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  Welcome back to Table Talk here at the Philadelphia Sports Table podcast show, the
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  longest running weekly Philly sports podcast show in the world. That's right, ten
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  years strong. We got a great discussion coming your way. We're gonna be
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  getting into this Philadelphia Flyers offseason. The NHL Draft is just around the corner.
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  And yes, I know we had a conversation last week about this,
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  but you know, digesting the Danny Brier trade a little bit more and the
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  fact that the Flyers are going to have two first round picks heading into this
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  draft. It's a great conversation to keep having up until this draft. So
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  let's get to our discussion this week. You can find them on Twitter at
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  Kurt Underscore b s H. He has written some words on one of our
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  favorite Flyers websites over the years, Broadstreet Hockey dot Com. It is great
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  to have him on our Table Talk podcast this week. We've got mister Kurt
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  R. How you doing, Kurt, I'm doing great. Thanks again for
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  having me Now. It's nice and you know, everything's relative, but it
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  feels like an exciting time to be talking about the Flyers compared to It's weird
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  how the last couple of years have been certainly, it's it's really weird.
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  There's like optimism within Flyers Nation and I can't believe we have this level of
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  optimism. And of course there are certain factions of Flyers Nation that are Debbie
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  Downers and that just consistently are saying team stinks, teams always gonna stink.
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  But in reality, from a logical standpoint, Kurt, good things are happening
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  for this Flyers team and organization. I think I think I came on this
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  show early last season when like the Flyers had a couple like they got a
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  couple wins under torch, and we're like, well, this is kind of
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  fun. Yeah, absolutely watching the team not be terrible. You know,
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  we the year played out exactly is any one could have predicted in July like
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  they were bad not bad enough, some Tortorell squeezed the most out of them,
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  and yeah, it seems like they're they're trying now, they're exactly.
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  Well, we'll get into it. Yeah, we'll get into it for sure.
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  Yeah. Listen before we get into some Flyers talk, though, Kurt,
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  you know Stanley Cup Finals. Wanted to get your thoughts on it because
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  it's just it's not how I thought things were gonna go. And I guess
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  that's the beauty of postseason play in sports in general, especially in the hockey
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  world too. Hell, I had the Bruins heading to the finals. You
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  know, my brackets were broken basically after that first round. Would have been
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  your thoughts about how these finals have played out and the playoffs as a hole
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  and what do you think we're gonna remember most about this postseason? Yeah,
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  I had Boston over Dallas, so I'm there with you. But it's yeah,
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  I mean, it's been fun. It's been I think, you know,
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  a good postseason for the like for the game I remember. Yeah,
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  that first round, as it always is is it feels like the first round
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  is usually the most fun round in the NHL playoffs. Very much lived up
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  to that and sort of fizzled out since then, not the like, you
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  know, no disrespect of Florida Vegas, but like the series sort of got
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  less interesting as it went on, and you know, you may we're recording
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  here on Monday, it may end in five. Um, you know,
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  the conference finals were both nearly one was asleep, one nearly was like,
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  you know, it's sort of fizzled out as it went on. But like,
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  oh in awesome, really high, you know, fun hockey to watch.
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  I mean, you know, Florida, I'm not shocked there here.
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  I saw that. Like I remember saying in March, like they look good.
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  I don't know if they're going to be what they were last year when
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  they won the Presatory, but they looked good. I don't I didn't think
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  they had it in them to run through Boston, Toronto and Carolina all in
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  a row. But I didn't think they get past Carolina. Yeah, I
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  just didn't. They have you know, they have the guy who might be
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  the best player in the league not named conn mc david, right ko Chuck,
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  Like they've got good players. But yeah, I mean Vegas obviously is
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  the big story now. I mean easy to say when they're going away from
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  the Cup, but like they sort of like slowed down late into the season
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  and you had to remind yourself, Oh right, they're bringing back Keel and
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  Stone yea, and but no, they mean, it'll be fascinating to see
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  the discourse if Vegas does you know, finish this out. Um just you
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  know sixth Yer like Sixthier team, everything had happened with me. They went
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  from you know, the high of making the Cup final right after expansion bottomed
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  out a little bit last year when they were supposed to be good, um,
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  and then made the wayback up. Like they're a team that tries a
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  lot, like they've they've tried a lot, Like they're very much not stuck
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  in the ways. That feels like a lot of NHL teams are right and
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  like them in Seattle are both kind of like that, and I'm excited to
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  see, Like if Vegas wins, it's it's always the conversation is always like
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  what what do you learn from the Cup winner? Right? And if Vegas
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  wins, like I wonder if we'll see some teams get a little more aggressive.
