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and Miller likely won't be in more than 1 game. 2 max. His knee issues are an ongoing thing and they give him "maintenance" days often.

Did you think that before the season started? I don't remember who said what, but I know a lot of people around here were predicting the Flyers to win the division. A lot of things have fallen apart for them this year, but the veterans certainly aren't performing as expected.

He could, but if he's trying to build a team first attitude it might be best to just give the temporary letters to the most veteran players for now.

and look at the state that team is in? any chance the Flyers (who have tons of talent) have a deep cultural problem with their roster?

But is that what you're supposed to do? I don't think so.

That's cool. Is this our first NHL star of the week this year? Maybe there was one earlier but I don't remember. It's nice to be an actual hockey team again. Now what's the plan for this week or are we just going to burn him out?

well............your sister's out on a date and you just stay home and.........................

More specifically you finish your checks on their D. You watch any good team take on the Bruins and the main thing they do is hit McAvoy and the other D men as often as they can. It's going to be tough. I watched them take on Washington and sad to say Hall has that second line going.

Eichel's a crap captain. If he's on team I guess you can't take it away from him but we'd be better off with someone else . I don't know if I want to anoint Mitts with a leadership role just yet but maybe. I'd still prefer if we brought in a Nick Foligno type and gave him a letter. I think Cozens could be captain material, but it's a tough thing to hand out letters to young kids too soon. I'd let Kyle keep his letter (assuming he's back) and wait one more year.

I think it shows what it's always shown. He's not a good team leader. No more no less. Same goes for Jack. Despite his crap face offs I think he's playing much better as a center. The mix on that line is good and Granato should be commended for finding it by design or accident.

This would be dumb. Bruins see us doing that and the message will be obvious and it'll be open season on our entire team. Dalton can't take on a whole team. Better to try to draw penalties and beat them with speed. There's no question we need to be a tougher team for long term success, but calling up one goon ain't going to do that. He'd just take dumb penalties and get laughed at.

Habs hoping for some sort of Corey Perry playoff magic but I doubt they get it.

It's potentially a developing team but it still has a long way to go. Consider that Bjork, a guy who was critiqued in Boston for his defensive play and played his way out of the line up is one of our best defensive forwards. We have some solid potential now, and a better effort level, but a lot of things would have to go right for the playoffs to be a reality and a lot of the guys trending up would have to get even better.

Hey, go look at what I said in the other thread (I forget which one, maybe forwards for 2021-22) where I said I think he should stay centering the line with Skinner and VO and not be considered as Jack's right wing. Didn't want to repeat myself, but what I said there is shown to be true in this game.

I get your hyperbole, but that's not the point. There's culture and there's chemistry and there's attitude on the team and maybe, just maybe this is the right moment to move him. You get a return, you probably create cap room, and you get to move on with a new era attitude. Not trading him this off season and (potentially) losing next year would be disastrous.

Mitts dominated in face offs even. Never would have expected that.

Oh ya, and Eakin should be benched next game. It's possible, and it would send the right message.

Nice. I was hoping Tokharski could get the shut out but then again he should have stopped the last one so I guess it evens out. Not sure what we're going to do this week if Ullmark doesn't play. I think we're going to burn Tokharski out this way. Really good to see the adjustments made in a second game (as they should be) and we played much better defensively which is what we needed to do based on game one. Solid win. Samuelsson did not look out of place which is all you can ask for at this point. He could be a solid piece moving forward.

Personally, I just don't want next season to be all about Jack. Does Jack want to be here, is Jack healthy, is Jack happy, are we winning enough for Jack to want to stay. Jack Jack Jack and nothing but Jack. I think we're better off without him and to build a team where no one player stands above the rest.

We shouldn't trade VO. The real question imo is how much money does Reinhart want? If it's a lot I'd move him. With the money tied up in Skinner we cannot afford to dump over 25 million in one top line that has already proven in the past doesn't win us hockey games. Personally, and my dislike of Reinhart at times is well known so this might surprise people, I think he's looked better on that line with Skinner and VO than he did playing with Jack and I'd leave that line alone and find Jack new wingers. Skinner is all too often oblivious to where his team mates are that's his biggest weakness while Sam is the exact opposite. While he can be slow and too pensive he's very good at seeing the ice and knowing where people are and so they are perfectly matched on our second line. All too often playing with Jack both just watched Jack too much and waited for him to make the play. Matter of fact that might be part of why this Jackless team is better. With him it's all about Jack and too many people look to give the puck to Jack or let Jack do it and so on rather than doing it themselves. It's a better TEAM now and I'd hate to lose that. So then maybe trade Jack and pay Sam a reasonable amount. idk

I'm fine with that draft. I hoped for Dach but knew he'd probably be gone. Cozens was my second choice. I was actually surprised JBot picked him. Didn't seem like a JBot type player but he's everything I hoped he'd be.

cause at this point in time we don't have many players who can play defensively. he might be a fading player on his way out, but it's all we got.

On the NBC broadcast they said he might not play again this season. wtf?

lol. At least you didn't run down the Mike Milbury trades to really drive up the sarcasm 😉

You have to applaud the effort level that's for sure. We don'\t have the talent to play them the way we did. We really need to finish more checks and play better D BUT you have to love the effort and the lack of quit. Now why did we pick up Cagguila if we're not going to play him? Is he quarantined or something? I want to see if he's got anything .