This season has been hard. This season hurts.


- ggunky

I truly feel your pain. I've been following this team since the early 70s and this is as bad as I've ever seen it.

I truly feel your pain. I've been following this team since the early 70s and this is as bad as I've ever seen it.

- BiggE

06-07 may have been worse since it had been a while since we missed the playoffs. Now I'm getting used it

LET'S GO FLYERS!!! CLAP! ~ CLAP! ~ CLAP!CLAP!CLAP!!!



LET'S GO FLYERS!!! CLAP! ~ CLAP! ~ CLAP!CLAP!CLAP!!!



LET'S GO FLYERS!!! CLAP! ~ CLAP! ~ CLAP!CLAP!CLAP!!!
- ggunky

G is gonna find his game and this is gonna be a sweet 16!

G is gonna find his game and this is gonna be a sweet 16!

- FlyersGrace

I hope you're right! Here's to optimism, cheers!

Yeah, let's sell low on two solid young players for a guy EDM's been trying to give away for months (if not years), and a 2nd-rounder in a weak draft. Sounds like a plan.
- Tomahawk

BUT WE'RE SLUMPING

A position of strength would be to either wait until at least some of our current players begin to play their way out of slumps and increase their value somewhat. Or, if we continue to freefall, wait until the trade deadline when contenders are desperately looking to add a piece or 2 to make a cup run.
- BiggE

This is the second consecutive year the Flyers have struggled coming out of the gate. This is not about players playing themselves out of a slump. This is about rebuild. So the priority is to move players to acquire picks and prospects. Also, you want to free cap space moving as many bad contracts as possible. You can do a crash and burn with a rebuild fairly quickly.

What is a killer is if you stay in denial (as the Leafs did for 10 years) pretending your only one good trade or UFA signing from being a contender.

Just chiming in now.. Glad Bryz is back in the NHL.. It's so ironic that he used to beak off about how desolate Winnipeg is, now he's in an even more desolate spot in Edmonton... lol

As someone said, thank God he's not starting for the Oilers today, it would have been hilarious to see him shut us out...
- Hextall271

they're getting a lot of mileage out of that footage on the nhl network that's for sure

if scoop is correct that scouts all of a sudden aren't that impressed with our players that had to change because up until mid last season coots had selke potential, schenn bros were progressing, read was very underrated, etc... Now just because team isn't performing the scouts all of a sudden aren't "impressed" ?
- SMS4016

agreed this seems a little... simplistic

06-07 may have been worse since it had been a while since we missed the playoffs. Now I'm getting used it
- funmaster18

I don't think 06/07 was worse. We didn't have any talent on that team.. This team was good 2 years ago and now it's fallen off the map completely. It's very frustrating, because we are supposed to have a solid young core. I don't think that this season could be going any worse.

when it rains it pours.

Posted: Saturday, November 9, 2013, 9:18 AM

Flyers captain Claude Giroux was in a minor car accident Friday night, but was not injured, according to a report on @CrossingBroad. I will talk to Giroux shortly at the Wells Fargo Center and get more details.

Reportedly, Jay Rosehill was also in the car and was not injured.

Giroux will try to snap a 21-game goal-less streak Saturday afternoon against Edmonton

Read more at http://www.philly.com/phi....html#XTerpolCrF30gBFb.99
- nastyflyergirl

wow.

edit, what

they're getting a lot of mileage out of that footage on the nhl network that's for sure
- -davies-

I just think it's funny..I actually don't hate Bryz and hope he does well in Edmonton. He's a quirky guy, but not a bad tender. I am happy having Mason as our guy going forward and think he's a better fit but I am glad Bryz is getting another shot.

when it rains it pours.

Posted: Saturday, November 9, 2013, 9:18 AM

Flyers captain Claude Giroux was in a minor car accident Friday night, but was not injured, according to a report on @CrossingBroad. I will talk to Giroux shortly at the Wells Fargo Center and get more details.

Reportedly, Jay Rosehill was also in the car and was not injured.

Giroux will try to snap a 21-game goal-less streak Saturday afternoon against Edmonton

Read more at http://www.philly.com/phi....html#XTerpolCrF30gBFb.99
- nastyflyergirl

Nothing to see here. Someone backed into Giroux's car, and he wasn't in car at the time. Total non-story.

wow.
- -davies-

Carchidi tweeted that he talked to Giroux and he said he wasn't in the car at the time.. Giroux's gotta be saying WTF why am I cursed?

agreed this seems a little... simplistic
- -davies-

The scouts and GM's really know their stuff and are very strong in evaluating talent. It makes no sense to me that the Flyers would trade some of the young, strong players. Why would you trade Couturier, Voracek, Simmonds, Schenn and others?

agreed this seems a little... simplistic
- -davies-

Those aren't the players being scouted neccesarily.

Not a huge fan of the listed lines today, but hell, what do I know?

Nothing else has worked, so maybe they'll get something going with lines that appear to be a little off.

06-07 may have been worse since it had been a while since we missed the playoffs. Now I'm getting used it
- funmaster18

06-07 wasn't as hard for me because we were hit hard with injuries and lacked talent, depth and goaltending. This team has more talent than that squad and much better goaltending. They just don't work hard enough, nor play intelligently and that is harder to take.

Nothing to see here. Someone backed into Giroux's car, and he wasn't in car at the time. Total non-story.
- bmeltzer

typical philly.com bs

I just think it's funny..I actually don't hate Bryz and hope he does well in Edmonton. He's a quirky guy, but not a bad tender. I am happy having Mason as our guy going forward and think he's a better fit but I am glad Bryz is getting another shot.
- Hextall271

i think it's funny too, he clearly was just trying to be silly

Not a huge fan of the listed lines today, but hell, what do I know?

Nothing else has worked, so maybe they'll get something going with lines that appear to be a little off.
- AllInForFlyers

Don't worry...they'll be changed by about the 4th shift or so

The scouts and GM's really know their stuff and are very strong in evaluating talent. It makes no sense to me that the Flyers would trade some of the young, strong players. Why would you trade Couturier, Voracek, Simmonds, Schenn and others?
- spatso

well a few scouts told me they're not impressed at all with those young players so we should just trade em for some picks.

Those aren't the players being scouted neccesarily.
- bmeltzer

if it's mesz then maybe he has just been pretending to stink so he doesn't get traded

Not a huge fan of the listed lines today, but hell, what do I know?

Nothing else has worked, so maybe they'll get something going with lines that appear to be a little off.
- AllInForFlyers

eesh i hadn't even looked at them...


yuck

if it's mesz then maybe he has just been pretending to stink so he doesn't get traded


- -davies-

Nothing to see here. Someone backed into Giroux's car, and he wasn't in car at the time. Total non-story.
- bmeltzer

For Kyle Scott's next trick, he's going to put his keen journalistic sensibilities to work to query the server at the bar that Giroux and Rosehill went to to see if they tipped him/her properly.