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  Um, they're they're amazing modern day Yeah, amazing modern day NFL or
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  NFL, NHL teams like you like you mentioned like I think with every sport,
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  you take a look at the champion with the sport in all teams kind
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  of maybe go back to the drawing board to an extent and say, okay,
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  how can we do things like this particular team. And I think like
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  when you look at a team like the Philadelphia Fly just like we were talking
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  about initially, like there's optimism there and you know, moving into moving into
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  some Flyers talk here. I mean, last week on our podcast, my
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  co host Lennon and I were talking about Danny Brier's first trade is GM and
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  just how remarkable it was. Remarkable from the standpoint where you know, we
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  saw a complex yet creative maneuvering basically coming from a front office that's been extremely
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  stagnant over these years, and I think it just shocked us. It was
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  so surprising for so many of us. How do you characterize that first move
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  by Brier current and what might it set into motion for this rebuild in your
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  opinion? Yeah, I mean, we'll see what happens to the rest of
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  lay, but it was certainly a good start. Like I'm frankly, i'm
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  surprised that they So I sort of looked at that trade as two parts.
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  There's the first and second five and Provov and there's the second and hello Grondze
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  for cap space for you know, taking LA's cap dumps. Yeah, I'm
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  surprised the Flyers decided they had the room to take on a cap dump,
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  which, like, given that their cap sheet if you go to cap friendly
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  as a smoldering waste fire, right, So so like I'm surprised that they
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  were willing to do that. So it does sort of show like they're willing
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  to step back and take some things on for the for the value, like
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  for to pick up value long term. I think I've seen reasonable people agree
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  to disagree whether they got enough for taking for like taking that burden off of
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  La. But like the provof part is probably more interesting because like it seemed
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  like he was going to be gone this offseason for a number of reasons.
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  He didn't clash well with It seemed like he clashed with Tortorella, his play
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  hasn't been great any of the last three years. Really, um, you
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  seem like they just wanted to actually not be here infinitely. Yeah, yeah,
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  I mean I will, Well, we'll get to this with another guy.
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  But I feel like when you look at where the Flyers are, there
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  three sort of groups of guys. For me, like no one's off the
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  table, anyone should be available, but like there's the guys who you should
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  keeper around unless you get a good deal. And for me, that's like
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  Scott Lawton for instance, like he makes sense for rebuilding team. Then there's
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  the guys where like I can hear both sides of it, but you have
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  to at least consider moving them. That's probably like a Carter harror, like
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  a traps connecting me. You guys, I don't think we're gonna talk much
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  about here. And then there's the guys whoe are Like unless you're taking an
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  absolute bath dealing them, you gotta deal them. Yeah, another guy,
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  we're gonna talk about it. Things on that list, But provol was probably
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  in that group for me, like it seemed like he had to move on,
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  like it hadn't clicked for him for a few years here. He had
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  a brief stretcher early in the year where he looked good, but like all
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  in all, not an overly impressive year for him. He and Tortorella included
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  and sid eyed. He doesn't seem like a guy who takes direct criticism well,
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  so he's not gonna work well with John Tortorella. Ye enjoyed my babcock,
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  buddy, But yeah, I think it made a lot of sense for
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  them, And I feel like a one and a two for for what Provoov's
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  track record is is a solid outcome, like maybe like we'll never really know
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  like what else was out there and never know how well Banny like Breyer really
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  you know, look through the market, but it feels like a good outcome
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  for what he was. Um, so yeah, I mean I like it.
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  And it does show like taking on Ivan prov like getting rid of Ivan
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  Provrov with the biggest name on defense, you get back being Sean Walker,
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  who's like probably a solid four or five guy who's a little overpaid. Yeah,
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  Like it does show like, yeah, they're willing to take a step
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  back here, and I think, you know, it shows a direction and
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  like you said, creativity, Um, and yeah, it's a it's a
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  it's a good deal for them. I feel it's always tough to you know,
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  glean too much from the first deal, like you look at and say,
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  wow, they got a lot of value back for this. Um.
