Jsaq, if you want to defend in Gervais in any way alright.

The guy shouldnt be playing another game for this team. He is brutal. I dont care how many games he has played, he is who he is for a reason.

Yzerman signed him, and released him on a piss poor Tampa bay D-core. Gervais is far from their only problems. However every player matters.
- flyer_nutter

He is who he is for a reason. What do you think happens to a marginal 3rd pair depth defenseman when you play him on a team that is porous defensively as a team. Do you really think that player is going to look good? And is going to thrive in that situation?

It's YOUR fault.

spirit of the room?

spirit of the room?
- wilsonecho91

Statement period.

Thank you (frank)ing Keith Jones.

"This Flyer defense just isn't talented enough"

They are not. Not in any way, to play the system that Lava wants of them. Fire his ass, because they wont be any time soon.

Terry Murray was brought in to be the Phantoms coach...

...and then to replace Lavi when they lose the second game of this home and home.

Frack it dude, lets go bowling

Terry Murray was brought in to be the Phantoms coach...

...and then to replace Lavi when they lose the second game of this home and home.
- GirouxForTheShow

Thank you (frank)ing Keith Jones.

"This Flyer defense just isn't talented enough"

They are not. Not in any way, to play the system that Lava wants of them. Fire his ass, because they wont be any time soon.
- flyer_nutter

That's my biggest issue. You have Schenn and Grossman, instead of Pronger and Carle. Change the system. Tweak the system. There is nothing but aggressive stupidity.

AGGRESSIVE STUPIDITY

spirit of the room?
- wilsonecho91

Relieved because the rebuild has to start soon.

- FlyerGuy

At least for the interim.

Rinaldo plays well most nights but he isn't under fire because of a bad team. He isn't gonna possibly be bought out because of a bad team....uhh hello??
- SuperSchennBros

You said Bryz was the only one showing up. My post was stating that was not true.

Relieved because the rebuild has to start soon.
- opeth_pa

Rebuild started beginning of last year.

It can work. With the right kind of players. He doesn't have the right kind of players.

If I had Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri, Paul Coffey, Mark Messier and Glenn Anderson, I'd be an idiot to play the same style the 1995 Devils did. It would be poor use of a group of assets.

Conversely, if I had the 1995 Devils, I wouldn't play the system that the Oilers did, because it'd get my team killed.

Laviolette's playing a system that doesn't maximize the abilities of his roster, and worse, fails to protect and hide the weaknesses of his team. If they still had Pronger and Carle, along with a healthy Timonen and Laviolette's system looks a lot better.
- Jsaquella

Just a personal thing but I always believed in a system that played to your strengths.

Not in a system that hid your weakness. That is playing not to lose.

Which is funny, because that is exactly what they need to do. They need to hide the weakness. Lava pisses me off, as do the players, but Holmgren does so much more.

HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL????
- Don'tForgetTocchet

Truculent. Bellicose.

Dont know, he is set in his ways. I dont really think you would also see a guy like Babcock change his style either.

Babcock's style would also have this team exposing a lot of the areas of weakness. It pisses me off Lava cant adapt, even just for this season. However it pisses me off even more than management wanted THIS. They wanted an aggressive identity. They brought in Lava. Yet gave him a crew that cant play it.
- flyer_nutter

It seems to me management wanted to cut down on goals, considering they gave him a team that lost a puck moving defender and gained a shutdown defender. There's something to be said for giving him a different set of tools from what he wants, but the failure of running the same style in all game situations against all teams (and the problems it's yielded) is a coaching failure.

Blah blah blah

When your this bad as a franchise this year the poop is smeared all over the wall all the way from the top of the wall starting from the crown molding to under the wood planking saturating the subfloor.

If Lavi wants the team to play an uptempo game then why does Homer sogn Gervais, Foster, trade for Luke Schenn. I like Luke Schenn but not the point. So when plan A fails with Suter and Weber and you do plan C make sure your telling Lavy change things to incorporate what we now have not what you wish you had.

I see far to many players just invisible for stretches of games. Just dumb decision making all over the ice.
The flyers have been giveaway prone for years. Where is the composure?

Another team meeting? Pfft just a symptom of the disease that is this team.

This rant was brought to you by omaha steaks bratwursts and henninger pounders!

If this team was as tasty as that dinner then they are up 2 games to 1 and winning game 4 with 1 minute left in the stanley cup playoffs.

Thank you (frank)ing Keith Jones.

"This Flyer defense just isn't talented enough"

They are not. Not in any way, to play the system that Lava wants of them. Fire his ass, because they wont be any time soon.
- flyer_nutter

System? Not tonight, what a joke! Expecting a spirited tight one goal game and this?

HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL????
- Don'tForgetTocchet

i can only assume unhappy. i'm unaware of your attachment to that number/player.

That's my biggest issue. You have Schenn and Grossman, instead of Pronger and Carle. Change the system. Tweak the system. There is nothing but aggressive stupidity.

AGGRESSIVE STUPIDITY
- GirouxForTheShow

I think we have our next Flyers' t-shirt slogan.

Just a personal thing but I always believed in a system that played to your strengths.

Not in a system that hid your weakness. That is playing not to lose.

Which is funny, because that is exactly what they need to do. They need to hide the weakness. Lava pisses me off, as do the players, but Holmgren does so much more.
- flyer_nutter

It's time to call Cal Heeter up.

Rebuild started beginning of last year.
- GirouxForTheShow

Exactly. Just 'cause they overachieved for the second "rebuild" in a row (see 2007-08 for the first), doesn't mean that it wasn't a retool/rebuild/restart/refresh.

You said Bryz was the only one showing up. My post was stating that was not true.
- Flyskippy

I think you see what you want to see. I also used the key words "most nights". I'm talking about the season as a whole. I always have been. Disagree all you want. Doesn't make you anymore right. It's amazing Bryz has anything resembling a 500 record.

Give Rinaldo the "C" though.

i can only assume unhappy. i'm unaware of your attachment to that number/player.
- hammarby31

It's her age. Always.

Just a personal thing but I always believed in a system that played to your strengths.

Not in a system that hid your weakness. That is playing not to lose.

Which is funny, because that is exactly what they need to do. They need to hide the weakness. Lava pisses me off, as do the players, but Holmgren does so much more.
- flyer_nutter

What is Homer to do? He did what he could to get the best UFA and best RFA defenseman. I don't see where he is at fault.