Monday Morning Fly By: That Was Literally the Worst Weekend Ever

This is true, the goalie is part of the Defense, but I think it comes down to bailing each other out on a play. And those bailouts have failed on both accounts.

You can’t expect your goalie to make every save on a D breakdown, nor can you expect your D to bail out your goalie every play either.

I don’t think Kimmo was trying to call his goalie out, but he was probably very frustrated with the soft goals that got past Bryz, I know I was as well.

Bryz needs to realize that his D is hurting and lacking some experience and he needs to help them out some. He is the veteran in net and needs to take a better leadership role when it comes to the younger D men.

I’ve found I don’t like a lot of the comments Timonen makes. He likes to blame the goalies openly in the media. That’s a jackass move, if you ask me. Especially with all the defensive breakdowns and turnovers we’re having. Kimmo is a great defender, and I’m not saying our goalies are perfect, but still, people in glass houses and all that. These are comments better kept to himself.

I’m all about having more teams on the west coast so more games can start at a decent hour. How can they expect me to drag myself out of bed for a 10 AM start on a Saturday or Sunday?

/everyone should work around my schedule

Samesis. I’ve been saying this for months now. With all of the realignment talk, hopefully the timing works out so if Seattle has a team, it won’t end up like Winnipeg this season.

I think the real question is whether any other team would be willing to take on that massive contract. It looks to me like the only way we could get rid of him would be for him to leave for Russia.

Absolutely.

But no one wants that contract.

I could see him wanting out due to the pressure.there was no pressure in pheonix nor anaheim really. Here he’s in the coals annd he can’t like it. We have bob every1 loves bob, bryz acts as thought opinion gets to him so him thriving here will be hard. I could totally see him wanting a trade to a less pressure city or leaving for russia…otherwise buy him out and get a top teir dman with the money

Word.

Acquire Danny Syvret

May have been the difference maker though

What I didn’t add was that he said he thought the Flyers played well.

haha, That’s what I was going for!

I coulda been a contender, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

No one stepped forward to refute this claim? :(

It starting to look like the system doesn’t really fit the personnel very well. I fully expect an "I told you so" from CCB now.

That’s where I am as well.

I am on that ship myself…lavvies system only seems to work on defensively sound group of players…we do not have that anymore. Wether I liked richie and carter or not(unclutch fuck!) They were godly at defending the rush with the d men…we just don’t have as good 2 way fowards anymore, or as mature whichever you prefer

Sorry, I am in a “bad” mood. Don’t want to offend any children by over-expressing myself.

Oh snap!

True. I guess I’m going from his comments in the past about our goaltending. Didn’t he say just a few weeks ago that the D is more confident (or comfortable, something like that) with Bob in net than Bryz? And his comments last year about communication problems with Bob so the D didn’t know what to do. He just seems to like to talk about the goalies, and it’s often not good. He says a lot of things I think he shouldn’t be saying in public.

I think there was the possibility for some word twisting in the article, so it’s hard to tell exactly what Kimmo meant. It was a poor word choice, but he could have been talking about Lundqvist, could’ve been talking about Bryz, or could have just meant that Lundqvist is simply on a higher level than Bryz is. I don’t think he should have said what he did, but the degree to which he intended to throw Bryz under the bus is unclear to me.

Sadly, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it does. Knee-jerk reactions are pretty common in this town.

Yeah, I think my bitterness this morning is a bit knee-jerk, and is compounded from multiple issues pissing me off. The Flyers will be fine. Or maybe they won’t. Either way, you can’t tell from just two games.

I think this is just the players’ 5% inflator coming back to bite them. The cap has been going up (almost) every year not because the league is making more money, but because the players have been voting on their 5% escalator. The cap is artificially high because the players made it that way.

If the League has to punish the players because of that, well… I really don’t have any sympathy when they roll back salaries again and lower the cap.

Even with the new TV deal, I don’t believe that anything has changed with respect to the fact that the NHL still relies on gate receipts as their main source of revenue, at least relying on it more heavily in comparison to the other major sports leagues. Getting more money out of the TV deal may help them deal with the cap rising, but those that were struggling to pay salaries before the new deal are still likely struggling after it, because the new TV contract was factored into the calculation of t this year’s cap (and therefore the spending floor).

Nevermind. The audio on the youtube is messed up. Yeah, I just said the youtube.

Podcast this mornings preston and steve…they did a nice rendition

Detroit: We may be freaking poor, but we have enough money every year to buy a Superbowl Commercial. PRIORITIES!!

(It’s disgraceful actually)

I remember laughing a good bit, but honestly have forgotten what I was laughing at. They weren’t that memorable for me. I remember the stripping M&M one and the Matthew Broderick one, but that’s about it. Oh, and using some tax website is like peeing in a pool, and using some car website will give me an annoying 2nd head. Do not want.

Because Saturday we got us a puppy, and it will look just like the winner once it grows up.

I remember David Beckham’s underwear.

IMO, “Terry Tate: Office Linebacker” is still the best of recent years.

April 1st new season, baby!