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Trainfellow
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Buffalo, NY
Joined: 06.23.2012

Nov 8 @ 12:28 PM ET
I have a crick in my neck here at work. My eyes are sore from crying myself to sleep after the game last night.
And I apparently need a life which does not revolve around hockey or work...

Going to go spend some time with my hot-ass fiancee tonight... And put some time into gaming...

EDIT: Some of this post might be an exageration.

- FlyersGrace



Sounds like a personal problem
opeth_pa
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: The Implication
Joined: 12.13.2011

Nov 8 @ 12:29 PM ET
Ek says big news from Metro today... better be us not rangers or devils.
- youarewrong



Agreed and better be something more substantial then taking the C from Giroux.
That's great if you do that but you are still avoiding the problem, talent, with superficial moves.
funmaster18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine.
Joined: 03.15.2009

Nov 8 @ 12:30 PM ET
Ek says big news from Metro today... better be us not rangers or devils.
- youarewrong


What could the news be from the metro division? More than 1 Metro team wins on the same day?
- claimdenied


aosplayo
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Downingtown, PA
Joined: 01.14.2008

Nov 8 @ 12:30 PM ET
Whoever we trade to EDM for Eberle will certainly score tomorrow, just because.
2Real
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: IT'S GRITTIN TIME, CA
Joined: 07.14.2007

Nov 8 @ 12:30 PM ET
Schenn for Grossmann and Couturier for the first ? plus you'll get nothing for the second ? I'd think.
- mayorofangrytown

I don't like giving up Schenn Emery and Cooter for one player
seems like over payment to me
funmaster18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine.
Joined: 03.15.2009

Nov 8 @ 12:31 PM ET
Agreed and better be something more substantial then taking the C from Giroux.
That's great if you do that but you are still avoiding the problem, talent, with superficial moves.

- opeth_pa


Please don't strip the c. Can a guy work through it for once?
Pixote Andolini
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: South Philadelphia, PA
Joined: 07.23.2007

Nov 8 @ 12:33 PM ET
I don't like giving up Schenn Emery and Cooter for one player
seems like over payment to me

- 2Real

Yeah that's because it would be.
2Real
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: IT'S GRITTIN TIME, CA
Joined: 07.14.2007

Nov 8 @ 12:34 PM ET
Yeah that's because it would be.
- Pixote Andolini

I'd rather see Grossman or coburn thrown into the deal
the oilers need more experienced dmen and not another young one like schenn
mayorofangrytown
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Downingtown, PA
Joined: 08.16.2006

Nov 8 @ 12:34 PM ET
I don't like giving up Schenn Emery and Cooter for one player
seems like over payment to me

- 2Real

You're getting a potential All Star Forward for the next few years, what are you potentially giving back to them in that trade other than solid role players that they need. You're getting the best player in the deal.
hammarby31
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: it's been 84 years, AZ
Joined: 01.02.2007

Nov 8 @ 12:36 PM ET
I have a crick in my neck here at work. My eyes are sore from crying myself to sleep after the game last night.
And I apparently need a life which does not revolve around hockey or work...

Going to go spend some time with my hot-ass fiancee tonight... And put some time into gaming...

EDIT: Some of this post might be an exageration.

- FlyersGrace



mayorofangrytown
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Downingtown, PA
Joined: 08.16.2006

Nov 8 @ 12:36 PM ET
I'd rather see Grossman or coburn thrown into the deal
the oilers need more experienced dmen and not another young one like schenn

- 2Real

That would be great. I'd love it even better but I don't see why Edmonton would take that for Eberle.

This is a classic over value you what you have and under value what you're getting.
funmaster18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine.
Joined: 03.15.2009

Nov 8 @ 12:36 PM ET
You're getting a potential All Star Forward for the next few years, what are you potentially giving back to them in that trade other than solid role players that they need. You're getting the best player in the deal.
- mayorofangrytown


I hear a lot of people saying Coutuier and Schenn suck then others saying trading them together is over payment. Hard to keep track anymore who's worth what..
Hextall271
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Ersson-Ville, NB, NB
Joined: 01.18.2007

Nov 8 @ 12:37 PM ET
Please don't strip the c. Can a guy work through it for once?
- funmaster18


Agreed.. how does this help at all?
AllInForFlyers
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Call Me Sweetcheeks
Joined: 03.18.2013

Nov 8 @ 12:37 PM ET
I also am baffled at why we would strip the captaincy from Claude Giroux, but maybe I shouldn't be -- if you're the best player on a team in Philadelphia, it isn't long before you're eligible to be run out of town.

Just off the top of my head, Jonathan Toews gets to play with Patrick Kane or Marian Hossa or Patrick Sharp. Steven Stamkos gets to play with Martin St. Louis.

Claude Giroux has played with revolving wingers all year, including Michael Raffl and an AHL player in Tye McGinn who the Flyers can't seem to wait to send back down.

