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TABLE TALK: Flyers Preseason Hockey Has Started! · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Speaker 1: What's going on, everybody. It's Jeff here. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: let you know we recorded this podcast episode on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: September twenty third, twenty twenty four. By the time you
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  Speaker 1: hear this, some things may have changed here or there,
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  Speaker 1: but we hope you enjoy the show. Welcome to Table
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  Speaker 1: Talk here at the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the
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  Speaker 1: longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world,
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  Speaker 1: eleven years strong. We got a great discussion coming your
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  Speaker 1: way this week here on Table Talk. I am so
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  Speaker 1: excited that the hockey season is almost upon us. We
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  Speaker 1: have seen our very first Philadelphia Flyers preseason game, and
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  Speaker 1: we're certainly going to be getting into a lot of
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  Speaker 1: what we saw there and what we may be seeing
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  Speaker 1: from the future with regard to this Flyers team. We
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  Speaker 1: have got a great guest man. It's just it's an
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  Speaker 1: exciting time. Seriously, the NFL season is here, the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: season is here. We've got the Phillies that are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be going into red October soon. Sixers and Flyers are
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  Speaker 1: on the way. Let's get it some good Flyers talk
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  Speaker 1: right now. Joining us this week. We love having him
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  Speaker 1: on from Broadstreet Hockey dot Com. He's got he's got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that he does out in the
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  Speaker 1: sports world. And again, I'm so grateful that he was
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  Speaker 1: able to join us this week for a table talk,
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  Speaker 1: interview and discussion. To get into this Philadelphia Flyers team.
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  Speaker 1: We got to one and only Ryan Gilbert.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, buddy, I'm doing great, doing even better
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  Speaker 2: now that Flyers hot back. And thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: I always always love hopping on with you to talk
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  Speaker 2: some Flyers.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun talking to you. It's fun knowing that this
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  Speaker 1: team is gonna be actually playing some regular season games
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  Speaker 1: at it. Right around the corner, we saw the first
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  Speaker 1: preseason game and Dude, I was like, like watching this,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, my gosh, we're actually we're actually at
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  Speaker 1: that point. We're actually at the point where we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be seeing Mitchikov. We're gonna be seeing Bobby Brinkmore, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be seeing Joe fair More as John Victoria. We
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be seeing these guys. We're gonna be seeing
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  Speaker 1: these this rebuild continuing to manifest itself. I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: really excited, man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, another year of growth of a fantastic start to
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  Speaker 2: the preseason opening you know, it's one game against another
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  Speaker 2: team that I haven't really played yet, but still, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they could they could have they could have lost, They
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  Speaker 2: could have lost six to two instead of winning six
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  Speaker 2: to two.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they went out there and then really showed what
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  Speaker 2: they can do.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely well, let's get into this first preseason game, what
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  Speaker 1: we saw, what we were able to digest. As you
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned, they beat the Capitols. Flyers beat the Capitals
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  Speaker 1: six to two, and I'm gonna kind of get into
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  Speaker 1: some standouts from this particular game. And I think, first up, Ryan,
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, we have to dive into Joel Farraby.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so used to saying Joel Embiid, I said Joel Farrabee.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Embiid's contract on my mind too, because
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about it on the show later
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  Speaker 1: this week. But I want to dive into Joel Farrabee.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he not only looked like the best Flyers
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  Speaker 1: player on the ice, but he had a goal, he
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  Speaker 1: had three assists. I mean, he looked red hot out
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  Speaker 1: there there. Loved what we saw from him. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think Farab is going to maybe even take another step,
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  Speaker 1: a next step that we're going to see or that
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  Speaker 1: we need to see as well as this rebuild continues.
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  Speaker 1: Why or why not?
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  Speaker 2: I think he definitely can. He's still still pretty young,
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  Speaker 2: still twenty four, going to turn twenty five in February,
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  Speaker 2: so still on the younger side, even though, yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: feels like he's been around for a while. He made
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  Speaker 2: his an Intel debut when he was nineteen, so he's
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  Speaker 2: a veteran, but he's still in that kind of younger,
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  Speaker 2: younger group. He has that house with all the guys,
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  Speaker 2: so it's great to see it. And he's kind of
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  Speaker 2: fallen into the default Flyers fan like, oh, we should
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  Speaker 2: trade this guy for a center for no reason.
