The Official Philadelphia Flyers Thread

PureandEasy

81 wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

81 wrote:

I'm so sick of the name Lindros.

Should have never made that trade.

Than again, Bobbie could barely go a week without making some half ass trade.

yes it must suck to hear the name of the most talented player in franchise history. what could have been if he played in this era of open ice hockey, his head wasn't mush and clarkie didn't hate his parents.

and what could have been if they kept the players they traded, which, oh btw included a healthy Forsburg

I'm confused 81, you live in Chicago, but seem to know a hell of a lot about Philly sports, are you a transplant?

81

PureandEasy wrote:

I'm confused 81, you live in Chicago, but seem to know a hell of a lot about Philly sports, are you a transplant?

grew up in NW Ohio. When i started following hockey, i ended up on the Flyers bandwagon, mostly due to Hextall. In my town we got almost zero coverage of any team on tv or in the paper. It's weird, and some would call me a fraud.

Johnny Abruzzo

pjhawks wrote:

i like him as a player but never have been a fan of his personality. always thought he was a douche as well. this just confirms it., although him and carter's personalities pretty much fit in at douche-ville nova (no offense jaegs).

and let's have another ceremony honoring clarkie. yea i know it's to give him the spectrum banner and all but jeez come on. why don't we raise a banner with all the years he screwed us and lindros by signing shitty goalies. i hope everyone in the front rows tonight where's Lindros jerseys just to piss him off.

Let's honor him for getting rid of Brad McCrimmon for nothing and crippling the 1987 team. :twisted:

81

just stumbled across this.

Flyers Legend Bobby Clarke was dubbed "Trader Bob" during his stint as the Flyers
General Manager thanks to his penchant for making several trades each season, the majority of which occured right before the trade deadline.



Last night, Clarke, who is currently employed as the Flyers Senior Vice President, proved that nickname still held true when he evidently had a few too many drinks and started calling several different NHL General Manager's on his cell phone, asking if they would be interested in trading any of their players to the Flyers in exchange for his wife.


"My cell phone rang around midnight and Bob's name came up on the caller ID," explained Calgary Flames General Manager, Darryl Sutter. "I hadn't talked Bob for a while so I figured he was calling to catch up. But when I answered, Bob was giggling and slurring his speech and obviously drunk. I asked what he wanted and he said something about having a great trade in mind. When I asked what it was, he said, "Jerome Iginla straight-up for my wife." I laughed and said I had to go. Clarkey seemed to get very agitated and said, "Wait, I'm dead serious, Darryl. Make a deal with me, please, for the love of God!"


Thirteen other NHL General Manager's verified that Clarke called them at least once between midnight and 1:30 AM last night. None of the other GMs answered their phones, but all thirteen confirmed that Clarke left a long, rambling message begging them to make a trade that included
his wife.

PureandEasy

81 wrote:

PureandEasy wrote:

I'm confused 81, you live in Chicago, but seem to know a hell of a lot about Philly sports, are you a transplant?

grew up in NW Ohio. When i started following hockey, i ended up on the Flyers bandwagon, mostly due to Hextall. In my town we got almost zero coverage of any team on tv or in the paper. It's weird, and some would call me a fraud.

I wouldn't call you a fraud, I was born in Massachusetts and was raised a Red Sox fan, but when we moved to this area, there was no cable, so if you wanted to watch baseball, you had to watch the local team.

Hence my absolute DEVOTION to my Phillies

Phantom Pain

81 wrote:

just stumbled across this.

Flyers Legend Bobby Clarke was dubbed "Trader Bob" during his stint as the Flyers
General Manager thanks to his penchant for making several trades each season, the majority of which occured right before the trade deadline.



Last night, Clarke, who is currently employed as the Flyers Senior Vice President, proved that nickname still held true when he evidently had a few too many drinks and started calling several different NHL General Manager's on his cell phone, asking if they would be interested in trading any of their players to the Flyers in exchange for his wife.


