2008-09 Flyers Season Thread

[SunMo]

well, i think Crosby's vagina was swollen, but otherwise he looked fine to me

[Seabiscuit36]

how the farg is this turned to I'm a homer, i'm posting news muthafargas. 

Gawd did the Jason Smith and played with two farged up shoulders. 

[SD_Eagle5]

If the Flyers had won the Pens series Richards/Carter etc. would still be playing. Since they lost now it comes out that they were injured which is a subtle excuse for fans to use.

Or to use another example: say we beat the Pens, THEN it comes out Crosby/Malkin were injured. What are Pens fans saying?

[ice grillin you]

the refs caused the flyers to be injured.....im sure of it

[Seabiscuit36]

CONSPIRACY

[Eagles_Legendz]

I actually thought Giroux was relatively responsible defensively this series.  Got his stick in a lot of passing lanes.  I thought he hurt the team more defensively by trying to be too fancy on some passes that would lead to 3 on 2s etc.

[SD_Eagle5]

Giroux is fine defensively, not on the level of a Richards, but he's not a liability like Briere is either. Stevens had him on the PK and he did fine.

[Rome]

Stevens has done all he's going to do with this group.  He needs to go as much as Reid does if not more.

[ice grillin you]

i wouldnt be upset if stevens went but i think hes a fine coach...the problem is simply put they arent that good and everyone overrates almost every player on the team...particularly the young ones

[rjs246]

This team is good. It's just missing a superstar. Seriously, put one superstar on this team and they challenge for a cup. A never-ending list of second and third tier stars will win a lot of games but not a cup.

[Seabiscuit36]

I think the players overrate themselves.  They seem to think they are entitled to win a cup, not earn it.  Stevens to me is a very good young coach, and he's not going to washout of the league.  I just dont know if this team has enough balls to play the way they need to every night to win.  From the beginning of the season this team was jekyl and hyde.  Stevens needs to get them to play consistently. 

I agree about the Superstar, and the simple fact is the year that the flyers actually sucked, they managed to still lose the lottery and missed out on Kane.  I was hoping Carter would be that guy, but he disappeared in the playoffs, maybe the shoulder was the reason, but he wasnt really doing much up to that point, and he wasnt lighting the world on fire last year.  His stats could be considered Abreu like. 

Chris Therien has said all year that Giroux will be a top 5 player in this league within 3 years, i dont rate him that high, but he's said it all year.  He's said thats the opinion of many people around the league, who knows. 

[ice grillin you]

This team is good.

who said they werent

[rjs246]

No one. You don't have to take everything so personally sugarbear.

[Seabiscuit36]

No one. You don't have to take everything so personally sugarbear.

He prefers sugartits

[SunMo]

I, for one, think that rjs has neatly cleaned up this mess and I'm certain that this will be the last we hear about it.