Friday Morning Fly By: Flyers win, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!

by Travis Hughes on Mar 19, 2010 10:48 AM EDT in Morning Fly By

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

Last night's NHL scores... Flyers 3, Stars 2 - PIT 3, BOS 0 - STL 4, NYR 3 - CAR 4, WSH 3 (OT) - ATL 6, OTT 3 - TOR 2, NJD 1 (SO) - BUF 6, TBL 2 - PHX 4, FLA 3 (SO) - NSH 5, MIN 0 - VAN 3, SJS 2 - CHI 3, LAK 0
Recaps of last nights win over the Stars from BSH, NHL.com, the AP, CSN, the Daily News, the Inquirer, and Defending Big D.
Boosh rocks. No link, just fact.
Michael Leighton is out for likely the rest of the season. He spoke with the media on a conference call yesterday. [Flyers] [CSN Philly] [The 700 Level] [Frequent Flyers]
The Flyers are third in Corsi percentage, no matter the period. [Behind The Net]
The Flyers signed Colorado College captain Mike Testwuide to a two-year contract yesterday. [Colorado Springs Gazette] ...
... he's 'In A Relationship' with Cornell backup goaltender Mike Garman, despite also listing that's he's 'Interested In: Women.' [Ronnybrook]
Speaking of college hockey, it's conference tournament finals weekend! Twenty teams, five conference titles. Semifinals tonight in the ECAC, WCHA, CCHA, Atlantic Hockey and Hockey East. [SB Nation]
James Wisniewski was suspended eight games. Good. [Puck Daddy]
Will Jacob De Serres be the guy the Brandon Wheat Kings turn to in the playoffs? [Luber's Lounge]

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So is this Testwuide the first openly gay professional athlete or is it a joke?

by EREX21 on Mar 19, 2010 10:55 AM EDT reply actions

I’m sure it’s just a joke

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by Travis Hughes on Mar 19, 2010 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions

I was just curious. I could careless one or the other but I know how facebook is.

by EREX21 on Mar 19, 2010 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, lots of people joke around like that on Facebook

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by Travis Hughes on Mar 19, 2010 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions

Is this signing using up that 1 contract we’ve all been discussing?

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by HockeyOutsiders on Mar 19, 2010 11:03 AM EDT reply actions

I believe its another contract for next year, like the two that they signed at the trade deadline.

by MarioD on Mar 19, 2010 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions

This may have been posted, but what is wrong with Backlund(not sure what he injured and how bad) and will he be called up once he gets his legs under him.

by You don't have to be sweet, to be good on Mar 19, 2010 11:16 AM EDT reply actions

There was a fanshot on the front page saying it was a groin pull and they’re hoping he’ll be back this weekend. At which point, it’s assumed he’ll be called up and Duchesne sent down.

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by Geoff Detweiler on Mar 19, 2010 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions

I heard groin pull too, but not that severe. He should be back in a couple days but I hope he’s not rushing it.

by Kanayd on Mar 20, 2010 1:21 AM EDT up reply actions

I cannot believe James Wisniewski was suspended to begin with. And, I cannot believe he got 8(!!!!) games! What a joke! Again, how were Cooke and Downie not suspended and Wisniewski gets an 8 game suspension for his hit on Seabrook. Unbelievable! Click here to watch the video of the hit and tell me whats so wrong with it. He leads with his shoulder so even if he hits Seabrook in the face that isn’t suspension worthy. I mean thats what I learned from the Cooke/Savard hit. Even if you hit a guy in the head or face, as long as you lead with your shoulder theres nothing wrong. Wisniewski barely leaves his skates. No more than most of the hits that happen in the NHL. Seabrook is facing Wisniewski. Its not boarding. The puck is in the vicinity. Wisniewski is just finishing his check. Seabrook’s hit on Corey Perry is much more dangerous than Wisniewski’s. Seabrook is lucky Perry didn’t smash his face into the boards and hurt his neck. Seabrook hit Perry from behind, high and toward the boards. So just because Perry didn’t pretend to be hurt (like Seabrook did) there was no call?

The NHL is a fucking joke!

by Mitchell Green on Mar 19, 2010 11:50 AM EDT reply actions

They all deserve to be suspended IMO, but you’re right that the NHL sucks with this stuff.

Wisniewski wasn’t just finishing his check. He was head hunting in response to the hit on Perry, and that’s malicious and just ridiculous and needs to be removed from the game.

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by Travis Hughes on Mar 19, 2010 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions

I am with you. I certainly think that Wisniewski deserved to be suspended. He was head hunting and if he had of just lined Seabrook up instead of going high and then challenged him to fight he wouldn’t have gotten himself in trouble.

