2014-15 Flyers Season I: Hey, this looks like last year

by **BigEd76** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 23:40:25

shut out by the backup goalie

by **ReadingPhilly** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 23:41:07

BigEd76 wrote:shut out by the backup goalie

First flyers game?

by **Napalm** » Wed Nov 19, 2014 23:44:08

CalvinBall wrote:Had a good run. Flyers suck ass.

what good run

by **CFP** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 00:00:10

Napalm wrote:
CalvinBall wrote:Had a good run. Flyers suck ass.

what good run

'74-'75

by **CFP** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 00:01:12

Frank Seravalli ‏@frank_seravalli

Ron Hextall can be heard screaming from changing room. "That's f---ing embarrassing! Jesus f---ing Christ!" and slammed door.

by **CalvinBall** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 00:19:02

Napalm wrote:
CalvinBall wrote:Had a good run. Flyers suck ass.

what good run

Got a few points on the road unexpectedly a few weeks back.

by **momadance** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 01:45:41

CFP wrote:
Frank Seravalli ‏@frank_seravalli

Ron Hextall can be heard screaming from changing room. "That's f---ing embarrassing! Jesus f---ing Christ!" and slammed door.

At least one of the beats broke a story. Success.

by **LongDrive** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 08:32:19

Good for Hexy.

by **heyeaglefn** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 08:53:01

Maybe if he did it at one of the intermissions they could have won.

by **uncle milt** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 09:10:23

hexy should play defense

by **rolex** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 09:56:30

CFP wrote:
Frank Seravalli ‏@frank_seravalli

Ron Hextall can be heard screaming from changing room. "That's f---ing embarrassing! Jesus f---ing Christ!" and slammed door.

Hextall can look in a mirror if he wants to see who to blame. He's the guy who hires/fires coaches and elevates/demotes players.
There is so much wrong with this club that it's hard to figure out where to begin. The best place is probably with Berube and the coaching staff. Injuries matter but the performance of too many guys is regressing. Some of this will shake itself out when the injured defensemen get well but the overall defense is mediocre at best.
It's time to get an experienced coach in here who can create a system that uses the abilities of the roster in a better way. If that's Murray, then he should be brought up from LV. If it's someone from outside of the organization, then they need to be hired.
There needs to be some personnel changes. Laughton looks to have the skills to play at this level. Bringing him up is a start. Could Leier, Straka or Cousins really be worse than what LeCavalier, Akeson, Vandeveld or Umberger are showing right now? Some of these guys need some press box time to sit out and contemplate whether or not they want to play this game or not.

by **CFP** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:00:12

rolex wrote:
CFP wrote:
Frank Seravalli ‏@frank_seravalli

Ron Hextall can be heard screaming from changing room. "That's f---ing embarrassing! Jesus f---ing Christ!" and slammed door.

Hextall can look in a mirror if he wants to see who to blame. There is so much wrong with this club that it's hard to figure out where to begin. The best place is probably with Berube and the coaching staff. Injuries matter but the performance of too many guys is regressing. Some of this will shake itself out when the injured defensemen get well but the overall defense is mediocre at best. It's time to get an experienced coach in here who can create a system that uses the abilities of the roster in a better way. If that's Murray, then he should be brought up from LV. If it's someone from outside of the organization, then they need to be hired. Then follow that up with some personnel changes. Could Leier, Straka or Cousins really be worse than what LeCavalier, Akeson, Vandeveld or Umberger are showing right now? Some of these guys need some press box time to sit out and contemplate whether or not they want to play this game or not.

Voracek, Giroux, and Simmonds are having nice years.

We are giving actual minutes to Carlo Colaiacovo. How could you possibly blame Berube for this? Hextall just got here, too, and it's already his fault? Could we give him more than a few months? Jeez.

by **CFP** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:03:36

And if you're going to mention "too many" guys regressing, you're not going to give any credit to the staff for the development of Raffl, the automatic fitting in of Bellemare, and making Nick Schultz look like a competent defenseman?

by **Brantt** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:09:04

rolex wrote:
CFP wrote:
Frank Seravalli ‏@frank_seravalli

Ron Hextall can be heard screaming from changing room. "That's f---ing embarrassing! Jesus f---ing Christ!" and slammed door.

