Friday Morning Fly By: Who Doesn't Want to Make Avery Bleed?

by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 3, 2010 10:42 AM EST in Morning Fly By

Today's open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes...

The Flyers have only scored three goals in their last three games: [CSNPhilly]
Peter Laviolette reflects on his one year in Philadelphia: [Daily News]
The Flyers filmed a commercial yesterday where they go 82-0, so they never shave during the season. Images: [Frequent Flyers]
A story about Denis Hamel attempting to ~~save~~ get a contract with the Phantoms. [The Hockey News]
Stefan Legein took 16 stitches in his mouth [stefanlegein] but it's his desire to make Sean Avery bleed that got my attention: [stefanlegein]
Edmonton fans saying Toronto deserves another team? And they're serious? [The Copper & Blue]
Looking at the NHL's appearances on game shows: [Down Goes Brown]
Free Sunday morning? Why not come play some hockey? The BSH Pick Up game is this Sunday: [BSH]

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I think Edmonton fans are just trying to piss off Maple Leafs fans by polluting the market.

by Snevik on Dec 3, 2010 10:56 AM EST reply actions

That article is claiming for more teams around Toronto, specifically Southern Ontario.

A second team in Southern Ontario, whether in Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton or Burlington, will be one of the most profitable teams in the league.

Makes sense to me the fact there are more NHL teams in the state of Florida than in Ontario makes no sense whatsoever.

Plus the more teams you put in Canada means more disappointment for Canadians when their country doesn’t win the Cup.

by chrislanci on Dec 3, 2010 10:57 AM EST reply actions

Uhh, same number of teams in Florida (2) as there are in Ontario (2).

by Phalange on Dec 3, 2010 1:31 PM EST up reply actions

Well, there are 3 NFL teams in Florida…

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 1:42 PM EST up reply actions

Am I missing one? There are three in California.

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by Mike B on D on Dec 3, 2010 1:52 PM EST up reply actions

Hooked on phonics failed me. total misread on my part.

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by Mike B on D on Dec 3, 2010 1:53 PM EST up reply actions

Lol, that’s fine.

There are 3 in CA. Both in the NHL and NFL.

4 NBA teams. And 5 MLB teams.

Yeah, that’s a lot, and I thought the NYC area had a lot with 2 of each except 3 NHL teams.

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 1:59 PM EST up reply actions

My bad but still that is 2 too many teams in Flordia. Florida sucks for all things professional sports.

by chrislanci on Dec 3, 2010 3:31 PM EST up reply actions

But they LOVES them some Nascar!

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by Mike B on D on Dec 3, 2010 4:01 PM EST up reply actions

The Lightning and Panthers are both outdrawing the Devils, the Avalanche, the Blue Jackets, and the Islanders. Why not get rid of one of the New York teams, since they obviously can’t support two?

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by The Dark on Dec 3, 2010 11:12 PM EST up reply actions

someone needs to find a video of that commecial and post it, because those pictures are halarious.

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by jayfire137 on Dec 3, 2010 10:58 AM EST reply actions

+1… I was just thinking the same thing/how long is it going to take to edit the commercial?

And I’m a production nerd and noticed how sick the camera angle/shot was in the 3rd picture when they are looking at the screen.

by JLS89 on Dec 3, 2010 10:59 AM EST up reply actions

That commercial does look funny. They look like they have Amish style beards there.

And Giroux didn’t need any makeup, he just didn’t shave overnight and grew that killer beard that fast, because he’s just that good.

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 1:01 PM EST up reply actions

I can’t wait to see that commercial!!

by JLS89 on Dec 3, 2010 10:58 AM EST reply actions

Can someone copy and paste the Stefan Legein tweet?

"Call me dumb, call me stupid, whatever. I block shots."

by boknows71 on Dec 3, 2010 11:00 AM EST reply actions

really respects sean avery, but really wants to cut him above his left eye with a right hook

That is one of the strangest quotes. Would love to know the reason why Stafan tweeted that.

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by Mitchell Green on Dec 3, 2010 11:01 AM EST reply actions

Not sure why either but I half like it.

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by boknows71 on Dec 3, 2010 11:02 AM EST up reply actions

Maybe he was watching a Rangers game or saw a highlight of one of Avery’s antics. I can understand his desire to punch Avery but it is interesting that he says he also respects Avery. Wonder why?

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by Mitchell Green on Dec 3, 2010 11:04 AM EST up reply actions

Or maybe he was watching our game with the waived off goal with Pronger and said “Boy, if Avery didn’t act like a douche in the playoffs 2 years ago, this goal would have won the game for the Flyers. I’m angry and have to take it out on Avery if I ever meet him on the ice.”

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 1:03 PM EST up reply actions

Mea Culpa, thanks for posting.

"Call me dumb, call me stupid, whatever. I block shots."

by boknows71 on Dec 3, 2010 11:03 AM EST up reply actions

I was writing my comment with the quote block-quoted when you asked for it to be posted. I take you are at work or something and Twitter is blocked? It was eerie how perfectly timed your request was though.