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  Speaker 1: Right, It's almost it's almost like.
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  Speaker 2: The Braden schen thing seven or eight years ago, but
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  Speaker 2: at least then there was some reason for it. Now
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  Speaker 2: it's just like, Okay, Farrabee was kind of the odd
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  Speaker 2: man out a little bit, but he's one of the
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  Speaker 2: only natural left wings on the roster. He had that
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  Speaker 2: next surgery, the discreplacement surgery two years ago, had thirty
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  Speaker 2: nine points, that year had fifty points. Of the last year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so maybe he keeps going. I could see him getting
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  Speaker 2: fifty sixty points again here, especially if he keeps us.
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  Speaker 1: Up, Well, that's what I'm hoping for more like like
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  Speaker 1: possibly sixty points after I'm glad you. I'm glad you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the next surgery because after he had that and
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  Speaker 1: after he comes back, you know, and look, it's next surgery,
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  Speaker 1: for God's sake, folks, it's next surgery. It's like, what
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  Speaker 1: do you expect from the guy? And I know there
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  Speaker 1: were some of us out there that were kind of like, ah, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, thirty nine points here last year
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  Speaker 1: with fifty points, and like I said, sixty points I
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  Speaker 1: think from a natural progression standpoint is something I think
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  Speaker 1: we can expect from him as he continues to develop.
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  Speaker 1: He is still a young player. I think it's absolutely
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  Speaker 1: possible that he can get to that point. And I
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  Speaker 1: do wonder if it is that a realistic expectation that
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  Speaker 1: US and Flyers Nation can have for Farrabee at this point.
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  Speaker 1: I do think it is realistic. I do, Ryan, do
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  Speaker 1: you as well?
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  Speaker 2: I agree? I had twenty two goals last year, fifty points.
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  Speaker 2: Don't see why he can't do twenty five goals. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: sixty points this year, especially you get some consistent time
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  Speaker 2: with a good center, like him and Bobby Brinko had
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  Speaker 2: a great connection there on in Sunday's game. They've played
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  Speaker 2: together a lot, but like, he didn't have a consistent
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  Speaker 2: center last year. Noah Kates, Morgan Frost was in there,
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  Speaker 2: Scott Lauden was in there, Ryan Paling even so, like
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  Speaker 2: and you have to remember this Flyers team hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: that great, especially especially two years ago when he only
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  Speaker 2: had thirty nine points. It was a success that he
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  Speaker 2: played in every game that year after that next surgery,
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  Speaker 2: and he did the same thing last year, very durable.
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  Speaker 2: He wore an A on Sunday, So you see he
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  Speaker 2: kind of has that leadership. Yeah, I think as he's
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  Speaker 2: slotted in as a third line winger, and if you
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  Speaker 2: can get fifty points out of a third line winger,
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, if we can get sixty, I'd love it even more.
