Prospect Info: Phantoms (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL), NCAA, Jrs., Int'l, etc.

[Stizzle]

 

[FLYguy3911]

Bertilsson too!

 

[Curufinwe]

I got a good laugh from Meltzer trying to cover up his own failure in assuming Farabee would spend two years in college by claiming Hextall wouldn't have signed him.

 

[GapToothedWonder]

I got a good laugh from Meltzer trying to cover up his own failure in assuming Farabee would spend two years in college by claiming Hextall wouldn't have signed him.

Links plz

 

[baudib1]

 

[DancingPanther]

He's lived long enough to see himself become the villain.

Stuck in the peat bog.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Well Bill, Hexy ain't here anymore. If our current management thinks he's ready to step it up to some sort of pro level, then that's what they want him to do.

 

[deadhead]

Hextall played Provorov, TK and Patrick at 19 years old.
It depends on the player and their skill set and their mental and physical maturity.

 

[Striiker]

Philly needs to wipe out all it's hockey media and start fresh. Broadcasters, writers, TV hosts... all of them. Taryn can stay.

 

[baudib1]

Philly needs to wipe out all it's hockey media and start fresh. Broadcasters, writers, TV hosts... all of them. Taryn can stay.

Quite a few of the non-traditional media people are very good. I think Charlie is the best hockey writer at The Athletic. Ted Brown and Appleyard are very good/smart guys. I think the BSH podcast people are pretty entertaining and good, the regular writers there are bad though.

 

[Striiker]

Quite a few of the non-traditional media people are very good. I think Charlie is the best hockey writer at The Athletic. Ted Brown and Appleyard are very good/smart guys. I think the BSH podcast people are pretty entertaining and good, the regular writers there are bad though.

I more meant people employed by the team, the TV channel, and local news papers.

Jackson
Clement
Jones
Boruk
Morganti
Cohen
Meltzer
Therien
Carchidi
Isaac
and so on...

 

[BillDineen]

I more meant people employed by the team, the TV channel, and local news papers.

Jackson
Clement
Jones
Boruk
Morganti
Cohen
Meltzer
Therien
Carchidi
Isaac
and so on...

Agree. I actually like Jones despite his opinions at times. If Meltzer can wash off his Hexy brainwashing and return to what he was, he is more than welcome to remain.

 

[Curufinwe]

Meltzer was hyping up a guy like Grossmann long before he worked for the Flyers. He was actually signing his praises as a defensive dman the very day that Hextall traded him as a throw-in.

 

[baudib1]

I more meant people employed by the team, the TV channel, and local news papers.

Jackson
Clement
Jones
Boruk
Morganti
Cohen
Meltzer
Therien
Carchidi
Isaac
and so on...

yeah mostly agree on these. I've met Morganti a few times and he's a cool dude in person. I think he's OK at what he does, although I know a few people who worked with him and aren't fans.

I just look at Meltzer as a guy who's the team historian or something.

 

[Striiker]

yeah mostly agree on these. I've met Morganti a few times and he's a cool dude in person. I think he's OK at what he does, although I know a few people who worked with him and aren't fans.

I just look at Meltzer as a guy who's the team historian or something.

I don't think all of them are evil human beings, they just suck at their jobs and I hate the fact that people can be rewarded for that level of incompetence.

 

[FlyTimmo]

While we will never know, I wouldn't have been surprised to see Hextall sign Farabee anyway. The transition that Hextall seemed to take too long with was getting guys into the NHL from the AHL, not necessarily the transition from college to pros.

 

[baudib1]

I don't think all of them are evil human beings, they just suck at their jobs and I hate the fact that people can be rewarded for that level of incompetence.

In the major U.S. markets you get the younger reporters stuck with hockey jobs. After a few years the better ones move on to football, like Rich Hoffman or Les Bowen. Bowen clearly never gave any shits about hockey and his annual, "I'm going to chime in on the Flyers today" tweets are embarrassing.

