Someone is going to have so much fun if/when Giroux plays even one shift at center.
- Scoob

As long as someone else is bringing it up, I’m sure I’ll get blamed for this later with all the boys with selective memory around here.

https://www.nbcsports.com...-hakstol-flyers-best-move

Oo00oOoo...nobody is even considering the move

The only time Boruk should be used as a source is for articles on chauvinism and douchebaggery
- YuenglingJagr

My bad, you guys found this day old article nobody is considering.

As long as someone else is bringing it up, I’m sure I’ll get blamed for this later with all the boys with selective memory around here.

https://www.nbcsports.com...-hakstol-flyers-best-move

Oo00oOoo...nobody is even considering the move
- SuperSchennBros

John Boruk is an idiot. It’s somewhat sad you use his article to prove it’s a good move.

John Boruk is an idiot. It’s somewhat sad you use his article to prove it’s a good move.
- arichardson22

I don’t know who John Boruk is. It’s somewhat sad anyone suggesting Giroux play center while we have weak depth in the middle would upset anyone of you.

Cousins
Durant Green
Thompson Curry

When can we get a like up that good and fun to watch on the Flyers?

100% off topic, but can someone show me what is in here?

https://i.pinimg.com/564x...d56c6aa94007d43715252.jpg

100% off topic, but can someone show me what is in here?

https://i.pinimg.com/564x...d56c6aa94007d43715252.jpg
- jmatchett383

Vandevelde's NHL career

He was also great at firing the puck into Niemi's chest.

"But but but...Brian Campbell..."
- jmatchett383

I just about fell off my barstool when he did that. There was like, what, a minute left in the 3rd?

100% off topic, but can someone show me what is in here?

https://i.pinimg.com/564x...d56c6aa94007d43715252.jpg
- jmatchett383

lower right corner - dude's face

did not scream for my mom or anyone else for that matter

100% off topic, but can someone show me what is in here?

https://i.pinimg.com/564x...d56c6aa94007d43715252.jpg
- jmatchett383

leaf covered penis

John Boruk is an idiot. It’s somewhat sad you use his article to prove it’s a good move.
- arichardson22

I find the vitriol directed at a poster because he wants to discuss Giroux moving back to center and possibly thinks it's a good idea, absurd.

I find the vitriol directed at a poster because he wants to discuss Giroux moving back to center and possibly thinks it's a good idea, absurd.
- MJL

Ironic.

I find the vitriol directed at a poster because he wants to discuss Giroux moving back to center and possibly thinks it's a good idea, absurd.
- MJL

On the other hand, most of us have acknowledged that it is possible but based on last season's success it is very probable that he will play the overwhelming majority of his time as a winger. He's a versatile player so to expect that he will exclusively play one or the other is not realistic.

His thought isn't the sand in the gears here.

Trade coots for subban....
and go😉

lower right corner - dude's face

did not scream for my mom or anyone else for that matter
- Scoob

Not that it’s important in any way but someone’s going to have to draw a circle around that female dog and put x’s on his eyes. He might as well be Claude Rains.

Trade coots for subban....
and go😉
- SMS4016

The funny thing about the talk regarding G, is Coots has taken imo a hell of a beating playing in the middle during his career also.

Just is what it is with these guys sometimes. Have to hope they stay healthy.

As long as someone else is bringing it up, I’m sure I’ll get blamed for this later with all the boys with selective memory around here.

https://www.nbcsports.com...-hakstol-flyers-best-move

Oo00oOoo...nobody is even considering the move
- SuperSchennBros

Didn't realize Boruk worked for the Flyers now.

Thanks for the info.

On the other hand, most of us have acknowledged that it is possible but based on last season's success it is very probable that he will play the overwhelming majority of his time as a winger. He's a versatile player so to expect that he will exclusively play one or the other is not realistic.

His thought isn't the sand in the gears here.
- Scoob

Yep, its the fact he can't stand it when people disagree with him.

I find the vitriol directed at a poster because he wants to discuss Giroux moving back to center and possibly thinks it's a good idea, absurd.
- MJL

There is a time and place. Yeah, he can always move back. But fresh off a 100+ point season with no opportunity to show it will carry over? To me that is kind of absurd.

Marcus Hayes shooting himself in the Richard again I see.

I find the vitriol directed at a poster because he wants to discuss Giroux moving back to center and possibly thinks it's a good idea, absurd.
- MJL

I don’t care what you find.

The funny thing about the talk regarding G, is Coots has taken imo a hell of a beating playing in the middle during his career also.

Just is what it is with these guys sometimes. Have to hope they stay healthy.
- flyer_nutter

My thought is that the organization sees Couturier's much bigger size and hopes he can hold up better, while they were (rightly) seeing Giroux start to get beat up a little too much and felt the move to wing would not only preserve his body, but also preserve the length of his career.

It may hurt the team in the short term by thinning the Center depth, but it definitely helps in the long run by having a healthier Giroux with less wear and tear as he enters the end of his prime years. Perhaps even extending his prime years.


:edit: I would also add that I believe that was the plan all along. And them lucking in to Nolan Patrick may have allowed the team to move up the timetable.

Timonen and Coburn were a better PK D pair than anything the Flyers have now. Provy is excellent, but he needs someone to work with. Also, while Bryz was inconsistent and goofy, he was a better goalie than Elliott, much better than Mrazek or Lyon and much more durable than Neuvirth.
- BiggE

12-13 Bryz was so bad he was bought out and never played another full NHL season. So no, he's not better than Elliott. Also, Coburn missed a lot of that season thru injury and was poor when he did play.

The fact is a Flyers roster with clearly inferior talent to the current one managed to be a very good penalty killing team. This was the top 8 defense by ice time in 12-13 - it's laughable how untalented they were past Kimmo.

LSchenn
Kimmo
Coburn
Grossmann
Gustafsson
Gervais
Foster
Lauridsen

LW or C, Giroux was gonna score a buttload of points last season regardless.

Not like his positioning in the ozone is any different if he starts the shift in the middle or on the wing anyway -- he's always gonna be somewhere in the left-circle/left-wall, and the big body on the line will be parked in front of the net.

It lightened his load a bit defensively, but not to the degree where it enabled his 100pt season or anything.

If he's healthy, and not saddled with any mediocre talent, I think he'll score a ton next season at C, or at LW. It shouldn't really matter. If the team is deeper with him the middle, so be it.

LW or C, Giroux was gonna score a buttload of points last season regardless.

Not like his positioning in the ozone is any different if he starts the shift in the middle or on the wing anyway -- he's always gonna be somewhere in the left-circle/left-wall, and the big body on the line will be parked in front of the net.

It lightened his load a bit defensively, but not to the degree where it enabled his 100pt season or anything.

If he's healthy, and not saddled with any mediocre talent, I think he'll score a ton next season at C, or at LW. It shouldn't really matter. If the team is deeper with him the middle, so be it.
- Tomahawk

He is also not getting to 100 pts again at either position

biggest contributing factor to the LW move resulting in points is who he got to play with. He went from playing along side Jordan Weal and Wayne Simmonds to Coots and Konecny/Voracek