Bill Meltzer: Flyers Gameday: 12/9/22 @ VGK

Does anyone know if Atkinson traveled with the team?

#streaking2023
#tankwatch2023
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#TortsWatch2023 (he also wants to tank this year ((please see ZM on line 2 for details)) and ND on anything except the 4th line)

Tank express pulling in

Choo chooooooo

Does anyone know if Atkinson traveled with the team?
- jsh139

He should be ready to go opening night

no one is sure which season though

It seems like so long ago I actually wanted to see this team win games and now the best possible direction for this franchise is to lose as many games as possible.

That pandemic stole our only shot at a solid cup run since 2010. Why do the hockey gods hate us so much? Why do they keep our FO employed and give them 6 or 7 figure incomes each year?

He should be ready to go opening night

no one is sure which season though
- corduroy

It seems like so long ago I actually wanted to see this team win games and now the best possible direction for this franchise is to lose as many games as possible.

That pandemic stole our only shot at a solid cup run since 2010. Why do the hockey gods hate us so much? Why do they keep our FO employed and give them 6 or 7 figure incomes each year?
- Bob Habib

In my view the pandemic gave them a pseudo run.

He should be ready to go opening night

no one is sure which season though
- corduroy

Nice.

In my view the pandemic gave them a pseudo run.
- MJL

They were just firing on all cylinders, though. The team bought in. I remember seeing JVR and Jake both back check! Together! In the same game!! It was beautiful. But then we got locked down and when they came back to play they were not the same. I don't know what happened or if we just caught lightning in a bottle but the team was playing cohesively and doing a damn good job at it.
It was the worst blue balling I've had since 2010. I wven put 100 on the flyers to win the cup at 18:1 odds. I was stoked lol

He should be ready to go opening night

no one is sure which season though
- corduroy

Well done, sir! 😂

They were just firing on all cylinders, though. The team bought in. I remember seeing JVR and Jake both back check! Together! In the same game!! It was beautiful. But then we got locked down and when they came back to play they were not the same. I don't know what happened or if we just caught lightning in a bottle but the team was playing cohesively and doing a damn good job at it.
It was the worst blue balling I've had since 2010. I wven put 100 on the flyers to win the cup at 18:1 odds. I was stoked lol
- Bob Habib

The Flyers were just on a hot streak. It was a screwed up season. Players missing from lineups and all kinds of stuff going. Players screwed up by the bubble.

The Flyers were just on a hot streak. It was a screwed up season. Players missing from lineups and all kinds of stuff going. Players screwed up by the bubble.
- MJL

Before the bubble was when we were hot, though, right?! We were the hottest team in the NHL before things got shut down. Those were fun times to be a flyers fan.
Hot or not of they could have maintained that then who knows what could have been
Now we will never know but WOW did we look awful when we came back from lockdown. Everybody was probably our of shape and depressed to a certain extent. Athletes and peasants, both!
It's just disappointing to watch that streak and cohesiveness get stolen from us

JVR back checking... that was a good year, huh? Lol

The Flyers were just on a hot streak. It was a screwed up season. Players missing from lineups and all kinds of stuff going. Players screwed up by the bubble.
- MJL

Before the pandemic, not after. They were terrible in the bubble. Hart got them out of the MTL series

Before the bubble was when we were hot, though, right?! We were the hottest team in the NHL before things got shut down. Those were fun times to be a flyers fan.
Hot or not of they could have maintained that then who knows what could have been
Now we will never know but WOW did we look awful when we came back from lockdown. Everybody was probably our of shape and depressed to a certain extent. Athletes and peasants, both!
It's just disappointing to watch that streak and cohesiveness get stolen from us

JVR back checking... that was a good year, huh? Lol
- Bob Habib

TK Coots G was one of the best lines in hockey that year

The Flyers were just on a hot streak. It was a screwed up season. Players missing from lineups and all kinds of stuff going. Players screwed up by the bubble.
- MJL

They had two separate hot streaks. Were at hockey .500 at the end of October then had the NHL's best record in November. In December, they kept on winning at home but struggled on the road. Went into a tailspin when they got the news about Oskar Lindblom. Had a horrific post-Christmas road trip. Then got red hot again until the stoppage for the pandemic.

Hart is in goal tonight. Tony DeAngelo is a (semi) healthy scratch. Cam York is in the starting lineup.

Before the pandemic, not after. They were terrible in the bubble. Hart got them out of the MTL series
- ClaudeFather

It was an entire season that was not normal. One hot streak doesn't make a team a true cup contender. Unless it happens in the playoffs. That's my point. I don't look at one hot streak in the regular season and say wow, what could've been. Nobody really knows but I didn't see them as a true contender. Fun to watch for a bit.

Hart is in goal tonight. Tony DeAngelo is a (semi) healthy scratch. Cam York is in the starting lineup.
- bmeltzer

So Tony is a bit banged up... is it related to the previous puck hit related scratching? His playing off the top pairs, and in reduced minutes, since returning seemed odd to me.

It seems like so long ago I actually wanted to see this team win games and now the best possible direction for this franchise is to lose as many games as possible.

That pandemic stole our only shot at a solid cup run since 2010. Why do the hockey gods hate us so much? Why do they keep our FO employed and give them 6 or 7 figure incomes each year?
- Bob Habib

Remember we only need two weeks to slow the cur.... er the momentum of a solid season.

So Tony is a bit banged up... is it related to the previous puck hit related scratching? His playing off the top pairs, and in reduced minutes, since returning seemed odd to me.
- ForeverFlyer16

Torts has been critical of his play for the past couple of weeks.

Does anyone know if Atkinson traveled with the team?
- jsh139

I don't believe so but am not certain. He could always join them in New Jersey for next Thursday's game. There's usually a morning skate in Voorhees and then a bus to Newark.

Remember we only need two weeks to slow the cur.... er the momentum of a solid season.
- hockeylover

Two weeks turned into a stolen Stanley cup run, damn it!!

And being a person who was against the lock down from the start it pissed me off even more to watch this happen to that season.
I have lots of what ifs about that season, now and I hate what ifs lol

Two weeks.....

TK Coots G was one of the best lines in hockey that year
- ClaudeFather

They were downright dominant, weren't they?! That's when we saw the rise of TK and it was glorious!
Now he is ascending again this year. He is one of a few bright spots on this team right now that make it worth watching....well, watching the highlights, anyway

Does anyone know if Atkinson traveled with the team?
- jsh139

"What happens here, stays here"

Chuck about the Vegas trip.

"What happens here, stays here"

Chuck about the Vegas trip.
- THE EVIL WITHIN

Hockey ops is on the road. They have some scouting to do.