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If he'd just stop signing broken down former Rangers, he'd be much better off.
The Callahan and Girardi contracts are certainly 2 of his bad moves that come to mind.
If he'd just stop signing broken down former Rangers, he'd be much better off.
The Callahan and Girardi contracts are certainly 2 of his bad moves that come to mind.
The Girardi contract isn't a killer in that it's only two years at $3M. It's a bad contract nonetheless but it's not like a death sentence.
It was just unnecessary though. You have Hedman, Stralman, Coburn, Sustr, Dotchin, Koekkoek, & Sergachev without him.
3 of those players might need extra time. Girardi was a good depth singing to bring those players along imo, and they didn't break the bank
I was really surprised by the kid he drafted out of Agrabah in the 7th.
It could just be a change in philosophy, draft high skill guys instead of high floor guys.
Paul Holmgren: Flyers have paved way toward being relevant
“Obviously, our plan is to make the playoffs this year and see what happens,†Holmgren said Wednesday in his Wells Fargo Center office. “I think what Ron is doing, and has been doing, is put our team in a position where we can make multiple playoff runs with the hopes of winning Stanley Cups along the way. That was his goal when he took over three-plus years ago. I think if you look at our team now and where we are from this moment out, that’s kind of where we’re at.â€
Holmgren, who recently had cornea surgery to try to improve the almost-lost sight in his right eye, said the Flyers are a “team that’s setting ourselves up for multiple playoff runs with the idea of winning a Stanley Cup or two along the way. … I think we’re a team that’s poised to take some steps forward over the next number of years. Could it be this year? Yeah, why not?â€
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports...en-ron-hextall-deep-farm-system-20170817.html
Yeah...Hextall had to pave over Holmgren's corpse to do it...
I'm also surprised Homer is having eye surgery...he certainly didn't use his eyes much to see beyond the immediate season.
He has also avoided drafting "somebody's kid/nephew", which had become a Piladelphia tradition, between the Phils and Flyers.
You might fairly say that as much as he has been good at drafting, a fair amount of the change has been to stop being bad at it (i.e., wasting picks through dumb choices or useless trades).