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Philly1980
Philadelphia Flyers
Joined: 12.30.2011

Apr 25 @ 2:18 PM ET
I'm a full on fantasy/sci-fi/gaming geek.

Favorite book ever...Dune!

- wolfhounds


loved the movie...even the sci fi movie about the kids was good.
johndewar
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: South Jersey, NJ
Joined: 01.16.2009

Apr 25 @ 2:18 PM ET
Remember the time Jeremy was a tree and Candice refused to go down Phineas and Ferb's yellow side walk?


No?

- mayorofangrytown


Hey!

Where's Perry?
GirouxForTheShow
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Fuck you raff
Joined: 01.04.2009

Apr 25 @ 2:21 PM ET
I'll see you there. My son is really excited for both.
- mayorofangrytown


I'm probably going to treat the draft more as a reason to tailgate like a madman, considering Ill be freshly 21

NCAA I'm excited for just for some good college hockey and to show all my 'Burgh friends how a real hockey town shows up to some good college hockey. Pittsburgh showing this year was awful.
johndewar
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: South Jersey, NJ
Joined: 01.16.2009

Apr 25 @ 2:24 PM ET
Yes as well as the NCAA Frozen Four, both of which I will be attending.
- GirouxForTheShow


Whoa, the Frozen Four is coming to Philly???

Didn't know that.

Loved going to the PSU/Vermont game and was saying how much I'd like to see more D1 hockey at the WFC.
flyerfan28
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: CA
Joined: 02.06.2012

Apr 25 @ 2:25 PM ET
Does anyone else feel like the good play of the young and patchwork has made Coburn and Mez expendable? When i say expendable trading away for some cap space and getting something in return? I get the feeling Homer is going to get his #1 d-man this season even if overpayment is needed just hoping its minimal damage.
GirouxForTheShow
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Fuck you raff
Joined: 01.04.2009

Apr 25 @ 2:25 PM ET
Whoa, the Frozen Four is coming to Philly???

Didn't know that.

Loved going to the PSU/Vermont game and was saying how much I'd like to see more D1 hockey at the WFC.

- johndewar


Next year champ, I'm stoked.

http://www.ncaa.com/ticket-info/icehockey-men/d1
Scoob
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: love is love
Joined: 06.29.2006

Apr 25 @ 2:25 PM ET
Bryz ... He is not well-liked either by many teammates
- bmeltzer


Scanalous!
mayorofangrytown
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Downingtown, PA
Joined: 08.16.2006

Apr 25 @ 2:27 PM ET
I'm probably going to treat the draft more as a reason to tailgate like a madman, considering Ill be freshly 21

NCAA I'm excited for just for some good college hockey and to show all my 'Burgh friends how a real hockey town shows up to some good college hockey. Pittsburgh showing this year was awful.

- GirouxForTheShow

I'm assuming they will break the draft over two days again next year. I'll probably just go Friday night.

The Frozen Four should be a blast.
mayorofangrytown
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Downingtown, PA
Joined: 08.16.2006

Apr 25 @ 2:30 PM ET
Next year champ, I'm stoked.

http://www.ncaa.com/ticket-info/icehockey-men/d1

- GirouxForTheShow

Thanks for posting that. I'll probably call the Flyers anyhow. I know Flyers STHs will get right of first refusal.
wilsonecho91
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: A dream to some...a nightmare to others, AK
Joined: 11.13.2007

Apr 25 @ 2:30 PM ET
don't know if i'm laught on this, but Heeter named to the US World Chamnpionship team. Interesting.

http://mensworlds.usahock...250359?referrer_id=780184
mayorofangrytown
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Downingtown, PA
Joined: 08.16.2006

Apr 25 @ 2:30 PM ET
Scanalous!
- Scoob

I know, I know... you're schocked!
johndewar
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: South Jersey, NJ
Joined: 01.16.2009

Apr 25 @ 2:31 PM ET
don't know if i'm laught on this, but Heeter named to the US World Chamnpionship team. Interesting.

http://mensworlds.usahock...250359?referrer_id=780184

- wilsonecho91


Heeter, himself, posted his participation on twitter... (@Heeter1).

Good exposure for him, I would think.
GirouxForTheShow
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Fuck you raff
Joined: 01.04.2009

Apr 25 @ 2:33 PM ET
Thanks for posting that. I'll probably call the Flyers anyhow. I know Flyers STHs will get right of first refusal.
- mayorofangrytown


GET ME SOME

FlyersGrace
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Pronger "Play the game puffnuts!" , DE
Joined: 07.02.2012

Apr 25 @ 2:34 PM ET
I'm a full on fantasy/sci-fi/gaming geek.

Favorite book ever...Dune!

- wolfhounds

The first one I assume? Many of the rest begin to get preachy and lose most people...

EDIT: I once gave an ex-boyfriend a leather bound signed Dune... Now of course I am wishing I kept it!
Scoob
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: love is love
Joined: 06.29.2006

Apr 25 @ 2:36 PM ET

Plain and simple, Bryzgalov is not well-liked by teammates because it's their belief that he's thrown teammates under the bus on more than one occasion.

- bmeltzer


Oh, boo hoo. Anything I've seen him quoted as saying about poor performances and "must win or we're done" was pretty well spot on.