Hextall can look in a mirror if he wants to see who to blame. He's the guy who hires/fires coaches and elevates/demotes players.
There is so much wrong with this club that it's hard to figure out where to begin. The best place is probably with Berube and the coaching staff. Injuries matter but the performance of too many guys is regressing. Some of this will shake itself out when the injured defensemen get well but the overall defense is mediocre at best.
It's time to get an experienced coach in here who can create a system that uses the abilities of the roster in a better way. If that's Murray, then he should be brought up from LV. If it's someone from outside of the organization, then they need to be hired.
There needs to be some personnel changes. Laughton looks to have the skills to play at this level. Bringing him up is a start. Could Leier, Straka or Cousins really be worse than what LeCavalier, Akeson, Vandeveld or Umberger are showing right now? Some of these guys need some press box time to sit out and contemplate whether or not they want to play this game or not.

100% dead on.

They need to wait until Toronto fires Randy Carlyle and bring him in here. He's one of the best coaches in the league.

by **heyeaglefn** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:09:48

Yeah the blame for this year still goes to Homer.

by **CFP** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:10:46

The Umberger trade really looks like a total flop, but Lecavalier was Homer's idea. Not sure Berube/Hextall had anything to do except give him some sort of chance to sort it out. If he doesn't, they'll get rid of him.

by **heyeaglefn** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:11:55

rolex wrote:
CFP wrote:
Frank Seravalli ‏@frank_seravalli

Ron Hextall can be heard screaming from changing room. "That's f---ing embarrassing! Jesus f---ing Christ!" and slammed door.

Hextall can look in a mirror if he wants to see who to blame. He's the guy who hires/fires coaches and elevates/demotes players.
There is so much wrong with this club that it's hard to figure out where to begin. The best place is probably with Berube and the coaching staff. Injuries matter but the performance of too many guys is regressing. Some of this will shake itself out when the injured defensemen get well but the overall defense is mediocre at best.
It's time to get an experienced coach in here who can create a system that uses the abilities of the roster in a better way. If that's Murray, then he should be brought up from LV. If it's someone from outside of the organization, then they need to be hired.
There needs to be some personnel changes. Laughton looks to have the skills to play at this level. Bringing him up is a start. Could Leier, Straka or Cousins really be worse than what LeCavalier, Akeson, Vandeveld or Umberger are showing right now? Some of these guys need some press box time to sit out and contemplate whether or not they want to play this game or not.

He needs to let the young guys get minutes down in the Minors. We don't need another Coots situation. Let them play and develop by getting minutes and playing on the PP. Also, they are up against the cap so making moves is not as easy as just calling guys up.

by **heyeaglefn** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:13:00

CFP wrote:The Umberger trade really looks like a total flop, but Lecavalier was Homer's idea. Not sure Berube/Hextall had anything to do except give him some sort of chance to sort it out. If he doesn't, they'll get rid of him.

Most indications are they tried to move Vinny this past offseason, nobody wanted him. Can't think another year at this current pace is going to change anyone's mind.

by **rolex** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:17:56

CFP wrote:And if you're going to mention "too many" guys regressing, you're not going to give any credit to the staff for the development of Raffl, the automatic fitting in of Bellemare, and making Nick Schultz look like a competent defenseman?

IDK about Raffl. He started to look good this season but then was hurt. Ten games of good play is a SSS. The same goes with PEB. At times he looks out of position perhaps from being bounced around in the lineup. At best he's a bottom six forward. Schultz is what he is a seventh or eighth defenseman gettin PT due to injuries.
The roster has other issues. Braydon Schenn is not a LW and should be put back to center where he belongs (better yet traded). Coutourier and Read are lost out there. How do you justify having Akeson, VdeV, Jones, on an NHL roster? Finally Jones was sent out and Laughton brought up.
There is a need for a more competent coaching staff that stresses accountability. Some guys need to sit and, in the case of one guy, contemplate retirement. Hextall is in charge now. It's his club. It's up to him to create some solutions.

by **CFP** » Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:34:02

So Raffl's games are too small of a sample size but all of these other guys that are "regressing" that you have cherry-picked is not too small of a sample size to conveniently fit into your argument. Makes sense.

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