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MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Apr 6 @ 9:01 AM ET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDR5P0S5cwE
landros 2
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Centre of universe
Joined: 02.07.2007

Apr 6 @ 9:05 AM ET
Old washed up vet in the lineup, instead of a young guy who would benefit from the icetime. I'm shocked, said no one.
- Flyers_01


Not shocked but disappointed. I know he wants the vets to help solidify the team from the free fall but I’ve seen no evidence of that.
I’d sit all three old guys tonight. In the back to back Torts even has the built in excuse.
Phillywhiteout
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: West Chester, PA
Joined: 08.11.2020

Apr 6 @ 9:06 AM ET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDR5P0S5cwE
- MJL
Your obsession with Torts is downright scary! It's almost as bad as that BH guy with me. We get your point...you don't like the man!!
3flyerkids
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Toronto, ON
Joined: 02.27.2013

Apr 6 @ 9:15 AM ET
Hopefully if the collapse does continue DB reverts back to the plan of an actual rebuild and stops with the nonsense that we need to keep guys like Laughton because of Character and locker room presence. Actual TOUGH decisions need to be made.
- landros 2


Farabee, Laughton, Coots, TK..... How many are gone in the off season. I say at least 2.
landros 2
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Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Centre of universe
Joined: 02.07.2007

Apr 6 @ 9:18 AM ET
Farabee, Laughton, Coots, TK..... How many are gone in the off season. I say at least 2.
- 3flyerkids

I’m not sure…I’m still not sure what DBs plan actually is? However I don’t think Coots is movable at this point.
THE BLACK HAND
Joined: 06.09.2021

Apr 6 @ 9:18 AM ET
Fedotov looked absolutely in over his head tonight. Should have been an easy win, but Flyers can't finish and another goalie with a .789 save pct. WTF!!!!
- Phillywhiteout


keep oinking, you pig
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Apr 6 @ 9:22 AM ET
Your obsession with Torts is downright scary! It's almost as bad as that BH guy with me. We get your point...you don't like the man!!
- Phillywhiteout


You're wrong. I don't know the man personally. I think he is the wrong coach for the team. Question for you, if I was repeatedly praising him as a coach, would you still respond with "we get your point"? What happened to your Jack Adams talk? You can either attempt to make conversation with a counter point. Ignore it or post the dumb poop you did above. It's a reflection on you, not me. Your choice.
3flyerkids
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Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Toronto, ON
Joined: 02.27.2013

Apr 6 @ 9:24 AM ET
Have to look at the season in it's entirety. The Flyers are definitely an improved team this season. For most of the season, they play hard, check well, defend well and are competitive against most teams. They generally outshoot teams and carry play. Have to credit Tortorella for all of that. However, how many games have the Flyers lost where they have more shots on net but still lose. How despite carrying play for the majority of the game, they lose. Where the high level talent executes and beats them. The process is important but there is a next step from there. Saw it last night. Shot attempts at 5 on 5 were 58 to 44 Flyers. Scoring chances 30-20 Flyers. High danger chances 11-5 Flyers. Yet they lost. Buffalo's skilled players put the puck in the net more than the Flyers. This is the issue. It is skill and talent that wins in the NHL. Backed with structure. Don't out the cart before the horse. That is the issue and will always be the issue with Tortorella. The Poehling, Laughton and Hathaway's of the world are his core players and the type of players that he prefers. The players with balls. With just a sprinkling of skill players. Cart before the horse.
- MJL

Hard not to agree with anything stated here.
hfc355
Joined: 06.17.2013

Apr 6 @ 9:30 AM ET
I’m not sure…I’m still not sure what DBs plan actually is? However I don’t think Coots is movable at this point.
- landros 2

You couldnt give Coots away with that contract and his injuries...
THE BLACK HAND
Joined: 06.09.2021

Apr 6 @ 9:33 AM ET
Shane Wright has 3 G 1 A for 4pts in 6 games with the Kraken

He easily could have been the Flyers pick during his draft had they done the "right" thing, but they dropped to 5th and missed him. Selected Cutter.......I wonder if Wright would have wanted to play for the Franchise?