And based on some of the play I've seen from the non-goaltenders on the team this year they should be thrown under the bus.
johndewar
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: South Jersey, NJ
Joined: 01.16.2009

Apr 25 @ 2:37 PM ET
Thanks for posting that. I'll probably call the Flyers anyhow. I know Flyers STHs will get right of first refusal.
- mayorofangrytown


mayorofangrytown
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Downingtown, PA
Joined: 08.16.2006

Apr 25 @ 2:41 PM ET
GET ME SOME
- GirouxForTheShow

Not a STH anymore. This year was the first season I haven't been to a game since 1985
GirouxForTheShow
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Fuck you raff
Joined: 01.04.2009

Apr 25 @ 2:44 PM ET
Not a STH anymore. This year was the first season I haven't been to a game since 1985
- mayorofangrytown




Quite the streak. I'm sure they'll be tickets available for non-STHs. I filled out a form for every single family member that I have access to respective email accounts, just in case.
Tomahawk
Location: Driver's Seat: Mitch Marner bandwagon. Grab 'em by the Corsi.
Joined: 02.04.2009

Apr 25 @ 2:49 PM ET
Oh, boo hoo. Anything I've seen him quoted as saying about poor performances and "must win or we're done" was pretty well spot on.

And based on some of the play I've seen from the non-goaltenders on the team this year they should be thrown under the bus.

- Scoob



Yet, you haven't seen a single Flyers player come out and openly say "Bryz should have had that one" or "We need Bryz to be better" or "He was a bit of an @hole to Bob" or "Yeah, I saw him sleeping in that meeting" or "They'd trade him, but nobody wants him".

So what does that tell you?

GirouxForTheShow
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Fuck you raff
Joined: 01.04.2009

Apr 25 @ 2:54 PM ET
Yet, you haven't seen a single Flyers player come out and openly say "Bryz should have had that one" or "We need Bryz to be better" or "He was a bit of an @hole to Bob" or "Yeah, I saw him sleeping in that meeting" or "They'd trade him, but nobody wants him".

So what does that tell you?

- Tomahawk


I haven't heard Bryz say that Coburn is a large turnstile this year either. Bryz gets grilled by the media because he is a goalie and its Philadelphia, as well as I think there is a bit of a language barrier. Not in that he isn't smart, but just the culture difference and the way things are interpreted. He gets grilled with the hard "why isn't this team performing" questions moreso than anyone on the team, and there has been numerous occasions where he looks like he is trying to search for the answer without stepping on toes, and it almost got to the point where he was just shrugging at those questions and saying "I dont know".

At the very least, he told it how it is. Lack of preparation, not enough grinding, not enough paying attention to details in the defensive zone. I have not once heard him come out and openly or even implicating at criticizing a teammate.
Scoob
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: love is love
Joined: 06.29.2006

Apr 25 @ 2:56 PM ET
Yet, you haven't seen a single Flyers player come out and openly say "Bryz should have had that one" or "We need Bryz to be better" or "He was a bit of an @hole to Bob" or "Yeah, I saw him sleeping in that meeting" or "They'd trade him, but nobody wants him".

So what does that tell you?

- Tomahawk


Well, based on Bill saying they don't like him, I now believe that someone DID say they saw him sleeping in a meeting. Whether it is true or not, I do not know. But surely someone said it.

Speaking facts (we need to win these two or we're done) isn't throwing anyone under the bus anyway. On one hand, I'm not wholly surprised by this revelation. Afterall, the locker room is their workplace and we all know about work place drama. However, the beat writer Richards surely pick on Bryz and goad him into saying things. I don't see them doing that kind of stuff to any other players. Quotes I see from leaders on the team are largely cliches. Bryz was honest.
jmatchett383
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Newark, DE
Joined: 03.09.2010

Apr 25 @ 3:02 PM ET
Anyone know if Knuble's in the lineup tonight?
jmatchett383
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Newark, DE
Joined: 03.09.2010

Apr 25 @ 3:07 PM ET
Sorry if it's leight, but there was a bench clearer in the QMJHL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZX8vLciLA

Love the backup goalies going at it.
GirouxForTheShow
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Fuck you raff
Joined: 01.04.2009

Apr 25 @ 3:09 PM ET
Sorry if it's leight, but there was a bench clearer in the QMJHL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZX8vLciLA

Love the backup goalies going at it.

- jmatchett383


Interesting too because if I'm not mistaken goalies get an automatic 5 game suspension if they fight in the Q, does that mean Armada goes into the next round of the playoffs without there top-2 goalies? Do they even have a 3rd stringer?
Tomahawk
Location: Driver's Seat: Mitch Marner bandwagon. Grab 'em by the Corsi.
Joined: 02.04.2009

Apr 25 @ 3:09 PM ET
Well, based on Bill saying they don't like him, I now believe that someone DID say they saw him sleeping in a meeting. Whether it is true or not, I do not know. But surely someone said it.

Speaking facts (we need to win these two or we're done) isn't throwing anyone under the bus anyway. On one hand, I'm not wholly surprised by this revelation. Afterall, the locker room is their workplace and we all know about work place drama. However, the beat writer Richards surely pick on Bryz and goad him into saying things. I don't see them doing that kind of stuff to any other players. Quotes I see from leaders on the team are largely cliches. Bryz was honest.

- Scoob



Remember when he threw Coburn under the bus after a bad goal?

I seem to recall that they called him into a meeting with the team leaders after that... something about needing to be a better teammate.

Part of it is enhanced media scrutiny... but allegations of him being less than an ideal teammate have dogged him for years.
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