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  Speaker 1: I really would. But look, you mentioned a gentleman. I
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  Speaker 1: want to get into next with you here, Bobby brink
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  Speaker 1: I mean what he did during his or this first
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  Speaker 1: preseason game. I mean he buried a couple backhand gold goals,
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  Speaker 1: which is so freaking sweet to watch, and in his chemistry,
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  Speaker 1: would Joel Farrabee. I think was really great to watch
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  Speaker 1: see how much it's manifest over time here. It's so
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  Speaker 1: natural with both of these guys, at least I think
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  Speaker 1: from my eye test. It's early during the preseason, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but what are you hoping to see more of from
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Brink as the preseason and then as the regular
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  Speaker 1: season is almost upon us. Here, let's get into Bbby
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  Speaker 1: Brink here and what you're expecting to see from him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a huge fan of Bobby Brink ever since
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  Speaker 2: he made the World Junior's roster I think in twenty
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  Speaker 2: eleven or twenty twenty one, not twenty eleven, but around
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  Speaker 2: there somewhere. Yeah, he was great there as kind of
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  Speaker 2: a depth role. He's kind of from that. I do
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  Speaker 2: want to see more consistency out of him, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: he had a decent start last year eighteen points in
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight games. Then he got sent back down, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and never never really found it after you're going to
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  Speaker 2: call it back up. Only had five points, four goals
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen games from February twenty seventh on. Saw his
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  Speaker 2: average time on ice to climb by two minutes. So
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  Speaker 2: you want to see more of the defensive game from
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Brink. But I really like what I saw on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday those two backhanded goals. There's two moves on that
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  Speaker 2: were so sweet. And yeah, he had a great camp
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  Speaker 2: last year, so I don't think people should be surprised
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  Speaker 2: that he bomped up in the offseason, much like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the Flyers did, because coming into this season,
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  Speaker 2: he sees okay, connecting, He's not going anywhere. Tip it's
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  Speaker 2: not going anywhere forresters ahead of him on the on
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  Speaker 2: the on the you know youngster chart there, Mitchkoff's in
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  Speaker 2: there and Farrabe, so there's there's the Flyers have six
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  Speaker 2: wingers that could play in the top six, but due
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  Speaker 2: to the numbers game, he's on that third line and
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  Speaker 2: maybe has to kind of embrace that role more and
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  Speaker 2: play more of a more of a two way game,
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  Speaker 2: because there were games last year where he would score
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  Speaker 2: a goal, but he'd also have a few turnovers or
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  Speaker 2: take a bout of penalty and then you know that
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  Speaker 2: outweighs the goal by by a lot, especially for John Twittererella.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think it's interesting how you mentioned how he
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  Speaker 1: was set, how he was sent down last year and
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  Speaker 1: when that happens to a player, what it does to
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  Speaker 1: their mindset, what it does to those sports psychology in
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  Speaker 1: a way. And I wonder if Bobby Brink might be
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  Speaker 1: one of those guys where if there is a hurdle,
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  Speaker 1: if there is something in front of him, a wall
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  Speaker 1: that he does need to break down, if it is
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  Speaker 1: a little bit difficult for him to maybe kind of
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  Speaker 1: get back to where he needs to be and where
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  Speaker 1: we all think that he can be. So I'm hoping
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  Speaker 1: that as we're moving forward here that sports psychology of him,
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  Speaker 1: he seems to be one of those players where sports
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  Speaker 1: psychology is kind of big with him. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what your thoughts are on that, Ryan, but like I
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  Speaker 1: that's the one thing I'm going to be looking at
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  Speaker 1: as a potential quote concern with regard to Bobby Brink.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you just look at him. He's five
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  Speaker 2: foot eight, He's got a little guy. He's always been
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  Speaker 2: probably counted against that throughout his whole hockey hockey career
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  Speaker 2: so far, and I mean having Danny Brier as a
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  Speaker 2: GM probably helps with that. Still manage to be a
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  Speaker 2: second round pick, had a great college career, and I
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to help. Having Travis Connectney here for
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  Speaker 2: the long haul to be kind of a mentor for him, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: connecting is obviously a lot better, but like if Brank
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  Speaker 2: can turn into that TK light where connect can be like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I dealt with Dave Hackstall scratching me, I doubt this
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  Speaker 2: and that and just battled through it. Scott Lawden too,
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  Speaker 2: he really didn't have a role on the team, went
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  Speaker 2: down to the AHL for a full year, and now
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  Speaker 2: he's one of the main glue guys on the roster,
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  Speaker 2: one of the main glue guys in the NHL, probably
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  Speaker 2: given how the Flyers value him. So yeah, I think Brink,
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  Speaker 2: you saw it in the offseason, you saw it last
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  Speaker 2: training camp, you see it this training camp. So far.