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by Mitchell Green on Dec 3, 2010 11:06 AM EST up reply actions

Yes, I count my blessings when I can still come to BSH and grooveshark.com every day. Music and Hockey get me thru the day @ work!!

"Call me dumb, call me stupid, whatever. I block shots."

by boknows71 on Dec 3, 2010 11:17 AM EST up reply actions

Well, if you are interested in finding a way past your work’s internet blocker I have a pretty fantastic source. There is a guy who has a site where he creates circumventing websites that help you bypass the real website by cloaking with fake URL. He runs the site “for free, to help people get around Internet blocking in totalitarian dictatorships such as China, Iran, North Korea, and high school.” The site is called Peacefire.org. However, that will probably be blocked for proxy avoidance. However, this, this, this and this are a few of the active circumventors. Hope it helps :)

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by Mitchell Green on Dec 3, 2010 11:29 AM EST up reply actions

Thanks, getting iPad soon and life will be changing for me soon.

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by boknows71 on Dec 3, 2010 11:54 AM EST up reply actions

I just asked Stefan Legein about this tweet so hopefully (fingers crossed) we’ll get our questions answered.

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by Mitchell Green on Dec 3, 2010 11:15 AM EST up reply actions

I’m totally going to ask him in AC on Sunday.

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by Travis Hughes on Dec 3, 2010 11:33 AM EST up reply actions

Oh, perfect! Please do! It would be interesting to see him respond to that.

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by Mitchell Green on Dec 3, 2010 11:42 AM EST up reply actions

Here is your answer:

Just got a response from Stefan Legein:

@mitchman88….was watching the rangers game and was thinkin about avery, and i feel like as a pest like him thats the ultimate compliment

So there you guys go . . .

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by Mitchell Green on Dec 3, 2010 8:11 PM EST up reply actions

That commercial scares me. Bad juju.

by SJPhillyVT on Dec 3, 2010 11:14 AM EST reply actions

Which one of you nauggghty chil’ren been messin with the shadown man?

Anyone with a kid under the age of 8 should know what thats from

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by Cillo stache on Dec 3, 2010 3:40 PM EST up reply actions

The Princess and the Frog!

by btowl1818 on Dec 4, 2010 9:19 AM EST up reply actions

new PP units: Briere-Hartnell-Giroux w/Carle/Meszaros; Richards-Carter-Leino w/Pronger/Timonen

Hopefully this will help. I am not going to hold my breath though. It is going to take a lot of work to improve the crapfest that was our PP on Wednesday. Are the only differences that Leino and Giroux are switched and Meszaros replaces Coburn?

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by Mitchell Green on Dec 3, 2010 11:40 AM EST reply actions

Meszaros isn’t replacing Coburn. It’s been Meszaros and Carle all season (2:33 PP min/game and 2:25 PP min/game respectively). Coburn has only averaged 36 seconds of PP time per game this year.

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by DLJr on Dec 3, 2010 11:45 AM EST up reply actions

Mez replaced Coburn at the start of the season. And rightfully so Coburn can’t hit the blind side of the barn with his shot. He has missed the net on 23 shots (3rd on the team) of his 61 directed towards the goal, for 37.87%. For Comparision Carter has missed 49 out of 158 shots for only 31.0%. Mez is at 28.3% almost 10% better than Coburn.

by chrislanci on Dec 3, 2010 12:12 PM EST up reply actions

Nobody stands in front with the Giroux Leino Richards PP group. Carter will probably be front. I still think Richards is best at the point on the PP. However I am not sure which D-Man he should replace as Carle Mez Pronger and Kimmo are all good enough at it nor do I have another forward who should be out there to replace Richards up front. JVR and Zherdev are both weak at puck recovery.

by chrislanci on Dec 3, 2010 12:35 PM EST up reply actions

I think a good unit would have Richie at point with timonen because he would have a better chance of catching up to a break out than Pronger. Then put Pronger in front of the net. The other two players should be from Briere, Zherdev, or Giroux

by phinally on Dec 3, 2010 6:12 PM EST up reply actions

I hope it does help. Doesn’t seem like much of a change but perhaps enough to shake things up.

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 1:05 PM EST up reply actions

Legein

This one caught my eye:

@dannysyvret…its so nice your sending everyone who follows you on twitter a personal christmas message…not many guys like you dave

Does he go from calling Syvret “Danny” to “Dave?” Or is he turning his attention to someone named Dave that no one likes? (i.e., “Not too many guys like you very much, Dave.”)

Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?

by mikefive on Dec 3, 2010 11:52 AM EST reply actions

I think you would need a Ph.D in crazy to understand most of what Legin does, Tweets, and probably thinks. Let us not forget this is the same screwball flake that retired from hockey a couple of years ago.

by chrislanci on Dec 3, 2010 12:03 PM EST up reply actions

Him and Danny go back and forth all the time. It’s pretty hysterical.

