Relative to NHL competition there certainly are. Columbus and Ottawa jump to mind right away. Yes any team can lose on any night but that's the nature of competition/ any sport.
Did St Louis jump to mind as Stanley Cup champions ?
There are teams you can certainly expect to make it. Teams like Washington, Carolina, and Nashville were undeniably impressive last season and have begun this season playing very well and without any major subtractions
Sure. Expected. Likely. Good chances. Never guaranteed though.
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Did St Louis jump to mind as Stanley Cup champions ?
At the beginning of the season they were included among the teams many thought would come out of the West. The Blues had an awful start, and an inexplicably bad first half, but once they got rolling I recall that most people took them pretty seriously—in the second half St Louis looked like the team they were supposed to be from the beginning. It wasn't like it was the Oilers or the Coyotes sneaking in on the last day of the year.
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"...harem warfare? like all your wives dressup and go paintballing?"
Good but not great. Flyers were a half chance away or a fluke away from tying it up at 2, even though the Flames generally looked in control all night. A lot of the kudos being handed out here may not have been so forthcoming to the team or to individuals if the Flyers bounced one of those in, without them or the Flames playing any better or worse. Still a fair bit of work to do as a team and as individuals to get that swagger back of last year.
Baby steps though, build some confidence with a win and get players back on track.
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Cracking open a Molson with a side glass of high west double rye on the rocks for the occasion.
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nice choices! I’m just going old school, Jim Beam (regular, nothing fancy) on the rocks, with a splash.
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Drinking a pretty delicious NE Double IPA from Progression Brewing in MA. Good stuff.
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I get that every team gets a week off during the season, and since the season is about 30-some weeks long, somebody gets the week off right at the beginning.
But for the Rags, that’s ridiculous.
Honestly, with all the technology at their disposal, is this honestly the best they can come up with??
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Got to factor in building availability for 31 buildings with most being used for NBA and Concerts. Then add in Lacrosse and Arena football at a couple. That makes things a little more interesting for the people doing the job of making these schedules.
Flyers and Blackhawks really should have played 2 over in Europe. Then came back to the states.
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They've played three games this month. They might be jet lagged or sick, but they should not be fatigued.
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Game hasn’t even started yet & I’m ready for bed.
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We get ****ed over by the scheduling at the beginning of the year, what seems every single year.
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hard to feel invested into this season when it feels like they never play. only less than 2 weeks in and already 4 games in hand on some teams. once they get going on a normal schedule they better go on a roll to take advantage.
Hot Dog Tkachuk
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Kessel v JVR in the next Nathan’s Hot Dog eating challenge.
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Tkachuk: Hold my beer!
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We all know Tkachuk would chug that beer.
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Tkachuk's would be chugging a keg and beating Joey Chestnut and Kobeyashi senseless while chowing down on more hotdogs in an hour than is humanly possible.
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Tkachuk sounds more like a sneeze than a guy
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#### you and your dad Tkchuck.
#### you, Elliott
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Calgary is a good team with bad goaltending.
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Hmm
Where have I seen that before
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Love the guy but Moose is either so hot or so cold.
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Brian elliot in form tonight boys. Over under he gets pulled at 4?
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Flyers winning is the last leg of my $5 parlay to win $50. Don’t #### this up Moose
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moose plz
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Battle of the average tendies tonight
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Elliott gets so weirdly low on faceoffs
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Good veteran icing to slow things down, Moose!
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Elliot blows!!!!
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MOOSE SOFTIE CLASSIC
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Eliott should have had that no rebound regardless
Welcome to Philly, just kidding
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Umm… I am calling it. The Karma around signing a ####ing useless player like Chris Stewart will cause a prolonged losing streak.
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yes, I hope we lose for a month after signing that guy.
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Stewart signed?
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Yep. We all knew it would happen!
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Yay
Let’s sign a guy who can barely keep up with pace of play at the AHL level
Yay
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we need Stewart to chase Tkachuk all over the ice, fail to catch him and take bad penalties all crammed into 4:32 of wasted time
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Chris ****ing Stewart, because hey, you can never have too much trash on an NHL roster.
perhaps if Farabee continues to score at a goal per game pace in LHV, they’ll bring him up for depth after the trade deadline.
