They’re rumors that Eichel wants out and buffalo might be willing to trade him. I think the asking price would be ridiculous so i doubt the flyers get involved

Lost Friedman on waivers to the Pens and Hexy. They should have dumped Gus, Hagg or Prosser instead. Bad asset management by Fletcher and AV. 

Flyers vs. Boston 0-3-2
Flyers vs. everyone else 9-1-1

Sabres missing eichel today

Coots!

Ghost!! Flyers are in absolute control in this game 

Laughton in his first game back! An absolutely amazing pass from lindblom 

Elliot the number one goalie now?

2 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Elliot the number one goalie now?

Lol no. He wasn't great the other night against a bad rangers team. He rebounded well today against a bad Sabres team and behind a great defensive effort, most of the Sabres shots came in the latter half of the 3rd.

45 minutes ago, devpool said:

Lol no. He wasn't great the other night against a bad rangers team. He rebounded well today against a bad Sabres team and behind a great defensive effort, most of the Sabres shots came in the latter half of the 3rd.

I agree he is not great but he is better than hart right now

6 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Elliot the number one goalie now?

Elliott has proven in the past couple of years that when he is tasked with being the #1, he has some sort of soft tissue injury after so many games. Hopefully Hart can figure it out. 

Mattias Ekholm, who I would consider a top pair defensemen, is available.  He is 30 years old and is signed though next year.  Would you be willing to trade TK, plus a young prospect and pick for him?  It would make us serious contenders for the next couple years.  You hope Frost comes back next year and can fill TK's void.  I think we have enough scoring without TK but we need serious help on defense.

18 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

I agree he is not great but he is better than hart right now

He's also older, we don't know the impact of riding him for an extended period of time

I think people on this team think an assist is more than a goal.  WTF!!!

JVR earning his contract this year.  

On 2/28/2021 at 11:34 AM, Khani1 said:

Mattias Ekholm, who I would consider a top pair defensemen, is available.  He is 30 years old and is signed though next year.  Would you be willing to trade TK, plus a young prospect and pick for him?  It would make us serious contenders for the next couple years.  You hope Frost comes back next year and can fill TK's void.  I think we have enough scoring without TK but we need serious help on defense.

So listening to Jason myrtetus yesterday he made a great point about ekholm. He isn’t exactly a perfect fit because he’s a left-handed shot. Which I think that could be fine anyways I don’t think that’s a deterrent for me making that move. 

The issue was more about the upcoming expansion draft at the end of this upcoming season   If you make the trade  to get him next off-season there’s the expansion draft with Seattle. You can only hold three defensemen. So that means you would have to either use one on him and allow one of provy, Meyers or sanheim to be exposed in the expansion draft and they would likely get selected because they are young and good defenseman. Or you expose him and hold the three young guys. So if you make that trade which is probably gonna cost you then you also likely get dinged again by the expansion draft. Now you could say to Seattle will give you a second round pick to not take one of those guys from us but then you’re giving up more capital then what you did in just that trade just to keep all of them and still lose a guy off your roster that seattle takes. 

Joining late, how we looking tonight?

14 minutes ago, 20Safety_Hazards said:

Joining late, how we looking tonight?

Really good. They've found their shooting spirits the last couple games. Hart has made two or three really good saves right now

Farabee!

Farabee!!! What a play, jarry had zero chance 

Damn, Coots had either Farabee or JVR open to slam the puck into the net there.  Either one was in position to score, though Farabee had more net to shoot at.

And shite!  They let the Pens get it right back. 

 

Bad goal given up by Hart, have to stop that

1 minute ago, devpool said:

Bad goal given up by Hart, have to stop that

Listening to it on the radio on my drive home and the Penguins announcers seem to think Shayne Gostisbehere made a huge blunder with the puck that led to it. 

3 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Listening to it on the radio on my drive home and the Penguins announcers seem to think Shayne Gostisbehere made a huge blunder with the puck that led to it. 

Oh he definitely did, a terrible turnover on a cross ice pass. But it was a one on one and it wasn't like he made an amazing movie, hart should have had it

Nice cross ice passing by the Pens for the PPG goal and the lead.  Would be nice to see the Flyers pass like that on the PP.

Hart has made some really good saves.  The 1st goal he could have done better, but it was a good move by Kapanen to get Hart to open up enough of the 5-hole.  The PPG he had no chance.  He's made about 5 doorstep saves so far.