The Official Philadelphia Flyers Thread

Johnny Abruzzo

So, do we not get local telecasts for 2nd round any more? All Vs or NBC this series?

fife

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

So, do we not get local telecasts for 2nd round any more? All Vs or NBC this series?

I don't know i get CBC. the best channel to watch hockey

81

fife wrote:

I don't know i get CBC. the best channel to watch hockey

this is a fact.

JK_Livin

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

So, do we not get local telecasts for 2nd round any more? All Vs or NBC this series?

We do not.

pjhawks

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

only way flyers lose this series is if bryz goes totally nutso. flyers in 5 at most.

the giroux goal was an incredible shot. what a blast.

Briere is fucking amazing. no one in philly has ever performed in playoffs like this guy. every year like clockwork.

primeau was out of his mind the year the lost to tampa in the ecf

BrindAmour won the Cup with Carolina. Worst Trade Ever. Primeau had one playoff run and a 5th OT goal to show for his Flyers tenure.

brad mccrimmon trade was the flyers worst ever. but Primeau is the most overrated player in franchise history. the same season he had the great playoff run he scored only like 7 goals in 79 regular season games or something crazy like that. he had more goals in the playoff run.

81

pjhawks wrote:

Lindros trade was the flyers worst ever.

fact

Johnny Abruzzo

Remember journalism???

http://www.csnphilly.com/hockey-philadelphia-flyers/flyers-talk/Flyers-Notes-Briere-reinforces-Mr-Playof?blockID=699315&feedID=704

In all three previous series between the Flyers and Devils, the team that has won Game 1 has gone on to win the series.

Flyers have played the Devils 4 times.

1995, 2000, 2004, 2010. The team who won Game 1 won all 4 series.

Flyers also played the predecessor of the Devils, the Colorado Rockies, in the 1978 Preliminary Round and won the best-of-3 series 2-0.

The Fixer

81 wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

Lindros trade was the flyers worst ever.

fact

I hate when people say this. Lindros rejuvinated hockey in philly the way thome did baseball in philly. If given 100 chances to make that trade I'd do it every single time. if nothing else just to spite the rangers

Johnny Abruzzo

The Fixer wrote:

81 wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

Lindros trade was the flyers worst ever.

fact

I hate when people say this. Lindros rejuvinated hockey in philly the way thome did baseball in philly. If given 100 chances to make that trade I'd do it every single time. if nothing else just to spite the rangers

It wasn't just the Lindros trade that won the Nordiques/Avs the Cup - they already had Joe Sakic & Owen Nolan, and a whole bunch of high draft picks.

Lindros had a lot of great years for the Flyers. The league's refusal to enforce obstruction penalties kept that team from winning a championship. (see the 1995 & 1996 losses to NJ & Fla)

Kind of saw some of that yesterday, actually - hope it doesn't continue this series. :roll:

pjhawks

The Fixer wrote:

81 wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

Lindros trade was the flyers worst ever.

fact

I hate when people say this. Lindros rejuvinated hockey in philly the way thome did baseball in philly. If given 100 chances to make that trade I'd do it every single time. if nothing else just to spite the rangers

agree 100%. Snider built the Wells Fargo Center on the back of Lindros.

81

The Fixer wrote:

81 wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

Lindros trade was the flyers worst ever.

fact

I hate when people say this. Lindros rejuvinated hockey in philly the way thome did baseball in philly. If given 100 chances to make that trade I'd do it every single time. if nothing else just to spite the rangers

it was an aweful trade. they gaive up way to much for one player.

neilybabes86

81 wrote:

The Fixer wrote:

81 wrote:

fact

I hate when people say this. Lindros rejuvinated hockey in philly the way thome did baseball in philly. If given 100 chances to make that trade I'd do it every single time. if nothing else just to spite the rangers

it was an aweful trade. they gaive up way to much for one player.

OH YEA KERRY HUFFMAN AND HEXTALL ..watch out

oh wait forsberg and ricci also

81

Traded by the Quebec Nordiques to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Peter Forsberg, Steve Duchesne, Kerry Huffman, Mike Ricci, Ron Hextall, Chris Simon, Philadelphia's 1993 1st-round draft choice (10th overall), Philadelphia's 1994 1st-round draft choice (10th overall) and $15,000,000.

