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All right, everybody, you're listening to Table Talk here at the Philadelphia Sports
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Table podcast show, the longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world
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ten years strong. We've got a great discussion coming your way. As always
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here on our Table Talk interview shows. This week, we're gonna be getting
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into the Philadelphia Flyers, some MHL hockey, and specifically with the Flyers,
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where this new front office is going to be taking this team organization, and
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just where the Flyers are gonna be going in the future. Because this is
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a new era. This is a new era. For sure. There is
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some excitement out there. There's some excitement. Now what's the degree of that
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excitement. It remains to be seen. Of course, aftertime, what happens
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with this offseason is going to dictate a lot of that. But we've got
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a great guest. Let's get to our discussion right now about this Flyers team,
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this organization, and where they're heading in the future. It is so
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wonderful to have back on the show. I absolutely love talking to her about
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the Philadelphia Flyers and I love talking to her about the NHL as well.
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We have from Broadstreet Hockey dot Com. I am a subscriber, head on
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I listen on Apple podcast. We've got the one and only Kelly Hinkle.
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How are you doing, Kelly? Ni Jeff, how are you doing?
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I'm doing all right. You know, look, we're not we're not here,
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of course to talk about the Philadelphia seventy six ers. But my god,
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WoT a heartbreak yesterday. Folks in the podcast feed, My reactions are
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there, you can listen to that. But we have another heartbreaker of a
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team that we want to get into, which is the Philadelphia Flyers. But
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but I hesitate to say that. Within my Philly sports heart that I have,
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it's a darkening black heart that has occurred over so long and such a
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period of time that like, I feel hopeful for some reason, and we're
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going to get into you know, what's been happening with the Flyers, happening
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to the front office as well. But I'm feeling I don't know if why
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I'm feeling hopeful. I know on the BSAH Radio podcast you've used that word
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hopeful and hope in the past, I don't know, are you Are you
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feeling hope? Are you feeling hope? Kelly, I'm a real sucker,
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Jeff. Every year, yes, every year, over the course of the
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summer, I find myself getting progressively more optimistic and hopeful about this dumb hockey
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team. Yeah, and then every year they knocked me back down to reality.
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But maybe this will be the year that the optimism actually pays off.
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Maybe it'll be heaven exactly me. You never know, you never know.
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Look, maybe in like November December this year, we'll be saying, you
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know, it's a you know, couple of years before another couple of years,
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you know, famous phrase. But look, before we get into the
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flyers, Kelly, something I wanted to talk about here on our podcast this
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past week with Len didn't have time to talk to him like about that in
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particular, was something that BSh Radio and I don't I don't think. I
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don't know if you were on that particular episode, but something your co host
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touched on was regard with regard to the Chicago Blackhawks and just the fact that
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they have the now the number one overall pick heading into this NHL Draft Meanwhile,
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like US hockey fans that understand certain organizations, how certain organizations are run
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throughout the league, the Blackhawks, they're just a terrible organization. They covered
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up a sexual abuse and sexual assault situations in the past, and it never
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ceases to amaze me how they are the NHL's golden child. That team can
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do no wrong obviously, and it just it kind of goes to show that
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there's no justice in the NHL. And you're co host, and both your
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co host in Bill Matt's and Steph Driver, I believe we're saying that exact
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same thing. There's just no justice in this league. So with regard to
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the Chicago Blackhawks, just getting that number one overall pick based on or I
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should say, after what their organization has been through, what they've done,
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what they've covered up. You know, what are your thoughts on all this?
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Yeah, the NHL never seems to discipline teams or players really in a
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way that makes any kind of sense. Yeah, given what we found out
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about the Blackhawks, I mean they got that, you know, a two
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million dollar fine of paltry sum. Are that billionaire family exactly? You know,
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and nothing for a professional sports franchise. Yeah, I think taking away
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their first round picks would have been at minimum a pretty fair punishment for what
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we found out that that organization did. It was important. It's like,
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right, thinking about it is just like it's terrible. You know, if
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you're a listeners who don't know, they can look it up. I don't
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really think we need to get into it. But yeah, you know a
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lot of people say things like, you know, well everybody that was there
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when it happened has been fired. Know all these new people here there,
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it's whatever, But like, you know, the same family still owns the
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team, same family owns Team franchise exactly, the organization itself. I'm sorry
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it interrupted, right, No, no, no, it's okay. And
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there was just no real punishment for it. And that's that's a shame because
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you know, not only is it a shame for Kyle Beach, the victim
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of the crime, but it also just kind of shows that it doesn't matter
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what an NHL franchise does. It doesn't matter how low they sank, it
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doesn't matter how many rules they break. At the end of the day,
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there's hardly ever going to be any actual consequence. Well, let's give them
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the number one pick, So let's give them the number one over how about
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that? And that's the other thing, Like, not only that, but
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like the black Hawks were the team that most explicitly tanked this season. Like
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there were a lot of big, bad teams, um, but no one
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tanked it like the black Hawks. Like they were obviously like getting rid of
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top end talent, not giving a shit about winning a single game, Like
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they were very clear that they were tanking this season specifically for this reason.
