She does a weird thing with her hands after the anthem is done. Like some weird gang sign gesture. - flyer_nutter
Back in the mid-90's the Flyers had some girl who was maybe around 13 or so, and I always thought she did a great job. I remember she sang at Game 1 of the World Cup Finals in 1996 and cried at the end, and I always thought it was pretty wild that she recognized how big of a game it was at that age.
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Dec 4 @ 4:48 PM ET
The Flyers top line has been very good but it's not remotely the best Flyers top line I've ever seen. We've been shut out six times this season. Change it up!
Raffl might even be ready to play with G and Jake, which I'm all for.
I do find it amusing that it took this 10 game losing streak for people to turn on Hak. And literally only the last game or two. - Mononoke
The (lack of) effort and cohesion on 11/21/17 at home against Vancouver on after a two day break was when I thought a mid season coaching change was justifiable.
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Dec 4 @ 4:55 PM ET
The point is Lavi is a good coach. What reason were people behind Hakstol before this losing streak? The point is the process has been an unmitigated failure for a long time. It just took a big moment for people to get on the same page. And they don't even recognize the long gestating failure part probably. - Mononoke
the things I female dog about with Hakstol I also did with Lavy and that was player usage and goalie usage. Not adapting, etc. Now i am not saying Hakstol is Lavy. he is a stanley cup winning coach. I don't know how good of a coach Hakstol is really. Just making the point that I don't see why its considered odd that people may turn on a coach because of a losing streak.
personally I was good with the hire because I liked the idea of looking outside of the box of retread coaches. I liked the idea of a young college coach working with young players. Have I been disappointed? yep. I've slowly soured on Hakstol fair or not.
The (lack of) effort and cohesion on 11/21/17 at home against Vancouver on after a two day break was when I thought a mid season coaching change was justifiable. - Feanor
I was done after the second of back-to-back losses when they have multi-goal third period leads. It wasn't so much the fact that they lost as much as the way they played those third periods.
If Barzal was a Flyer, Hakstol would have scratched him already and played him 10 min/game. He'd not be his beautiful bad self. - Mononoke
When I was about 10 or 11 years old, my sisters and I found a bird that was young and appeared to have fallen out of a tree. We got a shoe box and brought it into the house. Placed it under a lamp for heat and mashed up a worm for it to eat. It worked for a good two weeks, and we happily were planning for the day when it would be set free to enjoy a prosperous life singing songs from the trees around my neighborhood and eating the finest seed. Shortly before that day, our cat came inside the house with said bird clutching to life in its mouth.
Point is...although the funeral service was beautiful, the hardest part was knowing what might have been.
No, it just means you can criticize a coach and his process during a good stretch just as easily as during a poor stretch to determine which is closer to the truth. But they've won like 28 games over the last 75 since that mirage of a 10 game win streak. The same issues some of us endlessly complained about are still there, only now metastasized. This streak is just the nadir. - Mononoke
There are definitely plenty of room to criticize Hakstol. It's pretty simple, his team has lost 10 in a row and is going backwards. That right there is enough.
So much of the criticisms of Hakstol that I read are either petty and minor, or come from uninformed sources such as your repeated claims that there is a systems issue. You repeatedly claim that defenseman are not allowed to be aggressive offensively, which is obviously not true if you watch the games. Along with the absolutely absurd claims that the Flyers offensive strategy is built around point shots. Anyone stating that automatically disqualifies himself. All of the systems that the Flyers employ, including the PK, are systems that work if executed and if the talent is there. With the exception of the PK which I think is a fair criticism because they do need to make a change there but I still maintain the biggest issue is personnel there. They don't have the defenseman. So the claim that there is a issue overall with the systems Hakstol employs, is simply bogus.
Your new claim is that Hakstol doesn't talk and communicate with his players but offer nothing of substance to back it up.
