Thursday Morning Fly By: Just Remember Ryan Potulny Brought Us Danny Syvret

He might not be the type of guy that I’ll always be a fan of like Gagne, Richie or Sharp, but as long as he’s wearing the Orange and Black I’ll love him.

I rarely love short term players for the Flyers. At the end of the day, that’s all he’ll be for the Flyers, a one year rental. The last time I loved a player who only played a short period in the organization would be Danny Markov.

Call me silly, but I’m excited to see him playing with Giroux and/or Briere. Sure he’s short term, but it will still be fun.

yeah, i’m with you. i’m usually welcoming them with open arms even if the fit seems odd, but i can’t remember a tougher sell than this guy. People were up in arms when we signed Nick Fotiu but at least he was a fighter. Jagr seems the anti-Flyer. And in a way it has nothing to do with whether he delivers. It’s a separate thing.

But if he gets a couple of game-winners in Pittsburgh it will be worth it.

It just strikes me as dishonest. Making and selling something that isn’t what it claims to be. It’s not only taking someone else’s work and making your own carbon copy of it to undercut their prices, it’s doing so under the claim that what you’re selling is the real thing. It’s the claim that something is genuine when it isn’t that really gets to me. Do your own work, don’t rip off someone else.

For the new replicas, I honestly have no clue. They are very poorly done compared to the replica jerseys before the switch to RBK. This is why i haven’t bought a jersey in a very long time to wear, but I have added to my game worn collection (I wonder if my Weber one will raise in value like his salary did).

It’s amazing how few GMs seem to be even considering the impact of a new CBA. I think it’s going to be owner vs owner this time more than players vs owners (at least in my opinion). Yzerman and Stamkos said that they didn’t want to even discuss anything longer than 5 years because of the uncertainty, but that’s the only time I’ve heard a GM say they were even giving it any thought.

I can see it, honestly.

If you wait until after the season, there’s no incentive for him to sign with you before July 1; while the new CBA could change things somewhat, all of our history tells us that high-scoring forwards who hit UFA get long, expensive deals.

Sharp has incentive to sign now because it removes his risk that injury or poor performance this year would markedly cut into his windfall. He has incentive to sign now because it removes the uncertainty and family tension that comes from not knowing where you will live and work next year. He has much less incentive to sign on June 30, and so his price likely goes up measurably over the course of the season (barring the aforementioned injury or poor performance).

Yes, that is balanced against the risk that a new CBA will change the market. But if they wanted to keep him, signing him now is reasonable.

And if I’m Sharp, knowing what kind of term players are getting, there’s no way I sign a 2-3 year deal that puts me at UFA at 33; this may be the last chance for a big payday and it has to extend for as many years as you can get. As a UFA, he could easily get 5-6, so he can’t ink a contract now that covers fewer than four, IMO.

I know a pretty good amount about fair use. The basic problem is that you can’t quote so much text or information from a source that it devalues the document. Given the amount they charge for the download and the actual number of words contained, I would hit that “devalue” threshold really fast. I can however provide commentary on it; I’m just trying really hard to make sure it’s clear enough for everyone to understand.