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This podcast was recorded on Monday, July third, twenty twenty three. By
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the time you hear this, things may have changed, but we hope you
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enjoy the show and our discussion. All right, folks, you are listening
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to Table Talk here at the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the longest running
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weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world, that's right over ten years strong,
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and we got a great discussion coming your way this week. The Philadelphia
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Flyers making some moves, doing some good things. I dare to say the
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draft was last week and we're gonna get into that this week on our Table
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Talk discussion. We have a brand new guest that is joining us. Cannot
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wait to get into this discussion. So let's get to it. And it
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is great to have on the podcast for the very first time, coming to
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us from broad Street Hockey dot com and specifically they're fly Purbole podcast. Absolutely
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We've got the one and only Steve Jacoe. How are you doing,
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Steve? I'm doing great, Jeff, how are you time? I'm doing
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all right, man, I'm still in a high after the draft party last
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week that we were at broad Street Hockey's draft party. Man, what a
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great atmosphere. I know we're gonna get into it and stuff, but dude,
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I'm still on a high. It's it's great what's happening here. It's
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great what's happening here. And I've been doing these draft parties for a few
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years at this point. I've been a member of broad Street Hockey since I
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want to say, like twenty seventeen or so somewhere around there, and this
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has to I really feel like this was our biggest and best one yet.
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Yeah, it's such a great event. Just to bring the Flyers community together
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and to get the support we've gotten from the Flyers in the past couple of
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years has been awesome. It's really helped up the game. And I mean,
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it's a shame Gritty didn't show up. But besides that, I mean,
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and for the first like thousand dollars in drinks was awesome. Yes,
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had the alumni there was awesome, just like and just you know, the
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mood from last year to this year, what a complete change. You know,
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it's just cleaning house, getting rid of Fletcher. And it's funny because
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I say cleaning house, but like they brought in like sixty five alumni since
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they can house right right, you know. But it still feels fresh,
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it still feels like something new. And I think this was just like the
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vibes were really really good. Absolutely absolutely. Now, before we get into
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what happened with this draft with the Flyers, Steve, I really wanted to
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just touch on really quick because the news broke probably an hour before we started
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recording here on July third, is the fact that the Flyers have a new
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defenseman. They have signed Mark stall from the Florida Panthers to a one year,
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one point one million dollar contract. I mean, at the end of
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the day, is this really going to move the needle. Probably not,
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But for me, I understand why they're giving the Flyers and especially the kids,
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and I call them kids, but the kids in this organization who are
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looking to come up. He's a veteran presence and could he potentially be that
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mentoring figure. I think so. But Mark Stallly's going to be on this
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team during this twenty twenty three two twenty four season, likely, you know,
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if he gets out of if he gets out of camp, of course,
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But I don't know what are your thoughts on this signing. I'm not
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a big Mark Stall fan. Yeah, by any means, right, you
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know, even reasons like their reasons to be on the hockey, but like
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I don't even like his hockey game. Like I'm not a huge fan.
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But you know what, that doesn't matter, because you need people to play
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the games for this team. You need a full roster. I was looking
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at the defense last week when they traded Provoff, and I'm like, who
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the hell is going to play this thing, especially because they were rumored to
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be talking about trading Sandheim. They were rumored to be talking. I mean,
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there is apparently a deal in place to trade Tony D'Angelo as soon as
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possible. So you need warm bodies out there. And Stall certainly is a
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guy who's been in this league for a while at this point. And I
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mean, it's it's it is what it is. It's just fine. You
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know, he makes like barely anything on the cap, Like he's gonna play
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bottom six, probably maybe play the top who cares? Like this season for
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me, this is another tank season. They've never really embraced the tank,
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but frankly, the more high draft picks you can get to help rebuild this
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roster, help rebuild this organization the better. And you know what a guy
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like Mark Stall's great for, you know, just bringing in and just saying
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like, who gives scrap, right, just gonna play hockey and and maybe
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he'll help with like I don't know Cam York's defensive game or something like that.
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Maybe Cam York is a great offensive player. Uh, it's still learning
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the ropes on the defensive defenseman side of the game. Maybe, but you
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know, it's not really a needle mover. Yeah, absolutely, all right,
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that's about it for Stall, folks. That's about it. I'm not
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going to be talking about him probably that much anymore on this podcast, and
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certainly the hell knows in the future. I think the next time we'll talk
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about him as the trade deadline that's probably there you go, There you go.