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And that's another thing that the NHL constantly says, like we don't like this,
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we don't like we don't want teams to tank, we don't like this
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behavior. It's, you know, contrary to hockey culture. Blah blah blah
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blah blah. And so it's just that all of all of the bad things
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that the black Hawks did led them to this prize that I could end up
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being one of the best players to ever play the game. And it just
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sucks. It just sucks. The Flyers could have tanked but decided to win
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what seven out of their last fifteen games or something like they they couldn't yea
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and they decided not to. Yeah, and you know that a lot of
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good death did them right, Yep, So they're following us, Yeah,
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sure, yeah, exactly, exactly cool. Yeah, we're following. We're
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following what the NHL wants to do, or like trying to win. Our
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head coach and John Tournureaux trying to win. You know, we're gonna we
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know what the talent is like on this team, but we're still gonna try
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to win, even though it's not in our best interest going into this draft
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and going into this overall rebuild as well. Yeah, it just yet the
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Blackhawks are fucking rewarded. It just dry. It drives me insane. It
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drives me insane. The injustice in this world, I know, it's it's
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the absolute worst. There really is no God. Well, we'll moving along
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year too and before again before we get into some flyers talk too. It's
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looking at the playoffs here and looking at the Stanley Cup just you know,
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this run here, I just I find it so hard to believe that the
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Bruins and you know, a Rangers to an extent, we're knocked out so
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early. You know, I'm watching playoff hockey and I'm like, I can't
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believe I'm not seeing certain teams, you know, playing for the Stanley Cup
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at this particular point here in mid May, I mean the Kraken. They've
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made some waves here in the postseason. And when I initially did my brackets,
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Kelly, I I predicted my prediction was a Bruins and Oilers Stanley Cup
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final. I'm wondering, what were your predictions and how have they worked out
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thus far. You'll be shocked to learn, Jeff, that my bracket is
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totally musted after the first round. Yeah, I had. I had the
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Oilers and the Maple Leafs okay, and the Stanley Cup final. Yeah.
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Um. I really thought this was going to be the year that the Leafs
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could get out of their own way and win. They did win one series,
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so you know, good for them, um, But I certainly did
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not expect. I didn't expect the Panthers to get out of the first round
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exactly the beating them the Bruins, but I did not think that way happen.
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Um, so they you know, they kind of killed my bracket really
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quick. I had. I did have the Hurricanes advancing, I had the
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Devil's advancing, had the Kraken going out in the first round. I thought
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for sure the Avalanche would take care of them, even with all of the
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injuries that they had. Um, but yeah, it was a pretty it
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was a pretty wild first round. Um. I think right now the only
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team that I have left surviving on my bracket is the Golden Knights. Okay,
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Um, I got everything every single other series wrong doing great over here.
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But I mean it was a pretty wild first round, which you know,
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makes it more fun, that's gonna say. It makes it more interesting
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here. Yeah, yeah, but it's it's been a very interesting playoffs,
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that's for sure. It's it's Uh, the officiating has been curious, yes,
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Um, you know, you never you never want to as a fan
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of the sport or your particular team to you know, blame officiating for losses
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or wins or whatever. But it has been I think especially bad this season.
