2013 Philadelphia Flyers season thread

[ice grillin you]

sd 1-10 what number you give the flyers to make the cup....im not being a smart ass either....nhl history is filled with 876 seeds making runs...its a league where teams can come out of nowhere and make mad noise in the postseason....where do you put this flyers team....

[SD]

Those teams had either a hot goalie, a great player to lead them, or great team chemistry. Mason/Emery aren't getting that hot, Giroux is not putting a team on his shoulders and carrying them to a cup, and there is no chemistry or rhyme or reason with what they're trying to do. Plus defensively they're still bad and slow. I'd put that number at 2.

[ice grillin you]

two is pretty low but i basically agree....mason to me is the guy who can have a 40 save game in march but isn't going to have five or six great games in a single series....much less a playoff run

[SunMo]

lol they went to the cup with michael leighton and brian boucher.  they can't make the cup because their scoring is too inconsistent and their defense is bad

[ice grillin you]

actually their goals for and against are very similar to that season

but if their defense or offense arent quite good enough thats when you need a goalie to steal you a series or two....i dont see mason being that guy...hes not bryz who is going to implode but hes not a goalie who is going to elevate the rest of their team either

[SD]

Weber might be back the market because the preds have a slew of young dmen and theyre up against the cap. Pinnach or Carichidi wrote a blog saying the flyers would part with anyone but Giroux. Supposedly the guy Morin they drafted last season is getting rave reviews and they don't want to move him. Personally I'd give up one of roily her Brayden Schenn or Courterier, Laughton, Luke Schenn and a pick. Flyers probably wouldn't give up their first this season since the draft is in Philly so that might limit them a bit. Webers keys them a legit cup contended in my opinion.

[Geowhizzer]

Nashville already paid the lion's share of the money, so I can't imagine they'd trade him at this point.

[SD]

Guess who else has a lot of money...you're uncle Ed.

[BigEd76]

How last night's Phantoms game ended


brawl

[SD]

Losers

What a pathetic effort

Or as Jones/Coates/Jackson would say "they still need to shake off the rust"

[QB Eagles]

Was there ever a doubt they would be terrible after the Olympics?

[BigEd76]

...then they beat the Rangers and Caps in 24 hours and jump from 4th to 2nd

[Seabiscuit36]

Huge comeback all thanks to Orlov. 

[Geowhizzer]

Huge comeback all thanks to Orlov.

Had to laugh at Lecavalier's winning goal.  Hell of a comeback, though.

[SD]

Flyers made a trade with the Isles for dmen Andrew Macdonald