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  Speaker 2: He's willing to do whatever it takes. So he just
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  Speaker 2: really needs to embrace that role, like I said, and
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  Speaker 2: hopefully we see some more offense and defense out of him.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely well. Keeping our conversation going with regard to the
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  Speaker 1: first preseason game man Morgan Frost and Mettved Mitchkoff certainly
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  Speaker 1: had connection in chemistry. I mean, it was just great
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  Speaker 1: to see mitchkalv on the ice at this point last
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  Speaker 1: year you're thinking, You're not thinking this. You know, We're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you know, Mettve Mitchkoff is going to
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  Speaker 1: be coming here in the twenty twenty four twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five season. But man, I got to tell you, I
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  Speaker 1: think that having Mitchkoff out there was really good for
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  Speaker 1: Frost considering the the reputational ups and downs that he
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: has seen over the years. I'm wondering, Ryan, what did
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  Speaker 1: you what did you see that you liked with these
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  Speaker 1: guys on the ice together that they can possibly build
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  Speaker 1: upon over these next few months here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you saw the behind the net pass to
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  Speaker 2: Frost on his goal from Beach Golf. I mean that
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  Speaker 2: was that was incredible, And it's just weird. It feels
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  Speaker 2: it's like the first training camp in forever. We're not
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  Speaker 2: talking about where Morgan Frost is gonna be right. He's
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  Speaker 2: in there as a second line center. He's gonna apparently
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  Speaker 2: have Mitchcoff on his line to start maybe tip it
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  Speaker 2: as well. Like that can be a great group. And
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely love everything I see from Mitch Golf, Like
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  Speaker 2: every shift he makes the right decision. He makes a
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  Speaker 2: decision better than you think he could make. It's like
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: when you're playing like an NHL video game and you
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  Speaker 2: can see the whole rink. Players normally can't see that,
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  Speaker 2: but like he can sense where everyone is and make
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  Speaker 2: plays and make plays that you don't think are possible.
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  Speaker 2: So having Morgan Frost his skill set, his hockey IQ,
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  Speaker 2: with Mitch Gooff, two guys that can hopefully build off
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  Speaker 2: each other, it can hopefully be finally a breakout year
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  Speaker 2: for Morgan Frost because he's never hit twenty goals YEP.
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  Speaker 2: Career high end points was forty six two years ago.
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  Speaker 2: So if he can just stay in that second line,
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  Speaker 2: stay with Tippett and or Mitchkoff there, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe I finally have high hopes.
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  Speaker 1: For Morgan Frost right exactly. I mean we're hoping for
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  Speaker 1: it for sure. But and here's another thing too, Ryan
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  Speaker 1: that I want to tell our listeners and just Flyers
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  Speaker 1: Nation in general. I mean, this was this was a
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  Speaker 1: fun opening preseason game to watch in so many ways.
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  Speaker 1: We may not have that necessarily throughout the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the preseason. I mean, expectations need to be there still rebuild,
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  Speaker 1: these guys still need to get to a conditioning standpoint
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  Speaker 1: where they're ready to play in the regular season as well.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a real important aspect of this too.
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  Speaker 1: If they crap the bed the next game, folks, it's okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's not go crazy. And I know we're going crazy
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  Speaker 1: right now, at least I'm going crazy right now with
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  Speaker 1: regard to this win over the Caps. But still we
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  Speaker 1: need to have our expectations set at a certain level here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's perfectly fine to get excited about a preseason game,
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  Speaker 2: even a rookie game. We saw the prior weekend with
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  Speaker 2: beach golf, But like, yeah, it's not like, oh, what
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  Speaker 2: a great preseason game Flyers might when stand up come out.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's like, Okay, this team might be fun to
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  Speaker 2: watch and not. It's it's not something that you go
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  Speaker 2: to dread watching at seven pm twice three times a week, Like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: Flyers are on the throw it on, see what happens. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's especially because this season really has no expectations. Like
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  Speaker 2: you said, there's three first round picks next year's draft,
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  Speaker 2: three high second round picks, so next off season is
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: going to be the big pivotal point for them. This
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  Speaker 2: year is just kind of like another figure things out
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  Speaker 2: hopefully you know, get met goof to develop a little
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  Speaker 2: bit and you know, see see what happens from there.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely again, folks talking to Ryan Gilbert from Broadstreet Hockey
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, overall, it was great to see the
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  Speaker 1: Flyers back on the ice as this crew is continuing
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: the rebuild. As I was mentioning before we head into
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: some other storylines here with regard to this Flyers team
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: and organization. As the season is around the corner, anything
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  Speaker 1: else stand out for you in this first preseason game,
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Ryan pro or Con with this Flyers team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there wasn't a lot to dislike. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot to like, primarily the power play. Power play
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  Speaker 2: went two for three. Like I said at the top,
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  Speaker 2: I know it's against the Capitals who are icing half
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  Speaker 2: their roster. I don't care if it's against the Mites
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  Speaker 2: on ice. If they write two for three, I can see.