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The NHLs insistence on completely changing the rules of the sport for the playoffs
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is I think really something they need to take a look at, because it's
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it's not it's not good game Like it's not it's not a good idea to
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make it okay for bad teams to get past good teams by simply injuring their
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best players like that, And that seems to be and I mean like to
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be fair. Knowing that it's going to be allowed, you can see why,
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you know, the team would go at Yeah, exactly. Like if
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I'm the Islanders and I know I'm simply not as talented as my opponent,
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why wouldn't I try to take out their best players? I know they're not
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going to penel. I mean because now it's the playoffs and we put the
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whistles away, Like it's just it's a very weird way to go about officiating
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your playoffs. You would think that you would want the best players to advance
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because they're you know, fun to watch, right. Yeah, it's it's
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been, it's been all their playoffs, but it's been fun. Yeah,
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at least we have that for sure. Okay again, folks, talking to
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Kelly Hankle from Broadstreet Hockey dot Com and the BSh Radio podcast. Follow on
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Twitter at hanks Hi n X. She is a great, great follow and
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all right, let's talk about the Flyers here this upcoming offseason. Danny bre
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Air is officially the general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers Keith Jones. He won
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the president's job over a slew of other names that were being considered so it's
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the start of a new era here, and the one thing that Jones has,
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from my understanding here is some people skills, and I think that's something
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that's been sorely lacking the Flyers front office for many years. I think it's
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a great thing for this organization. Plus Jones is going to have more power
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and authority over the GM position as well. Little concerned about that into an
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stent, but overall, I really like these new hires as this new front
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office era has begun. It gives me hope. We talked about hope earlier,
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but I wanted to see what you liked about these hires and what you
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disliked and what you don't like about these official hires. Now it really is
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a new direction here, Kelly, for this organization at the end of the
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day, and I think that it's something that's welcoming for US Flyers fans who
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have been god following this team in the debacles year after year for so long.
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Personally, I like it, and maybe again it's giving me hope.
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But where what do you like and what do you not like about these hires?
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Yeah, So this has been an interesting set of circumstances for me,
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just because I say all the time that, like, as Flyers fans in
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particular, a lot of people have a hard time like holding two thoughts at
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the same time in their head, like everything has to be black or white,
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one thing or the other, right, right. This is tough for
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me because I genuinely love Keith Jones. I have met him several times.
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He's like an extremely nice man. He's funny, he's engaging. Like you
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said, he's just one of these people that I feel like it's impossible not
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to like, which, as you said, is probably one of the reasons
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that the Flyers gave him this job. So it's hard to ship on the
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hire of a guy like Keith Jones because you're like, you want him to
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do well, you want him to succeed, all of that kind of stuff.
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Now that said, for me, I'm having a hard time seeing this
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as the start of something new with the Philadelphia Flyers because once again, like
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they kind of gave the impression that there was going to be this search for
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the most qualified president of hockey operations, there was going to be a search
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for general manager. Wasn't just going to be handed to Danny Breer. There
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was like all of this implication that we were going to try something new.
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And at the end of the day they went down the hall and we're like,
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hey, Jonesy, you want to be our president of hockey operations.
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It's like, yeah, sure, like you know what I mean. And
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it's not. And what's difficult is that I don't want it to seem like
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I'm being negative about the higher because I don't necessarily think it's going to go
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poorly. But I do wish like this was the perfect opportunity for the Flyers
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to go completely outside their normal behavior, completely outside their insular little fires bubble,
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and get somebody different and new, with a new set of ideas and
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a new set of standards, like and it would have been very easy for
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fans to be like, yes, here it is, we're doing something different.
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This guy is going to bring something new to the table. And maybe
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Jonesy will I don't know, but it's easy I think going into this to
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have a little bit in the back of your mind that like, this is
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just more of the same. This is what they always do. They always
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hire their buddies. Yea, And we see where it goes. Now,
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Like I said, I really hope this works. I do think that Danny
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Breer, you know, being a guy that played hockey in the modern era,
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being a small, fast, goal scoring kind of player rather than you
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know, a gooney Bullies type of player. Like, maybe his perspective on
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what it takes to build a good hockey team will not be the Flyer's perspective
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on what it takes to build a good hockey team that we've seen for the
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last fifty years, right, you know, Keith Jones, like you said,
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being likable and having a lot of connections and all that kind of stuff,
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maybe that will bide well for building relationships with other organizations and making trades
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and stuff. We just don't know, but at least these two guys are
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easy to like and easy to root for, so at least, going into
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it, we have that so that we can, you know, like you
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said, have a little bit of hope about what's going to happen. Yeah.