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  It's easier to make deals when you're not the ones trying to actively win.
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  Like we remember Ron Heckstalls or Ron Heckstall's early tenure, like he made some
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  good self deal. It's like disort of reminding me a little bit of brain
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  Coburn for a first, a third and Radko Goodist, which in hindsight is
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  a ridiculous deal that basically helped you get basically got them traps connect me.
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  Yeah, so yeah, um, I don't want to say like, oh,
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  Danny's gonna be fleecing guys left and right. But it's a good start.
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  It's definitely a good start, very good start for sure. And moving
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  along here, Kurt, there's one guy that I've really been thinking a lot
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  about this offseason, and that's Tony D'Angelo. And and then all of a
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  sudden, one of our friends of the show here, Charlie O'Connor from The
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  Athletic, he's also in the BSA Tradio podcast, recently wrote an incredible piece
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  on The Athletic about Tony d'angelo's season, how he went from just being a
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  top defensive pairing, you know, to being scratched towards the end of the
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  season. Charlie just highlighted what type of player he was and who he has
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  become here as a member of the Philadelphia Flyers. You know, he and
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  the head coach obviously both have emotional personalities. They've certainly clashed during the course
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  of his first season here in Philadelphia. I do wonder what happens to Tony
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  D'Angelo from here. What are your thoughts in terms of who he is where
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  he could be going and if he even stays here within this Flyers organization.
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  Yeah. So when I was talking about how there are three groups of guys,
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  D'Angelo is in the third group for me, Like, if you can
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  deal him without taking a bath on it, you I think you try to.
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  Um. Yeah, the thing is like when you when you brought him
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  in. The objection I had purely talking in terms of like hockey and as
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  a teammate, not getting anything else, probably talking hockey as a team they
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  last year. The objection I had with Dangelo was he was on his best
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  behavior in Carolina two years ago before the Flyers traded for him in an am
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  near ideal situation on a really good team with a good player like with a
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  paired with a good player in Jacob Slavenum on a one year deal making like
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  I think it was two mill where he knew he had to behave and he
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  did and he played pretty well for them. Um. And the objection I
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  had with trading for him last year was this isn't a perfect situation for him,
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  and the Flyers probably gonna be bad, and if they're bad, he's
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  gonna be like he's not gonna have a good attitude, he's gonna be cranky.
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  Does anyone really think Tony D'Angelo is going to have a good attitude a
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  better rebuild? Does anyone actually think this? Like, again, you have
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  to think there's some value for him out there, Like if all you can
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  get to like a sixth round pick or something, you probably don't do it.
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  Like at that point, you just wait, wait for the deadline,
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  see if maybe some team will unless the situation just becomes untenable. But if
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  you can deal him for something remotely resembling value, I think you do it,
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  because, like, he's not the kind of guy who's gonna be a
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  great soldier through a rebuild. He's not like and he isn't going to have
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  their reinforcements around him. Like the theory behind him in Provov made some sense
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  if you thought you were getting a good Ivan Provov, as we discussed it
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  weren't, so you weren't going to get a very good Tony D'Angelo. And
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  there's no one else around that fits what that could be for him, unless
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  you really believe that what Rasmus or Salinon did last year as to be like
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  a solid four or five defensive defenseman will stick and I need to see more
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  of that to believe it. So I'd probably look to move on from him,
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  because again, it just doesn't even if you see the value in him,
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  even if you think he could have some bounce back, even if you
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  think he wouldn't be as bad as he was last year, the situation doesn't
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  feel right. And granted I thought that was the case from the start,
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  so maybe, like maybe I'm not there, I got to ask, but
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  I think that I think if you can deal him for something, and you
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  know, he had value last offseason, which is why the Flyers have to
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  give up three draft picks to get him, he probably has less now because
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  of the season he just had with you know, him not being great,
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  him getting scratched for the final two weeks season, and his coach basically coming
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  out and say, yeah, even I'm shocked by how a little defense he
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  plays, right, but it's it's tough. I'd try to deal him.
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  But if if the value's not there, Yeah, if the value's not there
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  and you don't think the situation is totally toxic, then I guess you hang
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  onto him. But I think you've got to be willing to pull that trigger,
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  because again, I just don't know if he's a guy who's gonna be
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  a good soldier through all this like some other guys might. Absolutely, I
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  think your sentiments are very much in line with where Flyers Nation in general is.
