouch.

I'm trying to remember specifics, and will look it up after I post this (because I like to do things backwards lol), but for me Kerry Huffman represents the beginning of the three-decade slide our defense has been on. IIRC (very doubtful), he was basically the 7th d-man in 1987 (stationed in Hershey), but more relevantly the first guy to join the ranks after that 1987 group. That 1987 group was absolutely great and ticked all the boxes on defense, and Huffman - to me - was nowhere near up to their standards. That may be a little harsh, just like my opinion on Therien may be a bit harsh, but he was the Alpha of that funk whose Omega is Andrew MacDonald. And hopefully he really is the end of it. We will have to trade Hagg, I guess, for that to be the case. Fingers crossed. It would really be nice to be six strong back there again.

 

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Yesterday Voracek's assist meant that he hit 600 career points.

 

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Last night Ivan Provorov played his 200th career NHL game.

Last night James van Riemsdyk played his 200th career NHL assist.

 

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[Beef Invictus]

I find the Hartnell tie surprising.

 

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