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The one thing that I have learned so much over the past ten years
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of doing this podcast and talking with individuals from around the sports world is this
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overriding theme that relationships really do matter in sports. Relationships not just with front
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office personnel with each other, but how they relate to players, how players
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relate to coaches, how assistant coaches relate to the front office. How it's
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all intertwined with each other in this web of Okay, my personality meshes with
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yours, and as a result, your personality is going to mesh with this
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one over here. And at the end of the day, if personalities mesh
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with each other, you're going to see a better product on the ice,
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on the court, on the field, whatever sport that it is. So
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that is my hope with regard to the Jones hires, because he does have
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an actual personality. He's not a wet mop. He has personality to be
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able to reach people, to be able to connect with people, and I
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think that is a key component, you know, aside from like that,
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I think that's why I'm like making myself believe that this is gonna work,
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because you know, even though it is one of the good old boys being
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hired, you know, from right in the building, I like, I'm
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thinking to myself and maybe I'm trying to believe it here Kelly, is that
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because he is that people person that he's going to be able to that he's
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going to just be able to relate more and connect more with people, and
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when you have those connections from a human to human perspective, good things usually
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do happen, and not just in sports, like in the world in general.
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So like that's yeah, that's that's by thought process behind the hire and
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why I do have the hope. Yeah, I mean I totally agree with
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you, and I am hopeful and I don't dislike these hires. I do
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think though that and I'm sure that that Jonesy understands this that the leash is
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going to be very short with this fan base. Like right now, we're
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all like, yeah, we love Keith Jones, but I think we all
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know that, like if in two or three years this is still this bad,
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like we're not the like Keith Jones anymore, exactly, what's going to
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suck. Yeah, And so I really do think that at the end of
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the day, it's the results that are going to make people buy into this
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hockey team again. And so hopefully these guys can deliver. I mean,
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we have no reason yet to believe that they can't, right, So exactly,
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well, there's a lot of work to be done this offseason to really
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rebuild this Philadelphia Flyers team, and I wanted to get into some of the
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nuts and bolts of that here, Like, what's the first thing that Keith
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Jones and Danny Brier are gonna need to do this offseason? Is it?
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I mean, is it finding a trade partner for Kevin Hayes and his over
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seven million dollars per year contract or is it just finding out and getting more
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answers about Sean Couturier cam Atkinson at this point? What are your thoughts on
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how this offseason process really really needs to start for this organization, if the
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fan base, you know, if they want the fan base to buy into
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this, what are your thoughts? Yeah, so we don't We don't really
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know what they're going to do because we don't really have any basis, Like
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neither of these guys have done this job before, so there's no really history
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to call on. But um, what I would like to see, and
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you know you mentioned it with the Kevin Hayes thing, I would like to
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see this summer for Danny Brier being more about subtraction than addition. Okay,
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um, getting rid of whatever bad contracts he can, getting rid of any
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players that may whose time. I mean, I hate this phrase because how
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do people use it all the time, but whose timelines might not fit with
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when the Flyers are going to be good again. Yeah, well, JBR,
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I'm guessing is just going to be gone. I can't imagine they're going
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to resign it, right, But if, like, you know, if
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one of the first things Danny Breer does is resign JBR to any kind of
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contract, I think we're all going to be We'll probably have some questions.
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Um My Flyer's fandom is so bruised that I actually thought that that could be
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actually be a possibility. I have joked several times, but I could see
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them like giving him like a one year that minimum contract. And I really
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hope they don't say, you know, like for example, like I don't
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think they're going to do something like trade Travis Connecting because they're so high on
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him, But like he would be a guy that if you are being honest
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with yourself and saying, Okay, this team isn't going to be good for
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three years, you could get you could get some real nised value Travis Connecting
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right now, You get some nice future, some picks, that kind of
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stuff. If Danny Brier went that route this summer where it was just about
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afloating what valuable assets you can, offloading what bad contracts you can, and
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just collecting as many future assets as you can. Sort of like and if
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people are going to hate this, but like sort of like what ron Hexstall
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that absolutely first got here, because here's the thing, Like ron Hexstall's base
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idea was a good one. He started the ross as well. Yes,
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yeah, we had to get out of bad contracts. We had to get
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more picks because we didn't have any, Like Danny Breer is kind of in
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the same exact place. Yes, hopefully you know where Ron Hextall found short
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fell short was executing that process long term, Like he didn't seem to have
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an endgame that he knew how to figure out, because you know, he
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did a couple of years of the dumping contracts collecting picks and that's good.
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Um, but then you know his tracting turns out wasn't very good. Um.
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His you know, NHL talent evaluation turns out wasn't very good. So
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if we have Brier kind of start that process again, but do it well,
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that wouldn't be a bad thing for us. Um So so yeah,
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I wouldn't expect him to be bringing in any talent this summer um, because
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what's what's the points? Yeah, yeah, we spending assets to get talents.