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  I think if they are able to move him, whether it's at the
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  draft, before the trade deadline, see you later, Tony. It was,
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  it was, it was. It was nice knowing. Yes, So,
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  Kurt, let's let's get into some Flyers pre draft talk here as well.
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  Last week on the pod here we had Madeline Campbell from broad Street Hockey
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  on. We were talking about some of the prospects and as well as whether
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  or not the Flyers really should stay at number seven overall or do they try
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  to move whether it's up or down the board. I'm wondering, you know,
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  as we're getting closer to the draft here, what do you think they
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  should do? And what do you hope they do as it pertains to the
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  number seven overall pick. What are your thoughts here? Yeah, so,
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  sorry for the anticlimactic answer. I think they're going to stay at seven.
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  I'd be that's what I think too. Yeah, No, yeah, it's
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  so I looked at this, I looked at this five years ago. I
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  guess the last time the Flyers, I think the last time the Fires went
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  to a draft with two first round picks when they had the Shen pick where
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  they took Fairbe and O'Brien. Yeah, I looked at you. Before that
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  draft, there was a lot of talking like should they trade up? And
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  the last time there was a pure pick for pick trade that involved a top
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  ten pick was two thousand and eight, and that was five years ago.
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  Still the case now, Hows it happens? Since two thousand and eight,
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  there have been picks traded with There have been trades involving picks with players,
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  like I think like Chicago got back into the top ten by trading Ox to
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  bring it last year. It's like maybe there's something like that. Maybe if
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  you can get creative with like a player trade, like if there's some team
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  in the top four or five that's really desperate, maybe, but I don't
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  see it happening. Like I think we've got Bidard clearly, one, Fintilly
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  almost certainly two, Carlson and Smith are going to be three and four in
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  some order, and then most likely and then from there, I don't I
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  think there's and we'll get into this. I think there's a concentration of guys
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  there. It's very much going to be a beauties in the eye the beholder
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  thing. And I think that if you're the Flyers, unless you really see
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  a gap between one or two of those guys and everyone else, you're not
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  You're not moving up just because again, there's so little precedent for the Flyers
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  trading up or trading out of that pick. And I think like they and
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  I also think they know they need high end talent. I think to trade
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  out of that pick, they need a to not move. It's it's a
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  tough needle, a threat because they need to not move very far downright,
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  B have a lot of guys like in the same tier as who they'd have
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  in number seven, and like, see, they need to get the right
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  package, like you need to be worth it for them. I don't.
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  It's a lot there's a lot of precedents suggesting they're just going to stay at
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  seven to make the pick, and that's probably the right move. Like there's
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  enough talent that I think, yeah, I think they're just going to look
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  at it and say, yeah, we're fine here. I agree, I
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  think they should stay at number seven. Overall, if they try to move
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  up, I think they're going to be giving up a little bit too much
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  as they look toward this rebuild, and it's it's that initial gut feeling.
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  Look, I like matth Mitch CoV, I love Mitch CoV and I hope
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  the Flyers can somehow get him, even though I've seen, you know,
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  some mock drafts where he's heading to San Jose. I mean, he's my
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  first I would say, quote logical choice, Kurt, but we of course
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  know the challenges that comes with him from a country you know that's currently embroiled
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  in a war. We're not sure about Russian players heading to the NHL potentially
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  in the future. There are some hurdles and some challenges for sure with drafting
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  Mitch cob possibly if they had the opportunity to do that. But I mean,
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  at the end of the day, like with him, like I want
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  a winger with some natural ability. He's a natural goal scorer, he's a
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  game breaker, he has incredible talent. I think he's the type of guy
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  who the Flyers would need for this rebuild. I mean, do you like
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  mitchkov and do you think he's a he's do you think it's realistic for the
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  Flyers that could could potentially draft him at number seven overall, And if not,
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  who do you think the Flyers should go after with that number seven overall
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  pick? Yeah, so it's Mitch Coof. I think people have really strong
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  feelings. Like I've seen a lot of people say like just absolutely absolutely not
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  crossmouth the list and then say some are like, if he's there, how
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  could you possibly not take him? Right? I'm in the middle there,
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  Like I think, like with any player who isn't Contrabdard or maybe Fantilly,
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  they're risk you have to and this is true of you know, ninety nine
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  point nine drafted players in any sport. Ever, like it's his risks are
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  he's stuck in Russia for at least three years on a contract and then who
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  knows if he'll be able to come over after that period. But like,
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  if if that didn't exist, he'd go number two in the draft. It's
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  something you have to, like, there's a reason he's there, It's something
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  you have to weigh, like, there's a lot you have to consider there.
