FLYERS 2005-06 SEASON THREAD!

[ice grillin you]

niko hs 6 assists in the the lst 25 games

[SD_Eagle5]

Gauthier is a better option than Randy Jones but Sandis Olzilish? was picked up by the Rangers for only one 3rd rounder. 

Sandis Ozolinsh is well past his prime and gets injured a lot, but he can still move the puck up the ice.

Rangers deal >>>>> Flyers deal

[BigEd76]

did he really...for who for what

Witt to Nashville for a 1st-rd pick and a player

[SunMo]

yes...im confident they will get a top four guy

where's your GM now, eh?

[ice grillin you]

i just hope this means that they are confident in jonsson coming back healthy because that would be their top 4 guy and there would have been no need to get another d-man today


all things being equal...meaning their team is healthy...they need scoring waaaaaaaaay more than a defenseman

[SunMo]

yup

they are too slow, and not skilled enough

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Vancouver gets: D Eric Weinrich


St. Louis gets: a prospect, a third-round pick


Scott Burnside's instant analysis: The Canucks got older and wiser along the blue line in a hurry with the additions of Keith Carney, Sean Brown and Weinrich. Weinrich has oodles of experience and has played well in a bad situation in St. Louis this season. Come playoff time this deal could have bigger implications.

Darn.  We should have snagged Weinrich.  I'm only mostly unserious.

[SD_Eagle5]

Clarke Discusses Trade Deadline

Flyers general manager acquires two players

Flyers General Manager Bob Clarke met with the local media following the 3:00 p.m. NHL trading deadline on Thursday. Clarke and the Flyers front office made two trades, acquiring defenseman Denis Gauthier from Phoenix and right wing Niko Dimitrakos from San Jose.

Clarke discussed several topics about the deadline.

On what happened with Mark Recchi:
Bob Clarke: "We talked to [Penguins General Manager] Craig [Patrick] a couple times this morning. We had four second [round] picks at that time. Our second pick we could have given up was better than Carolina's, but they had better prospects than we were willing to give up."

Who did they ask for?
BC: "I can't tell you that. It was more than we feel we could give up. We knew that [Carolina] was involved. They had a better offer to make than we could. We tried, we made our best shot, but it wasn't enough."

Did you think there would be more trade activity than there was?
BC: "I thought there would be way less, actually."

Did you try to get any other defensemen?
BC: "No, this was the only...there was others on the table, but we felt Gauthier was a real good fit for our club."

On Denis Gauthier:
BC: "He is a physical player. He is somewhat like [Rangers defenseman Darius] Kasparaitis. He will go up the middle and hit people. Like Kasparaitis, he'll go after the better players on other teams. It was one area where we felt like we had to get better, especially with the injuries we have on defense. We did get better. He's a good solid defenseman who brings some physical parts, but he can pass the puck. I think we still need [Kim] Johnsson to get back.

"You need to figure out who is available and who fits into your team. We've liked this player for a long time. Obviously we played a big price, but every player that went today a team paid a big price for."

On Niko Dimitrakos:
BC: "Dean Lombardi, who is our pro scout, drafted him and signed him in San Jose. He's very highly skilled; probably an underachiever so far, although he was the leading scorer for rookies two years in the playoffs. So there is a huge upside, but with those types of players there's a downside, too. We just needed to try and upgrade our skills up front."

Will he possibly report to the Phantoms?
BC: "Oh no, he's an NHL player."

On the team:
BC: "If we can get healthy we can be a real good team. We're going to get [Michal] Handzus back. We're hoping to get Johnsson back. You can't replace [Keith] Primeau obviously, but you do the best you can."

On Turner Stevenson, who was waved on March 8:
BC: "He just remains with us. We never had to assign him to the Phantoms or anything at all."

Can you send him up and down?
BC: "If we wanted to, but we're not going to."

Thursday, March 09, 2006

[ice grillin you]

BC: "He is a physical player. He is somewhat like [Rangers defenseman Darius] Kasparaitis. He will go up the middle and hit people. Like Kasparaitis, he'll go after the better players on other teams.

WTF?

this isnt 79 clarkie....i hate to say it but hes clueless right now

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I'm comfortable with going towards the Cup with Nittymaki/Esche in goal.










HAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!  No.

[SunMo]

im comfortable with Nitty, mainly due to the fact that they don't have shootouts in the playoffs.

[BigEd76]

Flyers/Sabres on CSN right now.  A win puts us in 1st place in the Atlantic.  Gauthier is #23, Niko is #15

[BigEd76]

Knuble scores...1-0
Kapanen scores shorthanded....2-0

[MDS]

esche sucks

[BigEd76]

Less than 5 minutes into the 2nd period, it's 2-2