Friday Morning Fly By: Well, That was Nice.

Right.

Pelle only played 157 regular season games with the Flyers over 5 seasons (two of which he only played 8 games each). He just didn’t play long enough, regardlessof how you feel about the drunk driving. His number has been basically retired but not been put in the rafters. And I know Ashbee on played in 270 regular season games for the Flyers over 4 seasons, but his memory has helped raise a lot of money for a good cause, so I view that as a special circumstance.

Also, there is a huge difference between perfect people and someone driving under the influence crashing by a school and injuring two other people.

It’s my anti-Caps bias coming out. As a DC native, I’m subjected to alot of Caps swagger. Is it just me or is the upcoming schedule for the Caps looking less challenging (except for a certain game on the 20th). Hopefully, they’ll be overconfident and blow a couple of those games in the next few weeks.

Hahaha, at first I thought the same thing but he actually says funny. Good catch though, I thought I might have needed to add a NSFW tag with it.

I’ll be sporting mine on Saturday, I expect you to be doing the same Detweiler.

I love Carcillos and Giroux. Workin it.

I literally stared at this for 3 straight minutes, it might have been longer but the guy I share an office with came back and asked what the hell I was doing…totally threw off the trance I was in.

Mines going great!! Hahahh I kid. I don’t have one, but I am letting my hair get as big as she wants, its right around jew-fro now

Mines pretty full-on-rapist right now. I trimmed the edges too far, and it just looks awes-ful.

mine is kicking ass, as usual

With a Mustache you either look like a State Trooper, A Porn Star or a Child Molester. That would be fun game to play.

Carcillo – Molester
Pronger – Trooper
Betts – Molester
Carle – Porn Star
Carter – Trooper
Richards – Trooper
Giroux – Porn Star
Hartnell – Porn Star

Um. Not quite.

Thanks everyone.

My point in writing that was not to draw attention to myself or pat myself on the back, for what it’s worth. I just wanted to highlight how complex and misunderstood addiction is. My insertion into the story was solely to add credence to what I was saying. I hope I didn’t come across as Mr. (Formerly) High-and-Mighty, because that wasn’t my intent.

Thanks again.

On another note, let’s go Flyers! I’m going to eat at the Green Rock Tavern tomorrow night after my studio session. Last time I was there when the Flyers played the Panthers:

• David Booth got knocked the f*** out;
• JVR scored his first NHL goal; and
• The Flyers won 5-1.

Hopefully, the Flyers win by a similar score, and JVR scores if he makes the lineup. I wish no harm to David Booth.

I see JVR’s draft as the poor man’s #1 and #2 from 2005 draft class (Corsby, and Ryan). Ryan came from Major Juniors, which, I would argue, better prepares you for the NHL, and Ryan still required some AHL seasoning before he came up to the NHL permanently. Ryan spent 2 years in Juniors after he was drafted, the spend the equivalent of 1 year in the AHL. After JVR was drafted, he spent two years at UNH, and had a 7 game stint in the AHL. The kid still needs some time, especially before anyone calls him a bust.

Completely agree. Very few sophmores don’t go through slumps. Just from watching him it seems to me he is trying to play like others on the team and get way too fancy which is understandable when in a slump. He just needs to get back to playing his game.

To add to my Ryan point, I think Bobby developed very fast for a power forward.

It’s not a matter of just time. His hockey maturity and general pro hockey IQ is behind what some of the players you mentioned where when they started. The only exception maybe LeClair but lets face it he “became a premier goal scorer” playing next to one of the best players of that entire era. When three out of five players are constantly paying sole attention to one player it opens a ton of space and time. He had the skills to finish but the curve was skewed.

If Panaccio is to be believed, the team is about to throw a 10-year, $60 to $63 million deal his way. Sounds like Jeff isn’t going anywhere.

There is no way Leino signs for $1.6.

* "There is talk within the organization" whether both Shelley and Carcillo are necessary.
* Darroll Powe may also not be brought back.

Why?

I understand the Shelley / Carcillo deal, but Powe brings a lot of versatility to the table. He’s like a smarter Derrick Smith. You need guys like that in order to win.

Am I a lazy reader?

Let’s do the math:

Add: Carter at $6 million, Leino at $1.6 (No way, BTW)

Don’t re-sign anybody else.

Waive Matt Walker, LTIR Laperriere.

That leaves $4 million to sign 5 players.

CAPGEEK.COM CAP CALCULATOR

FORWARDS
Ville Leino ($1.600m) / Daniel Briere ($6.500m) / Scott Hartnell ($4.200m)
James Van Riemsdyk ($1.654m) / Jeff Carter ($6.000m) / Claude Giroux ($3.750m)
Andreas Nodl ($1.000m) / Mike Richards ($5.750m) / Michael Testwuide ($0.900m)
Ben Holmstrom ($0.750m) / Blair Betts ($0.700m) / Darroll Powe ($0.925m)
Jody Shelley ($1.100m)

DEFENSEMEN
Matt Carle ($3.437m) / Chris Pronger ($4.921m)
Braydon Coburn ($3.200m) / Kimmo Timonen ($6.333m)
Andrej Meszaros ($4.000m) / Kevin Marshall ($0.845m)
Oskars Bartulis ($0.600m)

GOALTENDERS
Sergei Bobrovsky ($1.750m) /Michael Leighton ($1.550m)

CAPGEEK.COM TOTALS (follow @capgeek on Twitter)
(these totals are compiled using the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $59,400,000; CAP PAYROLL: $61,467,262; BONUSES: $2,222,500
CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $155,238

You re-sign Nodl at $1mil ($150k raise), Powe at $925k ($200k raise), call up Holmstrom, Testwuide, and Marshall, and you have $155k in cap space. If the cap goes up, you can give that excess to Leino (since there’s no way he signs for that cheap).

No more three scoring lines – which I’m okay with – but hell. I don’t think people will be happy with that lineup.

Team is preparing a 10-year, $60 to $63 million deal for Carter.

NO! A thousand times! Sign him for 3-5 years at $4.5-5 mil. Or TRADE HIM PLEASE!

He thinks Leino should get a $1.5 to $1.6 million, 3-year deal.

Someone tell Panaccio to wake the fuck up and join the real world. I hope Leino only wants $1.5 mil. but I will be absolutely stunned if he gets less than $2.5 mil.. How does Panaccio have a job reporting on hockey? Baffling.

Unsure if Zherdev will be back next year.

Not surprising. Zherdev has so much talent but he just cannot seem to make everything click. Unfortunately, they won’t have $ to sign a legit replacement for him (whether that is a scorer or a defensive specialist) and we’ll be stuck with someone like Testwuide. Gag.

"There is talk within the organization" whether both Shelley and Carcillo are necessary.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I love how the organization only just realized this. Fucking idiots!

Darroll Powe may also not be brought back.

AHH! I am going to pull my hair out. Recipe for disaster. Lets let go of one our best penalty killers, has chemistry with Betts and comes cheap as shit considering what he does for this team.

Mustache aficionados city-wide have a 100% chance of being sad.

Unless he has some extraordinary rest of this season and makes himself irreplaceable or takes a serious pay-cut to play in Philadelphia, I’d say he is 99% gone.

I love squeezy mustaches as much as the next 17 year old high school girl who is obsessed with ugly hockey players but I would rather the Flyers retain any other player, except Shelley, than Carcillo.

Sorry Carrie :( haha