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  But in terms of pure talent, it's very difficult to argue. Like
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  the numbers he put up in the Khel this year. You know, I've
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  seen people say, like, the closest comparable you can find him in terms
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  of like age, I'll scoring at his age is alex of Etchkin. And
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  that's not say he's going to be out of Etchkin. That's deeply unfair.
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  But it goes to show you what we're talking about here, Like the fact
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  that he's under contract for three years doesn't bug me much Like if a guy
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  you draft is probably not going to come over for at least it's probably not
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  going to play for two years minimum, what's one more? Since the Flyers
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  were probably not going to be great in twenty twenty five anyways, um it
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  Really he just comes down to do you think that the Flyers are like going
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  to be stuck waiting for him to come over for you know, other reasons,
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  whether he just wants to sign another contract or if they won't let him,
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  if it's like a Fidotov situation. Um, oh god, that poor
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  kid, that poor guy. Yeah. So yeah, I if he's there
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  unless the board shakes out some other way where some someone else falls, i'd
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  i'd i'd be interested in taking him, definitely, like i'd i'd probably have
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  him there, but I'd understand not doing it. Um. Something that I
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  think I think it was Charlie actually said Anasa trade a while ago, is
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  that part of the appeal of mitchkof is assuming you can get assuming he will
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  come over in three years, Like that's your window. You're like the three
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  year contract, Like this is how much time you have to get rid of
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  all the get rid of all the garbage, um like clear clear at the
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  cap books, get some good players, and then he comes over and you
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  go. So I do like that. Um, I'm guessing he's probably gonna
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  get taken before then. I think some team is going to be like some
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  team that's also in a rebuild, it's going to be willing to take that
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  swing. Um. If he's there, though, I'd be interested, um
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  beyond him there. You know. It's it's like it's it's a good draft
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  to have the seventh pick. I'll definitely say that. I'm not an expert
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  by any stretched the imagination. Um, but when the Flyers have two picks
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  like this, I do like to look at it a bit. Um.
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  Zach Benson's a guy I like a lot Um the winger. I don't it
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  seems like the consensus is that would be a reach at seven, but like
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  a little bit of a reach at seven. But um, I do but
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  the profiles one, I like a lot dude who just scores a lot,
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  like you know, a talented winger. Um, it would be really fun
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  to have a guy like that around, Like that's a that's a big swing.
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  Um. I don't know if they do it, but um, that'd
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  be a fun like if if the board shakes out the way, if it's
• 19:45
  like if it's THEO, if it's the top four we expect and then mitchcalf
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  at five. Um, if you start looking at everyone else available, um,
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  because I don't think Ben I'd be surprised Benson goes six. He'd probably
• 19:56
  be the guy like the most David Ryanbuckers, the defenseman who it seems like
• 20:00
  it's the top defenseman in the draft. Yeah, Um, I think I
• 20:03
  think, yeah, I wouldn't hate the pick there, but I think,
• 20:06
  like I think, like I wouldn't hate it, but I'd be like it
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  like yeah, fine, yeah, yeah, they do need they do need
• 20:12
  defenseman. Um. But yeah, and you know he's a he's a big
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  defenseman. Guys like that tend to get drafted high. Um, but yeah,
• 20:22
  if you take him there, Okay, Um, who's the other one?