The Fixer

81 wrote:

Traded by the Quebec Nordiques to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Peter Forsberg, Steve Duchesne, Kerry Huffman, Mike Ricci, Ron Hextall, Chris Simon, Philadelphia's 1993 1st-round draft choice (10th overall), Philadelphia's 1994 1st-round draft choice (10th overall) and $15,000,000.

The flyers weren't winning a cup with just those players. Like Johnny said, colorado had sakic and nolan...not to mention some dude named patrick roy.

Lindros got the flyers to a cup. Things didn't work out there, but the trade did. I agree with pjhawks that the corestates center was built by lindros. I remember going to a game his rookie year. every time he got the puck everyone stood up and watched in awe. the guy was unbelievable...brought meaningful hockey back to philly.

I'd make that trade every time. Even knowing the outcome

81

this is one of those things that people will disagree on forever.

Lindors was great for a short period of time....but you just don't give up that much for a single player. it never seems to work out.

neilybabes86

The Fixer wrote:

81 wrote:

Traded by the Quebec Nordiques to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Peter Forsberg, Steve Duchesne, Kerry Huffman, Mike Ricci, Ron Hextall, Chris Simon, Philadelphia's 1993 1st-round draft choice (10th overall), Philadelphia's 1994 1st-round draft choice (10th overall) and $15,000,000.

The flyers weren't winning a cup with just those players. Like Johnny said, colorado had sakic and nolan...not to mention some dude named patrick roy.

Lindros got the flyers to a cup. Things didn't work out there, but the trade did. I agree with pjhawks that the corestates center was built by lindros. I remember going to a game his rookie year. every time he got the puck everyone stood up and watched in awe. the guy was unbelievable...brought meaningful hockey back to philly.

I'd make that trade every time. Even knowing the outcome

and mats sundin and foote and ....

JK_Livin

Marty is talking about goaltender interference in OT. I bet his brother in law was saying the same thing a few years ago.

Johnny Abruzzo

The Fixer wrote:

81 wrote:

Traded by the Quebec Nordiques to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Peter Forsberg, Steve Duchesne, Kerry Huffman, Mike Ricci, Ron Hextall, Chris Simon, Philadelphia's 1993 1st-round draft choice (10th overall), Philadelphia's 1994 1st-round draft choice (10th overall) and $15,000,000.

The flyers weren't winning a cup with just those players. Like Johnny said, colorado had sakic and nolan...not to mention some dude named patrick roy.

Lindros got the flyers to a cup. Things didn't work out there, but the trade did. I agree with pjhawks that the corestates center was built by lindros. I remember going to a game his rookie year. every time he got the puck everyone stood up and watched in awe. the guy was unbelievable...brought meaningful hockey back to philly.

I'd make that trade every time. Even knowing the outcome

He was so thrilling to watch. Such a force of nature. No one could've foreseen the concussion thing - concussions weren't really an acknowledged issue in 1992.

I still have the Daily News from the day Larry Bertuzzi awarded Lindros to the Flyers "ERIC IS OURS!".

Even when he came back for that NJ series in 2000, with all the rust, he was awesome in that Game 6 while everyone else stood around and watched him.

Johnny Abruzzo

JK_Livin wrote:

Marty is talking about goaltender interference in OT. I bet his brother in law was saying the same thing a few years ago.

Ridiculous. The refs adopted a 1995 strategy in letting the Devils clutch & grab everybody the whole game. Even with 6 PP's there were all kinds of uncalled for penalties on NJ.

JVR wasn't in Brodeur's crease; he was just setting up a screen.

81

JK_Livin wrote:

Marty is talking about goaltender interference in OT.

did he mention his roughing non penalty on JVR?

:roll:

DS1119

fife wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

So, do we not get local telecasts for 2nd round any more? All Vs or NBC this series?

I don't know i get CBC. the best channel to watch hockey

I miss the CBC so much. I watched the games with my Dad every Saturday night growing up. I used to live for the Don Cherry and Howie Meeker segments between periods. On Saturday afternoons they also used to air a Don Cherry show..I think it was called the Grapevine but I may be wrong.