*Jersey was 5th but jumped up to 2, pushing the Flyers to 5 hahahah, If the draft went chalk, the Flyers could have ended up with Nemec, Cooley or Wright but probably would have still drafted Cutter and lost him anyway*
Phillywhiteout
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: West Chester, PA
Joined: 08.11.2020

Apr 6 @ 9:38 AM ET
Have to look at the season in it's entirety. The Flyers are definitely an improved team this season. For most of the season, they play hard, check well, defend well and are competitive against most teams. They generally outshoot teams and carry play. Have to credit Tortorella for all of that. However, how many games have the Flyers lost where they have more shots on net but still lose. How despite carrying play for the majority of the game, they lose. Where the high level talent executes and beats them. The process is important but there is a next step from there. Saw it last night. Shot attempts at 5 on 5 were 58 to 44 Flyers. Scoring chances 30-20 Flyers. High danger chances 11-5 Flyers. Yet they lost. Buffalo's skilled players put the puck in the net more than the Flyers. This is the issue. It is skill and talent that wins in the NHL. Backed with structure. Don't out the cart before the horse. That is the issue and will always be the issue with Tortorella. The Poehling, Laughton and Hathaway's of the world are his core players and the type of players that he prefers. The players with balls. With just a sprinkling of skill players. Cart before the horse.
- MJL
Don't really agree about the Sabres skill players. I could score on Fedotov last night! The guy looked completely in over his head last night. He seemed like he didn't even know where the net was? A shooter tutor would have been better.
Phillywhiteout
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: West Chester, PA
Joined: 08.11.2020

Apr 6 @ 9:40 AM ET
Shane Wright has 3 G 1 A for 4pts in 6 games with the Kraken

He easily could have been the Flyers pick during his draft had they done the "right" thing, but they dropped to 5th and missed him. Selected Cutter.......I wonder if Wright would have wanted to play for the Franchise?

*Jersey was 5th but jumped up to 2, pushing the Flyers to 5 hahahah, If the draft went chalk, the Flyers could have ended up with Nemec, Cooley or Wright but probably would have still drafted Cutter and lost him anyway*

- THE BLACK HAND
What's the point of this post? You're an idiot!!
THE BLACK HAND
Joined: 06.09.2021

Apr 6 @ 9:40 AM ET
Don't really about the Sabres skill players. I could score on Fedotov last night! The guy looked completely in over his head last night. He seemed like he didn't even know where the net was? A shooter tutor would have been better.
- Phillywhiteout

you dont have a (frank)ing clue what youre talking about

keep oinking, you pig
Phillywhiteout
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: West Chester, PA
Joined: 08.11.2020

Apr 6 @ 9:43 AM ET
You're wrong. I don't know the man personally. I think he is the wrong coach for the team. Question for you, if I was repeatedly praising him as a coach, would you still respond with "we get your point"? What happened to your Jack Adams talk? You can either attempt to make conversation with a counter point. Ignore it or post the dumb poop you did above. It's a reflection on you, not me. Your choice.
- MJL
The point is that you aren't praising him and you praise nothing that the Flyers do. I swear (as I have mentioned before) that they could win a Cup and you'd be on here critiquing how they went about it the WRONG way.
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Apr 6 @ 9:43 AM ET
Don't really agree about the Sabres skill players. I could score on Fedotov last night! The guy looked completely in over his head last night. He seemed like he didn't even know where the net was? A shooter tutor would have been better.
- Phillywhiteout


Let me get this straight. You don't agree that the Sabres skilled players put the puck in the net more than the Flyers? Interesting.
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Apr 6 @ 9:46 AM ET
The point is that you aren't praising him and you praise nothing that the Flyers do. I swear (as I have mentioned before) that they could win a Cup and you'd be on here critiquing how they went about it the WRONG way.