• 20:25
  Ryan Leonards in intry one other thing is going to be in the conversation
• 20:27
  there. Um. And then I think Dalla boor Davorski was the other one
• 20:32
  that like, he's a center. I think I've seen some people question like
• 20:34
  how high it's upside is in a vacuum sort of screams flyers pick and that
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  like he's a good two way center who has some talent, and like,
• 20:44
  yeah, it does sound like something they do. But um, there,
• 20:47
  there's there's stuff there. I like he's but yeah, it's there's a lot
• 20:51
  of different directions there. And again not next bread, right, I mean
• 20:52
  that's just naming names that have come up a lot that I could see them
• 20:56
  going for. Benson's probably the one I liked the most. If you're making
• 20:59
  me right now, Yeah, but I don't know if they go that direction,
• 21:03
  I think it's yeah, it would absolutely be fun. And I think
• 21:04
  what's interesting about this number seven overall pick too is how you know things are
• 21:08
  impacted having the number twenty two overall pick, which we're gonna get into and
• 21:14
  just a bit here and again, folks, we're talking to Kurt Are at
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  from last week. I was like, you know what, I just don't
• 21:38
  want hockey talk. I learned a little bit about crochet, so it was
• 21:41
  fantastic. But really getting into and finally about this number twenty two overall pick
• 21:48
  here in the draft. Look, two first rounders setting the stage for the
• 21:53
  future. It's so exciting, it really is, when we haven't had much
• 21:57
  excitement in Flyers Nation for some time, and I personally am thinking that a
• 22:00
  center would be a nice pick here, possibly a guy like Brandon Yager who
• 22:06
  played for Moose Jaw, or perhaps David Edgstrom from und Yes, thank you,
• 22:15
  I hope. Well he's a premium center in this draft. So I'm
• 22:18
  wondering what are your thoughts on what the Flyers might want to do with this
• 22:22
  number twenty two overall pick. It's not just about the number seven pick,
• 22:25
  but it's a strategy, a first round strategy. I think that's gonna be
• 22:29
  really interesting to see what Danny Breer and company does. What are your thoughts?
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  So the one thing I'll say is, mate, maybe this isn't the
• 22:34
  case you take Mitch Cough because there is inherent risk involved there. But I
• 22:40
  think other than him, Like if it's not him, I think that I
• 22:44
  want to stress what happens at seven wouldn't really affect what I would do at
• 22:48
  number twenty two. I think that like you take the you take the best
• 22:52
  guy, you take that you think makes the most sense. The flyers,
• 22:53
  you need help everywhere, um, Like the prospect pool has guys everywhere,
• 22:57
  but you know there's no true blue chip guy I think at any position UM
• 23:03
  at this point unfortunately. So like I think you just want to add as
• 23:06
  many of those guys as you can. Like, if if there's a if
• 23:08
  you're really close between two guys in different positions, maybe you take the one
• 23:11
  you didn't take at seven, which will probably mean a defense would be it'd
• 23:17
  be a defenseman. But I don't I don't know for sure, but yeah,
• 23:19
  all of all ways saying I think you just take the best guy there.
• 23:23
  Um, of the two you mentioned, Edstrom is interesting. Um No,
• 23:29
  like you said Big Center. Um, you know the flyers have scouts
• 23:33
  out there. It'd be fun to see him what they do with a guy
• 23:34
  like that. He had a really good or he had him he had Edstrom
• 23:37
  had a good run at a at U eighteens Yep. Um, he'd be
• 23:41
  yeah, he'd he'd be a guy who makes sense for them. Um.
• 23:45
  There were a few names that um I liked there. Um you mentioned Natty
• 23:48
  she is she is slowly starting to talking me into Gavin Brindley, the winger
• 23:52
  at Michigan. Okay, Um, not a profile I in general like,
• 23:56
  but I think there there's something there. Um as you know a now granted
• 24:00
  he's you know, he's another winger I believe. So if you if you
• 24:03
  take a winger at seven, maybe maybe you wouldn't go that way. Um
• 24:07
  who was the one? Qu Quentin Musty I believe was another. It was
• 24:11
  another winger that I like. You guys took a huge step forward this year
• 24:14
  and Sudbury and the ohl Um guys like that, like Big Risers were guys
• 24:18
  that they liked a lot into the Hextall era. So granted that was a
• 24:19
  long time ago. Um, but like he went from at his number,
• 24:23
  I think he went from thirty one points last year to seventy eight this year
• 24:26
  and roughly the same number of games. Um. So you know, guys
• 24:29
  who take big steps like that, they have had interested in, Like you
• 24:32
  know, the scouting staff here which is largely been similar, they have had
• 24:34
  interesting guys like that in the past. Um yeah, a lot of different
• 24:38
  ways they go. You mentioned centers, um Calum Richie and Ashua is a
• 24:41
  guy I could very much see them having interest in. Again, just based
• 24:45
  on the profile, Um, you know a fairly you know, a big
• 24:48
  center, responsible two way game, has some um you know, has some
• 24:52
  some offensive talent, but like isn't probably gonna be overwhelming. I don't know
• 24:55
  if it's the pick i'd make, But again, a guy I could see
• 24:56
  them being interested in. Um yeah, there's in a draft like this,
• 25:00
  there are a lot of guys you could have some interest in. Um.
