That’s all entirely true. But you then have three stud defensemen in the system (Bourdon, Marshall, Fowler) and cap space at the NHL level. Yeah, it is kind of a sideways move. I’m not sold on it, but I’m not opposed. Maybe if they throw in a 3rd rounder?

How about opening for “The Shitty Beatles?”

That was the point the Blecher report was trying to make. In any trade scenario for a 2 for 1 we would be giving up the best the player, hopefully we can pull another Recchi for LeClair and Desardjin. If not I am okay with just resigning Reechi.

Yes, Cheechoo is a 50 goal scorer because he scored 50 goals in a season. You can argue that he won’t ever do it again (and I doubt you will find anyone at all that will disagree with you) but you can’t go back in time and say that he didn’t do it. You can also look at his career numbers and say that year 2005-2006 was a statistical anomaly (it certainly looks like it was). Or you can look at other players who have scored 40 or 50 goals and claim that it is no big deal as you seem to suggest with Parise, Gaborik, Marleau, Semin though I’ll take any one of those guys on the Flyers or my Fantasy Hockey team (sans Gaborik too much injury risk).

If you want to argue that Carter is not a premier player or is worth more to the Flyers in a trade by all means. If you are going to argue what constitutes a 40 goal scorer (besides scoring 40 goals in a given season) then all your really doing is arguing semantics…

I was a good kid, but I had to be. It was just me and my Dad growing up because my Mom died when I was so young. My parents acted more like children. There’s nothing wrong with being semi-responsible. If you know anything about me on here, you know I have plenty of other flaws.