What prospect will Fletch recall from the AHL first?

[Lindberg]

Hart isn't getting traded or called up. Holmgren's comments on the matter shows that he likely saw eye to eye on that. NAK looked good and showed he should have been in the NHL. There's far too much loyalty in the NHL, i.e. Simmonds should be gone.

 

[Math the wild rose]

Your team just hired Chuck Fletcher as directeur général?

As if you were not insane enough.

 

[Rebels57]

Your team just hired Chuck Fletcher as directeur général?

As if you were not insane enough.

Hot takes! Get yer' hot takes!!

 

[Adam Warlock]

Ideally Amac n lethera get waived and NAK n Myers get called up.

 

[BobbyClarkeFan16]

Ideally Amac n lethera get waived and NAK n Myers get called up.

I have no problem with NAK being recalled. I think Myers just needs a full season of uninterrupted play and health before he's ready for a call up. Just let him go and play and not worry about the big club.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Your team just hired Chuck Fletcher as directeur général?

As if you were not insane enough.

Her essence is evil, n'est ce pas? Sacre bleu. And the gravy!

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

Doesn't matter. Hak is coaching for his life, he won't be playing rookies any time soon.

 

[eramosat]

I have always wanted to see Vecchione get NHL time. He was a highly touted prospect, with an NCAA pedigree similar, and in some cases superior, to our best NCAA prospects. His future with the Flyers came to a screeching halt when Nolan Patrick fell into our laps, and the 2c spot was welded to him, through thick and thin (Patrick is the clear example of where Hakstol, and the whole organisation, has pushed all their chips in on a young player, Patrick has never been benched, never had real reduced ice time, and I hope it works out).

As with all the candidates...it is probably injuries plus trades that will dictate the winner. In absence of any new news...I gotta think Lyon is the winner, G position is most in need of help. And maybe the most unlikely position to get a trade upgrade for.

 

[Magua]

I have always wanted to see Vecchione get NHL time. He was a highly touted prospect, with an NCAA pedigree similar, and in some cases superior, to our best NCAA prospects.

 

[eramosat]

Hmm. Not sure where that list came from, but I don't think I have ever seen Vecchione listed in a Top10FlyerProspect list ever. And certainly not ahead of Allison. Guess I need to expand my horizons.

Reminder to all. Vecchs is a Hobey Baker finalist, with an outstanding NCAA career, pursued by many NHL teams upon graduation, and not too shabby in the AHL either. What's the hold-up? As I said above, Nolan screwed his chances, but leverage him somehow!

if anything, this should remind us all of Hexy's greatest sin...falling in love with too many great prospects instead of using them as chips, somehow. Notice Morin is not on the above list at all (nor Vorobyev!), despite his second coming status at times. Flyers are deeeep in prospects, more depth in fact there than anywhere else, which is maybe not so great for a professional team, and certainly not after years of professional mediocrity but prospect greatness.

 

[deadhead]

MV simply didn't show enough last year, he's another skill guy who isn't as fast as advertised, so he needs polish to succeed.
He's scoring at a higher ES rate this season
last year 65g 12-15 27
this year 21g 4-7 11
I think he's a bit like Weal, with enough AHL time he may take his game to a NHL level, but I don't see him as more than a bottom six guy.
And like Weal, he's a bit overaged, he'll be 26 in February.
And that makes his college numbers suspect, he turned 21 February of his freshman year.
Compare to say Laczynski and Allison who were 19 year old freshmen.

 

[Curufinwe]

Vecchione is on that list instead of Vorobyev cause the guy who wrote the list is a moron.

Vecchione is closer in age to Varone, who by the way is having a dominant AHL season, than he is to Vorobyev.

 

[wasup]

I have always wanted to see Vecchione get NHL time. He was a highly touted prospect, with an NCAA pedigree similar, and in some cases superior, to our best NCAA prospects. His future with the Flyers came to a screeching halt when Nolan Patrick fell into our laps, and the 2c spot was welded to him, through thick and thin (Patrick is the clear example of where Hakstol, and the whole organisation, has pushed all their chips in on a young player, Patrick has never been benched, never had real reduced ice time, and I hope it works out).

As with all the candidates...it is probably injuries plus trades that will dictate the winner. In absence of any new news...I gotta think Lyon is the winner, G position is most in need of help. And maybe the most unlikely position to get a trade upgrade for.

No not at all . If you look into it and know anything about the NCAA you would not say that . First Vec played in a weaker conference 2nd he was 24 already and was playing with line mates same age . Being able to put up good numbers in stronger conferences at younger ages is way more telling of possible product . He is pretty well a finished product by the time he got to Philly . Vec is okay but his upside has already been reached he is a couple months off of being 26 .

 

[wasup]

MV simply didn't show enough last year, he's another skill guy who isn't as fast as advertised, so he needs polish to succeed.
He's scoring at a higher ES rate this season
last year 65g 12-15 27
this year 21g 4-7 11
I think he's a bit like Weal, with enough AHL time he may take his game to a NHL level, but I don't see him as more than a bottom six guy.
And like Weal, he's a bit overaged, he'll be 26 in February.
And that makes his college numbers suspect, he turned 21 February of his freshman year.
Compare to say Laczynski and Allison who were 19 year old freshmen.

I think i have harped on this before but Laczynski and Allison are the same birth year but are not the same school year or the same draft year . College wise entry in US
Allison 18
Laczynski 19
Vec 20
and like stated above Union plays in the ECAC which is a long way off of the BIG 10 or NCHC

 

[Curufinwe]

Vecchione is two months younger than Sean Couturier who's already played 500+games, and two months older than Ghost who has already played 200+.

Maybe he's a real late bloomer who can be an NHL player, but at this point it's not likely.

 

[Rebels57]

Vecchione is two months younger than Sean Couturier who's already played 500+games, and two months older than Ghost who has already played 200+.

Maybe he's a real late bloomer who can be an NHL player, but at this point it's not likely.

Winning a Calder Cup championship would be a nice accomplishment for an undrafted, undersized player. Hope he gets one.

 

[BillDineen]

Phil Varone!!!!

 

[Sombastate]

Exactly who we all predicted.

 

[Rebels57]

Phil Varone!!!!

The thread says "prospect" though

 

[TheShaneTrain]

Varone reminds me of Keith Aucoin.

I don't think that's a good thing...

 

[macleish1974]

Love Varone as a 28 year old veteran of the Phantoms, is a fantastic AHLer. Is a NHL player? I guess this is an experiment that the Flyers will explore. I think he will be 3rd line center. Super nice guy and actually knows how to play an offensive and defensive game. It is his speed that is my only concern. He is faster than Lethera......;-))

 

[deadhead]

Well, he's probably as fast as Weal, who isn't exactly a straight line burner.

 

[wasup]

At least it ain't Goulbourne !!!

 

[David St Hubbins]

Doesn't matter. Hak is coaching for his life, he won't be playing rookies any time soon.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Would’ve said Brennan but I’ll go with Lyon. It’s inevitable.

Eew, Brennan. Surely not.

Think I was the closest.