"My cell phone rang around midnight and Bob's name came up on the caller ID," explained Calgary Flames General Manager, Darryl Sutter. "I hadn't talked Bob for a while so I figured he was calling to catch up. But when I answered, Bob was giggling and slurring his speech and obviously drunk. I asked what he wanted and he said something about having a great trade in mind. When I asked what it was, he said, "Jerome Iginla straight-up for my wife." I laughed and said I had to go. Clarkey seemed to get very agitated and said, "Wait, I'm dead serious, Darryl. Make a deal with me, please, for the love of God!"


Thirteen other NHL General Manager's verified that Clarke called them at least once between midnight and 1:30 AM last night. None of the other GMs answered their phones, but all thirteen confirmed that Clarke left a long, rambling message begging them to make a trade that included
his wife.

Clarkie's a mess

I would see him occasionally down AC gambling...little fucker he is

Phantom Pain

I agree Clarke handled the whole Lindros situation horribly...Lindros was a baby though

Cut the Umbilic Cord already...one of my favorite Flyers of all-time though

I will give Clarke credit he always tried his best to get a winner here...a lot of flops with late season acquistions but he always tried to get this team over the top

i don't mind them giving him another honor

One helluva Captain.....2 cups....

81

Bob was fine as a player, as a gm, not so much. I couldnt stand him as the gm.


Anyways, predator annoucers are putting me to sleep

81

Cheap call for the preds on the non call.

League owed us a few after that pitt non goal last year

Phantom Pain

All my sites to watch the games online while Im at work have been busted by the feds

81

Good up and down game

https://gamecenter.nhl.com/nhlgc/secure ... :gcl:rdbtn

Phantom Pain

Stop rubbing it in

Phantom Pain

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

$17 :shock: :!:

I was gonna put something about $167 in my signature, but my wife might find out about it then... :shifty: :shh:

I'm sure amazon will have this for about $30 cheaper too, with free shpping. Stupid.

WOW...you went for it all !

I couldn't justify it to myself...although I almsot did

Hopefully the PJ20 show is near by and I'll hit that up instead

81

What a possesion/goal

Phantom Pain

Need to lock Leino up ASAP

81

neilly must still be in the air. haven't heard any foot steps tonight. :P

on the other side, Pens are only a few points back.

eeriepadave

nice solid win.

Phantom Pain

81 wrote:

neilly must still be in the air. haven't heard any foot steps tonight. :P

on the other side, Pens are only a few points back.

And they're doing it without Crosby and a healthy Malkin

pjhawks

Phantom Pain wrote:

All my sites to watch the games online while Im at work have been busted by the feds

yup i used to watch some hoops games on those sites, thank god homeland security is keeping us safe by keeping us from watching games on the internet. just the intended purpose of that organization don't you think?

the sad part about Clarkie's GM time is that at the time there was no salary cap and the Flyers were one of the richest teams. at the time they could have bought studs like the Phils are now doing but Clarkie was such a jealous prick he hated giving guys big deals. loved his muckers and grinders though. in my mind clarkie absolutely cost them at least one cup by being a lousy gm.

Holmgren best deal might have been getting Laviolette. I was about 95% sure the Flyers were winning last night mostly because the guy just doesn't let bad games become losing streaks.

81

Lavy nice pick up.

From a player perspective, there have been a bunch of nice deals
Leino for Tollesfen and a 5th rounder
Meszaros for a second rounder
Matt Carle for a bunch of nobodies
Timonen and Hartnell for a first rounder
Coburn for Zhitnik

i didn't include Pronger, because they gave up a ton to get him.


on the bad side
Gagne for Walker and a 4th rounder. But this was obviously done for salary cap reasons so livable.

http://www.flyershistory.com/cgi-bin/trade.cgi


funny article from over the summer saying how bad all the off season moves were.

http://philly.sbnation.com/2010/7/10/15 ... n-what-are