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jak521
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Buckle Up.
Joined: 02.19.2008

Aug 21 @ 10:50 AM ET
no heart, and without a contract he'll be getting no checks. no checks = not physical
- BulliesPhan87

funmaster18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine.
Joined: 03.15.2009

Aug 21 @ 10:53 AM ET
no heart, and without a contract he'll be getting no checks. no checks = not physical
- BulliesPhan87


Matt Carle 2.0 fml Holmer sux time2move on
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Aug 21 @ 10:53 AM ET
Do you think he feels he'd have a better chance of getting to the NHL on another team? I mean, the Flyers aren't exactly the deepest team when it comes to AHL call-ups, but maybe he thinks another team might put him higher on the depth chart and he wants to be moved?
- jmatchett383



I don't see how this is a good way to force a trade by refusing to sign the Q offer. If he wants to be moved, all he has to do is ask, and the Flyers would likely accomadate him if they can make a good trade. Maybe that's already happened. Who knows. But I don't see what leverage Manning has in any scenario.
BiggE
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: SELL THE DAMN TEAM!
Joined: 04.17.2012

Aug 21 @ 10:54 AM ET
Bill Meltzer: Meltzer's Musings: Wednesday Quick Hits
- bmeltzer


Smart move re Wellwood
johndewar
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: South Jersey, NJ
Joined: 01.16.2009

Aug 21 @ 11:18 AM ET
I don't see how this is a good way to force a trade by refusing to sign the Q offer. If he wants to be moved, all he has to do is ask, and the Flyers would likely accomadate him if they can make a good trade. Maybe that's already happened. Who knows. But I don't see what leverage Manning has in any scenario.
- MJL


He really has no leverage, but athletes aren't always the most self-aware human beings on the planet. But again....just conjecture about Manning.

I hope the hold up is just trivial and not something more.
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Aug 21 @ 11:22 AM ET
He really has no leverage, but athletes aren't always the most self-aware human beings on the planet. But again....just conjecture about Manning.

I hope the hold up is just trivial and not something more.

- johndewar



That's part of the reason why athletes have agents. And you're right, it is conjecture. I know that's all I can offer.
BulliesPhan87
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: the lone wolf of hockeybuzz
Joined: 07.31.2009

Aug 21 @ 11:29 AM ET
That's part of the reason why athletes have agents. And you're right, it is conjecture. I know that's all I can offer.
- MJL

Beat me to it, athletes may not be the most informed, but agents are. I figure it has to be something trivial.
youarewrong
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Newark, DE
Joined: 07.07.2010

Aug 21 @ 11:30 AM ET
Has Meszaros been cleared to play yet?
FlyersGrace
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Pronger "Play the game puffnuts!" , DE
Joined: 07.02.2012

Aug 21 @ 11:32 AM ET
That wording made my heart skip a beat when I read this the first time.
I fully expected it to be more like

Why is my brain thinking like this?

- JAKEw1234

It's obviously Pavlovian Conditioning to KNOW that injuries will occur for this team... And thus your brain's immediate re-wording... But you aren't alone I held my breath through the same sentence.
JAKEw1234
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: 2Spookyville, PA
Joined: 03.09.2013

Aug 21 @ 11:43 AM ET
It's obviously Pavlovian Conditioning to KNOW that injuries will occur for this team... And thus your brain's immediate re-wording... But you aren't alone I held my breath through the same sentence.

- FlyersGrace

I'm still trying to cope with Girouxs injury. Like, how does that even happen?
FlyersGrace
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Pronger "Play the game puffnuts!" , DE
Joined: 07.02.2012

Aug 21 @ 11:49 AM ET
I'm still trying to cope with Girouxs injury. Like, how does that even happen?
- JAKEw1234

HAS to be stupidity. Seriously. In my head I'm imagining he smacked it high up on the shaft near the grip on something much harder in rage or frustration. Clubs usually break by the head... You have to do something especially stupid for that injury. And you can't tell me that millionare Giroux is playing with a set of crap clubs.
Maybe this is all just a cover story and he got it in a knife fight... Cuz that's his hobby. Back-alley knife fighting in the offseason.
Believeable. Right?
FlyersGrace
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Pronger "Play the game puffnuts!" , DE
Joined: 07.02.2012

Aug 21 @ 11:50 AM ET
Has Meszaros been cleared to play yet?
- youarewrong

Good question. I thought he had been.
MJL
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Candyland, PA
Joined: 09.20.2007

Aug 21 @ 11:50 AM ET
HAS to be stupidity. Seriously. In my head I'm imagining he smacked it high up on the shaft near the grip on something much harder in rage or frustration. Clubs usually break by the head... You have to do something especially stupid for that injury. And you can't tell me that millionare Giroux is playing with a set of crap clubs.
Maybe this is all just a cover story and he got it in a knife fight... Cuz that's his hobby. Back-alley knife fighting in the offseason.
Believeable. Right?

- FlyersGrace



I heard he was really into Javelin catching.
Hextall271
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Hart-Land, NB
Joined: 01.18.2007

Aug 21 @ 11:52 AM ET
HAS to be stupidity. Seriously. In my head I'm imagining he smacked it high up on the shaft near the grip on something much harder in rage or frustration. Clubs usually break by the head... You have to do something especially stupid for that injury. And you can't tell me that millionare Giroux is playing with a set of crap clubs.
Maybe this is all just a cover story and he got it in a knife fight... Cuz that's his hobby. Back-alley knife fighting in the offseason.
Believeable. Right?

