#selltheteam

I can’t remember a franchise in this city more poorly run… yes I’m including Harold Katz working out Shawn Bradley in his driveway and the Steve Jeltz era Phillies.

 

How I miss the days of the Legion of Doom, didn't win it all but those were fun times, this team is pretty much dead.

What a cluster f

Wanna make it clear that I didn't particularly want JG here as his contract would've rawdogged this team for its entirety. However, you cannot go into an offseason promising an "aggressive retool" and then publicly say you weren't even in on a star player who was reported to literally be telling his friends he wanted to come here.

And all you come away with is:

A problem-child offensive defenseman (with a defensive minded coach) that you traded 3 picks for and then re-signed for 5mil (our top 4 d man now cost almost 20% of the cap)

An overpaid, 31 year old, 4th line goon

An old third pairing defenseman who should be in the press box all season (making almost 2mil)

A 32 year old goalie with 5 NHL appearances 

And then a bunch of even more obscure nobodies. Yea, real aggressive. The cap is tight, they knew that last season. Yet they still blew smoke up everyone's ass about this "aggressive retool". 

And on top of all that you bought out the last year of a contract for one of maybe 3 players on the team that anyone likes, for literally zero reason. 

The poor PR team is probably going to jump off of a bridge after the last few days

The team photo next year 

Are people finally catching on? We can only hope.

 

He gave a 13th forward a modified NTC for 2 years

Yea sure 20 teams doesn’t restrict them a whole lot and its only 2 of the 4(!!!!) years, but to give this guy ANY type of NTC is absolute lunacy.  They have to be tanking. There's no way

I've said it before but this organization gives out NTC's like they are candy. Unbelievable.

I’m betting there’s more than 20 teams that don’t want him especially on that contract but giving him the NTC just shows how dumb the flyers are. Frankly at this point i think Chuck is actively trying to get fired 

 

 

34 minutes ago, iladelphxx said:

 

 

If the moron didn’t sign Deangelo he more than likely could have made it work. 

45 minutes ago, Blazehound said:

If the moron didn’t sign Deangelo he more than likely could have made it work. 

If we kept the picks, didn’t trade and sign risto would’ve also worked. The amount of picks and cap space spent on risto & deangelo for a team that should be rebuilding is flat out embarrassing. 

if the flyers organization had a pulse like the rest of the three organizations phillies, eagles, sixers, we probably wouldnt be here at all. that's the major problem with flyers is that they dont listen to the fans when it comes to getting stars, they do things their way and everything goes to crap, that's what i miss about ed snider, he cared so much about the fanbase and he wanted to win, that what his passion and gave us what we wanted, we are ones paying this too. we not paying to see gritty.

 

what we want is people that gives a s### about this team and listens to us like doing everything in their power to improve this team and give us stars that's all we want.

On 7/19/2022 at 1:41 PM, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

If we kept the picks, didn’t trade and sign risto would’ve also worked. The amount of picks and cap space spent on risto & deangelo for a team that should be rebuilding is flat out embarrassing. 

Yup, the order in which he did things was idiotic also.

Signing deangelo and buying out lindblom before trading JvR likely drove the price way up, you can buy someone out or sign someone at any time make the trades first.

But as you said he never should have made the D'Angelo trade to begin with. Keep those picks and 1) moving JvR is way easier and 2) you have more cap to play with. Ellis isn't playing but D'Angelo is not a first pair dman, braun is gonna be back with provorov by game 12 and D'Angelo will be playing with risto on the 3rd pair.

23 hours ago, toughfighter83 said:

if the flyers organization had a pulse like the rest of the three organizations phillies, eagles, sixers, we probably wouldnt be here at all. that's the major problem with flyers is that they dont listen to the fans when it comes to getting stars, they do things their way and everything goes to crap, that's what i miss about ed snider, he cared so much about the fanbase and he wanted to win, that what his passion and gave us what we wanted, we are ones paying this too. we not paying to see gritty.

 

what we want is people that gives a s### about this team and listens to us like doing everything in their power to improve this team and give us stars that's all we want.

Agreed. Snider had his flaws and was far from perfect but you never doubted that his heart was in the right place.  The man wanted to win and was willing to do whatever it took to do so.   I don't need them to take direction from the fans, but there needs to be a plan that is grounded in reality and driven with a focus on winning a championship. Not middling and maybe making the playoffs. 

 

6 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

 

Shocker…

Tortorella's schtick is beyond tired at this point. This feels like the official beginning of his downfall in Philly. Even if it's true, these tactics (calling out the players' leadership publicly to the media) won't work with this team in this day and age. The truth is, though, that don't blame him; I blame the monumentally inept ownership and management for thinking that this washed-up re-tread was the answer for rebuilding a storied franchise with severe, deep-seated deficiencies in talent and coaching acumen, and the reason they hired him is because no one of any high stature wanted anything to do with this joke of an organization run by corporate Fwads.

#selltheteam

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John Tortorella has ‘major concerns’ about Flyers’ locker room

If you think the Flyers’ locker room is in a bad place without Claude Giroux, John Tortorella probably agrees with you.

https://www.broadstreethockey.com/2022/9/8/23342833/john-tortorella-major-concerns-flyers-locker-room

 

He's not wrong, though.

1 hour ago, Bill said:

He's not wrong, though.

This

Guys, you missed the part where I said, or at least hinted, that he's not wrong...but it won't work, at least not coming from him, a guy who's played out this movie again and again with the same disappointing results. It was a terrible hire. I would've rather they'd given an unproven assistant or college coach a chance over this perennial disappointment.

If you thought last year was bad, wait until this trainwreck gets underway. I don't think this franchise is even close to rock bottom yet.

Getcha 🍿 ready!!!

can we please switch this dumpster fire with the phantoms ?