2011 NHL PLAYOFFS

[Typhoid]

You probably don't see any news about the Flyers like we do.

Granted I don't get the Philly media feed - but I do remember when I did see interviews of him they were sub-par.

he Flyers should have never made him captain when he first joined the team.

Agreed. The fact I was shocked with them trading their Captain away was mroe the fact that if there WAS a problem int he locker roon, or motivationally for him (which clearly both may have been real problems) why was he Captain in the first place, you know. The Captain is the face and voice of your team, if that face and voice don't want to get out on the ice, usually the coach changes the captain prior to trading - but I guess inside the locker room this would make a pretty big statement.


I really like JVR, Hartnell and Giroux. I think they'll be the building blocks of the team for sure.

Simmonds, Shen, and Voracek

Schenn is an amazing 2 way centre - at least during the jrs for Canada, he did pretty damn well. I was surprised LA traded him away, to be honest.

Voracek has the potential to be ridiculously good at scoring out of nowhere, the same way Grabner came out of left field this year. Again, surprised CBJ traded him, too. But I guess with the tandem of Nash and Carter (They got Carter, right?) that's pretty horrifying for any team in the West.

[ZebraRampage]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Agreed. The fact I was shocked with them trading their Captain away was mroe the fact that if there WAS a problem int he locker roon, or motivationally for him (which clearly both may have been real problems) why was he Captain in the first place, you know. The Captain is the face and voice of your team, if that face and voice don't want to get out on the ice, usually the coach changes the captain prior to trading - but I guess inside the locker room this would make a pretty big statement.

We will probably never know what was going on in the locker room, but I doubt Richards was really ever the voice that he needed to be.

Originally Posted by Typhoid

Schenn is an amazing 2 way centre - at least during the jrs for Canada, he did pretty damn well. I was surprised LA traded him away, to be honest.

Voracek has the potential to be ridiculously good at scoring out of nowhere, the same way Grabner came out of left field this year. Again, surprised CBJ traded him, too. But I guess with the tandem of Nash and Carter (They got Carter, right?) that's pretty horrifying for any team in the West.

I should have looked up the new prospects names before typing them here. I wasn't aware that his name was spelled Schenn, but I heard about his play in the jrs on the radio today.

And Carter was indeed traded to the Blue Jackets. The tandem of Nash and Carter will be very high octane.



Well, for the Flyers, I hope that Pronger can stay help and lead this team on with Giroux and Briere as the Assistant Captains. Though Timonen will probably retain he A. If that's the case then I hope Giroux gets the other A and eventually becomes the face of the team when Pronger decides to retire.

[The Germanator]

Now the Flyers overpay Jagr by about 1.5 million for this year. WTF? Ed Snider and Paul Holmgren better know something I don't. I just really don't get it. I thought we might go after Stamkos, but no, we get this...

The old man better still have it.

[Fox 6]

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