Not saying that it wouldn’t make sense, the Flyers have made the decision to go to a, in Holmgren’s words, “an uptempo and physical team” (kinda hashed his words but you get the point). The addition of Bertuzzi is just piece of this puzzle that we are putting together, I was just more surprised that there weren’t more positive things being said about this considering that he was a wanted player here in Philly. (out of what is available player wise and cap room)

I do like the fact that we are hunting down a player like Bertuzzi to fill in for Knuble’s skates. Granted like chrislanci posed, not as much offense probably but good size and can still put pucks in the net…so why not? He is younger, got good size and physicality, and would probably settle for a cheap deal seeing how Philly is gearing up to make a Stanley Cup run….I don’t think ‘the Pitt’ will get off so easy this coming season.

If Bertuzzi does sign on the cheap, and if he puts up 15 goals on the 3rd line next year, that would be fine. Not that I want him to sign here, but that would be acceptable.

Bert has to realize that his best days are far behind him. Part of his problem last year was playing for Mike Keenan, who used him far too often. The Calgary media called him on it, too. He gave some BS excuses like “Bertuzzi is so talented that he’s going to draw two defenders toward him and open up the ice for the other players! Why not use him for half of the game?”

I understand Homer wanting a veteran presence on the team but I really don’t think this is the way to go.