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Jsaquella
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Bringing Hexy Back
Joined: 06.16.2006

Aug 6 @ 9:22 PM ET
Get back Jsaq do it again

(Currently being played)

- Giroux_Is_God


Steely Dan, eh?
Giroux_Is_God
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: CLASS DISMISSED
Joined: 12.15.2011

Aug 6 @ 9:24 PM ET
Steely Dan, eh?
- Jsaquella

Yes sir!
Jsaquella
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Bringing Hexy Back
Joined: 06.16.2006

Aug 6 @ 9:28 PM ET
Yes sir!
- Giroux_Is_God


I like your style, Dude
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Aug 6 @ 9:28 PM ET
Just don't take me alive on black friday, dr wu
- BiggE


I bought a black cow in asia!
JVR_42_PK81
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 04.20.2014

Aug 6 @ 9:29 PM ET
Where will philly finish this year?
aflyerpower8
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: AL
Joined: 06.03.2014

Aug 6 @ 9:31 PM ET
Where will philly finish this year?
- JVR_42_PK81


I'm 72.5% sure they will finish in the metropolitan division.
Giroux_Is_God
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: CLASS DISMISSED
Joined: 12.15.2011

Aug 6 @ 9:31 PM ET
I bought a black cow in asia!
- MJL

*aja
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Aug 6 @ 9:31 PM ET
*aja
- Giroux_Is_God


I know, but it didn't work! So I went with Asia!
Giroux_Is_God
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: CLASS DISMISSED
Joined: 12.15.2011

Aug 6 @ 9:37 PM ET
I know, but it didn't work! So I went with Asia!

- MJL

Close enough yo
Steelmanpa
Joined: 08.31.2008

Aug 6 @ 9:42 PM ET
What do players make on an ECHL salary?
- Just5


The ECHL weekly salary cap is $12,000 for a roster of about 20
Many of the players are are 1st through 3rd year pros fresh out of junior or college.

The way the teams are populated (roster) goes like this
ECHL teams sign about a dozen players, then their AHL affiliate has people under contract (maybe primary NHL affiliate draftees maybe not) who are AHL-ECHL. They split time like Flemming and some are AHL and emergency NHL call ups- depending on how they are contracted There may be about 2-3 players on the ECHL rosters are NHL draftees usually goalies and the off other player- twice cup winning goalie Jonathan Quick, and Reimer played in Reading during the affiliation

So many of these players are $400-$600 a week, plus free housing, medical in season and per diem for road games. They are very dependent on the booster clubs members who provide bags of stuff for road trips and sometimes there are dinners with the booster club or team events or just visits with the fans/boosters where they eat, LOL
These are young guys who eat a lot and burn a lot of calories.

A guy like Flemming on an AHL contract probably makes more, not sure about the split when hes down in the ECHL

Arturs Irbe was down with Johnstown years ago when he had a spat with Carolina and not sure how he counted against the ECHL cap with an NHL salary

I am a Royals STH and a supporter.

To be honest, you get a lot more personal contact with the players at this level and they are in the average community doing things and are not corporations yet.They are young guys trying to make it or have life experiences, not unlike young musicians playing the small venues!!!!

One thing hammarby and everyone who actually has played the game will find interesting

I asked an ECHL goalie who was at my table at one event about why people dont stand anyone else up at the blue line anymore- he said players will fight if they get checked at the blue line. Maybe you dont want to run someone when you are all making $400-$600 a week and move around a lot from team to team like these guys do. They are putting on a show and we all know some of the board hits are a lot more thunder than effect, just like a slapshot hitting the boards and people go OOOOOHHH.

But its a sad state of affairs when protecting your blue line like defensemen do even in amateur games has resulted in people fighting for a clean non harmful check.

wilsonecho91
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: A dream to some...a nightmare to others, AK
Joined: 11.13.2007

Aug 6 @ 9:46 PM ET
From the Canadian World Junior camp


- ob18


that shot went 27 feet wide
moylander
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Chicago, IL
Joined: 06.14.2011

Aug 6 @ 9:50 PM ET
Bottom line is she lost her livelihood over something inconsequential, its really a reprehensible action on the reporting scumbag. The more I think about it, the angrier its making me
- KINGKENZO


honestly I am beginning to think more harm comes from facebook than good.

research studies where fb manipulated peoples moods, companies monitoring the site for hiring/firing purposes, cyber bullying, the oft chance of something embarrassing going viral, the spam, the viruses, the access to personal data by pretty much anyone.