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Well, it's trade bait, right, like trade deadline, you got
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a vet flip them for a third round pick called today, There you go,
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there you go, And who knows what this team's gonna look like at
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that point. Anyway. Well, look, Steve, I really wanted to
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talk about this draft because I think a lot of us, like I said,
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are still on a high from it. And I know you kind of
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got into what that energy was for us last week at the broad Street Hockey
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draft party in South Philly, it was just again, it was just awesome
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being there and there was this overall just hopeful and very positive tone to what
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everybody was feeling, like even before the NHL draft actually started, before the
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Flyers picked at number seven, and we know who they picked, which we're
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gonna get into in a bit. Anyway, how would you describe not only
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that energy and I know you kind of touched on it earlier, but how
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would you describe that energy that evening amongst us Flyers fans who were there and
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what should the energy, what that feeling was, what should that mean to
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us moving forward? The energy was just it really is something I haven't felt
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in a few years. And the draft party fives are usually pretty good.
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We have great fans of the blog and just people who want to come out
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to a party and celebrate the Flyers because you know, it's the Flyers community
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is even though it feels a little divisive at times, right, but it's
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still pretty times. Yeah, I know, But like hockey is just such
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a small sport that you know, if you meet a hockey fan, you're
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still going to talk hockey, even if you hate their guts, right,
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but you know, the vibes are really good. It's so hopeful and the
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one I want to compare this too. So we did a party a few
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years ago when they was the the Cam York Draft and one of the fan
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I think that's maybe the funniest moment in draft party history for us is when
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they come up and then they're like, oh, they could get called call
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Field, and everybody was pretty excited. And then they announced a trade that
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they moved back to spots and they're like, okay, fine, well and
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then call Fields available again and everybody's getting hype. Everybody's on their feet,
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and then they say from the American team, and then everybody's like, oh
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my god, they did it. And then it was Cam York. And
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I love Cam York. I think Cam York's gonna be a really solid player
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for this club moving forward. But Cole Caulfield is a dynamo. He is
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like an awesome, awesome player for Montreal. He's fantastic, and I think
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there was a lot of worry that the Flyers would overthink this because this was
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great because, like I had to keep reminding myself, I don't know what
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Danny Brier is going to do. We all act like we know because the
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Flyers, you know, same old Flyers and all that, but we didn't
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actually know what the hell he was going to do coming into this. And
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then the picks start getting intriguing. I mean, there was the you know,
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number two was unexpected. Nobody really thought that Carlson was going to go
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there instead of Fantilly, but that happened. But you know, the top
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three more or less was the same as everybody anticipated. With the Montreal comes
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up, they pick Ryan Bocker and that's a little surprising, and then the
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Coyotes pick a guy that I wasn't even on my radar, and we got
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the Caulfield situation all over again, where the Flyers had the chance to take
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a big swing and go for a guy who is dynamic offensively, and the
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crowd is getting hit like everybody was like really excited. And if they if
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Danny Breer come up and said anybody's name but Mishkoff, I think there might
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have been a riot. The live casino, like the slots machines just getting
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flipped over. You know, it would have been just chaos. But he
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came up and he said Matemishkoff and it took him a second because he was
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a little nervous for his first one, but he was. But you know,
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everybody was just pretty jubilant about the pick in a way that I've never
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seen before. And the thing is also with the NHL draft, Like it's
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not the NFL draft. It's not the NBA draft where you know the big
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names, right, you know, And I'm not a draft expert by any
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means. That's why I bring people like Maddie On or I have, like
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Quigly to talk about that stuff because they pay a lot more attention than me.
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I just like to, you know, talk about whenever that comes to
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my mind. But Mishkoff was like a huge name in this draft, and
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we all knew the controversy with Russia. We're all intimately familiar with what happened
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with phototoph But you know, it's regardless of all that, you just want
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to see the Flyers try something big because so many times in their history they've
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just made conservative moves. Think about like the Samuel Moran Draft, for instance,
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Like I don't want to call him the more in Mafia, but like
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that was a terrible, terrible pick, and everybody could tell you on day
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one that it was a terrible pick except for Paul Holmgren. And you've seen
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picks like that, even like I love Scott Lawton, but Scott Lawton when
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he was picked, or like they picked a two way center, right,
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why do I give a shit? I love Scot Lawton of bits, but
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like I thought that was kind of like a really like ho Hume pick.
