Tuesday Morning Fly By: Boring Deadline Day Sees Flyers Gain Tough Guy, Lose Draft Picks

What does that make Ben?

This wasn’t as epic as I had hoped it would be.

Sestito: 0.16 G/game, 0.23 A/game, 0.39 P/game
Shelley: 0.04 G/game, 0.12 A/game, 0.17 P/game
Parros: 0.13 G/game, 0.11 A/game, 0.24 P/game
Brashear: 0.31 G/game, 0.23 A/game, 0.54 P/game

So he scores like Parros (16 goals in 6 NHL seasons) and passes like Brashear (120 assists in 16 NHL seasons). And he puts up twice the points of Shelley.

Oh, and he has 19 fighting majors this year.

Pest? That’s big ass bug, like Gregor Samsa big.

PIMs have nothing to do with goon.

He also has 0.70 pts per game in AHL this season makes him second to Hamel on the Phantoms.

And that 0.70Pts/G mark is more than your new love Matt Calvert (0.66Pts/G) for the same team. And his shooting percentage is at 15% slightly worse than Calvert who was at 16.5%.

But he fights and gets penalties so he must be a goon.

Lindros had a couple 100+ penalty minute seasons as well. Rick Tocchet had 252 PIMS in 1992.

Just a couple of 40+ goal scoring Goons no doubt.

While I do agree with your cap concerns to some degree, if getting Sestito means that either Shelley or Carcillo is expendable then it will either be a wash or a savings.

And with the kid’s size and OHL point totals, I’m not nearly as willing to wash my hands of him as the Downie/Rinaldo mold of player. If he scores 10-15 goals a year, and drops the gloves as well, doesn’t that make him far more useful than Shelley (and to a lesser degree Carcillo)?

And Chris makes a good point about being overstocked at center as well – the team has a dearth of wingers in the team/system – so overall I definitely think trading a center away makes sense.

I will, however, reserve judgement on him every being more than an AHL goon until he proves otherwise. 4 points in 9 NHL games is too small a sample size to consider. But when dealing with minor/junior league players, it’s all about potential – and this kid has it.

And who around here would know better than you?

We spell it with two e’s beacuse it reminds us of sheep

At a 25% success rate the league average only 1 of those last 1st round picks through 2008 – 2012 would have even amounted to a regular NHL player.

Is this such a big deal 1 most like 3 line player over a 4 year span.

I have been a Flyers fan for 20 plus years and seen this organization fail make the playoffs only twice.

Players are players it doesn’t matter where you get them as you have them.

And it also takes skill. And draft picks on ELC (JVR, Giroux, Nodl). Which they do not have, because they’ve traded them all.

Which is the point.

Teams with lots of draft picks and a deep farm system have more advantages than other teams. For instance, most teams would be devastated to lose a top prospect and a 1st rd. pick for a rental D-man. But the Bruins have loads of depth at center and their second straight year with a lottery pick, so it’s not that big of a sacrifice. The Kings lost two picks and a former 1st rd. pick in Teubert for a power forward yet to fulfill his potential. But the Kings are so deep that the loss of picks won’t bother them and Teubert’s not even high up on their depth chart. Keeping as many picks as possible is a good, safe way to ensure the long-term success of a franchise. But you also have to know when to gamble, too, just like the Bruins and Kings have done lately.

Yeah, but you missed the entire point that you started with…you’ve changed it from Hockey prospectus being biased against the Flyers for not having draft picks (and your reasons for that not being a big deal), to finding goaltending.

Where are talking about why draft picks are important, and why there is validity to what one person on Hockey Prospectus, out of several who gave their opinions about the trade deadline, said. Which is the topic you brought up.

And we’re the ones hating on picking up Bob?

1) Don’t trash a site and call in question their integrity when you a) have never visited the site; and b) don’t know what they do;
2) If you want every site to be a “rah-rah, go team” site, with only a rooting interest, have fun. I’ll continue to read, seek, and discuss differing opinions. Ones based in fact and not dismissed out of hand due to an uniformed claim of bias, based on an incorrect definition of the name held by the speaker.

Probably because your main reason for calling them bias is:

It’s a site based on Hockey Prospects. That alone should tell you that they will hate a team who has no Draft Picks.

That’s not fair of you if you don’t know what the site does. It’s fine if you don’t agree with them, that’s just a horrible reason, and unfounded. Just say you disagree next time instead of ripping on a site when you don’t know what you are talking about.

My friend is a science teacher and we were laughing at her little experiment. It’s around 10% that can immediately taste it. She pointed me to a research paper on it, I’ll see if I can find it.

Being able to tell a diet soda from a regular soda isn’t about tasting the artificial sweetener in most cases. It turns out that one of the biggest reasons they taste different is because they have different viscosities, which your tongue detects and reports as part of the flavor.

I can.

Yes, overwhelmingly.

This must be my issue—I’m not a big fan of most citrus. Good to know. Learning more than I ever cared to know about cilantro, lol.

You learn something new every day. Coriander and cilantro are dead to me.

That’s awesome.

Nope, it was fair game.

This also pleases me.