Possible topics for today:
Favorite beer?
Favorite food?
Who should the Flyers draft?
Should they trade up?
Should they trade down?
Favorite band?

Basically anything other than Vinnie L!
- BiggE

-Miller Lite (not by choice, though).
-Steak followed by anything made by one of my Italian Aunts.
-A hockey player. I do enjoy watching folks pretend they know a guy is going to translate into the NHL.
-Only if it helps them get a good hockey player.
-Only if it helps them get a good hockey player.
-So many, but if I had to pick, it'd be Bruce Springsteen

Chicago was simply the deeper team.
- johndewar

There's a lot of guys that played during that run for us that aren't in the NHL anymore (or shouldn't be... Leino)... and there's a lot of support guys on that 'Hawks team that went on to be top-pair, top-6 guys on other teams.

It was definitely a bit more David vs Goliath than it seemed at the time.

They were, but people don't always want to give Carter the credit he deserves for playing with severely injured feet.

Yeah, he missed the open net. We all saw it. And he had flaws.

But he has more character than he gets credit for, sometimes. He was trying to gut it out.

I think Richards was gassed -- that was just a damn tough matchup. Toews and Hossa and Sharp are still a load now. Think about how brutal it was facing those bastards when they were four years younger. Hossa alone...that's just some tough, tough sledding against a team like that.
- AllInForFlyers

Carter will always have my respect for playing through the playoffs with the injuries he had. The two broken feet, the messed up knee, the separated shoulder.

Chicago was simply the deeper team.
- johndewar

Offensively the Flyers were very deep. It was a bad third pair and goal-tending in which the Flyers were not the better team.

Still one of the more severely underrated hockey players of our time... that guy literally does everything stupendously well.
- Tomahawk

Totally agree -- just an amazing player. Makes everybody around him better, still gets his 70-80 points, plays amazing defense for a winger, works hard, goes to the net.

People who say wingers don't matter as much...I just don't believe that. The right kind of wingers are amazing.

And if Lundqvist missed that last step off the bus and fell creating a domino effect resulting in several broken legs, the Flyers could still be in this.
- Streit2ThePoint

7 game series, one goal difference
One team with their # 1 goalie for whole series and one without.

Totally agree -- just an amazing player. Makes everybody around him better, still gets his 70-80 points, plays amazing defense for a winger, works hard, goes to the net.

People who say wingers don't matter as much...I just don't believe that. The right kind of wingers are amazing.
- AllInForFlyers

He's probably going to hit 1000pts and maybe 500g next season... can you believe that?

Carter will always have my respect for playing through the playoffs with the injuries he had. The two broken feet, the messed up knee, the separated shoulder.
- MBFlyerfan

Personally, I'm glad to hear it. Again: He maybe has some flaws. I tease about them, sometimes. But he really does deserve more respect for that playoff run in particular, his character in general (Columbus trade notwithstanding) than he sometimes gets.

Offensively the Flyers were very deep. It was a bad third pair and goal-tending in which the Flyers were not the better team.
- jak521

The Flyers had a heckuva run that year, but they weren't as deep at the Hawks were then or now.

He's probably going to hit 1000pts and maybe 500g next season... can you believe that?
- Tomahawk

5 points from 1000.

46 goals from 500.

The guy has been a consistent performer from the very start. Only ONE minus season in his whole career, playing for the Thrashers.

7 game series, one goal difference
One team with their # 1 goalie for whole series and one without.

I hope the Flyers don't fall into the same trap the Leafs fell into last year.

They took Boston to 7 games and thought they were closer to being a contender than they really were.

The Flyers are not one or two players away.

Still one of the more severely underrated hockey players of our time... that guy literally does everything stupendously well.
- Tomahawk

He's probably going to hit 1000pts and maybe 500g next season... can you believe that?
- Tomahawk

Absolutely -- because he's always been good. When he and Kovalchuk were on the same line in Atlanta, that was a devastating line. The Thrashers were the worst drafting, most poorly run franchise of the modern era, but if they had ever gotten those guys a real center and some depth...things might've been different down there. They might still be there.

I hope the Flyers don't fall into the same trap the Leafs fell into last year.

They took Boston to 7 games and thought they were closer to being a contender than they really were.

The Flyers are not one or two players away.
- johndewar

Agreed. Sad but true. But agreed.

3 pages, no VL. Mission accomplished

Agreed. Sad but true. But agreed.
- AllInForFlyers

Inky just put out a story saying Hexy doesn't anticipate doing too much this summer:

http://articles.philly.co...-defenseman-kimmo-timonen

3 pages, no VL. Mission accomplished

- BiggE

3 pages, no VL. Mission accomplished

- BiggE

New blob. First to mention VL40 in the new one gets banned

I hope the Flyers don't fall into the same trap the Leafs fell into last year.

They took Boston to 7 games and thought they were closer to being a contender than they really were.

The Flyers are not one or two players away.
- johndewar

Totally agree, I know Hextall wants to " patient" but he already has a team that could be 3 pieces away. Keep it going Hexy!!!

I remember our top 4 being gassed by the end of that series. If Emery doesn't suffer the hip injury and the Flyers acquire Mez at TDL, I think we win that series.
- PhillySportsGuy

The franking Olympics that year. And on top of Canada using Pronger 30 minutes a game...

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EDIT: Leight

The Flyers had a heckuva run that year, but they weren't as deep at the Hawks were then or now.
- johndewar

Richards, Carter, Briere, Giroux, JvR, Gagne, Leino, Hartnell, Nodl, Lappy, Carcillo, Betts.


Chi:
Towes, Kane, Hossa, Versteeg, Ladd, Sharp, Bolland, Buff, Brouwer, Burish, Kopecky, Madden.

Both were extremely deep.