The reason that I am surprised Wisniewski was suspended not because the hit wasn’t deserving but because Cooke and Downie weren’t suspended. How the hell does the NHL justify suspending Wisniewski and not them? They can’t. Minus the fact that Wisniewski was head hunting I still don’t understand the grounds on which Wisniewski was suspended. Boarding? Intend to injure? What was the offical explanation from the NHL on why they suspended him?

Now that I watch the video again I see what you are saying about him hitting his head and not pretending. I just wasn’t sure if he was milking it to get the call. I definitely thought that he had been knocked out at first but then got up and looked okay. He had a nice poker face and wasn’t giving away any thing. Then, later in the video, he was just on the bench getting his helmet checked. I guess he could have been knocked out and been fine. For such a big hit, I really didn’t know how he wasn’t injured.

by Mitchell Green on Mar 19, 2010 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions

I think they probably treated Wisniewski differently because he was already suspended once this season, and I don’t personally remember hearing that with Cooke or Downie this year.

I only remember because Wisniewski’s first suspension (2 games) occurred less that a week after he dove in front of Briere’s feet at the boards and whined and cried to the media that Briere was a dirty player who intended to injure him.

by DragonGirl0583 on Mar 20, 2010 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions

And watch that video again and tell me Seabrook was faking. Because the guy slammed his head against the boards and went right out cold.

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by Travis Hughes on Mar 19, 2010 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions

it was an obvious retaliatory “player without puck” hit… thems da rules. opinions don’t matter in this situation

by fitzy first on Mar 19, 2010 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions

Except in the case of Gonchar.

by Pondhockey on Mar 19, 2010 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Great point . . .

by Mitchell Green on Mar 19, 2010 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions

+1

Read my mind. Clutterbuck was lucky to not get hurt and he is tough as nails. But that was a mockery of sham of a farse. And that ducks gold color is hard to differentiate in some light the league thought it looked a little orange and that is why Wish got 8 games. The last part was sarcasm, I think?

by MJDII on Mar 19, 2010 4:19 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Seabrook was faking? The dude looked like he was about to have a fatality performed on him in Mortal Kombat.

FINISH HIM!!

by Phalange on Mar 19, 2010 1:08 PM EDT reply actions

Toasty!

by EREX21 on Mar 19, 2010 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions

You could tell by his arm position when he dropped….It’s weird looking but I’ve seen it before…it looks like your diving …diving into a pool that is, not diving for a penalty

by j reed on Mar 19, 2010 1:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Seabrook saw stars I guarentee you

by j reed on Mar 19, 2010 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Any chance we can get some reports on Testwuide and all the guys the Flyers have signed in the past few weeks? My apologies if I missed it.

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by doubleh on Mar 19, 2010 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions

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It’s just, you know, annoying.

by Snevik on Mar 19, 2010 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Think of talking Flyers hockey is like hooking up with a hot chick. It is worth a couple days of the cream. Okay maybe not

by MJDII on Mar 19, 2010 4:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Ahhh, on a Mac :)

by JerseyDriver on Mar 19, 2010 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions

Im sick of the NHL and how it suspends people. Seabrook made a head-shot and wasn’t called, so Wisniewski took the matters in his own hands and gets 8 ames?!?!?!? Im not saying that it wasn’t a dirty hit, because it was. But the fact is that since the NHL refs blow at calling penalties, one guy gets off scott free and another player gets an 8 game suspension for the same thing, an unsuspecting head-shot. Either suspend them both or dont suspend them. All this shows it that when the Refs aren’t going to police the game, the players are going to get in trouble for standing up for their teamates.

Thats like, if Lucic went after Cook after his hit on Savard, and Got a 8 game suspension while Cook gets off scott free. Just another reason to lose faith in the people that run this league.

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by JpH89 on Mar 19, 2010 2:25 PM EDT reply actions

110% agree. I think that I have lost faith in the fools who run this league.

by Mitchell Green on Mar 19, 2010 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions

That happened for me in 81’. F-in Leon Stickle! Its been down hill ever since.

by MJDII on Mar 19, 2010 4:27 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

It was 80, not 81. In 81 the Flyers lost to Calgary in 7. Mel Bridgeman hit the post in game 4 and they went down 3-1.

by Control13 on Mar 19, 2010 11:13 PM EDT reply actions

You are completely right I meant to infer, sarcastically that is, the year after was when I lost my faith. In the spring of 80 I was 12 and cried like a baby.

by MJDII on Mar 20, 2010 9:46 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions