magnumpi Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Until the Flyers get some skill, no cup Schenn and Courtier are 3rd line players.probably would have been better off keeping Carter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJeremy Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 The biggest problem is we break out standing still without any fluidity, pucks in skates, taking passes off the boards on the backhand constantly backtracking to restart the rush. The Rangers move out with speed and precision, 1 2 3. We need a few more skill guys up front, and more than anything we need 2 skilled young defensemen who can ,skate, shoot and play defense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doom88 Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 RJ, I generally hate your posts and disagree with everything you say, but you are DEAD ON about the breakout. Well said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJeremy Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Thanks doom, I think your just jealous of my endowment and astute hockey mind... Glad we finally agree on something.....now the reality...we do not have a lot of chips to trade in which to improve our defense,and the dmen we have in the AHL are not highly skilled and are certainly not top 3 dmen. Our most skilled dmen, Ghost, Morin and Haag, are a year or two away from making the team .So we will once again be forced to trade for defense. There is no way we have a prayer to win a Cup without at least one dominating defenseman. We can realistically get one defenseman by offering up either, Coots, Schenn or Laughton . I'm not saying any of them are gonna get us a legit # 1or 2 dman at this point, but we can get a skilled young dman with the "potential" to be a top 2 guy. A guy who was drafted in the past few years but has not yet arrived, much in the way Coots, B Schenn and Laugton have potential to be real good but are not yet there.There have been a lot of good skilled young dmen drafted by other teams over the last 2-3 years and that's what we need to target . There are some teams that have a number of good young defenseman maybe they need a center and are willing to give up a young dman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanflyer Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 So we will once again be forced to trade for defense. T No trade. Niskanen and Benoit. Timmo, Gil are gone. That money can get both of those players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJeremy Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 @Vanflyer, we still have too many centers and when we move them to wing they don't do so well playing out of position. We also have Laughton on the way,so what are we gonna do with all these centers? Also if we sign FAs we are gonna overpay and have to sign these guys to the usual 5 year deals, are they worth it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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