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

• Nik Zherdev deserves an NHL job. Travis even uses Corsi to prove it: [SBNation.com]
• The Flyers are playing in a charity golf outing at Pine Hill on September 13, and they are auctioning off, among other things, a trip with Ed Snider in his private jet to attend a Flyers away game: [Flyer Files]
• Looking at the Flyers choice of Ilya Bryzgalov through the lens of 1998: [HendricksHockey]
• In case you needed a reminder, some videos about how awesome Eric Lindros is: [Broad Street Buzz]
• Will Penguins fans let Max Talbot signing with Philadelphia tarnish his image? [SB Nation Pittsburgh]
• Revisiting Sean Couturier v. Mark Scheifele and getting the same conclusion: [Arctic Ice Hockey]
• Explaining why poaching RFAs is a largely futile effort: [ESPN]
• Justin Bourne wrote a story about how the salary cap is terrible because fans now judge players based on how much money they make. What he fails to realize is that this isn't a problem unique to the capped world. Or hockey. Or sports: [Puck Daddy]
• A great look at whether or not burning a year of a player's ELC to get some NHL experience is worth it: [Lighthouse Hockey]
• Breaking down scoring chances into categories to show "net presence" [The LeafsNation]
• A list of records that are not going to be broken: [NHL.com]