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YEA. Hopefully he'll just be dumping some stuff and hopefully he's able to
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do that because I don't think it's going to be easy for him, because
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I think the entire league knows that the Flyers are not negotiating from a point
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of strength exactly just about anything. Yeah, So you know, hopefully he'll
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do what he can and hopefully we will see some some subtractions that can be
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filled with some kids from the phantoms, because honestly, it wouldn't be a
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bad thing for the Flyers to use next year as another talent evaluation. Let's
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see what we got in the system. Yep, doesn't matter if we're bad
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or good tiny years, because you know they're not going to be good,
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so you might as well just lean into it and see what you can get.
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Absolutely, I completely agree with you, and we know that two and
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twenty four seasons going to be a brutal one anyway. We know that it's
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going to be, and it should be. They're in like you said,
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they are in no position of strength here to do much of anything. So
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let's offload what needs to be offload, and you wander to really make this
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a true rebuild. And I'm moving along, Kelly. I personally, I
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think the organization needs to keep Carter Hart. He's one of those guys you're
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talking about Travis Connecty too. I think with regard to Carter Hart, and
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you may disagree with me, that they do need to keep him. And
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the last time I had your co host on BSh Radio, Bill Matts,
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he was on the pod. We were talking about the possibilities of trading Carter
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Heart, you know, given the instability over so many years at the goalie
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position and how young Carter Heart is. I mean, I remember when we
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started this podcast ten years ago, We're talking about Brizz Golam for God's sakes,
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you know, like the days of Briz Jesus, and yes, Steve
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Mason was in there for a while, but in Steve Mason, Steve Mason.
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But at the end of the day, I think they need to keep
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Carter Heart for the long term. I wanted to get your thoughts on that
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because there's just so much talk with him Flyer's Nation that you know what,
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Yeah, you know, Carter Hart may need to be a trade ship at
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some point during this rebuild. Here at this point in time in twenty thirteen,
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twenty twenty three, I mean, I want to see them keep him.
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What are your thoughts here? You know, it is hard to as
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a Flyers fan consider the possibility of giving up, you know, the first
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reliably good goaltender that you've had pretty much ever. I can't remember um,
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but you know, really doing if I know, if we're really doing a
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rebuild though, if we're really doing it, treating him makes sense because the
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thing is right now, you could probably get some pretty nice assets, especially
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as we get out of the playoffs. You have a team, you have
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a team like the Oilers for example, who kind of you know, their
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goalie wasn't bad in the playoffs, but he definitely didn't seal them any games.
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And when you have teams that are or even even the Maple Leafs,
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you know, have some goalie issues they had, you know, injuries these
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playoffs that you know, we're a little sketch. But when you have teams
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that are like super close, but if they had a lights out goalie like
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that would really get them to the next place. So you could probably get
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some value out of those teams and the Flyers aren't without goalie prospects like Erson
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could be good. We don't know. I'm not going to pretend that,
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you know, the little bit that we've seen of him in the NHL is
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enough to know, right, But I mean goalies in general are like,
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who the hell knows a cart Hard is going to be good in two years?
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Who knows? Goalies don't make any sense, Like, you know,
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you have Carrie Price, who is one of the best goalies ever, and
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they give him a giant contract and all of a sudden he sucks like out
25:33
of nowhere. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like, they don't
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make any sense. So even though we think of Carter Hard as like a
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guarantee and he you know, you know, logically he probably is a minimum
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a good goaltender for the length of his career, UM, I like to
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consistent real with him, Like that's it's the consistency, you know, it's
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really nice. Yeah. Yeah, But but if you're really doing it,
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Jeff, if you're really doing it training him make a lot of stuff?
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Will they I don't know, right, but but you know, yeah,
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I'm honestly at this point, there's not a single soul on this team that
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I think should be safe from being traded. Like, whatever we need to
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do to turn this around, it's got to happen. So if they can
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get like, let's say on draft day, you can get like a first
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in two seconds or something for Carter Heart. And right now the Fires have
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one pick in the toxic Yeah, if you can, if you can do
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that, maybe that's something you do. You know what I mean, because
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it's it's it's more about what are we going to have in three years and
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and Carter Heart couldn't be good for years or he could not be She's making
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sense, folks, She's making sense. It's why we bring her on the
26:45
pot why I'm gonna be crying afterward, but that's why we bring her on,
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folks. Addings on Twitter and Broadstreet Hockey dot Com. Gone over there
26:56
and check out all the great work they're doing. And just to close us
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out here while we have a few more minutes here. I know that we
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say this every year, but the upcoming NHL Draft, and it's gonna be
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June twenty eighth, June twenty ninth, it's gonna be huge for this Flyers
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team an organization in terms of this rebuild. Right now, the team has
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nine picks. I know, Lennon and I are we're going to be getting
27:15
into some prospects on this show for our listeners, just to let you know
27:19
down the road, we're certainly going to be talking about some of these prospects.
