Monday Morning Fly By: Pat's a Problem in Phantoms' Palace

Bobs is really looking pretty good lately and is working hard to make himself the full-time starter

He certainly is. Whenever someone like Kimmo Timonen heaps praise upon him, it’s a good thing.

what happens between Boosh and Leighton if both are healthy and ready to play?

One of them gets traded?

Is this really a question? Judging by history this team tosses Boosh to the curb and plays it out with Leighton and Bobs. Then Leights gets hurt again, they call up Backlund and we rotate through Backs and Bobs until Leights is back then when he comes back, Bob goes down because he’s never played in a season this long. Right?

I constantly question whether or not Cowboy Tim Panotch is really of Italian Heritage. That miss spelling almost more offensive that the cast of the Jersey Shore.

/ NOT sarcasm

I love comments like this:

Briere deserves a suspension, big-time. This is worse than all of these alleged "hits to the head"… this was totally premeditated and unnecessary.

Deserves a suspension? Sure. “Totally premeditated?” Not bloody likely. Oh wait, we’re the Flyers, so we’re all naturally evil. We don’t want to win games, we want to kill the opposition. Blah blah blah.

I initially took whiskeyboy’s comment in the Briere thread as sarcasm, but I doubt it.

Usually starting.

They have so many marginal/legal checks to go through for discipline decisions they haven’t gotten to him yet. This is the NHL, it’s like the federal government.

Ugh, M… let’s not go down the “What is a ‘prospect’?” road again. Maroon certainly was a prospect, and he almost certainly was mad he hadn’t made the Flyers yet. Should they have made the team? Almost certainly not, but that doesn’t mean they are “minor league talent” either.

And yes, I would be terribly mad if the club force fed somebody an NHL roster spot because they had to pretend like they didn’t complete screw themselves in recent drafts.

head-hunting blind boarding hit

Sounds like an ad for Six Flags or something. “Are YOU ready for HEAD-Hunting, BLIND-boarding HIT (Nu-metal guitars) after HIT (Nu-Metal guitars) after HIT?” (Nu-metal scream)

Just looked up this “article,” really more of a blurb if you ask me. He also said some interesting things about Maroon in that too. The only usefull peice of info was that the dismissal was because of “behavior,” but didn’t we already know that? Seems to me like the whole thing could have been two tweets and nothing more.

hahaha listen for the boo’s tonight. There is a guy in 124 that hates him. You can hear him booing when watching the game on TV any time Joni touches the puck. It’s pretty hilarious.

Agreed. I miss everything when I’m at school. There wasn’t anything new up during my “higher learning” or computer class, so I couldn’t read them while looking like I’m working.

On the bright side, I get to do this all night

GM Paul Holmgren confirms that Danny Briere has received a 3 game suspension from the NHL… Details to follow shortly.

Wow, that’s more than I thought he’d get. Pretty harsh.

How many games did Matt Cooke get last year? Oh, none, right? Makes sense.

I’m okay with it. I’m very anti using a stick as a weapon, and Danny does it a lot. Hopefully this will make him think twice in the future.

That isn’t surprising. He has to show restraint and control despite what Neilson said to him. Maybe Shelley can get some much earned time on that line now. :-)

I called it!

Come with me to the racetrack today! We’ll put our collective wages on Papa’s Moustache in the 4th!

…for three games at least.

Nope, this organization believes take action first, back track later.

Doesn’t seeking a trade now make less sense than seeking a trade before a very negative, public display of his worth to your organization?

I choose to respond to this in picture form.

Yes, yes it does.

That depends. You got an extra seat?

I would love to be there for this.

Hoping too.

Well…so far we have seen some wonderful hockey and so absolutely dreadful hockey. Not a huge surprise seeing as the Jekyll-and-Hyde Act was what plagued the Flyers last season causing them to scoot into the playoffs at the last possible moment. It remains to be the biggest frustration for us as fans. We know and, occasionally see, the fire power that this team is capable of but, for some unexplainable reason, it only shows up every so often.

Giroux has been spectacular as has been the Ville Leino-Danny Briere-Scott Hartnell line. I think it is pretty easy to say they are the undisputed top line and that they have been one of the brightest spots so far. I have also been quite happy with Darroll Powe and Andreas Nodl, our bottom line players who have filled in wherever needed and done exactly what is expected of them.

Fortunately, the defense has also looked good. There have been some bad breakdowns but otherwise, they have been consistent and solid. Andrej Mezsaros, who was absolutely terrible during the preseason, has looked good. He is still not earning that $4 mil. contract but, the hope would be that he continues to improve and develop into the top tier defender we all hope he can be. Sean O’Donnell has been a wonderful 5th/6th defensmen who can command a good chunk of ice time without making everyone nervous.

The play of rookie goalie Sergei Bobrovsky has been a very welcome addition. Brian Boucher has played quite well, also, but for some reason the the Flyers don’t want to score for him so it looks like he has been crap. We’ll face some serious issues once Leighton comes back from his injury and the Flyers will have to decide if they want to ride an inexperienced, European goalie or a career backup with reoccurring injury issues.

Needless to say, there are A LOT of question marks so far. This team also has a lot to prove, to us as the fans, the front office and management, and to themselves.

This got brought up the other day, but largely ignored. Most people focused on Rinaldo’s name being included.

I totally glanced over Gustafsson’s name initially, so good point on Bourdon and Marshall being omitted.

And the reason it doesn’t seem like a lot is because earlier in the interview Holmgren admitted he has neglected the Phantoms. Well, not quite, but saying it’s his fault the team is so bad.