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  Speaker 2: If I can see a Flyer's power play put the
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  Speaker 2: puck in the back of the net, I'm gonna be happy.
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  Speaker 2: Right for the past since Claude Drew, Drake, Vorchak, Braden
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  Speaker 2: Schen were here, Wayne Simmons, like the power play has
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  Speaker 2: not been good. So great to see that, and like
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  Speaker 2: the set up that they had with Mitchkoff kind of
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  Speaker 2: roaming around. They had Frost out there, Tippet and Jamie
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  Speaker 2: Drysdale too. He was great at the point. Yes, he
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  Speaker 2: looked like he was completely healthy, which he wasn't last year.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't healthy at all. He you know, came over
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: mid season after missing training camp with the Ducks because
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: there was a contract situation. So Jamie Drysdale is a
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: player that I think is going to surprise a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people this year. He's not great Defensively, he'll be
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  Speaker 2: paired with probably Nick Seeler on the second parad that's
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  Speaker 2: what he was with on Sunday. But he can be
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  Speaker 2: a rover. Tortorella said that, So I really like what
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  Speaker 2: I see from Drysdale. Think he can be a legit
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: top or defenseman. And then Jet Luchenko, I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: first round pick from this year. Not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people were happy with it, but he's playing in all situations.
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  Speaker 2: He played on the PK and what I really liked
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: from him was like, well, it's a five on five.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Flier were going for a change, Apples are going for
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: a change. The defense miss just holding the puck in
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: front of his net. Luchenko's hanging out of the blue line.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: Most players would stay there. He went in, he pressured
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: the puck. He's making the most out of every shift.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: He's probably not gonna be with the Flyers for the
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: full season. Maybe he'll get a nine game try out
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: at the beginning or more likely the end. But you know,
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Luchenko is looking like a much better first round pick
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: than we thought.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, well let's dive into I guess the
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: elephant in the room. Alexi Kolosov and his his unwillingness
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: to play ball and go through the tactical development that
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: other hockey players and goaltenders generally generally have to go
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: through to see success within the NHL. Again, it's the
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: elephant in the room at this point, with all of
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: this drama that is surrounding him and the Flyers, Ryan,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: I do wonder if it might be better for this
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: team to possibly trade for him. I've read a couple
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: articles about this. I'm kind of like up and down
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: when it comes to this. What are your thoughts on
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: this potential of a trade at some point point down
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: the road, do you think it's possible and where might
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: he go if a trade may actually happen.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if a trade would be possible
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: with him, just because yeah, I mean, teams would have
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: to figure out if he would come over. It would
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: probably have to be a team that's willing to let
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: him play in the KHL this year and then they
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: have an open competition next year because apparently Danny Brier
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: said he wanted to be guaranteed an NHL spot and
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: like the best chance to get an Angel spot is
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: on a team that has you know, kind of two
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: shaky ish goalies and he can start in the AHL,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: which sounds it's exactly the Flyers like, especially given how
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Fidotoff looked in two periods. He didn't look great. He
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: looked fine. Not going to overreact to that, but yeah,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: it's and like, he's not good enough to cause all
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: this discussion. He's not good enough to demand to play
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: in the NHL. He's not good enough for fans to
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: freak out about for two or three months now, Like
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: if this was someone like Mitchkoff or someone was a
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: first round pick, like, okay, sure, let's panic about it.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: But third round pick drafted by Chuck Fletch, not even
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: drafted by Danny Breer. Like if they can get a
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: second or third round pick for him, sure I'll take it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: But no, we'll have to see what pans out with him.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: He's just yeah, he's an elephant in the room. It
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: has kind of screwed the Flyers goaltender depth in training camp,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Like Jarniston's going to be here longer than we expected,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: He's going back to juniors. They signed the goalie from
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: the something Nammi guy who's gonna be in the rotation now,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: but like the AHL, it's Kyle Peterson and no one else,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Like you need either someone you can trust or someone
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: that is developing, and call Us Off would have been
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: the perfect guy there. So I don't know what's going on.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I completely understand and unsympathetic to go into a new
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: country not knowing the language. But you signed a contract,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: like at some point you got to play ball.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Exactly, you have to play ball at some point, I
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: tell you, man, Seriously, the balls on some of these
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: young hockey players, I mean Cutter Goatier first and now
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: call us Off. It's like, what do you come on?
