For instance, only 17 players in the NHL have a cap hit of $10 million or greater, and 12 of them are forwards. Those players are, from greatest cap hit to least, Auston Matthews, Nathan MacKinnon, Connor McDavid, Artemi Panarin, Elias Pettersson, William Nylander, David Pastrnak, John Tavares, Mitchell Marner, Jonathan Huberdeau, Sasha Barkov, and Jack Eichel. And then there's Konecny, who's yet to score 40 goals or 70 points in a single season with the Flyers. With all due respect, $10 million is just a bad look, and more and more people are starting to agree. With his last point, in particular, Reid was spot-on. If Konecny and the Flyers were agree to the max term of eight years, the two-time NHL All-Star would be 36 years old at the end of the contract. Six of those eight years will take place in Konecny's 30s, and that is, more than likely, not a good spot to be in if you're the Flyers. And Hradek agrees. "That's my fear with a player like Konecny. I love watching that guy play, but he's not the biggest auv. He punches above his weight,” Hradek explained. "That's great, while you can. Those types of players, their shelf life is really limited because, inevitably, they get dinged up. They get beat up, and they're just not the same player. "I'd have a hard time going that kind of term with that kind of money for Konecny, as much as I love him as a player." "And there you have it. The Flyers are, at least inadvertently, still the butt end of some jokes around the NHL." NHL articles STILL. I have seen ZERO reason so far to trust ANOTHER nepotism hire and their bait and switch lying. 🤷♂️ Plain and simple. EVERYONE WOULD RATHER TANK THAN DEAL WITH 10 MORE YEARS OF MEDIOCRITY. But Flyers management TRULY DGAF what the fans want. That's the TRUTH.
To people who are still anti tank/rebuild Why? Since the 2008-2009 season 9/14 cup winners were teams that had high end talent from either intentionally tanking to get a high pick and or rebuilding to the point where it ended up getting them a top pick Penguins 3x Blackhawks 3x Lightning 2x Avalanche 1x Of the remaining 5 Blues 1x Capitals 1x Kings 2x Bruins 1x The capitals can absolutely be put into the category alongside the Avalanche Lightning Penguins and Blackhawks but I like to play devils advocate. The kings got a tad bit lucky with taking advantage of the Carter-Richards debacle as well. The Blues(2019) and Bruins (2011) are the two examples that I often see the people who don't want to tank use as The Blues (2019) and Bruins (2011) are the two examples that I often see the people who don't want to tank use as examples but they got pretty lucky in their advancements to the Stanley Cup. Other teams that I hear given as examples to not tank are The Oilers: although they have failed to succeed in a cup, they are far more likely to do so then we are in the next decade and I would be willing to bet they succeed even with their incompetence management wise. The Sabres: Yea. Fair enough The Devils: Currently 14-3 still with high end prospects and young players The Leafs: Cursed. But again far more likely than we are to win a cup this decade From the past 15 years of data we can either hope to hit massively on late round picks, like the bruins, or have a fluky run with a goalie getting hot at the right time, like the blues. OR We can blow it up and sell any player outside of Hart and players under 25 or so(even though they should be available for the right place) intentionally tank for 5 ish years and get the talent we need to win a Stanley Cup This draft would be an amazing starting point as really any of the top 5 picks should be franchise changing players. P.S for the love of God confuct a REAL Rebuild. So why are we doing the same 🤡💩 that we've done for 10+years! The bait and switxh with Flyers management is gwtting REAL old and REAL RIDICULOUS REAL Fast.
The fact we don't have any playoffs and NO top5 pick again! (OR just the fact that ee had ZERO chance at Celebrini OR Bedard) should be enough of a red flag to change leadership IMMEDIATELY. Max Cap. No michkov yet. No 1C. No 1D. No 1G. 2nd highest CAP in the NHL. And were trading 5th overall Gauthier (Elite 1C potential) for a middle-bottom pair hospital bed (Drysdale) who hasn't played in almsot two seasons? How much does this team want to have in DEAD cap AND overpayed/overrated/underperforming players in there declining 30s?
