Flyers 3, Islanders 2: The Legend of Sergei Bobrovsky.

Surprised they passed on him when it happened, but Strome also sounded good.

And for sure, ultimately I don’t know enough to hold too much of a grudge, because anything I know could be proven wrong three years down the line.

Sorry, but JB is on pace to score a mighty six goals this year.

Six.

As a first round pick.

It’s frigging sad, but it’s true. Just look at the stats, linemates, competition, zone starts, offensive production. Couturier is better then Bailey right now.

Just pointing out that, forget about comparing Couturier to Strome (who is still in juniors). He ends up comparing favorably to another first round pick of this organization with three years in the NHL.

Not a direct comparison, obviously, but just throwing that out there.

D-men are just too hard to anticipate accurately. I don’t mind staying away from them early if you’re not sure (and I read enough people who reasonably wondered how much of an impact Hamilton would make).

I mean, I thought long and hard about Hedman v. Tavares for the same reason. Because if Hedman is what they dreamed and Tavares is just what a lot of scoring forwards become, then I’d take the immovable cornerstone who logs 25 minutes. It’s just too hard to know who that guy is going to be.

To clarify, I wasn’t making a direct comparison between Bailey and Couturier.

It’s just that we’re seeing Couturier have a bit of success in his first year out of juniors and we’re still, three years later, waiting to see Bailey do a goddamn thing. It’s annoying to see the Flyers be able to cash in almost immediately while the Isles are, naturally, still flailing around with their first round (non-JT) picks as always.

even at even strength during cycles…you almost wonder if that turn and pivot hesitation is what gets our guys “crushed” so often. Probably doesn’t help any.

Bring back Comeau!

yea, but who knows how long it would take him to get acclimated to a longer season. They needed someone to split games with him at the very least.

But I do agree that it was an awful deal, they should have gotten someone short term (2-3 years) that could help bring Bob along and split starts, instead of breaking the farm on Ilya.

But when Bob was off, he looked really, really bad. Remember when the Isles lit him up in the final game last year?

But regardless, the Bryz move was wrong if they were going to make that kind of commitment, which is the only kind of commitment Bryz was going to take, apparently.

Like this?

But if Frans just says “come on give us a chance” (after an UNfair call, no less!) then BOOM its punishment time.

it may be shoulder to the head…doesn’t look targeted. Definitely not elbow, that comes up on the follow through from that angle. I think really it is a hard hit that whiplashes Talbot’s head forward into Staios’ shoulder.

Could see it going either way though…none of the angles are real good.

same way i didn’t see the hit to the head on clutterbuck. The damage is done when he hits the ice.
Like Gillies on Clutterbuck, the mistake (possibly suspendable?) is that it appears that staios makes contact with his hands at chest level.
The thing with Gillies was the review was in a closed room and the term “elbow” was being thrown around. It was clear that any contact above the chest was made after the initial contact with the chest. It’s not that clear in this case.
We’ve seen THE PErfECT HIT by gillies in pre-season, and even the LET UP by Martin. If Staios gets days for this, I’d be surprised… but not shocked.
What was your opinion of the hit?

Which for a Defensive – defenseman is not a bad thing. Same with Eaton, i don’t notice him much either, so in my mind that makes them “not horrible” which translates to “pretty good” in Islanders terms.

This was one of those games where the team played well enough to win but didn’t. Winning teams look at these games and say “hey, these games happen once in a while”.

The problem is the Isles aren’t a winning team and these games happen more often than not. You’re right, the team seems to be complacent with moral victories when games like these come around. They should be more mad they don’t win these games.

I’d like to see Capuano say “we played well enough to win, but the bottom line is we didn’t, and this team needs to start winning.” Moral victories was for last season. Be ok with the way you played but be angry you didn’t get that victory. If this team ever wants to be an above-.500 team again, they need to start winning, period.

You can blame whatever you want, refs important bad call, lack of finishers on our team, Nabokov brain fart on the Simmonds goal, Nabokov stupid penalty on Briere(questionable or not), Grabner not finishing his 1 on nones, etc. Point is, we outplayed them and lost the game for one reason or another. This happens, especially to teams who are less skilled then their opponents. When the margin of error is so thin, things like this happen. Bob also played awesome, but it was more then that lost us this game.

The team is not stripping the C of a player who is signed & playing here to give it to someone else.

Whatever.

I can’t believe I forgot that in my anti-mother-jones rant. Wasn’t that incredible… and they referred to it a couple of times.
“he didn’t get the embellishment, but hartnell is letting him know…”
Yeah, Scotty is saying, “Hey, mike… f***in’ slow down man, you’re sucking the oxygen out of the rink”
Then later on they blamed grabner for a call against the flyers not being made. Like it was an even-it-up for not calling the embellishment that was so obvious.

Again… I understand the homer stuff… but to be totally ignorant of the world outside your own is borderline psychotic. I wonder what it sounds like when the flyers play pittsburg… it would be awesome to hear both sides of contreversial plays.

Keith Jones has never … skated with speed,

That’s actually true.

Flyer fans complaining about Hartnell not being in the all-star game should put things into perspective. This would be similar to, but not even close to in perspective given how good Hartnell actually is, as Duck fans complaining Ryan isn’t in the all-star game when he is the weakest player on his line. It’s like saying Burrows belongs in the NHL because he’s playing great with the Sedin’s. Flyers fans saying Hartnell belongs in the all-star game are clearly homers and not seeing the big picture.

Sorry PGI – first sentence is yours.