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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 3, 2010 12:21 PM EST up reply actions

So Dave is Offensive Dynamo’s nickname ??? I would have figure maybe Paul since Danny tries his best to emulate Paul Coffey.

by chrislanci on Dec 3, 2010 12:29 PM EST up reply actions

I have no idea who Dave is, but I took it as either a backhanded insult or an example of Syvret’s personal christmas message to a hypothetical Dave.

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by Geoff Detweiler on Dec 3, 2010 12:39 PM EST up reply actions

A Hypothetical Dave can be a semi-follow-up to A Serious Man.

Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?

by mikefive on Dec 3, 2010 12:55 PM EST up reply actions

Syrvet is pretty charming on Twitter. I’ll jump on the Dynamo bandwagon.

by Snevik on Dec 3, 2010 12:54 PM EST up reply actions

More brilliance from DGB.

“NOBODY IN PHOENIX ENJOYS WATCHING HOC-EY” had me in stitches.

Lightning strikes once, Hextall strikes twice!

by hintzy64 on Dec 3, 2010 1:15 PM EST reply actions

Haha that is funny.

Also I haven’t read it yet, but he has a scandal flowchart, this has me laughing to no end.

http://www.downgoesbrown.com/2010/11/gary-bettmans-flowchart-for-dealing.html

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 1:29 PM EST up reply actions

I love how it all inevitably leads to “do nothing”.

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by doubleh on Dec 3, 2010 1:55 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah, I think that’s the best part. The chart actually I think got funnier as I read on.

Somebody still needs to make the Flyers suspension chart that was mentioned awhile back.

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 2:00 PM EST up reply actions

I had to do it.

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by hintzy64 on Dec 3, 2010 2:00 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

That’s funny, it actually makes me think of this Family Guy classic:

That was too funny

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 2:06 PM EST up reply actions

Even funnier because the F is already there…

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by hintzy64 on Dec 3, 2010 2:09 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah I know!!

I have loved to play Wheel of Fortune at home, and about 99% of the time I get the puzzle before it’s solved on TV, I want to be on that show someday, when they’ll bankrupt me for being too good (since I swear the wheel’s rigged somewhat, statistically you can’t get that many bankurpts in one game by random chance).

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 2:12 PM EST up reply actions

My son is looking over my shoulder and said, “Hey! That’s ‘Family Guy Jeopardy’!”

I am a bad, bad Mommy.

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by doubleh on Dec 3, 2010 2:21 PM EST up reply actions

And I know he meant Wheel of Fortune, but the fact that he knew it was FG before I did is bad.

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by doubleh on Dec 3, 2010 2:21 PM EST up reply actions

Haha, that’s funny. How old is he?

I was pretty young when I started to watch the Simpsons (like 6 or so), and Ren and Stimpy was on Nick when I was that age too (watching that show as an adult makes me wonder how it was allowed on Nick, but I didn’t get any of the bad stuff when I was young). My mom did well so that I wouldn’t say anything bad, telling me the difference between “grown up words” and not, and I did good in not saying anything bad.

But as long as he isn’t mouthing off and behaving well, you’re a good mommy.

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 2:44 PM EST up reply actions

He’s 4.5. I don’t allow him to use bad words (which is soooo hypocritical if he knew me as a “real person and not his mommy”) and I tell him what’s acceptable and what isn’t when the show is on—I try to use it as a teaching tool, LOL. Basically, every thing they do on the show, don’t do.

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by doubleh on Dec 3, 2010 3:49 PM EST up reply actions

Haha, well that’s a good idea, use the show as a teaching tool and he will know what’s wrong. He will learn what’s right and wrong and he’ll be fine.

But that’s not hypocritical, language is a coming of age thing I believe.

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 3:59 PM EST up reply actions

A+

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by Down Goes Brown on Dec 3, 2010 3:01 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks for stopping by DGB, keep up the excellent work.

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by boknows71 on Dec 3, 2010 3:20 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah man, keep it up. Every story you do has me laughing to no end and makes me come back for more!!

That scandals flowchart was priceless.

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 3, 2010 3:35 PM EST up reply actions

This guy. He’s real? It pisses me off when someone is consistently able to come up with hilarious, ridiculous, funny shit that I feel I should have come up with. Alas, I guess I’m just not hilarious, ridiculous, or funny enough. Although I do have a funny story about running from the cops where I wound up breaking into an abandoned apartment in my complex….but I digress…..

Seriously, does it all come to you at once, or does it take you awhile to piece it together? The hilarity, combined with the intimate knowledge of all things hockey, impresses, and delights me to no end. Fuckin’ A man, you should have your own fucking show.

by Vansteel on Dec 3, 2010 8:12 PM EST up reply actions

::Begins mandatory worship:: WE’RE NOT WORTHY!

by VorAbaddon on Dec 3, 2010 8:17 PM EST up reply actions

I had to…

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by Lindbergh 31 on Dec 4, 2010 4:52 AM EST up reply actions

OMG OMG OMG IT’S DOWN GOES BROWN!!!!

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by PursuitOfLappyness on Dec 3, 2010 8:41 PM EST up reply actions