Loose Ends: Richards, Coyotes, and Marty Turco

I do not want the Flyers to show any interest in Turco. He is a great goalie but when it comes to Playoff time he is just Roman Checkmanek, another goalie who can’t go deep when the pressure is on. Plus, for that cap hit, he is absolutely not worth it.

Couldn’t agree about moving Jones for Turco. But we are stil short a b/u tender, big Dman, and a center that can win a f*cking faceoff. Turco makes to much to make all that happen, unless we can find a way to move Briere (not that I dislike him, just don’t like his contraact) and Lupul. It would be nice to have Knuble back as well (1.5 mil). Everyone wants J-bo but if we make a move on Turco and land him Briere would need to be moved to land him. I’d like to see Giroux on a line with Carter so Lupul I think is expendable, especially if we can move him (with ??) to land a top 10 dman. If Homer could make our team look like;
Hartnell – Carter – Giroux
Gagne – Richards – Knuble
JVR – Pahlson or Grier or Yelle (all ufa, all can kill penalties like a damn, none should be to, to expensive. Just examples there are a few good DF first forwars in ufa)
Nodl – Powe – Asham

Jbo-Sbisa
Timmonen-Parent
Coburn-Carle (if we miss J-co I would go after Komisarek, he can’t beet up Lucic but he is a damn good dman and very physical also some other good vet dmen out there to like Beachemin, Aucoin, Boynton, Gill, Ohlund, etc.)

Turco (or Khabibulin?) There is talk about Fernandez, forget it. To expensive to play in 20 games and get hurt, Lehtonen is no better than Biron or Nitty and carries a bigger price tag, forget him too. I bet they try and get Clemmensen though, not a bad choice if he could keep up what he started off doing last year.

this is the flyers best shot at a cup in the next 1-3 years. take it homer, send lupes and jones [although they probably are fishing HARD for coburn or parent, but use your all knowing and aggressive demeaner and make them accept nate guenin or jones [phantoms prospect who is from what ive seen terrible, but lets lie to dallas about that, they dont have fans there, cup or no cup]

Did any of you see how Dallas started the season? They were horrible, mostly due to Turco’s dismal performance. He got better as the season went on, but he’s not getting any younger. He will be far too expensive as well.

I still say Biron and Anderson, with Backlund as the 3rd guy. Let him adjust to the North American game with the Phantoms. Al Morganti had an interesting proposition last night and said that the Flyers should try to acquire Carey Price from Montreal. Essentially, Morganti said that Price is a good goalie in a bad situation who would be better served playing in a market other than Montreal. I don’t know how I feel about this.

Defensively, I say we go for Komisarek. He is a solid defensive defenseman, which we need. He will also be able to teach Ryan Parent a lot about shutting down the opposition. He won’t be as expensive as Bouwmeester. The fans would probably love him, too.

Picture, if you will:

Timonen-Komisarek
Coburn-Carle
Jones-Parent
Sbisa

That’s a pretty solid defensive core. If we don’t get Komisarek I would be fine with Beauchemin, although he’s not as phyiscal a d-man. I’m also a Flames fan and I’ve seen Adrian Aucoin’s play deteriorate over the past 2 years. No thank you.

I would rather we get a physical guy back there because I think both Coburn and Carle are going to rebound offensively. They’re going to be a dangerous pair to play against. So if that happens and you get your usual production from Timonen, we should be all set from a defensive scoring standpoint. When healthy, Jones can add a bit of offense too: 4 G, 18 A in 66 games during 2006-07, and 5 G, 26 A during 71 games in 2007-08. Parent and Komisarek can’t score, but we wouldn’t need them to do that anyway.

I’ll say something similar to what I said around the trade deadline when we were debating upgrading the goaltending vs upgrading the defense.

A good goaltender can help you in only one facet of the game: keeping the other team from scoring. Furthermore, keeping the other team from scoring has as much to do with your defense and offensive forechecking as it does goaltending. Beyond all that, no position in professional sports is a bigger crapshoot then goaltending. 2-3 years ago J.S. Giguerre was on top of the world, dominating the NHL, leading his team to a Stanley Cup, and raking in a salary over 7 million dollars. now hes the second best goaltender on his team.

Given our cap situation we will really only have room for one major move (if any this off-season). I think that move should be adressing the blue line. a dominant D-man immiedatley helps the goaltending, can help start the rush on offense, and is ultimately more of a sure investment than a goaltender. I’ve been enamored with the prospects of Bouwmeester in philadelphia for god knows how long, It would take some wheeling and dealing but i’m sure it’s doable.

Resign Biron and give him a defensive line up of:

Timonen-Parent
Bouwmeester-Coburn
Alberts-Sbisa.

I all but gurantee you that goaltending won’t be a question mark if we can roll out that blue line next season.

and its not like I hate Briere, I just hate his 6.5 mil. cap hit

I love Pronger and he would look great in an orange sweater, and short term I think he is a better answer than Jbo actually. I bet the Ducks would listen too, they have some moves that need making and they traded for Whitney at the deadline so there defense is pretty stout as is.

CSN just said Jeff Carter has a separated shoulder, requiring surgery. Citing when he was taken down in Game 3 as the hit that did it, that would explain a lot about the “Jeff Carter missing?” question, as well as the “Where were Philly’s top two???”. Hopefully Jeff has a speedy recovery.