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They have actually had great luck with injuries the past 2 seasons. Also nice that Giroux has only missed 9 or 10 games in the last 9 years.
Injury Report: Oct. 23: JVR close to skating (out 5-to-6 weeks, Oct. 8); Neuvirth could rejoin Flyers Oct. 25
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They have actually had great luck with injuries the past 2 seasons. Also nice that Giroux has only missed 9 or 10 games in the last 9 years.
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Why would you be interested in Kadri? We are in good shape down the middle and will continue to improve there. Also, hes a douchebag.
The only good news here is that by the time JVR is back, the team should be in the swing of things without the early rust that tends to happen. Should be easier for him to integrate into the lineup and develop chemistry when the rest of the team is grooving. Sucks he can’t do it for this first month tho.
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We may even be finished with the 10-game losing streak by the time he gets back.
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Hakstol is out indefinitely with an upper body injury.
Captain Dave Poulin
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You mean the Bulletproof Ballsack? I doubt it.
Oh man, I can't say Ball Sack as one word?
Captain Dave Poulin
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When they saw that Folin for Gudas swap, he was put in the league's concussion protocol.
Striiker
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Careful, there’s children present.
If my Mom catches me reading bad words she won’t let me on here anymore...
He's a douchebag now but that's because he's not on our team. Marchand is too but I'd love him here. I'm sure I could go on and on with guys like that. But he's a 30+ goal scorer under thirty on a reasonable contract. I'd love to have him and we can shuffle him or the lines around to make room. Put him at 3C with Simmer and JvR (when he's back) and find a spot for Vorobyev on the 4th line...cough...Lehtera...cough.
FlyersMania2
#FireHakstol
No one is debating there are some non gritty players that are successful - my point is more so that some players work better in some divisions and their skill and production doesn't translate over to other divisions. I am of the belief that JVR's skill and production would be at their highest in the division he was just in. This is again, my opinion of him and not really being sold on him from when we drafted him. If he proves me wrong it is a wonderful thing bc it means we will have more scoring on this team.
Tripod
I hate this team
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This is the first injury that's actually going to stop a good player from playing in a regular season game, though.
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Yeah true, but its still crazy how frequently players are dropping in the early going.
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Well, you're not as confused as he is.
To be fair, Neuvurth and Laberge both have extensive injury histories. And I still believe Macdonald was an attempted intervention by a higher power that was warded off by some combination of voodoo, Homer's cologne and residual Islander karma.
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They were one of the most fortunate teams last year, skater wise at least.
G, Coots, Voracek, and Provorov played all 82. Ghost only missed 4. Konecny played 81. Laughton, Lindblom, and Sanheim were available for all 82. Simmonds still managed to get 75 in. That's about as good as you can hope for.
On the flip side, Filppula played 81 games.
G, Coots, Voracek, and Provorov played all 82. Ghost only missed 4. Konecny played 81. Laughton, Lindblom, and Sanheim were available for all 82. Simmonds still managed to get 75 in. That's about as good as you can hope for.
On the flip side, Filppula played 81 games.
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I was especially pleased that Couturier was healthy all (regular) season. The real sufferers, however, were the prospects, led by Morin (only 17 games played), Stolarz (4 games played), and to a lesser extent, Myers (50 games played).
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They were but only Morin had a chance to make an impact at the NHL level and they thought he was the 8th best defenseman, at best.
The only point I was trying to make was that the team was pretty lucky last year and I'm not so sure you can expect your ~5 best players to be healthy for an entire season again. I do think the Flyers have pretty good depth up front though. Now whether they decide to maximize it or not remains to be seen.
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If one of the top two dmen miss a significant amount of time pushing MacDonald on to the first pairing then the season is over.
Tripod
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Our big issue is that they think AMac is good. Our good young D have had to learn from subpar Dmen as opposed to being able to lean on a good D partner for help.
Aside from him sucking arse that is my biggest complaint. That Guys like provy, sanheim, etc don’t have a solid veteran d partner to learn from while developing. And I still don’t think Murphy does a good job. I would kill to have a Jacques Lemaire or terry murray running the d.
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They are banking on self development.
Keep the same players and one year later everyone younger than 25 is supposed to have matured as a person and automatically stepped up his game a notch.
That is (was) Hextall's only recipe to fix the defense.
So who is significantly better this season:
Ghost? Provorov?...nah, more or less the same or a little worse
Hägg... marginally better
Sanhein... I don't see it yet and he is still not getting the TOI
Everyone else is still in the minors.
For any major improvement it would be necessary to upgrade on the two Vets Mac Donald and Gudas asap.
Keep the same players and one year later everyone younger than 25 is supposed to have matured as a person and automatically stepped up his game a notch.
That is (was) Hextall's only recipe to fix the defense.
So who is significantly better this season:
Ghost? Provorov?...nah, more or less the same or a little worse
Hägg... marginally better
Sanhein... I don't see it yet and he is still not getting the TOI
Everyone else is still in the minors.
For any major improvement it would be necessary to upgrade on the two Vets Mac Donald and Gudas asap.
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I think they created Gritty to draw the attention away from JVR's gut
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In order to maximize the injury report, it has been added to this thread even though the news was released earlier today,
Nolan Patrick injury update: Flyers' 2C out 7-10 days with upper-body injury
Nolan Patrick will miss approximately seven to 10 days with an upper-body injury, Flyers general manager Ron Hextall said Thursday afternoon.
Patrick left the Flyers' 7-4 win over the Senators on Wednesday night in the first period after a routine, legal check by Ottawa's Mark Stone. Patrick went shoulder-first into the boards but his head appeared to whip back.
https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelp...d-line-center-out-7-10-days-upper-body-injury
Nolan Patrick injury update: Flyers' 2C out 7-10 days with upper-body injury
Nolan Patrick will miss approximately seven to 10 days with an upper-body injury, Flyers general manager Ron Hextall said Thursday afternoon.
Patrick left the Flyers' 7-4 win over the Senators on Wednesday night in the first period after a routine, legal check by Ottawa's Mark Stone. Patrick went shoulder-first into the boards but his head appeared to whip back.
https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelp...d-line-center-out-7-10-days-upper-body-injury
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