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So to Sea Brier, come in and make the big swing and make a
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potentially franchise altering pick, because if Mashkoff comes over in a couple of years,
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he has the talent and the ability to really transform this club back into
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the upper tier of the NHL where they belong, right, And you know
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people will try tonight it like the Flyers belong in the upper tier of the
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NHL because they are an iconic franchise. And Mashkoff all the way in Russia
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knows that he was kissing the crest, like I've never seen a guy Chris
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kissed the crest before it, right, right, that was so cool.
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But the vibes were immaculate. Everybody was fired up, and it's maybe the
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happiest I've seen Flyers fans in a long time. Absolutely, and I think
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it was because of the aggressiveness too of this draft. We talk about taking
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a swing because we have not seen that as fans, so they let's,
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you know, moving along here, Steve, let's talk about some of these
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draft picks here, and first and foremost, you know, Mitchkov, let's
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talk about him, and we know the deal with him, like he said,
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like he was one of those talents coming into this draft where we kind
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of knew what we would be getting in terms of that upside potential upside of
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course playing in Saint Petersburg for at least another three seasons unless he's somehow able
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to get out of that contract. And I really do think that Danny Briair
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in the front office drafting him, it just solidifies in terms of showing their
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commitment to the rebuild. I would imagine you think the same way, and
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what does the drafting of Mitchkov really mean to the rebuild? In your eyes,
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it shows that they are committed to being a competitive team in like three
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years, Yeah, supposed to like Hextall would say that, but then like
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Hextall had his clear times to pull the trigger and he never did. He
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didn't right. I liked the bones of Ron Hextall's plan, but like he
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just had no idea how to finish that off. And we saw that really
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backed up during his tenure in Pittsburgh where he did nothing right. And then
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Chuck Fletcher was brought in as this kind of like closer figure for I don't
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know, for some reason, even though he never closed anything in Minnesota.
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So like Chuck Fletcher would come in and he made these moves like the Kevin
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Hayes move, and to be honest or to be fair, the first year
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of Chuck Fletcher's tenure like or the first maybe two years, like, he
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did make some interesting moves. Hayes was a pretty interesting move to solidify the
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second line. And if you look over at like the niskan And trade,
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the niskean And trade was his best by far by a while, and he
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just spent his entire tenure trying to recreate that and he never did it.
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But like he should have realized once they hit a certain point that it's time
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to start over. And what does he do he hires John Torrella, who
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is a he's not a rebuild coach, Like he's not exactly who I would
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think of as like a rebuild coach. Like if you look at the Sixers,
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right, the Sixers hire Brett Brown to be their process coach. He
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was a guy who's like just gonna bring kids up and he knows he's gonna
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lose, but it is what it is. Tortorella is the fieriest coach in
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the NHL. This guy's gonna do everything he can to win. He doesn't
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give a crap about rebuilds. Why should he, And just everything he did
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those last like two years was just in denial and Brier drafting, Mishkov says,
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I realized that this year is not the year. Next year is probably
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not the year. Maybe after that we can really start building towards something.
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But we have to just get draft picks, we have to trade assets,
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we have to start from scratch in as many ways as possible. And if
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you look at a lot of the other moves he's already made. I mean
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that Hayes trade sucked, but I think we all realize why it had to
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happen along And you know what, that's another indicator because he's willing to pay
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three seasons of half of Kevin Hayes salary for nothing, and that says he
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doesn't expect to compete in the next three seasons because you know how valuable cap
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space is in the NHL. Yeah. Absolutely, Well, let's move on
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to some other draft picks here, Steve, and let's be honest. I
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think that when they drafted Oliver Bonk, who is the Flyer's second pick in
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the first round, I think that was a kind of a surprise for many
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of us. I know it was for me, and I think because that
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was like more of a safe type of pick. I mean the front office
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and mainly assistant general manager Brent Flower. I think that's how you say his
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name flower Flower. Yeah, I always go back and forth. Yeah,
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I say exactly yes. He said that they could possibly see him as a
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top four defenseman at some point in the future. I don't know about that
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necessarily. I do want to see what Bonk is able to do in the
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ice, of course, um I do think from everything that I've read that
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he has a relatively high ceiling. But what are your thoughts about this particular
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selection at number twenty two overall, and what it also means for the rebuild.