- FlyersGrace


I play a lot of golf, and neither me nor anyone I golf with has ever heard of anything likt this happening on a normal attempt at a shot. I can only believe that he hit the ground in anger.
FlyersGrace
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Pronger "Play the game puffnuts!" , DE
Joined: 07.02.2012

Aug 21 @ 11:53 AM ET
I heard he was really into Javelin catching.
- MJL

Reporter: So what do you have planned for this off-season, Giroux?
Giroux: I'm going to learn how to catch arrows.
(Reporter laughs)
Giroux: No really!
(Reporter stares)
FlyersGrace
Season Ticket Holder
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Pronger "Play the game puffnuts!" , DE
Joined: 07.02.2012

Aug 21 @ 11:54 AM ET
I play a lot of golf, and neither me nor anyone I golf with has ever heard of anything likt this happening on a normal attempt at a shot. I can only believe that he hit the ground in anger.
- Hextall271

The ground, a tree, the golfcart, his caddy.... Yeah one of those.
JAKEw1234
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: 2Spookyville, PA
Joined: 03.09.2013

Aug 21 @ 12:03 PM ET
HAS to be stupidity. Seriously. In my head I'm imagining he smacked it high up on the shaft near the grip on something much harder in rage or frustration. Clubs usually break by the head... You have to do something especially stupid for that injury. And you can't tell me that millionare Giroux is playing with a set of crap clubs.
Maybe this is all just a cover story and he got it in a knife fight... Cuz that's his hobby. Back-alley knife fighting in the offseason.
Believeable. Right?

- FlyersGrace

He and Bobby Ryan were doing some intense stuff when he was showing Bobby around Ottawa
jmatchett383
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Newark, DE
Joined: 03.09.2010

Aug 21 @ 12:07 PM ET
HAS to be stupidity. Seriously. In my head I'm imagining he smacked it high up on the shaft near the grip on something much harder in rage or frustration. Clubs usually break by the head... You have to do something especially stupid for that injury. And you can't tell me that millionare Giroux is playing with a set of crap clubs.
Maybe this is all just a cover story and he got it in a knife fight... Cuz that's his hobby. Back-alley knife fighting in the offseason.
Believeable. Right?

- FlyersGrace


Knife-fighting is the spending money. His cock fighting ring is where the real money's at.
jak521
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Buckle Up.
Joined: 02.19.2008

Aug 21 @ 12:18 PM ET
HAS to be stupidity. Seriously. In my head I'm imagining he smacked it high up on the shaft near the grip on something much harder in rage or frustration. Clubs usually break by the head... You have to do something especially stupid for that injury. And you can't tell me that millionare Giroux is playing with a set of crap clubs.
Maybe this is all just a cover story and he got it in a knife fight... Cuz that's his hobby. Back-alley knife fighting in the offseason.
Believeable. Right?

- FlyersGrace

Rumor has it he is actually an up and comer in the developing sport of tusk-cropping. He wrestles animals with tusks into submission and saws off their tusks to sell on the whysitalwaysgottabe Black Market. This time a Narwhal got the best of him....
youarewrong
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Newark, DE
Joined: 07.07.2010

Aug 21 @ 12:33 PM ET
HAS to be stupidity. Seriously. In my head I'm imagining he smacked it high up on the shaft near the grip on something much harder in rage or frustration. Clubs usually break by the head... You have to do something especially stupid for that injury. And you can't tell me that millionare Giroux is playing with a set of crap clubs.
Maybe this is all just a cover story and he got it in a knife fight... Cuz that's his hobby. Back-alley knife fighting in the offseason.
Believeable. Right?

- FlyersGrace


Nah, He got is by giving The Shredder a happy "gilmore" ending.
Trainfellow
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Buffalo, NY
Joined: 06.23.2012

Aug 21 @ 12:41 PM ET
New paintjob on Mason's bucket for next season

http://www.nhl.com/ice/ne...680615&navid=nhl:topheads
Crimsoninja
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Dude, I am so sorry about whatever made you like this. Take it easy.
Joined: 07.06.2007

Aug 21 @ 12:48 PM ET
New paintjob on Mason's bucket for next season

http://www.nhl.com/ice/ne...680615&navid=nhl:topheads

- Trainfellow

lol


ray should go with zombie joe frazier and zombie bernard hopkins
Hextall271
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Hart-Land, NB
Joined: 01.18.2007

Aug 21 @ 1:01 PM ET
lol


ray should go with zombie joe frazier and zombie bernard hopkins

- Crimsoninja


No no no.. Ray needs to rock a zombie Hextall mask!
Crimsoninja
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Dude, I am so sorry about whatever made you like this. Take it easy.
Joined: 07.06.2007

Aug 21 @ 1:04 PM ET
No no no.. Ray needs to rock a zombie Hextall mask!
- Hextall271

ed snider
Flyskippy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Ignoreland, GA
Joined: 11.04.2005

Aug 21 @ 1:22 PM ET
Thanks, Bill, for the blog.

Congratulations to Lappy!
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