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SuperSchennBros
Location: Not protected by the Mods...I mean Mob. Take your best shot!
Joined: 09.01.2012

Jul 13 @ 10:32 AM ET
What you should do is what I do and what everyone else should do. Ignore him. He's not worth it.
- MJL

You’re right.
SuperSchennBros
Location: Not protected by the Mods...I mean Mob. Take your best shot!
Joined: 09.01.2012

Jul 13 @ 10:33 AM ET
LOL ok, we all know what you were doing.
- MBFlyerfan

He only found out my Ethnicity recently. I was Shemp and Corky prior.
MBFlyerfan
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Be nice from now on, NJ
Joined: 03.17.2006

Jul 13 @ 10:33 AM ET
wrong. "we". Go play your keyboards.
- hello it's me 2050



Oh nooo, Ive been burned by the racist troll.
RustyPipes
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Williamsburg, VA
Joined: 03.09.2018

Jul 13 @ 10:33 AM ET
/sarcasm
- funmaster18

Apologies
Trox88
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 08.12.2020

Jul 13 @ 10:34 AM ET
Not suggesting this should get done, but there are easier players to trade on the roster (ie Provy, Sanheim, and TK) then JVR to create cap space for JG.
MBFlyerfan
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Be nice from now on, NJ
Joined: 03.17.2006

Jul 13 @ 10:34 AM ET
He only found out my Ethnicity recently. I was Shemp and Corky prior.
- SuperSchennBros


exactly....
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Jul 13 @ 10:35 AM ET
Not suggesting this should get done, but there are easier players to trade on the roster (ie Provy, Sanheim, and TK) then JVR to create cap space for JG.
- Trox88


I don't agree that Provorov and Sanheim are easier to trade.
corduroy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: “How many times is she gonna ask this f'n question?”, NT
Joined: 12.09.2006

Jul 13 @ 10:35 AM ET
Robert Thomas getting 8 at 8 aav from the Blues.
- MBFlyerfan


The lead singer of Matchbox 20?
hello it's me 2050
Location: AR
Joined: 05.14.2021

Jul 13 @ 10:36 AM ET
He only found out my Ethnicity recently. I was Shemp and Corky prior.
- SuperSchennBros

I am also part black. My grandparents were born in Sicily. My family tree confirms this to be true.
hello it's me 2050
Location: AR
Joined: 05.14.2021

Jul 13 @ 10:36 AM ET
exactly....
- MBFlyerfan

grasping at straws. You should be flat out ashamed of yourself.
hello it's me 2050
Location: AR
Joined: 05.14.2021

Jul 13 @ 10:37 AM ET
Oh nooo, Ive been burned by the racist troll.
- MBFlyerfan

big yawn. keep pushing nonsense.
RustyPipes
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Williamsburg, VA
Joined: 03.09.2018

Jul 13 @ 10:37 AM ET
The lead singer of Matchbox 20?
- corduroy

Smooth
Trox88
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 08.12.2020

Jul 13 @ 10:37 AM ET
I don't agree that Provorov and Sanheim are easier to trade.
- MJL


Why? Are you suggesting there will not be a market for them? My comment was based upon ease of creating cap space onlyy.
Hextall271
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Ersson-Ville, NB, NB
Joined: 01.18.2007

Jul 13 @ 10:37 AM ET
The lead singer of Matchbox 20?
- corduroy


Man. That guy has to be in his 50s and likely hasn’t even played street hockey. That smacks of desperation.
funmaster18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine.
Joined: 03.15.2009

Jul 13 @ 10:38 AM ET
The lead singer of Matchbox 20?
- corduroy


It’s free agency and I must be lonely

hockeylover
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: There's always next year., NT
Joined: 08.03.2006

Jul 13 @ 10:38 AM ET
The lead singer of Matchbox 20?
- corduroy


Someday, Chuck will to put an end to all our doubt
Try to find a way to make things better now that JG was signed
Maybe someday we'll live our lives out loud
We'll be better off somehow, someday the Flyers will be better.....
Bill Meltzer
Editor
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Joined: 07.13.2006

Jul 13 @ 10:38 AM ET
https://twitter.com/charlieo_conn/status/1546906551922868224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1546906551922868224%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

What surgery did he get Bill?

- hello it's me 2050


Lower abdominal/groin
corduroy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: “How many times is she gonna ask this f'n question?”, NT
Joined: 12.09.2006

Jul 13 @ 10:39 AM ET
Man. That guy has to be in his 50s and likely hasn’t even played street hockey. That smacks of desperation.
- Hextall271


Word on the street is that chuckles offered 7 years and 49M
WhiskeyMan
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: PA
Joined: 04.27.2018

Jul 13 @ 10:39 AM ET
Another 30 year old outdated reference. What’s it like constantly losing arguments to a moron?
- SuperSchennBros


Calling someone Corky is not PC, kind of ignorant IMO.
Hosher12
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 02.15.2020

Jul 13 @ 10:39 AM ET
The time to add the high priced vets is to complement and ascending team with young elite players already on the roster. The Flyers don't have their stamkos/hedman, MacKinnon/Makar, or even Crosby/Malkin/Fleury. And they don't want players like that because if they did they'd understand drafting 1-4 overall (and hitting on those picks) is necessary for long term success.

It feels like the PR department is driving the franchise, as people have said, to generate excitement to put people in the seats while neglecting that by december the seats will still be empty if the team doesn't win but hey the PR department did their job, you can't expect them to build a winning team as well.

The lack of any sort of long term plan is glaring but I doubt Fletcher is on the hotseat. Why? Because he doesn't make any decisions. For him to be held responsible he'd have to be responsible for something. Anyone who would fire him has agreed with everything he's done or else he wouldn't have done them.

- Flyers_01


In bad corporations the real decisions makers insulate themselves from being held accountable by hiring yes men (or women). The yes people have long careers by taking the blame for their bosses. This boss may fire them but they continue their careers for other companies/ teams that like the yes men management style. That’s how Chuck got his GM job here.


corduroy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: “How many times is she gonna ask this f'n question?”, NT
Joined: 12.09.2006

Jul 13 @ 10:39 AM ET
It’s free agency and I must be lonely


- funmaster18


What is this "hockey" you speak of?
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Jul 13 @ 10:40 AM ET
Why? Are you suggesting there will not be a market for them? My comment was based upon ease of creating cap space onlyy.
- Trox88



If we look at the Flyers defense. The right side is very weak if Ellis can't play. The left side is actually the strength of the Flyers defense. Overall no where close to contending level. In order to trade one of Provorov or Sanheim. They would need a comparable defenseman coming back for it to make sense. They don't have the replacement players to move one for draft picks or prospects and the cap savings needed.
hello it's me 2050
Location: AR
Joined: 05.14.2021

Jul 13 @ 10:41 AM ET
Lower abdominal/groin
- bmeltzer

when?
mickel25
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Morgantown, PA
Joined: 01.21.2011

Jul 13 @ 10:42 AM ET
It’s free agency and I must be lonely


- funmaster18


I wish Chuck would get the Flyers back to good.
hello it's me 2050
Location: AR
Joined: 05.14.2021

Jul 13 @ 10:42 AM ET
Calling someone Corky is not PC, kind of ignorant IMO.
- WhiskeyMan

I ain't got no respect
For people that are politically correct
They say that we got rights and we need em
But there taken away all of our freedom
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