Thursday Morning Fly By: Happy Thanksgiving!

by Geoff Detweiler on Nov 24, 2011 6:00 AM EST in Morning Fly By

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

All of us here at BSH would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. And provide you with a place to go before, during, and after spending time with your loved ones. We probably fight less here anyway :)
Recaps: [BSH] [Lighthouse Hockey] [CSNPhilly] [Philly Sports Daily] [Inquirer] [NHL Hot Stove] [Flyers Faithful] [The Checking Line]
Jaromir Jagr is hurt again and plans to sit out the next two games: [CSNPhilly]
Matt Read is awesome. And versatile: [CSNPhilly]
Marc-Andre Bourdon is auditioning for a job next year: [Philly Sports Daily]
Good look at Paul Holmgren, with a slightly positive slant. Yes, it's still a good look at his tenure so far: [Flyers Faithful]
Brayden Schenn returns to play for the Phantoms while Eric Wellwood is out with injury, and other notes from practice: [Phantoms Forum]
Eric Lindros and John LeClair are doing a charity event for the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and you can be there: [Radio & Television Business Report]
A Switzerland hockey team needed to improve quickly, so they signed Janne Niinimaa and Pavel Brendl: [NHL.com]
While we all hate the dreaded "upper-body injury" reporting in the NHL, it doesn't really matter - we know the injuries anyway: [SBNation.com]
Is Markham, Ontario the next city to have an NHL team? Maybe: [SBNation.com]
The Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins have a Christmas sweater jersey that looks like what Maxime Talbot wore last year. I say this is awesomely bad: [Puck Daddy]
A 51 year old beer league goalie who didn't play goal until his 30s was the backup goalie for the Minnesota Wild last night. Love this stuff: [SBNation.com]

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I took a look at what they were saying at Lighthouse Hockey last night

Not a happy bunch. Not a happy bunch at all.

Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.

One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.

by PursuitOfLappyness on Nov 24, 2011 7:16 AM EST reply actions

I like the Flyers Faithful article on Homer. I think it’s a fairly well balanced account of his tenure. His performance in 06/07 does deserve credit; and he has generally been good at evaluating talent. His long-term plan seems nonexistent, and I think that’s where most of his shortcomings could be attributed to. Perhaps that’s not even on him; maybe it’s inevitable in a team that treats every coming season as ‘the year we go all the way’. The only time we didn’t approach a season that way was 06/07 and at that time he did show a reasonable amount of fortitude (although one could say he wasn’t patient with the Briere signing and should’ve let Carter and Richards develop; but the fans in Philly wanted a big name signing at that stage).

The final few paragraphs are pretty good:

He’s made inexplicably bad decisions that hurt the team. At times, it appears that he has no plan and reacts impulsively. Yet, somehow, the picture becomes clearer down the road and many of his misgivings seem to fade away when his bigger gambles payoff. Such is the frustrating nature of anyone who sees the forest but is constantly surprised by running into trees.

Paul Holmgren has found ways to work within the system by not working within the system at all. He’s an innovator by creating a virtual anti-philosophy regarding the way that a GM can build a winning team while constantly flirting with disaster.

Sometimes it backfires but, all things considered, he’s done an impressive job at continually rebuilding a competitive team that appears to have its back against the wall without any chance of getting out alive and, for that, he deserves credit.

Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.

One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.

by PursuitOfLappyness on Nov 24, 2011 7:25 AM EST reply actions

Blockquote fail

Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.

One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.

by PursuitOfLappyness on Nov 24, 2011 7:25 AM EST up reply actions

Happy Thanksgiving America!

A few quick points :-

Nice comeback win last night. After a sloppy 1st we seemed to up the tempo there after and found just enough to pick up the win.

I was fairly happy with Mez (he needed to up his game) and Bourdon played well with the exception of the 2nd, if memory serves me right he was a fault for that one. He sure can hit though.

Good to see Schenn back. Can’t wait to see him get a good run in the top-team.

Finally enjoy your day of giving-thanks and all that jazz!

#2 Flyers fan in England behind Orange and Black Forever (Damn him and his Americanness)

#1 Eagles fan in England behind NO one!

by UKFlyer on Nov 24, 2011 8:53 AM EST reply actions

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

The Jagr stuff is really concerning! Hopefully are offense can find a way.

by CSneer on Nov 24, 2011 8:58 AM EST via mobile reply actions

The WB Scranton sweater are TERRIBLE. The guy in the photo seems to be thinking “F-me . .” I went to college in WB and used to watch the baby pens a lot. I like the team, just not anyone who plays for the big pens.

by SkookFlyerfan on Nov 24, 2011 9:01 AM EST reply actions

Happy thanksgiving. Will there be any advanced statistics breakdown of Marc-Andre Bourbon’s play? He passes the eyeball test as far as being a bottom pairing defenseman, although a few times he almost got caught pinching.

by psuhockey on Nov 24, 2011 9:59 AM EST reply actions

‘pinching’

I don’t think we should bring his personal life into this ;)

#2 Flyers fan in England behind Orange and Black Forever (Damn him and his Americanness)

#1 Eagles fan in England behind NO one!

by UKFlyer on Nov 24, 2011 10:34 AM EST up reply actions

After two games, his advanced stats aren’t going to tell us much.

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by Geoff Detweiler on Nov 24, 2011 9:48 PM EST up reply actions