Flyers vs. Predators preview: Welcome home, Ryan & Shea
by Travis Hughes on Feb 2, 2012 12:06 PM EST
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Print7 p.m. tonight
Wells Fargo Center
TV: CSN Philly, FS Tennessee
RADIO: 94WIP
TICKETS: Starting at $20, 100 level from $45
That headline is how trade rumors start, and I really don't care.
Ryan Suter and Shea Weber will both be in the house, and they better get used to the surroundings at Wells Fargo Center, because soon enough, they're going to be living here as members of the Philadelphia Flyers. Both of them. We won't give up anything to get them and they'll have cap hits at the league minimum, too, because that's how Ed Snider rolls.
Alright, that might not be true, but the first part of that sentence is definitely true. They'll both be here, and they're both good at hockey, which makes tonight's game against the Nashville Predators interesting. In fact, the Preds are a pretty interesting group all together. We'll let our friends at On the Forecheck explain:
... what are we supposed to make of this bunch? Tuesday's stunning win at Minnesota has this band of youngsters (Brat Pack?) within sniffing distance of not just the Central Division lead, but the top spot in the Western Conference and the overall NHL, too. Dare we hope that something fundamental has developed within this squad over the last couple months, and that they legitimately belong up there with the NHL's elite, or are they simply playing over their heads right now, due for a fall back closer to .500 hockey at any time?
It's sort of ironic that two trade targets the Flyers are most interested in -- even if Weber almost certainly isn't being traded, and it looks the same for Suter, too -- will be in town tonight. According to the Inquirer, Erik Gustafsson will sit as a healthy scratch tonight and Andreas Lilja will suit up for the first time since January 12.
Lilja's been awful since returning from his injury, part of the reason why Gus was given such a big opportunity. Who knows if this is necessarily an indictment of Gus' play or just a chance to get Lilja back in the lineup after sitting for so long, but regardless, it does properly illustrate the fact that the Flyers could use some help on the blue line.
Reporters at the WFC this morning report Zac Rinaldo could be in the lineup. Bash bros line of Sestito, Rinaldo and Shelley? Yikes. It's possible. Ilya Bryzgalov gets the start in goal, and it'll be Anders Lindback for Nashville -- a bit of a surprise over usual starter Pekka Rinne.
Game time is 7 p.m., as usual. Catch it on CSN and WIP, as usual. Game thread at 5 p.m., as usual.
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May as well just make this the gamethread
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It’s sort of ironic that two trade targets the Flyers are most interested in
Should read:
It’s sort of ironic that two trade targets the Flyers fans are most interested in
Not really. We know the Flyers are going hard on Suter still, and if they want Suter, I’m sure they’re interested in both.
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by Travis Hughes on Feb 2, 2012 12:56 PM EST up reply actions
“Going hard on Suter still”
TWSS, Travis.
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by Chemistry66 on Feb 2, 2012 1:25 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
that’s not even close to the worst i’ve done
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by Travis Hughes on Feb 2, 2012 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
No Italian Cheese goalie tonight? Oh well.
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by Chemistry66 on Feb 2, 2012 1:27 PM EST via Android app reply actions
Come on, you’re better than that, that was so lame.
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Best I can do at the moment, sorry, Don. At the airport.
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by Chemistry66 on Feb 2, 2012 1:34 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
I’m so dumb. It took me a long time to get that.
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Haha, if I had access to my laptop and bookmarks, I’d have posted a picture along with it.
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by Chemistry66 on Feb 2, 2012 1:36 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Sweet. That means if the Flyers put up like 5 then I don’t lose any ground in fantasy. I’m hoping they blow up Andres and then Pekka comes in to make 24 saves on 26 shots. Flyers win 7-1. We all go home happy!
Flyers Fans: We've survived Lock-outs, Lindros and Cooperalls. If you want to get rid of us, you'll have to split an atom or two.
by KreiderDesigns on Feb 2, 2012 4:23 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe we’re putting Lilja in to showcase him to the Nashville FO, to gauge interest in a straight up Lilja-for-Suter trade.
Or maybe to show how desperately we need better defensemen, though you’d think that would drive up Nashville’s asking price…
Lightning strikes once, Hextall strikes twice!
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Thanks for the heads-up on Rinne. Looks like Niemi isn’t playing tonight either. So my only remaining decision is whether to put JS Giguere in or just bench them all and sit on my comfortable lead in the goaltending categories…
Lightning strikes once, Hextall strikes twice!
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Having all three of Sestito, Shelley, and Rinaldo over Z or Holmstrom (back in Adirondack, right?) is a minor atrocity.
Keeping alive the old Vaudeville joke, "I'd rather be dead than play Philadelphia."
Having any of those three over Z or Holmostrom is a minor atrocity, having all 3 is a major atrocity.
by hebrew hammer on Feb 2, 2012 2:01 PM EST up reply actions
I could live with one or Rinaldo or Sestito in there over them. Having all 3 just seems humorously redundant.
by everybodyhitswoohoo on Feb 2, 2012 2:51 PM EST up reply actions
How many dogs do you people think I can eat tonight
If I started playing ice hockey right now, I could be better than Jody Shelley in 2 weeks
Dachshunds
If I started playing ice hockey right now, I could be better than Jody Shelley in 2 weeks
Wouldn’t it be funy if a negotiation were made between the two teams before the game? Would the respective playerd play for nre teams?
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by WeDontWinTheLadyByng on Feb 2, 2012 2:43 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Completely off topic
But some Class A trolling here by Dean Lombardi.
“Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs — given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through the measuring device the calibrator must adjust at certain points which was the delay you see — the delay is just recalibrating for the clock moving too quickly during the 10 – 10ths of a second before the delay — this insures that the actual playing time during a period is exactly 20 minutes That is not an opinion — that is science — amazing devise quite frankly.”
Yeah…still gonna say that was the wrong call.
by everybodyhitswoohoo on Feb 2, 2012 2:49 PM EST reply actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sHriUR1IY
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by everybodyhitswoohoo on Feb 2, 2012 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
hahaha, I don’t even care that this doesn’t have a title.
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by Travis Hughes on Feb 2, 2012 3:53 PM EST up reply actions
I like to ‘cirsumvent’ that practice.
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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Feb 2, 2012 6:27 PM EST up reply actions
so im sittin watching a cop show
And this guy is banging head on the glass of his cell…so the cop puts a hockey helmet on him and says "this will help protect him from concussions. And I’m just thinking, yeah you keep thinking that big guy.
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by reaper1221 on Feb 2, 2012 4:00 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Win
"BOB!...hmm?...BOB!...huh?...BOB!...What!?!...BOB!...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
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by WeDontWinTheLadyByng on Feb 2, 2012 5:03 PM EST up reply actions
Now in Bruins territory. Ew.
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by Chemistry66 on Feb 2, 2012 4:21 PM EST via Android app reply actions
Remember, pillage first, THEN burn. The other way around doesn’t work as well.
Bob.
by The Dark on Feb 2, 2012 4:32 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, people stampeded, and cattle raped!
Lightning strikes once, Hextall strikes twice!
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I may be missing the point here but...
Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
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by WeDontWinTheLadyByng on Feb 2, 2012 5:04 PM EST up reply actions
Completely unrelated again, but!!!
Um, the flyers traded Marshall?
"BOB!...hmm?...BOB!...huh?...BOB!...What!?!...BOB!...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
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by WeDontWinTheLadyByng on Feb 2, 2012 5:08 PM EST reply actions
This just in (or news to me anyway): Rinaldo activated from IR and Marshall traded to Washington.
Lightning strikes once, Hextall strikes twice!
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Rinaldo we already knew about, I just found out about Marshal
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by WeDontWinTheLadyByng on Feb 2, 2012 5:09 PM EST up reply actions
Hmm, I guess I’ll have to pick a new favorite defensive prospect . Poop.
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Samsies.
I think yours is obviously Lauridsen.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Feb 2, 2012 5:46 PM EST up reply actions
wait, who traded for?
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by Chemistry66 on Feb 2, 2012 5:11 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Thanks, Don.
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by Chemistry66 on Feb 2, 2012 5:14 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
He’ll help the Phantoms forward corps, but he has yet to play a game at the NHL level and was drafted in 2004; basically a career AHLer.
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Lovely.
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by Chemistry66 on Feb 2, 2012 5:18 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Sounds about right
A promising possible 3/4/5 NHL defensemen in a few years for an aging guy born in 84 who will never really do much…
"BOB!...hmm?...BOB!...huh?...BOB!...What!?!...BOB!...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
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by WeDontWinTheLadyByng on Feb 2, 2012 5:19 PM EST up reply actions
He won’t with the Flyers, or at least I wouldn’t assume he’d be first on their list on call ups, but who knows.
The Flyers probably feel they have enough in Bourdon and Gus for now with their aging defense, and maybe enough in the pipeline for a few years down the road; which makes Marshall expendable. Either that, or they plan on making some moves now or in the off season that would block spots at the NHL level anyway for Marshall. I think Marshall was worth more, but this move was more for the Phantoms than Flyers IMO.
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Matt Ford?
"BOB!...hmm?...BOB!...huh?...BOB!...What!?!...BOB!...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
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by WeDontWinTheLadyByng on Feb 2, 2012 5:13 PM EST up reply actions
We'll see you again, you dancing fiend, you.
by everybodyhitswoohoo on Feb 2, 2012 5:13 PM EST up reply actions
That hurts right now…I really liked him. I’m gonna stop picking favorite players. The same thing happenes when i watched chopped on food network, the person I want to win ALWAYS gets chopped first
"BOB!...hmm?...BOB!...huh?...BOB!...What!?!...BOB!...FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
There's a stray ginger tabby in my neighborhood who frequents my house because the lady who lives downstairs also has a cat: I have taken to affectionately calling him Cladue
by WeDontWinTheLadyByng on Feb 2, 2012 5:15 PM EST up reply actions
Forget suter and weber Nashville wants too much and they’re legit contenders, get Hal gill and I’ll be happy. When the suter and weber talk finally ends I’m gonna have a party
by Ibleedorangeandblack on Feb 2, 2012 5:14 PM EST reply actions
I’ll pass on Gil and happily take Allen.
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I want Joni back............SIKE
by Ibleedorangeandblack on Feb 2, 2012 5:21 PM EST up reply actions
hes a free agent right now
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by reaper1221 on Feb 2, 2012 5:50 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I miss him to. I was devastated when they let him walk as a ufa and sad that his career ended from concussion problems.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Feb 2, 2012 6:18 PM EST up reply actions
All I have to say us go Flyers!! I will be participating in some of the Super Bowl activities tonight so I’ll miss most of the game. And they traded Marshall?? He was one of my favorite prospects. :(
They took me out of Philly and sent me to Indy.
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by lkmiller on Feb 2, 2012 6:00 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
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