Thursday Morning Fly By: Put On Your Lappy Face

When? He missed two(?) games at the beginning of the year, and like eight(?) in the middle of the year. And they played like crap during that large chunk in the middle of the year.

Pronger has missed 30 games this season. Not ten(like)

Shameful is tough.

If you don’t find the last month or more shameful then I am not sure of your passion.

The Flyers lead the league in 5-on-5 goals per 60 minutes,

Don’t dazzle me with your per 60 minutes stuff. They are four goals during regulation better then the Ottawa Senators, PERIOD! It shameful.

How do you solve issues if you don’t know what the problem is?

a guys scoring per 60 minutes doesn’t tell the story of him refusing to finish checks in the offense corners to create puck possession and scoring chances. It just doesn’t say what the problem is. I think it hides the real on ice problems.

Then answer me this: How good/bad has the Flyers power play been this year?

The stats say 15th or so in the league. But when you are tied in the 3rd with 3 minutes to go and you fail to convert that one opportunity and lose the game all the stats from the large sample size mean diddly squat.

Like Lionel Richie mutha fucka, I am here all night long baby! :-)

So true.

which is kinda why I like him but in small doses. He blogs like someone who’s just done coke for the first time.

He thinks Travis and the masthead banned him because he was a born-again Christian.

But he’s the victim!

*she just won’t yield

Yeah I do feel kind of bad for her, she takes a beating every day.

According to Travis, yes he was banned.

me not be argh

Heart is such a BS word. The heart is a muscle in your body that keeps you alive.

Don’t tell that to this guy.

You are absolutely right, and that may very well have been the case. Actually I had a coach tell me to stop playing so physical because I was skilled but not very big so playing physical although helpful to the team wasn’t me as I am not a very big person and more times then not, playing physical resulted in more pain for me than my opponent, so your hypothetical is very real.

I agree that heart may be a BS word but what other word would you use? From one of your other comments, I do agree that you have to have heart and passion to play this game, or any sport at the pro level but I do thing there is a big difference between a guy who shys away from contact when the opportunity is there or doesn’t go balls to the wall on the defensive end.

Could be because they are doing what they are told, but because we don’t know that it is perceived as a lack of effort, or a lack of heart.

I am not calling any specific player out, I used Lappy and Carter because they were both mentioned before in prior comments. I won’t call players out for lack of effort because I am not there, I don’t know where their head or heart is, but I do think you can watch a game and see what looks like a lack of heart very clearly just by the way some guys play.

But to answer your question: I still think, regardless of what his coaches tell him, there’s time where he needs to lay it all out on the line and play to his size. I don’t see him doing that a lot.

And one of them is 220lbs and accelerates like cheetah. Human wrecking ball.

Kalinski can fly so it has to be more like California. It is not a comparable stat. Heart is when the rubber meets the road are you going to give what ever it takes to be successful. Carter scores goals, most of which are when they arent needed, Lappy puts his face in front of a puck to stop scoring chances at crucial times.

For the most part I see “heart” as pass/fail. There’s no need to decide who has the Texas-sized heart. You either play with it or you don’t. Trying to quantify an intangible is about as smart as trying to separate fly shit from pepper.

You know who has “more heart”. Lance Armstrong literally has more heart. Apparently , even among other world class endurance athletes his actual heart is freakishly big.

I’d rather a guy give good work than try really hard.

Yeah, trust me, doing stuff you don’t care about sucks.

Except that that paycheck can be used to engage in activities that you are passionate about.

haha, amen!

Meh, I’ll just repost it in a new hypothetical.

Suppose Carter was coached to play a certain way. Maybe Carter was more of a physical player, played more of a Lappy type of game but with skill. Say at some point his coach said, “hey, stop being an idiot, don’t do that stuff any more, you’re too valuable to the team.” Carter commits to the new way his coach wants him to play for the good of the team despite him initially being against it.

Does that mean Carter has less heart?

or more broadly, fatigue related to over stimulation of the central nervous system.

No, that’s total BS. It has nothing to do with your pay. And this is my biggest complaint with the word…because, most of the time, in almost every sense that you use it to rip someone a new one on a hockey team, I can do the same to you…but no, no, no…it doesn’t count because he makes more, or because he does something you’d love to do. No, that’s a bunch of shit.

And I’m not trying to single you out, but it’s why I hate people for questioning someone’s heart.

/rant over.

Clurt sounds vaginal.