Until April comes around.
- jmatchett383

When the flyers will be playing golf

I don't think it's joke-worthy. He actually may have a point.
- jmatchett383

When the flyers will be playing golf
- nonpoint22

Maybe. That well-run franchise has won as many playoff rounds as that constantly-transitioning roster of the Flyers since 08-09.

As a STH, I am okay with a few bad years as long as they're fairly forward about it and stick with it. It's when they keep selling you a retooled roster year after year where I have a problem.
- jmatchett383

Can anybody here say, with any degree of confidence, what this team's identity is supposed to be?

Can anybody here say, with any degree of confidence, what this team's identity is supposed to be?
- Tomahawk

The best UFAs available, irrelevant of team needs.

Can anybody here say, with any degree of confidence, what this team's identity is supposed to be?
- Tomahawk

playoff contenders every year. which they are

I can see why comcast lost 100,000 flyer viewers

Maybe. That well-run franchise has won as many playoff rounds as that constantly-transitioning roster of the Flyers since 08-09.
- jmatchett383

All I am saying is even though they are playoff choke artists...I just see a more stable franchise....all I am saying

playoff contenders every year. which they are
- stayinthefnnet

Totally serious question for you:

Heading into the playoffs this year, would you rather have MAF or Steve Mason as your starter?

So then what is the solution when you see the same problems spanning across completely different rosters and coaches? It is baffling to me.
- MBFlyerfan

IMO it hasn't. He is thinking back to when Richie and Carter were here and they always had a slump in the middle of the year. The fact is slumps happen to most teams. What the issue is with this team is not that there are slumps, but that there seems to be an "in-game" issue that is causing this team to lose. Pin-pointing the issue just seems impossible to me.

Is it Speed, Skill, Inexperience, Lack of leadership, Gaps, Laziness, who knows...

All I am saying is even though they are playoff choke artists...I just see a more stable franchise....all I am saying
- nonpoint22

They are very stable. As are the Edmonton Oilers. Same types of players year after year, same results year after year.

Can anybody here say, with any degree of confidence, what this team's identity is supposed to be?
- Tomahawk

Is inconsistency a team identity

So if I said the Blackhawks were a legit contender, and the Sabres aren't I would be incorrect right?
- PLindbergh31

I mean when you're in the playoffs. Thus the point of the topic of not selling when your in a playoff hunt.

Is inconsistency a team identity
- nonpoint22

An inconsistent team you can always be trust to be inconsistent, consistently. It's the consistent ones you have to be worried about, because you never know when they'll do something stupid.

Totally serious question for you:

Heading into the playoffs this year, would you rather have MAF or Steve Mason as your starter?
- jmatchett383

i legitimately do not know.

I mean when you're in the playoffs. Thus the point of the topic of not selling when your in a playoff hunt.
- SchennBros

So the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild were legit contenders last year?

They are very stable. As are the Edmonton Oilers. Same types of players year after year, same results year after year.
- jmatchett383

I actually think Edmonton is extremely unstable...same players, but different coaches, different GMs and really no plan or philosophy. One is a playoff team and cup contender every year and one is a basement dweller that keeps telling there fans to be patient with all the young kids and there potential but they never addressed defense or goal tending , hmm that sounds familiar, How you can compare the Sharks and Oilers and say they are the same is kinda incredible

I honestly look at the Sharks and say "what a well run franchise"...I know they havent won the cup, but they are always a contender and rarely make the big moves..Alot of there team is from in house and the coach has been there since '08. Everything about that team is sturdy with a good foundation....
- nonpoint22

So Thornton, Heatley, Havlat, Niemi, Burns, Torres, Stuart are all in house players? I would say the Sharks have aquired more of their team then grew them in-house.

They are very stable. As are the Edmonton Oilers. Same types of players year after year, same results year after year.
- jmatchett383

with Homer you know you will have old D men and lots of centers...plus a farm team with tons of 4th line prospects

So if I said the Blackhawks were a legit contender, and the Sabres aren't I would be incorrect right?
- PLindbergh31

I have this dream that the Sabres bite and claw their way up to the bottom wild card spot and play the Penguins 1st round... And then we all get to watch as Fleury implodes and the Sabres knock the Penguins off...
Course, then I wake up.

So the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild were legit contenders last year?
- jmatchett383

If they made the playoffs one of them could have won the cup... Yes.

I actually think Edmonton is extremely unstable...same players, but different coaches, different GMs and really no plan or philosophy. One is a playoff team and cup contender every year and one is a basement dweller that keeps telling there fans to be patient with all the young kids and there potential but they never addressed defense or goal tending , hmm that sounds familiar, How you can compare the Sharks and Oilers and say they are the same is kinda incredible
- nonpoint22

playoff contenders every year. which they are
- stayinthefnnet

That's the goal, but it's not a persona to get you there.

Like the Pens ride their star power, and LA/BOS dishearten you offensively while grinding you into the ground, and CHI/DET are going to win because they're never going to give you the puck, and NJ/NYR are all about contesting everything and out-working their way to wins.

The Flyers seem to have a finger or toe in all these philosophies, but when you consider everything, they're totally directionless in a sense.

That's the goal, but it's not a persona to get you there.

Like the Pens ride their star power, and LA/BOS dishearten you offensively while grinding you into the ground, and CHI/DET are going to win because they're never going to give you the puck, and NJ/NYR are all about contesting everything and out-working their way to wins.

The Flyers seem to have a finger or toe in all these philosophies, but when you consider everything, they're totally directionless in a sense.
- Tomahawk

Right now blind passes, low percentage shots from the outside, and chirping are our strategy...

I don't think it's joke-worthy. He actually may have a point.
- jmatchett383

Im being serious