I'm still on it but i use it less and less.

Its a shame about your co-worker. I wish her the best.
PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Aug 6 @ 9:52 PM ET
I figured you or Tangentman would pick up on that

- BiggE


He doesn't come around these parts anymore

Edirt: Nevermind
PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Aug 6 @ 9:53 PM ET
Totally agreed. What a disgrace.

Common sense is sorely lacking. Jesus.

"Think of the average American. Now, realize that half of all Americans are stupider than that person"


- Giroux_Is_God


Carlin
PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Aug 6 @ 9:58 PM ET
honestly I am beginning to think more harm comes from facebook than good.

research studies where fb manipulated peoples moods, companies monitoring the site for hiring/firing purposes, cyber bullying, the oft chance of something embarrassing going viral, the spam, the viruses, the access to personal data by pretty much anyone.

I'm still on it but i use it less and less.

Its a shame about your co-worker. I wish her the best.

- moylander


You gotta be careful. Businesses will check your social media before hiring you. Best thing to do is make everything private so only friends can see anything.
PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Aug 6 @ 10:03 PM ET
Yes sir!
- Giroux_Is_God



I don't like Steely Dan, but I had to post this because of Bill Cosby. lolll
tangent_man
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: South Jersey
Joined: 11.28.2007

Aug 6 @ 10:04 PM ET
He doesn't come around these parts anymore

Edirt: Nevermind

- PhillySportsGuy




When you least expect it...expect it.


PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Aug 6 @ 10:07 PM ET


When you least expect it...expect it.


- tangent_man


I'm only 26. I don't understand this reference. I think it's a Brady Bunch reference.
tangent_man
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: South Jersey
Joined: 11.28.2007

Aug 6 @ 10:09 PM ET
I'm only 26. I don't understand this reference. I think it's a Brady Bunch reference.
- PhillySportsGuy


Something Peter said to Bobby once. Somehow it stuck with me.
Giroux_Is_God
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: CLASS DISMISSED
Joined: 12.15.2011

Aug 6 @ 10:11 PM ET
I'm only 26. I don't understand this reference. I think it's a Brady Bunch reference.
- PhillySportsGuy

(frank)in n00b
KINGKENZO
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: OMAR COMIN'..Head or Gut?.....Watching regular white people
Joined: 01.10.2008

Aug 6 @ 10:14 PM ET
honestly I am beginning to think more harm comes from facebook than good.

research studies where fb manipulated peoples moods, companies monitoring the site for hiring/firing purposes, cyber bullying, the oft chance of something embarrassing going viral, the spam, the viruses, the access to personal data by pretty much anyone.

I'm still on it but i use it less and less.

Its a shame about your co-worker. I wish her the best.

- moylander


haha, not mine, MOATs. I have no idea who she is, im just fired up over the situation...

I just had this discussion tonight at the gym, never had facebook, never will.
PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Aug 6 @ 10:17 PM ET
Something Peter said to Bobby once. Somehow it stuck with me.
- tangent_man


I feel like the show 'Step by Step' was almost a remake of the Brady Bunch, but with a slightly more realistic feel.

I think they should start a new series that's even more realistic. What it would REALLY be like if two parents got married and each had 3 kids moving into one house. It would be a poopstorm. I would watch it.
Jsaquella
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Bringing Hexy Back
Joined: 06.16.2006

Aug 6 @ 10:18 PM ET
I feel like the show 'Step by Step' was almost a remake of the Brady Bunch, but with a slightly more realistic feel.

I think they should start a new series that's even more realistic. What it would REALLY be like if two parents got married and each had 3 kids moving into one house. It would be a poopstorm. I would watch it.

- PhillySportsGuy


You pretty much created Big Brother. Kudos
PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Aug 6 @ 10:19 PM ET
(frank)in n00b
- Giroux_Is_God


You're 21 and at a Steely Dan Concert
PhillySportsGuy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: any donut with a hole in the middle can get (frank)ed right in its hole, NJ
Joined: 04.08.2012

Aug 6 @ 10:19 PM ET
You pretty much created Big Brother. Kudos
- Jsaquella


No. I want it to be a sitcom. I want Louis CK to write it
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