JK_Livin

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

JK_Livin wrote:

Marty is talking about goaltender interference in OT. I bet his brother in law was saying the same thing a few years ago.

Ridiculous. The refs adopted a 1995 strategy in letting the Devils clutch & grab everybody the whole game. Even with 6 PP's there were all kinds of uncalled for penalties on NJ.

JVR wasn't in Brodeur's crease; he was just setting up a screen.

I heard his quote and he said that JVR bumped into his stick unitentionally.

Johnny Abruzzo

JK_Livin wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

JK_Livin wrote:

Marty is talking about goaltender interference in OT. I bet his brother in law was saying the same thing a few years ago.

Ridiculous. The refs adopted a 1995 strategy in letting the Devils clutch & grab everybody the whole game. Even with 6 PP's there were all kinds of uncalled for penalties on NJ.

JVR wasn't in Brodeur's crease; he was just setting up a screen.

I heard his quote and he said that JVR bumped into his stick unitentionally.

And that loaded remark about how the refs wouldn't dare disallow 2 Flyers OT goals in Philly. :roll:

81

JK_Livin wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

JK_Livin wrote:

Marty is talking about goaltender interference in OT. I bet his brother in law was saying the same thing a few years ago.

Ridiculous. The refs adopted a 1995 strategy in letting the Devils clutch & grab everybody the whole game. Even with 6 PP's there were all kinds of uncalled for penalties on NJ.

JVR wasn't in Brodeur's crease; he was just setting up a screen.

I heard his quote and he said that JVR bumped into his stick unitentionally.

DS1119

81 wrote:

pjhawks wrote:

Lindros trade was the flyers worst ever.

fact

I agree. I didn't like it from the stand point the trade only happened because Lindros didn't want to play in Quebec. Hockey players are usually very humble and for this guy to hold the league hostage before even playing a second of NHL hockey was ridiculous.

81

pjhawks

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

He was so thrilling to watch. Such a force of nature. No one could've foreseen the concussion thing - concussions weren't really an acknowledged issue in 1992.

I still have the Daily News from the day Larry Bertuzzi awarded Lindros to the Flyers "ERIC IS OURS!".

Even when he came back for that NJ series in 2000, with all the rust, he was awesome in that Game 6 while everyone else stood around and watched him.

imagine how amazing Eric would be under today's rules. virtually unstoppable. He'd be Malkin but with a lot more desire and effort. to bad he played in the ridiculous clutch and grab, get a one goal lead in the playoffs and could murder someone and not get a penalty call era. depressing to think about. so cool to see Holmgren bring him back for the Winter Classic and have him skate with the team in Toronto. maybe Eric can come back for the parade

JK_Livin

81 wrote:

this is one of those things that people will disagree on forever.

Lindors was great for a short period of time....but you just don't give up that much for a single player. it never seems to work out.

10 years? Or a little less? I remember listening to the court ruling on the radio at work. I liked the trade.

Johnny Abruzzo

pjhawks wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

He was so thrilling to watch. Such a force of nature. No one could've foreseen the concussion thing - concussions weren't really an acknowledged issue in 1992.

I still have the Daily News from the day Larry Bertuzzi awarded Lindros to the Flyers "ERIC IS OURS!".

Even when he came back for that NJ series in 2000, with all the rust, he was awesome in that Game 6 while everyone else stood around and watched him.

imagine how amazing Eric would be under today's rules. virtually unstoppable. He'd be Malkin but with a lot more desire and effort. to bad he played in the ridiculous clutch and grab, get a one goal lead in the playoffs and could murder someone and not get a penalty call era. depressing to think about. so cool to see Holmgren bring him back for the Winter Classic and have him skate with the team in Toronto. maybe Eric can come back for the parade

Not sure how long it will take him to get into the Hall, and how long the animosity will take to subside so we can hang #88 in the rafters. Flyers are so stubborn about retiring numbers.

I saw they made the other banners look all fancy like Mark Howe's.

JK_Livin

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

And that loaded remark about how the refs wouldn't dare disallow 2 Flyers OT goals in Philly. :roll:

I couldn't make out what he was saying at the end. What do you expect from a guy that would bang his brother in law's wife?