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What do us fans, Kelly need this draft to look like from an
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overall picture for the future of the team and organization, to like make us
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believe that we're heading in the right direction here. What are your thoughts,
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Well, the Flyers need to take the right player when they pick. It's
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going to be I mean, it's just going to be a matter of them
27:44
taking the best of what's left at that point, I think, which is
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fine. There is like a small chance that Mitchkoff could fall to them,
27:52
just because people are very scared that he'll never come over. I think.
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I think your co host Charlie O'Connor on the wrote some think about that on
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The Athletic recently too. Yeah he did. Yeah, um, so,
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like you know, if he does fall, maybe you take a big chance
28:08
because he is essentially a vechkan Um, which is why, like if he
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falls to the Capitals, the Capitals will probably take him, um, just
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because like they could probably get him to come over because they got UM.
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But it's mostly about I think not scrolling it up really more than anything else.
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Like there's a kid that's a big, right handed defenseman, UM who
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actually I think just got hurt, which I don't want to say the good
28:40
thing, but it may have saved the Flyers from himself just because like this
28:44
draft. Um, We've got a piece on it on our site right now
28:48
about how this draft in particular is so deep on talented forwards that taking a
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defenseman would just not be the best idea. And I would hate Theys to
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fall into the trap of like, oh, big, big, big boy,
29:04
right handed defenseman, like like, yeah, that's not what we need,
29:07
you know what I mean, Like we don't really don't. UM.
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So I'm just hoping they don't screw it up. And I'm kind of hoping
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that maybe Brier can work a little magic and get us some more picks,
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like a couple of second rounders would be nice. We don't have any.
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Um. That's kind of my biggest hope is that we're able to add some
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more higher picks than we have, just because we need as much talent as
29:33
possible, So more picks equals better. So if we can dump some players
29:37
for picks at the draft or ahead of the draft, that'll be very good
29:42
for us going forward. But but yeah, I they're going to get a
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good player, I think, as long as they don't screw it up.
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So alright. More and also, folks, more picks better for a rebuild.
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The more picks you have, the better for a rebuild, for sure.
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Again, folks, Kelly Hinkle from Broadstreet Hockey dot com check check out
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everything they're doing over there, fantastic site. I'm one of their monthly monthly
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subscribers and you all should be as well. I listened to the BSh radio
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podcast on Apple Podcasts and they're on plenty of different podcast platforms as well.
30:18
And Kelly, I really appreciate you taking the time to jump on our little
30:22
podcast here, and I cannot wait to talk to you at some other point
30:26
down the road. We'll talk flyers, you know, hopefully we'll have to
30:29
still have that hope in our hearts. So come back and join us down
30:32
the road. My friend. You know I love doing this show. Draft.
30:34
It's the best. Oh, thanks so much. I always love talking
30:38
to Kelly again, a plethora of information, just so passionate. Look,
30:44
even though we're all down about the Flyers, she's passionate about the Flyers.
30:47
You know she'll be like, Nah, now I'm not too passionate about it.
30:49
Don't let her fool you. She's passionate about the Flyers. She's passionate
30:53
about professional hockey as well. But as we're talking about the draft, it's
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gonna be a critical and important draft, for sure. I know that Lenn
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and I are gonna be getting into some draft prospects in more detailed down the
31:03
road here on the PST podcast show for sure. And getting back to Kelly,
31:08
make sure you're following her on Twitter at hanks. She is a great
31:11
great follow and head on over to Broadstreet Hockey dot com. I support them.
31:15
I am a monthly subscriber. I love the work that they're doing over
31:18
there, the type of articles that they post and the columns that they put
31:22
up every now and then and not every now and then. They put up
31:25
a decent amount of content, and I pay a monthly fee for it because
31:30
it is that good. Again Broadstreet Hockey dot Com. Head on over there
31:33
BSh Radio podcast Kelly and her co host doing really good things. That's gonna
31:38
do it for us here on Table Talk this week. We've got a great
31:41
opposition territory show coming your way this week as well as our regular show.
31:45
We're gonna be get into a lot of Philly's talk on our regular show this
31:48
week with our guests, So it's gonna do it for us. Folks.
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Take care, we'll catch you next time.