That's because Tortorella is a defensive coach and will always cater to defense. It's just more ineptitude. Similar to his epiphany of pondering over the Summer that the Flyers need to score more dirty goals. It took a coach of his experience level to have to think about it over the Summer. What tools might be at a coaches disposal that would give him that information in real time? Same tools that would tell him that Cates is a better winger than center. The game has passed him by. - MJL
That's because Tortorella is a defensive coach and will always cater to defense. It's just more ineptitude. Similar to his epiphany of pondering over the Summer that the Flyers need to score more dirty goals. It took a coach of his experience level to have to think about it over the Summer. What tools might be at a coaches disposal that would give him that information in real time? Same tools that would tell him that Cates is a better winger than center. The game has passed him by. - MJL
Well, I see you are in midseason form. Torts says Hi!!
Location: “How many times is she gonna ask this f'n question?”, NT Joined: 12.09.2006
Oct 11 @ 12:46 PM ET
Well, things change in life. AmIrite? Still trying to figure out how a horribly run Flyers organization had all that success from 1985-2005! - Phillywhiteout
So you admit they have been unsuccessful for the last 20 years.
Q: How successful have they been in the salary cap era?
I like Michkov with konecny. He’s far better than Tippett. Get him with our very best. To me unless Tippett drastically changes Michkov will waste away on his line he doesn’t see the ice well enough to play with him
So you admit they have been unsuccessful for the last 20 years.
Q: How successful have they been in the salary cap era?
A: Not very - corduroy
I can't really argue that the Flyers as an organization have not handled the cap era well. Aside from the 2008 run to the Conference finals and the 2010 run to the Finals, it has not been pretty. No sugarcoating that. The last 12 years have been brutal, but that dude said that they have been inept since the 1970's and that simply is not correct.
Seeler suffering two injuries since signing his four year extension was very predictable. It's a lot of term for a 30-something #5 dman whose main skill is getting hit by the puck. I wonder if he manages to play more than the 176 games Grossman played on his 4-year contract before he was dumped in Arizona. - Feanor
Of Seeler's career 595 blocked shots over 430 of them have come as a member of the Flyers. He's done what he needed to do to get paid and now we will see what toll that takes on a 31.5 yr old body.
The contract extension is questionable but the Flyers place to much value on their culture guys.
I said they haven't been ahead of the curve since the 70's.
You chose to interpret that as they've sucked since the 70's.
This has been a team that's split its attention between trying to rekindle the BSB and trying to copy other teams' homework for the past 50-years. - Tomahawk
And yet they easily could have won 3-5 more Cups since 1975? Hmmm...
Well, things change in life. AmIrite? Still trying to figure out how a horribly run Flyers organization had all that success from 1985-2005! - Phillywhiteout
I'm not shocked that this has to be explained to you but who has said that the Flyers organization was horribly run between 1985-2005?
I like Michkov with konecny. He’s far better than Tippett. Get him with our very best. To me unless Tippett drastically changes Michkov will waste away on his line he doesn’t see the ice well enough to play with him - Just5
Tippet won’t be the one with the puck. But he’s certainly more of a rush producer than a cycle guy. Michkov works well in zone
Location: Driver's Seat: Mitch Marner bandwagon. Grab 'em by the Corsi. Joined: 02.04.2009
Oct 11 @ 1:53 PM ET
You don't have to be a head of the curve to win cups. - mickel25
Yup, a garden variety team can go on a heater (like STL did in '19) and win a Cup. Lucky breaks, goaltending, favorable matchups, injuries... everything could break in your favor.
That's not something you can expect to happen and build your team around tho. Which makes Danny recently citing the Blues as a model for their "rebuild" so funny.