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Like you really haven't done anything yet. I do wonder
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: why and how this happens, Seriously, I wonder if it's management.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I wonder if it's just ego certain level of arrogance,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: but it's not. It's not helpful. I want helpful Ryan, Yeah.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I want flyers that want to be here. Yeah, like
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Keith Jones, I said, like, if you want to be here,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: come play. If not, you're not going to be a flyer.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: That's absolutely absolutely all right, buddy, gonna gonna be letting
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: you go in just a minute. But just I wanted
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: to dive into just one more topic for you, a
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: general topic as we're closing out the conversation here about
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: really what you're gonna be honing in on and looking
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: at closely throughout the rest of this Flyers preseason. You know,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting how you mentioned Jamie Drysdale.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I think he's poised to have a really nice year
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in terms of his versatility that he brings to this
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Flyers defense. He's somebody I'm gonna be looking at to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: What else are you gonna be honing in on during
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: this preseason here as we start to then enter the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: regular season.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jamie Drysdale looks healthy, and that's kind of something
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I want to look for another player, Sean Coutier, primarily
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: if he can be that one seed that we know
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: it can be, or even a decent two. See. I mean,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: he had surgery for a lower ab lower core injury
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: that was bugging him last season, which probably played a
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: factor in him getting healthy scratched late in the season
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: because he wasn't playing up to one hundred percent or
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: even like ninety percent. So I want to see him
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: be healthy. I want to see Rasmus fress the line
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: and be healthy just so the Flyers can trade him.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I fifteen wants them because the Flyers have you know,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: a few good right handed defensemen coming through the ranks
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: like Oliver Bank and people. I want to see more
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: out of Jet Luchenko. I want to see more from
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Hunter McDonald because, like we've heard a lot about him.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure why Keith Jones loves him. He looks
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: fine in the rookie game. He's big, it can be physical,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: but I think the Flyers have that role filled with
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Nick Seeler. Maybe he can be one of the first
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: call ups. And then, like there's not many roster spot
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: competitions like the if you look at the lineup, if
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: it stays healthy, you can pretty much pencil in almost
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: every guy. So it's the camp competitions between like Massa Morizzo,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Ali Luksel, Samutuomala to be like, okay, if a player
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: gets hurt, who's going to be that first call up?
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Who's going to be that second call up? Because teams,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: teams use more than twelve forwards, more than fifteen forwards,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: more than eight or ten defensemen in a year, So
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: it's about seeing which guys are ready, and you know,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: because because the front office has to have a plan
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: for Okay, if connecting gets hurt, who's coming up? Right?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: If fair Big is hurt, who's coming up? So interested
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: to see how those guys fight for spots.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting and also it's going to
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: be interesting to continue following what you're all doing at
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Broadstreet Hockey dot com, the Rush Street Hockey Podcast, and again, folks,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Ryan Gilbert, Buddy, you were awesome. Thank you so much
• 20:45
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• 20:48
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• 20:51
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• 20:52
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• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Friend, absolutely, yeah, thanks for having me on. Always a
• 20:56
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• 20:59
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