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Stewart misses a hit and blocks a shot for Calgary
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If Stewart is out there to make Lucic think twice, but Lucic’s role is to make Stewart think twice, do the two cancel out and everyone is normal? Or are they supposed to stand in front of the benches and stare at each other, thinking in deeper and deeper dimensions until the sun goes supernova?
Hometown Kid
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Who's excited to watch future flyer Johnny Hockey tonight?
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SNIFF THOSE SALTS JOHNNY
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Holy #### he absolutely slammed those salts lmao
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Johnny hockey’s sporting a nice struggle beard.
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Twar for Johnny straight up.
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We need to get Johnny Hockey into orange.
Frolik with some help from Ghost & Braun
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Braun should get an assist for his effort on the goal.
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Jesus Christ, Braun. Blind backhand flip gets picked off at the line and then he washes out his own goaltender. That’s a MacDonald shift right there.
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Ghost...bad decision.
Frolik lost his helmet on our bench. Ghost gives it back to him. If he doesn't, Frolik needs to leave teh ice and the goal doesn't happen.
What ****ty luck is that.
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Braun really ####ed that up effectively
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hmm. that sucked.
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Just grossness allllllll over that goal. I just had Amac flashbacks and I’m sure elliote did too
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Great Braun, great Elliot. Great job. Yes. Great.
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I understand Elliot got bumped there and it threw him off a bit but it looks like he's trying to sell it there instead of focusing on the save first
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The Flyers are playing with their heads up their ass in their own zone.
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Braun turns it over and then continues backing in?
what did I just watch
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Atrocious turnover by Braun, then he trips Elliott. ****ing horrendous.
Icing on the Cake
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Um why do we keep just blindly icing it?
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They don’t know what else to do with the puck
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Hagg icing it like only he can
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5th icing in 4 minutes.
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4 icing in 4:22
Is this intentional?
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this looks like my ****ing Sunday night men’s league game. Good lord
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I mean we can't even complete a ****ing pass.
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This team has no legs. Looking really lazy. Didn’t think i would see this that early in the season.
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Hahahaha
Most of my Flyers memories are from 2006-2019 and that was one of the worst periods of Flyers hockey I have ever seen. Chuck Fletcher is a god damn moron
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Want to know how bad that first period was? The stream is now in the background, and i'm doing my work-mandated online training courses.
Anti-Homer Broadcasters
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Morganti with some killer lines there:
"The Flames should be kicking themselves that they don't have a bigger lead"
Amazing
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Lol. JJ "The Flyers try a... uhhh... [cant believe the #### on the ice] low percentage play"
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JJ: they came early.
Hate when that happens.
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I love when JJ throws shade:
"1st period, that's a penalty. Not here. We're in the 3rd."
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Morganti: "Gostisbehere had a hat trick of mistakes in the period"
If you throw hats for three goals, what should you throw for three mistakes that lead directly to three goals against?
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Just started watching and SN announcers are talking about how bad of a game Ghost has had. Has he been that bad?
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"It's been a sloppy game" that's a bit of an understatement
The Breadwinner
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Welp
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I guess we don't do goals anymore.
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**** me, I just ate some green beans. Gross.
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Flyers gunna Flyer.
Sigh.
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Flyers getting dummied by a Bill Peters coached team, what else is new?
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Bill Peters constantly looks like he just realized his wife and sister are the same person.
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This is ugly, and I mean Kevin Hayes under fluorescent spotlights ugly
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Well done boys
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christ...no luck...went off Sanheim
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Hagg would you like to go get the ****ing puck, do something besides spectate
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I cannot believe how atrocious this team looks
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Basically 2 own goals.
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Ghost: "I don't want to be traded, I have a home here in Philly and will continue to play so I don't get traded."
Also Ghost: Plays like he wants to be traded.
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Oh well
cue the furious 3rd period comeback that comes oh so close before giving up the EN goal
Lindholm into the EN
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It's the city of Brotherly love, and we're united in our hatred. I love you all, I want to love this team but dear lord this is pathetic to the extreme.
That's a clever rhyme btw, ayy.
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Nice move Jake. Idiot
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**** TK...who were you passing to????
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The players weren't good, but these coaches are HORRIBLE.
They finally make a change in the third, but too little too late... and the sabotaging went so much deeper. Absolutely pathetic.
