Thursday Morning Fly By: Gus Goes to L.A.

I like it. The evenings are too boring without anything to read from here haha

Second. Earliest. Fly By. Ever.

Yeah, even as a baseball smoe, I conceded to the Flyers. The odds were just astronomical. And once you framed it in the context of that rollercoster, injury laden season which came down to a Boosh save in a shoot out….I mean come on, I lost a few year of my life courtesty of Team Defib- Abilify.

It’s been done three times in the NHL actually, us, the 1975 Isles, and the 1942 Leafs. Dirty Sox being the only non-NHL team to accomplish the feat.

haha, good man.

I love the smell of goalie controversy in the morning.

Ughh. Change the goalies when they’re the problem. They weren’t last game.

haha, honestly, that joke was something I realized after I wrote it. Then I chuckled to myself and kept it in.

what is?

Jody Shelley left his wallet in El Segundo

 
would be a great line in a song.

We let DeSerres go by the way

We interviewed John Paddock over the summer, focusing specifically on the goalies.

This is what he said on Kovar:

“He has to improve and continue to improve and he takes the next steps after that. So we’re going to wait and see with him and hopefully he can play more and get going along with the recovery road a little bit for his injuries and progress towards playing pro hockey,” Paddock said.

But after being drafted four years ago, is there a time limit on how long he stays property of the Flyers? Paddock answered, “I’m not sure of his age or whatever, but at some point you have to make a decision. I don’t know whether it’s next year or two years from now, I’m just coming to the organization, this will be my third year, and second as a manager, I’m not sure what year he was drafted. It’s not an indefinite time, that’s changed, so sometime in the next year or two he’ll have to give us some reason to move ahead and we’ll have to do that if that’s the case.”

Now, maybe Paddock has just never been asked about Kovar before, but when you pull out the “this is only my third year in the organization” card to explain why you don’t know much about the player, that’s generally not a good sign. If Kovar can’t unseat Roman Turek this year, he’s likely done in the Flyers organization.

Good news? They have to know about him at this point.

Eriksson had a rough start to his SEL career, started adjusted, but he hasn’t played since Dec. 11th. Teemu is your guy for updates on him.

No update on Backlund I’m aware of.

It’s tough to judge Riopel behind such a crappy team, but he just go this first AHL shutout, even though he gets hung out to dry by his defense a lot. Good news? His save percentage is barely below Backlund’s.

I have idea about Morrison, which kind of makes me sad. Travis interviewed him awhile ago, so I wonder if he can answer that question.

No idea why they signed Stewart, but I think they grabbed him last year due to Backlund being with the Flyers and the Phantoms needing guys to finish their season. Why the NHL contract? No idea. I think Tim McManus or Paddock (in our interview) said something about him having good natural ability, but needing to learn the game. A project, if you will.

And yes, DeSerres was let go.