2009-10 Flyers Season Thread

[Seabiscuit36]

i said all along scoring wasnt an issue with this team, it was all mental.  farging Hartnell got hurt last night, so did Syvret.  One thing i cant stand is how this team doesnt step up when someone makes a dirty hit on a Flyer. 

[PhillyGirl]

some dude was suspended so its all good now.

lol are you ok?

[PhillyGirl]

i said all along scoring wasnt an issue with this team, it was all mental.  farging Hartnell got hurt last night, so did Syvret.  One thing i cant stand is how this team doesnt step up when someone makes a dirty hit on a Flyer. 

Laperrier did last night. His fight was the direct result of that.

Hartnell returned to the game.

[Seabiscuit36]

yeah, but where were they when Syvret got crushed into the boards and injured.  Its the small stuff, they're all over Leighton, i want Pronger to eat peoples face, he's a collassal waste most of the time from a physical standpoint

[ice grillin you]

It's great how they're able to bunch 90% of their scoring into like 20% of their games.

real easy part of the schedule....only good team theyve played lately was pittsburgh an they are in a slump

come playoffs against a good team they wont have the firepower necessary to win

[PhillyGirl]

of course IGY can't just enjoy them playing well.

[ice grillin you]

im actually really enjoying it...like i said my worst nightmare was for them to have to end up giving up a top ten or much higher draft pick

but you have to be realistic as well....this team is nowhere near as bad as they were playing and they are also nowhere near as good as they are playing now

they are just another middle of the road team that if things fall right might win a series or two

[Seabiscuit36]

Their defense is a mess, Coburn has regressed to the point where it may be time to consider giving him a Justin Williams treatment and sending his ass to the AHL until he gets his game back.  He cant make an outlet pass or clear the puck to save his life.  He has all the tools in the world, but somehow completely fell apart in the offseason. 

[PhillyGirl]

I am willing to give Laviolette more time to get them better and better and see where that takes them.

[ice grillin you]

hopefully the playoffs

[PhillyGirl]

[SunMo]

Documentary About The Legendary Championship Hockey Team,

Debuting During The Stanley Cup Playoffs In May

NEW YORK, Jan. 14, 2010 — HBO Sports has begun production on BROAD STREET BULLIES, a documentary about one of pro sport's most polarizing teams, the legendary Philadelphia Flyers Stanley Cup championship squads of the 1970s, it was announced today by Ross Greenburg, president, HBO Sports. This exclusive presentation will tell the backstories of these engaging and colorful athletes, who won back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1974 and '1975 with a bold, aggressive style that sparked controversy and criticism. BROAD STREET BULLIES debuts during the Stanley Cup Playoffs in May.

"This film will explore how a group of characters, who also happened to be an extraordinarily talented collection of hockey players that enjoyed contact on the ice, formed one of the most prominent and controversial teams in pro sports history," said Greenburg. "We are going to re-trace the steps that led to the love affair between the city and the team, and show how to this day these players are revered in Philadelphia and despised elsewhere."

Playing before adoring fans at the Spectrum, the Philadelphia Flyers rose to prominence in the 1970s under the guidance of shrewd coach Freddie Shero. With larger-than-life figures like Dave "The Hammer" Schultz, Bobby Clarke, Bernie Parent, Ed Van Impe, Bill Clement, Rick MacLeish, "Moose" Dupont, Bob Kelly, Joe Watson and Gary Dornhoefer, the team won many games, fought in just about all of them and made numerous enemies. The club's popularity soared as their physically imposing and sometimes bloody style generated headlines across North America.

Although the franchise did not exist until 1967, the team rose to national prominence in just a few short years, and some NHL teams would see their home attendance double when the Flyers came to town. The club became a favorite of other hardscrabble cities and towns where blue-collar communities were taking an economic beating.

In a bizarre twist, singer Kate Smith's rendition of "God Bless America" became the Flyers' good luck charm. Eventually, the team that showcased players with gap-toothed grins, funny hair and goofy nicknames evolved into one of the NHL's elite franchise. In 1976, the Flyers engaged the vaunted Soviet Central Red Army team in the finale of an exhibition series that would do little to ease the cold war tension between the two nations.

The executive producers of BROAD STREET BULLIES are Ross Greenburg and Rick Bernstein; produced by George Roy.

[Seabiscuit36]

awesome

[MDS]

well this is great but hbo really needs to stop with the docs about stories that we already know.

[Munson]

You guys suck for not livening up this thread tonight.


Flyers have been playing broad street bullies hockey the last few games AND winning.

Lotta fighting tonight. Hartnell dropped Avery pretty good, but Avery got on Carcillo a little later.