Again, that doesn't mean Giroux couldn't be playing better. But I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Steven Stamkos looks a lot more like Claude Giroux does right now if he's playing with Michael Raffl instead of Martin St. Louis.
mayorofangrytown
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Downingtown, PA
Joined: 08.16.2006

Nov 8 @ 12:38 PM ET

- hammarby31

His hot date night with the Finance just turned into D&D.

Yowsa!!!!
mcefalu
Location: I never back-read, IL
Joined: 07.11.2008

Nov 8 @ 12:38 PM ET
Perhaps I don't understand the "talent" argument. I'm being totally serious. Maybe I'm not using the right terminology when I say that the team doesn't have enough talent.

They're averaging 1.47 goals per game. They finished 25th in even-strength scoring last year.

Maybe instead of saying they just don't have the talent to score, maybe I should say other teams are more talented?

I'm being totally serious. If there's a better word, or definition, to describe what we're doing, I would be happy to use that, because I do feel that the problem lies with the actual players who are not doing the scoring, and would use that term to describe it in comparison to other teams that are doing it better than we are.

- AllInForFlyers


Yes, we all realize their goals per game average is hideous. But I don't understand how you can look at a team that had 5 of the same core players who all scored near or more than 20 goals in a full season two years ago and then because they struggled last year and are struggling to score this year somehow that means they will won't be able to do it again. That's the impression I'm getting from those who are claiming there isn't enough talent on this team.

My struggle with your claim is that it sounds like you are taking a team that wasn't able to score last year and is also struggling to score for the first few games this year and just assuming that if the Flyers iced this roster for the next four years, the result would be the same and that they would still not be able to score. That is certainly possible, but is the solution to that to just blow up the team? Doesn't that fall in line with the current Flyers philosophy of acting too quickly? I'm not the most articulate so perhaps I am too dense to understand what exactly you are saying, so if that's the case, I apologize.
funmaster18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine.
Joined: 03.15.2009

Nov 8 @ 12:38 PM ET
I really don't know much about beetle (an auto correct version of eberle apparently for future reference). Is he the right guy to be targeting?
Hextall271
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Ersson-Ville, NB, NB
Joined: 01.18.2007

Nov 8 @ 12:39 PM ET
I hear a lot of people saying Coutuier and Schenn suck then others saying trading them together is over payment. Hard to keep track anymore who's worth what..
- funmaster18


I know people are frustrated... me more than anyone, but we can't make desperation trades while our players values are crazy low. Makes no sense.. They have to work themselves out of this unless a fair trade can be made, but the vulture GMs are circling.
funmaster18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine.
Joined: 03.15.2009

Nov 8 @ 12:39 PM ET
Agreed.. how does this help at all?
- Hextall271


It doesn't.
PhillaBully
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Joined: 07.20.2010

Nov 8 @ 12:39 PM ET
Nick Kypreos ‏@RealKyper 3m
Eberle now get Eakins look me in eye, u r not going anywhere Yakupov guarantee? @tpanotchCSN: Told Flyers r talk'n with EDM about Eberle"
funmaster18
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine.
Joined: 03.15.2009

Nov 8 @ 12:39 PM ET
I know people are frustrated... me more than anyone, but we can't make desperation trades while our players values are crazy low. Makes no sense.. They have to work themselves out of this unless a fair trade can be made, but the vulture GMs are circling.
- Hextall271


I don't either just seems like it's one extreme or the other
mayorofangrytown
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Downingtown, PA
Joined: 08.16.2006

Nov 8 @ 12:41 PM ET
I hear a lot of people saying Coutuier and Schenn suck then others saying trading them together is over payment. Hard to keep track anymore who's worth what..
- funmaster18

Hell man, I'm not saying they suck. I'm saying that's what it will probably take to get Eberle out of Edmonton. This isn't a vacuum. There will be GMs lined up around the corner if Eberle become available. In my considered opinion having watched far too many Oilers games in the last couple years, he's the second best player on that team.
2Real
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: IT'S GRITTIN TIME, CA
Joined: 07.14.2007

Nov 8 @ 12:41 PM ET
You're getting a potential All Star Forward for the next few years, what are you potentially giving back to them in that trade other than solid role players that they need. You're getting the best player in the deal.
- mayorofangrytown

Joe Thornton was traded for Marco Sturm, Wayne Primeau, and Brad Stuart

I think Joe Thornton was a better player than Eberle when Joe was traded than Eberle is now

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

Nov 8 @ 12:42 PM ET
His hot date night with the Finance just turned into D&D.

Yowsa!!!!

- mayorofangrytown

You have obviously never had a solo D&D game where role-playing was empasized and the player gets to seduce their favorite NPC...
Flyskippy
Philadelphia Flyers
Location: Ignoreland, GA
Joined: 11.04.2005

Nov 8 @ 12:42 PM ET
mood?
- hammarby31

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