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I swear they let Jonesy have this pick. They're like, all right,
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we get the pre air pick and we get the Jones he pick,
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right, because Jones he's the big risto guy. Every broadcast he's out there
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talking about how much he loves risk. Yeah. Yeah, but like,
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I don't know, it was a surprise. Everybody did have fun when that
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one came up, though. We started going bunk bunk, yes, I
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and I know his dad very well from the NHL. I think he was
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with the Senator. Yes, he was radic bunk when the great NHL names
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right there. But yeah, that was a surprise pick. I was very
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surprised they didn't go with Perrot, who was available and the Rangers took right
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afterwards. And because he was projected more as like a top ten guy,
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right and for him to slip, I really thought they were going to go
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and get him. There must be something wrong. I have no idea.
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It has to be, because he really slipped a lot, and there were
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some bizarre picks in there. But you know, it's not like the end
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of the world. But it did feel like a little safe and a little
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out of left field. Yeah, it absolutely did. All right. Uh,
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make sure you're following Flypurbole on Twitter. By the way, folks at
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FLYPURBOLEI and head on over to Broadstreet Hockey dot com. I am a subscriber.
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They got so much great content over there. I know I've been plugging
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it on this podcast for quite some time. But there's great people over at
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Broadstreet Hockey dot com. Steve is one of them, of course, the
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crew and just does such a great job. And Steve, where can folks
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find you personally on Twitter if they want to if they want to follow you?
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I was two accounts. I have to fly Purbole account and my personal
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account, which is estay Mom and I don't really yeah, I've had that
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one for a long time, I think since like Twitter was created, like
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oh eight. But yeah, fly Perbly is the one for hockey purposes,
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like I would follow fla Purble for that. I don't really do much hockey
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from the estate mom account. All right. But yeah, and just to
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back out what you said about subscribing, I mean, the writers have been
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kicking butt, especially ever since we parted ways with sp Nation, and you
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know, it's it's it kind of sucks to have to move to a paywall,
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but it's great to see the support from the people who want quality hockey
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writing. And I'll tell you what you know. I'm not again a draft
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expert by any means, but I was brushing up on stuff. I just
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logged onto the site real quick and read up a couple of articles. I
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mean, that's what I did too. Yeah, yeah, to shout out,
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like two people in particular, Maddie and Thomas were just crushing it with
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all the draft coverage over the weekend. Everybody crushed it, but I know
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they were the ones, like really in the trenches, like cranking out the
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articles right there. But yeah, it's some good content. Definitely subscribe and
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following the old twitters as long as it's still standing. Absolutely how much.
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I just got on a blue Sky yesterday, so we'll see you, Okay,
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good for you, Good for you. I was. I was over
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on masted on trying to do something whatever. I Blues Guy's way easier so
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far, I did, I did. I've had the Blues Guy for like
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a day and it looks exactly like Twitter. So awesome, awesome, all
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right, Well moving along here too, Flyers certainly had some other interesting draft
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picks as well, Steve. You know, they took a couple of goalies
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right in a row. I mean that that of course stood out to me.
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I'm wondering, were there any other draft picks that really stuck out to
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you? And why I find the goalie situation so fascinating with the draft,
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because like that was one of the things that I actually kind of appreciated about
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like Xtall, was he tried to draft every type of goalie at one exactly,
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here's a big one, here's a fast one, here's a i don't
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know, like high skill one, you know, yeah, and a couple
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of them ended a hitting. But like it's goalies are so weird and you
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really just have to take a lot of swings on goalies to see what happens.
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So I'm kind of okay with that. I think I prefer to maybe
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take the swing on the high skilled offensive player because I really feel, like,
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God, I just want to see speed with the sting. I want
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to see speed forever. And my most intriguing pick in that regard is my
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favorite name for the Flyers that they trapped it this year, and that's Denver
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Barky, which sounds like a dog's name. Frankly western dog's name. You
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know, Yeah, Denver Barky totally sounds like a dog, and hopefully he
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is a dog. You know, he's out there, he's just you know,
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getting in the trenches and crushing it. But he's a speedy center.
