Combined with "we're paying you $x million to play so get out there"...
- WarriorHockey21

I believe (hope) that way of thinking ended after the Clarke/Lindros feud.

@collin: hard to gain ground w/ 3 pt games: RT @frank_seravalli: Since Jan. 1, #Flyers have gone 9-5-1 and lost ground (one point) in the standings.
- Jsaquella

They need to try harder. Trade that 1st rounder to give them a legit chance to squeak into the playoffs. Short-term satisfaction: It's worth it!

zombie and broken defender got into a fight
- Winning

Sounds like the land of misfit toys...

I'm hearing Stolarz is now thinking of going with #51
- aightwebang17

Quite the compelling mystery. Why aren't there more news stories discussing this?

sucks for mason...back to a top 5 lottery pick

@collin: hard to gain ground w/ 3 pt games: RT @frank_seravalli: Since Jan. 1, #Flyers have gone 9-5-1 and lost ground (one point) in the standings.
- Jsaquella

Just gotta keep winning games. They'll get there.

One point that I think needs to be made, just as you have final say what happens when you visit your Doctor, so does a player. If a player is given an option of rest and rehab, or surgery, the team can certainly try and influence that player, and tell him what they think the best way to go, but ultimately, what happens is up to the player.

Not saying this is the case with the Mason situation, but just something to consider.
- MJL

With contracts, teams have a lot of say in what players can and can't do. If the team wanted him to get surgery, felt it absolutely necessary, I imagine they would simply say he isn't playing until it gets done.

Just gotta keep winning games. They'll get there.
- KGBflyers10

Skate hard, play the puck, play 60 minutes.

sucks for mason...back to a top 5 lottery pick
- PhillaBully

Does suck for Mason especially because he has been great but..... It doesn't suck that we could get into that lottery

Quite the compelling mystery. Why aren't there more news stories discussing this?
- wolfhounds

Because it's really a non-issue knowing he'll eventually end up wearing #30 to honor Breeze, his boyhood idol.

Just gotta keep winning games. They'll get there.
- KGBflyers10

They weren't forced but the team should have been proactive in shutting them down for a while. It seems like they never take a precautionary approach to any injury
- PhillySportsGuy

I guess you missed them sitting Laughton for three weeks until he was 100% fine.

I guess you missed them sitting Laughton for three weeks until he was 100% fine.
- Feanor

just wait he's still concussed

One point that I think needs to be made, just as you have final say what happens when you visit your Doctor, so does a player. If a player is given an option of rest and rehab, or surgery, the team can certainly try and influence that player, and tell him what they think the best way to go, but ultimately, what happens is up to the player.

Not saying this is the case with the Mason situation, but just something to consider.
- MJL

I don't believe the Flyers would let what a player says trump a medical recommendation from team Doctors.

I don't believe the Flyers would let what a player says trump a medical recommendation from team Doctors.
- mayorofangrytown

Doing so would probably open the Flyers up to all sorts of legal liability.

Sounds like the land of misfit toys...
- FlyersGrace

If Corpseburger is trying to feed on the brains of our dmen, he's going to starve

I don't believe the Flyers would let what a player says trump a medical recommendation from team Doctors.
- mayorofangrytown

I thought we had all come to an agreement earlier in the thread about the wrongness of your opinions and how tangent was now going to be your guide and mentor?

Sounds like the land of misfit toys...
- FlyersGrace

Like the hooker from Toy Story?

I thought we had all come to an agreement earlier in the thread about the wrongness of your opinions and how tangent was now going to be your guide and mentor?
- wolfhounds

Sorry.

just wait he's still concussed
- 2Real

The sound of Niskanen's knuckles shattering while punching his helmet reverberated off of the rafters, hit a bag of porcorn whose kernels then dampened the frequency. This modulated signal then traveled in reverse but with a slight shift due to frequency change and ended up in a direct path with Laughton's right ear, which has given him an extreme case of vertigo.

If Corpseburger is trying to feed on the brains of our dmen, he's going to starve
- BiggE

If Corpseburger is trying to feed on the brains of our dmen, he's going to starve
- BiggE

Are you speaking ill of Saint Grossmann?

Like the hooker from Toy Story?


- mayorofangrytown

Holy cow, I never made that connection. That's funny.

Are you speaking ill of Saint Grossmann?
- jmatchett383

The patron saint of slow dmen who lack skill??

Bill Meltzer: Meltzer's Musings: Goalies, LeClair/Desjardins Trade, Goals for Giving
- bmeltzer

This trade in my mind will forever be the greatest trade in Flyers history or at least up there to my memory. This trade lingered with excitement in a lot of different ways. In Desjardins we got a number defenseman and in LeClair we had a 50 goal scorer and the perfect compliment to Eric Lindros all at the price of Mark Recchi. The trade lingered further with excitement when we traded Dainius Zubrus for Recchi later, making us even more dangerous.