• 25:03
  I'd be I'd be lying if I said I add a good sense for what
• 25:07
  they'll do there. But there are definitely a lot of ways you can go
• 25:08
  absolutely absolutely, go ahead, going now, go ahead, Kurtin Oh no,
• 25:12
  no, I the names you mentioned Yeager and edst him again, especially
• 25:15
  if they end up with a winger at that first pick. I whether that
• 25:18
  should matter or not, I could see them going with a center at that
• 25:22
  second pick. Those are both ones that I think it makes sense for them.
• 25:25
  Yeager, Yeah, Yeager's an interesting one as well. Like you said,
• 25:27
  um, not a huge not like a huge guy. But when again,
• 25:32
  when you took a reasonable step forward this year at a like big like
• 25:34
  played really well for a Moose Joe in the playoffs or in the in the
• 25:38
  WHL playoffs. Um, yeah, he's a that's an interesting profile on him
• 25:42
  as well. Item. They've taken some big shot guys in the past,
• 25:47
  like which is what he is. Um, you know there's some similarities there
• 25:51
  to Tyson Forster, um Forresters, I guess a little bigger than him.
• 25:53
  I think, Um, Yeager's a little bit better a skater, but um,
• 25:59
  but yeah, I don't think that, And I don't think the fact
• 26:02
  that they need some playmakers in the system would scare them away from him.
• 26:03
  Again, if they like the talent, I think they should pull the trigger.
• 26:06
  No, matter what. Yeah, but yeah, again, a lot
• 26:08
  of different ways then go and it's exciting. It's what it's always so funny,
• 26:11
  Like I rarely get super invested in the draft because you spend a lot
• 26:15
  of time look at these guys and at the end only one of them ends
• 26:18
  up going to your team. Right now that there's two, Now that they
• 26:21
  have two, I get a little more interested in it. So that's that's
• 26:23
  what it takes to get me into the draft. Hey, whatever whatever happens
• 26:26
  with that number twenty two overall pick. You know, as we all know,
• 26:30
  they need help everywhere, they really do. So at the end of
• 26:34
  the day, that number twenty two overall pick, I'm probably gonna be pretty
• 26:38
  happy with it whatever direction they go. And Kurt, I gotta tell you
• 26:41
  it was a great conversation. Thank you so much for coming on the PSD
• 26:45
  podcast show here this week on our table talk pod. Really enjoyed talking to
• 26:48
  you. Let's have you on down the road if you don't mind, I
• 26:52
  would love to talk to you more. Shout this Flyers team in the direction
• 26:53
  they're going in. I don't want to wait so long to have you back
• 26:56
  on, so join us down the road. My friend awesome, No,
• 27:00
  thank you for having me fun as always, it was great having Kurt on
• 27:03
  and I gotta say and reflect on something that Lenz said back on our show
• 27:10
  from this past week. He used the word Flyers and the words good in
• 27:12
  the same sentence, something we have not heard in a long time. There's
• 27:17
  good stuff happening with this Flyers organization and team. As we're moving forward here,
• 27:21
  folks, it is very, very welcoming to see the type of moves
• 27:26
  that Danny Brier has been making thus far, and just the rumblings about what
• 27:30
  may be happening with this team in terms of this rebuild. You know,
• 27:33
  even though they're rumors out there. Of course rumors are rumors, but the
• 27:37
  fact that nothing is off the table with regard to the Philadelphia Flyers, it
• 27:41
  really says something about how this team wants to progress in the future. Danny
• 27:47
  Brier knows what needs to be done, I think, based on his creativity
• 27:49
  with that very first trade that he made. So remains to be seeing what
• 27:52
  happens with this draft. But we're gonna keep reading about these draft prospects.
• 27:56
  We're gonna keep looking into them here at the PST podcast show. We'll be
• 28:00
  talking about them a lot more in the coming weeks here, and that's gonna
• 28:04
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  you next time.