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that EN play sums up the game
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What in the ever living #### was that defense tonight?
Self Deprecating Humor
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Philly is not that good at playing the hockey in the national league
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Philly is like watching the Oilers bottom 6 play 60 minutes
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Get ready for Harlem Globetrotters tomorrow then.
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After watching Philly so far, I will be pi**ed if the Oilers don't outwork the crap out of them.
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Flames play on Oct 31. So does that mean that Johnny misses trick or treating?
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Philly losing tonight means an Oilers loss tomorrow.
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The Flyers should be well rested for tomorrow. They didn't muster much of an effort today. Still held it to 2-1 with their crap goalie in net.
I think they play better tomorrow. Probably anxious to get out of that dirty stench of an arena lol.
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Did St Louis jump to mind as Stanley Cup champions ?
Not sure what this comment has to do with easy games in the NHL. There definitely are relatively easy games and the original comment by scorpion was playoff teams not eventual champions. It's not an impossible task to look at your upcoming schedule and see what the tougher and easier match ups are.
Also, as textcritic mentioned many thought that St Louis was a contender before the season started so if you want to cherry pick this example for whatever you are trying to argue here, it's not the greatest. Expectations change when you play games and they can swing both ways. St Louis started as a contender, was written off and then became a top contender going into the playoffs because they were one of the hottest teams.
At the beginning of the season they were included among the teams many thought would come out of the West. The Blues had an awful start, and an inexplicably bad first half, but once they got rolling I recall that most people took them pretty seriously—in the second half St Louis looked like the team they were supposed to be from the beginning. It wasn't like it was the Oilers or the Coyotes sneaking in on the last day of the year.
Not true. Odds at the start of 18-19 season.
St. Louis Blues: 40/1
Montreal Canadiens: 50/1
Carolina Hurricanes: 60/1
New York Islanders: 60/1
Buffalo Sabres: 66/1
New York Rangers: 70/1
Detroit Red Wings: 75/1
Arizona Coyotes: 80/1
Vancouver Canucks: 80/1
Ottawa Senators: 100/1
These tidy defensive efforts will pay off for CGY. Once the habits are sound (tracking back hard by forwards allows the d to keep tight gaps etc) CGY should force turnovers which can feed the transition.
The discipline and hard work on defensive side will give them chances to utilize the creativity and hockey iq I see up and down the line up. I can just see the confidence grow from these simple plays and that translate to making plays offensively.
They have so many more gears in their game but it needs to be built up with he good habits, then watch out - this team is going to take off like a rocket. Offense and plays through the roof.
St. Louis Blues: 40/1
Montreal Canadiens: 50/1
Carolina Hurricanes: 60/1
New York Islanders: 60/1
Buffalo Sabres: 66/1
New York Rangers: 70/1
Detroit Red Wings: 75/1
Arizona Coyotes: 80/1
Vancouver Canucks: 80/1
Ottawa Senators: 100/1
What's your source? According the bleacher report they had the 10th best odds. How many other teams are tied at 40-1?
What did everyone think of the delayed penalty call on Hanifin? I just rewatched it, and my own feelings from the have been bolstered; it sure looks like he ran into a player with the puck, who was spun around and fell. I thought it was a pretty weak call.
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What did everyone think of the delayed penalty call on Hanifin? I just rewatched it, and my own feelings from the have been bolstered; it sure looks like he ran into a player with the puck, who was spun around and fell. I thought it was a pretty weak call.
For me it was a terrible call, and the players sort of let up waiting for the whistle to blow.
Horrible call or not, the players need to play until the whistle. Get possession, get a whistle, and kill the penalty. Don't stop skating. Hope they learned a lesson tonight.
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What did everyone think of the delayed penalty call on Hanifin? I just rewatched it, and my own feelings from the have been bolstered; it sure looks like he ran into a player with the puck, who was spun around and fell. I thought it was a pretty weak call.
I was at the game and didn't have much for replays to properly assess every one, but I thought that every single call on both sides tonight were weak.
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I think Flyers fans' comments when their team is losing are the funniest of all. St.Louis and Nashville are good too in that regard. But nobody can touch Philly's fans. I enjoy Gaskal's ATL when Flames beat Flyers the most. You read this forum when Flames are down and it's all doom and gloom, no jokes. Over there - not as much.
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