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I'm intrigued by that. Speedy center is one hundred percent the kind of stuff
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I want to see from this organization. And my hope has been since Brier
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was hired for being a speedy little guy in the NHL, in the modern
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NHL, he'll actually have an appreciation for that kind of talent and try to
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cultivate that because Chuck Fletcher was obsessed with size, right and just trying to
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get these big bodies in there. You know, I'm still convinced that's half
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the reason he didn't try to make Johnny getrou work because he's just a little
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guy. He doesn't want a little guy right, right, exactly exactly,
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well some I guess, you know. To further our discussion here about the
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draft, Steve, some of my overall thoughts from my vantage point with regards
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to this particular Flyers draft was into piggyback off what you were just saying,
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was that he did take a decent number of quote undersized players, but you
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know, their players just with a ton of upside, And Danny Brier said
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they wanted to take some swings on these draft picks, and I think at
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the end of the day, that's what I love so much about this draft.
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Just again going back to what I said earlier, I love the aggressiveness
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of what this draft was from this front office. Their approach was right in
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line with the way that a rebuilding club should be thinking. That was my
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overall theme to this draft. I'm wondering what was your overall theme that you
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took away from Danny Brier's first draft here. Yeah, I agree with you.
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There really were some swings in this one, going with the undersized guys,
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which is great because we've seen them pick guys solely for size in the
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past. Against Samuel Moran, I don't like harping on him. I don't,
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I really don't, but he was drafted purely for size, and I
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always forget it was Isaac Radcliffe. Isaac Radcliffe was the other one, like
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Ron Hextall, drafted him purely because he was big and maybe they could develop
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into something and he did not remotely pan inte and it's a shame. I
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wanted him too, but he didn't. I'd rather have a guy who already
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has skill or even like another one that always cracked me up. Was I
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think it was Strom? Was it was it Matthew Strom? Yeah? Yeah,
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yeah, the only one of the Stroms who didn't work out families and
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because he couldn't skate, he couldn't skate. Got draft a guy can't skate.
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Yes, I'd rather draft a guy who can't skate that you have to
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like give a little bit of passing skill to him. Maybe, well,
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I'd rather have the passing skill, frankly, right then, just the draft
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a guy who's like big goose. Maybe he'll work out because he's big.
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Okay, but no like to take those swings, I have to say.
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But I love that they drafted Mike Connoebial's kid. I was a big Cannoeble
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fan back in the day, and to see his kid come in is really
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cool. I hope we were twenty two. That'd be great. But yeah,
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just these little speedy guys. I need speed in this club so damn
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bad. It has been quite a while, quite a while for sure,
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since we have seen speed out on the ice and to close us out here,
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Steve, you know, I think it's safe to say times have certainly
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changed and we are truly seeing this new era for the Philadelphia Flyers taking shape.
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The trading of Ivan prov Rov and Kevin Hayes. They've gained assets and
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then they had themselves this really nice draft I think where there's a ton of
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upside. It was aggressive. They're taking swings things that we have not seen
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from this organization in quite some time. And it's only been a couple of
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months here with Danny bare at the helm. Should we be feeling this positive
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so soon about this team's direction? I mean, it's hard not to think
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so positive, but you know, should we be you know, maybe putting
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the brakes on here and there? I don't know, what do you think?
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Well, I can't believe you didn't work in a new era of orangeine
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there. You had the opportunity right there. It's such an awkward catchphrase,
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like I know what they're going for, trying to plug the new shade,
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But come on, guys, that's a weird one. They always come with
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the weirdest. It's the reason I didn't say it. Yeah, yeah,
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there is a reason I didn't say I am cautiously optimistic, and I think
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the Flyers have hurt me so bad in the past decade that like I can't
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really get like too crazy optimistic. Yeah, but I feel an optimism that
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I haven't felt in a little bit. Don't go overboard, right, we
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have to see what Brier does further. And the big thing was, like
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I was optimistic when Hextall first came on. I was a big supporter of
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Hextall and like all that, and he burnt me bad at the end there
22:45
when he's just signing like the Dutch Gretzky over there and everything. Just guys
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that are just not good at hockey. Your lettera who I think was a
22:55
trade concession there and played way too much time. Oh my god. It's
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just like I've been burnt before. But it's a great start. I mean,
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Hayes trade sucks, but who cares. It's not really a big deal.