- Phillywhiteout



I posted this in a post you just quoted 5 minutes ago.

"The Flyers are definitely an improved team this season. For most of the season, they play hard, check well, defend well and are competitive against most teams. They generally outshoot teams and carry play. Have to credit Tortorella for all of that. "

You're going full blown moron again today, huh?
Phillywhiteout
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: West Chester, PA
Joined: 08.11.2020

Apr 6 @ 9:47 AM ET
Let me get this straight. You don't agree that the Sabres skilled players put the puck in the net more than the Flyers? Interesting.
- MJL
I said that they were given gifts by a goalie that probably should be cutting his teeth at the AHL level. I mean, Tage Thompson is a hellava player, but that was embarrassing for Fedotov to be faked out that badly.
Phillywhiteout
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: West Chester, PA
Joined: 08.11.2020

Apr 6 @ 9:49 AM ET
I posted this in a post you just quoted 5 minutes ago.

"The Flyers are definitely an improved team this season. For most of the season, they play hard, check well, defend well and are competitive against most teams. They generally outshoot teams and carry play. Have to credit Tortorella for all of that. "

You're going full blown moron again today, huh?

- MJL
What did the rest of the post say? Whenever you make a positive statement you quickly follow it up with more trashing of the fraternity!
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Apr 6 @ 9:51 AM ET
I said that they were given gifts by a goalie that probably should be cutting his teeth at the AHL level. I mean, Tage Thompson is a hellava player, but that was embarrassing for Fedotov to be faked out that badly.
- Phillywhiteout


What you said was that you disagreed with my point about the Sabres putting the puck in the net more than the Flyers did. Which was my point which you clearly didn't understand. Which is that you can have more shots, more scoring chances but at this point of the season, with the playoffs on the line. It's about goals. Like I said, you're going full blown moron again today.
Letterkenney
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Dementia Patient in the White House, DC, PA
Joined: 03.20.2020

Apr 6 @ 9:51 AM ET
Last night happened exactly as I thought it would. Team plays well, IF sh!ts the bed.

Stick a fork in 'em... they're done.

MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Apr 6 @ 9:52 AM ET
What did the rest of the post say? Whenever you make a positive statement you quickly follow it up with more trashing of the fraternity!
- Phillywhiteout


This is what you posted.

"The point is that you aren't praising him and you praise nothing that the Flyers do. "
THE BLACK HAND
Joined: 06.09.2021

Apr 6 @ 9:56 AM ET
This is what you posted.

"The point is that you aren't praising him and you praise nothing that the Flyers do. "

- MJL

let the sheep pig be happy that the flyers were more entertaining this year
Phillywhiteout
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: West Chester, PA
Joined: 08.11.2020

Apr 6 @ 9:57 AM ET
What you said was that you disagreed with my point about the Sabres putting the puck in the net more than the Flyers did. Which was my point which you clearly didn't understand. Which is that you can have more shots, more scoring chances but at this point of the season, with the playoffs on the line. It's about goals. Like I said, you're going full blown moron again today.
- MJL
Once again with feeling...the Sabres got NHL goaltending while the Flyers got KHL/AHL level goaltending. The problem is that the Flyers goalies come in with a sub .800 save pct. every game and at the other end they only have two scorers (Tippett and TK).
Just5
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: PA
Joined: 05.22.2008

Apr 6 @ 9:57 AM ET
Do Russians work on rebound control? Dear lord was he horrendous last night. Gotta give him some of these games but he’s looking at a 2 way offer at best if that’s what he is. He says he likes the game fast. He’s learning what fast actually means
Phillywhiteout
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: West Chester, PA
Joined: 08.11.2020

Apr 6 @ 9:57 AM ET
let the sheep pig be happy that the flyers were more entertaining this year
- THE BLACK HAND
Why are you still here? I thought I dismissed you?
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