In New York you barely bother to cover the Devils even in their good years because A. no one cares and B. the Devils were notoriously tight-lipped and there was never anything worth covering.

Some guys are just hockey guys like Morganti but for the most part you're not getting the cream of the crop.

 

[Chinatown88]

I need to see more red flag talk in here.

 

[flyers0909]

I don't think all of them are evil human beings, they just suck at their jobs and I hate the fact that people can be rewarded for that level of incompetence.

It's insane reading the content that someone like Sam C puts out against Charlie at the Athletic. All of Sam's articles are just facts/useless stats thrown together that doesn't do a damn thing for the reader.

"The Flyers are really struggling at home. They are now x-x-x at home and are really going to have a tough time against x team who is x-x-x on the road. Scott Laughton said "we are putting too much pressure on ourselves at home."

"The Flyers had a great two months where they went x-x-x but since then have lost to x team, x-x, x team x-x, x team, x-x, x team x-x. Now they are x points out of the playoffs."

Go to NHL.com and fill in the blanks and holy shit I just wrote an article for Philly.com in 5 minutes.

 

[Striiker]

In the major U.S. markets you get the younger reporters stuck with hockey jobs. After a few years the better ones move on to football, like Rich Hoffman or Les Bowen. Bowen clearly never gave any ****s about hockey and his annual, "I'm going to chime in on the Flyers today" tweets are embarrassing.

In New York you barely bother to cover the Devils even in their good years because A. no one cares and B. the Devils were notoriously tight-lipped and there was never anything worth covering.

Some guys are just hockey guys like Morganti but for the most part you're not getting the cream of the crop.

I don’t mind an honest lack of knowledge and real effort.

But our guys are often aggressively ignorant and arrogant.

 

[baudib1]

I don’t mind an honest lack of knowledge and real effort.

But our guys are often aggressively ignorant and arrogant.

Randy Miller was the worst.

 

[Striiker]

It's insane reading the content that someone like Sam C puts out against Charlie at the Athletic. All of Sam's articles are just facts/useless stats thrown together that doesn't do a damn thing for the reader.

"The Flyers are really struggling at home. They are now x-x-x at home and are really going to have a tough time against x team who is x-x-x on the road. Scott Laughton said "we are putting too much pressure on ourselves at home."

"The Flyers had a great two months where they went x-x-x but since then have lost to x team, x-x, x team x-x, x team, x-x, x team x-x. Now they are x points out of the playoffs."

Go to NHL.com and fill in the blanks and holy **** I just wrote an article for Philly.com in 5 minutes.

Yeah. Other than the obvious fact of Carchidi being stupid as hell, even if he was good at his job, it’s an outdated profession. Everything he types is easily found online and then it’s not going through the Carchidi filter of misinformation.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Randy Miller was the worst.

He left then came back a few seasons again only to leave again. He works for the same publication in NJ now but it’s to cover the Yankees.

I remember listening to a podcast with Charlie O’Connor & somehow the conversation of certain fans obsessed with stripping Giroux of the “C” & giving it to Simmonds came up. But Charlie dropped in that it was actually ironic because Simmonds confronted Miller before about an article he wrote questioning Giroux’s leadership ability.

I don’t know if that played a part in his departure or not.

 

[baudib1]

He left then came back a few seasons again only to leave again. He works for the same publication in NJ now but it’s to cover the Yankees.

I remember listening to a podcast with Charlie O’Connor & somehow the conversation of certain fans obsessed with stripping Giroux of the “C” & giving it to Simmonds came up. But Charlie dropped in that it was actually ironic because Simmonds confronted Miller before about an article he wrote questioning Giroux’s leadership ability.

I don’t know if that played a part in his departure or not.

I hadn't actually known where Miller went because he blocked me on Twitter years ago. I'm sure he left because the Yankees are a much better gig. Things like incidents with players or teams may loom large in the minds of fans/readers but such things don't matter at all to editors or corporate media bosses.

 

[Oskar Man]

I'd like to see them clear house and get fresh voices in there. JJ is beyond stale. I do like Jones and Therien, though.