TheKingPin
Registered User
They just got good. Same anyone else ever does. It wasn't that long ago they were selling tickets for pennies.
A younger generation just isn't going to have the patience for a lesser product, especially when you've got people older than them telling you how the team is actually worse because high-end players like Giroux are actually bad, or stuff like 'hockey is a team game not built on star players.'
The Flyers also don't have a top-tier out-front star player like a Lindros or a personality like the Sixers have in Embiid.
And I think they know that, and is why I think they are low-key holding tight on their high-ceilinged prospects because they are anticipating McDavid requesting a trade.
I think they want star power as well but will hold off if they can be successful as a team and win some rounds which is the only really way to get people back in. Idk about us trading for McDavid it would be a massive massive package and I don’t know that we could compete with teams like the devils who have elite talent to center around. Either way you don’t really use your assets at this point. Maybe next year when we have success built on top of this years playoffs which I am hoping is somewhat similar to the preds coming out party or a lot of teams that make their big coming out in the playoffs as a lower seed. Then you use your assets to fill the holes you can see you have.
As far as their own star power they have Hart, TK, Provy, and hopefully Patrick that I could see being big names.