23:07
In fact, it makes the team a little worse, which is better
23:10
for draft picks next year. It needed to at the end of the day
23:12
happen. Everybody know it. It was telegraphed a mile away. What are
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you gonna do. And I mean, frankly, if the Blues just had
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somehow convinced it wasn't the guy wouldn't wave his NTC to come over here.
23:26
Oh yeah, yeah, oh my gosh, what Yeah, I'm forgetting it
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to Crew to Crew. Yes, yes, it's a weird name. It's
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one that like you either remember you don't. But like, it sucks that
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the Crew deal didn't work out, because that could have been just huge for
23:40
hitting the reset button because you get the Sandheim contract out of here, which
23:42
I like Travis Aandheim, but that's so long that yeah, if you can
23:48
get out of it, great, but like it would have been nice to
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have that reset button right there. They're still gonna hit it, Like I
23:56
really feel like at some point, either Scott Lawton or as Connecting you're going
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to get traded. I love both those guys. I think they're great.
24:03
I'd love to see him stick around, but you kind of got to go
24:07
because they don't really fit the timeline frankly, and you can get valuable assets
24:11
for them today. So I'm really intrigued to see how those things work out,
24:15
how this TDA trade ends up looking, because that's I'm pretty sure that's
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going to happen. At this point, I think even Carolina acknowledge that it's
24:22
still in the works, and we're a couple of days away, so there's
24:26
a lot of intriguing things to keep an eye on. But yeah, don't
24:30
don't get too high yet, folks like, we don't know what kind of
24:34
players he's going to bring in, because I think a year and a half,
24:40
two years from now is when you're really going to have the true test
24:42
of Danny Brier, when you see him try to flip the team into a
24:47
playoff contender. That's when you really have to be critical because you have to
24:51
see what kind of NHL players he brings in, what kind of talent he
24:53
brings in, to say this are these are the guys that are going to
24:56
get us over the top. Chuck Fletcher chose all of Kevin Hayes's friends and
25:02
that didn't work out, right. He really tied his you know, tied
25:06
his boat to Kevin Hayes, and that just did not work out. And
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Ron Hackstall just never tried to get NHL players, and Paul Holmgren just flew
25:14
by the seat of his pants, and sometimes it was spectacular and sometimes it
25:17
was spectacular disaster. But you know, it's it's all about like what he
25:22
tries to do to get this team to the next level, back to playoff
25:26
contention in the meantime, just sell Cell Cell, get those draft assets,
25:30
and we'll see what happens. But you know, I think it's a good
25:33
start. I really like that provrof trade. I think that was a level
25:37
of creativity we haven't seen in years from a flyer's GM. Absolutely great way
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to end it, folks. He is Steve Jaco at Flypurbole on the Twitter
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There you go, Steve Man. It was great talking to you.
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I loved having you on. What a great discussion. Come back and join
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us down the road. We'd love to have you back on my friend absolutely
26:17
anytime, Jeff, just say the word. It was fantastic talking to Steve
26:19
man, it was great having him on for the first time. There's just
26:22
that there's just a lot of energy. I mean, it wasn't just with
26:25
Steve or within my voice that you probably heard that energy about where this team
26:29
is going. But I really do like what Steve said towards the end of
26:32
our conversation, where there's only a couple months of Danny Brier here. We're
26:37
gonna have to wait and see what happens. And that real test for him
26:40
is going to come over the course of the next year, perhaps two years,
26:44
as to whether or not Danny Briere really understands and knows what he needs
26:48
to do with this organization and team to move it forward during this rebuild.
26:51
And look, Danny brier is going to make some mistakes, folks. It
26:55
is not going to be one hundred percent perfect. Am I hoping it's like
26:57
ninety percent perfect? Yeah, with that ten percent not being a detriment to
27:02
everything that they're trying to do. Yes, of course, But like I
27:06
think we need to be patient. Let's ride this hope, let's ride this
27:10
optimism into the sunset here, because we're feeling good right now and it's just
27:15
it's really awesome. So again thanks to Steve. I'm looking forward to seeing
27:18
what this team is going to do down the road. Not too too many
27:22
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27:26
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