Flyers stuff
@BroadStHockey
. Numbers, nonsense, occasional earnestness. It's not my fault cancelling a balloon drop looks exactly the same as dropping balloons.
I will say this: if you're going to bring in Gritty, BRING IN GRITTY. Don't just put him up on the concourse and have him wave his arms to pump up the crowd. Have him chugging beers and screaming SHOOT and swearing at the coach. Really lean into it, man.
Feel like we haven't given Tyrese Maxey credit for the most incredible, against-the-odds thing he has done: get drafted by the Sixers in the first round and just be a normal, very good basketball player that was not immediately injured tripping over his coffee table
through all of that disappointment we somehow never had the time to process Connor Bedard answering the question “so what do you do outside of hockey?” with “roller hockey”
hope the Flyers tweet "this guy sucked. we don't know anything about him because he didn't want to talk to us but this guy sucked. Thanks for nothing, dickhead. Get a real first name."
Seeing a lot of “well I guess I can’t hate Philly any more” kinds of tweets out there and just to be clear that is the exact wrong take to have. External hate fuels Philadelphia. It makes us stronger. We throw it into a damn oven and make dessert out of it.
Eight years ago, the Flyers won a playoff series against the Penguins that we knew we were gonna talk about forever.
Tonight, the Flyers won a playoff series that we're never gonna talk about again.
Game 6 Advantages By Team
Pens:
* better forward depth
* better goalie
* better coaching
* healthier
Flyers:
* Eagles won the Super Bowl
Seems pretty clear to me who has the edge.
i still can't believe he creeps below the goal line and puts his stick up to say "i'm going to bank this in, pls pass me the puck" and then he actually does it.
Zibanejad going from dude who scored every single time he touched the puck last season to dude who cannot score to save his life on earth this season is very funny to me, a person who strongly dislikes the New York Rangers.
the whole “damn the Flyers should have kept Bob” stuff is the easy story and is obviously true but I have to say it’s very, very funny that Bob’s backup is the guy the Flyers drafted with the pick they got for Bob in a trade
Flyers threw the backup goalie on the road against the team leading the division and ran all over them.
You think this team isn’t feeling it? Because ... it ... they are feeling.
underrated bit of phillies lore is that we never got the chance to develop a rivalry with the padres because we just broke them. like just shattered the team and city’s collective psyche. it’s really something.
the only fun thing about this season, outside of giroux and hart, has been watching other teams' mascots get mad on line about gritty being much cooler and better than them
this man got a nine-figure contract, tweeted this about Carson Wentz, and then recorded 0.5 sacks in the entire second half of his season
i just ... whew
ok
@NHLonNBCSports
if you jerks are going to show sad Flyers fans the one time the Bruins score a goal you owe me at least three sad shots of Bruins fans over these remaining 20 minutes
Have to admit I did not think I would find Hayes to be nearly this funny but responding to a teammate saying “I hope we win the next game” by screaming “ME TOO!!!!!” is extremely my kind of dumb humor.
do you think that the people who thought that Sean Couturier was an outright bad NHL player as recently as, like, 2018 ever just feel bad about themselves
me in June: “Niskanen was bad last year and spent his whole career playing for the Pens and Capitals I hate this move”
me in November: “would I fight multiple strangers for Matt Niskanen? well, yes,”
a lot of wild facts about this election but I’m pretty sure “Travis Fulgham lived in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania this year and then all three flipped” is still the best one
Is Joel Farabee the only Flyer who comes out of this season with universal fan approval? Scores a bunch, plays a fun style, even gets in fights here and there.
The research team here at
@Kurt_BSH
on Twitter dot com is unable to find evidence that Mike Scott supports the Golden Knights and as such does not wish to offer him any hockey-related condolences at this time.
Your city’s most memorable sports moment is encapsulated by a Bud Light statute of a backup quarterback and a coach who voluntarily left after rigging his last game with the team
if there’s not a “STARTED EIGHT GOALIES IN A SEASON” banner up at the Farg by the time the puck drops on the next home game, I don’t even know what we’re doing here
We’re about to get all of the worst culture war losers on the internet who have never cared about hockey chiming in on this fucking guy, so brace yourselves for that.
Take note here of the miscommunication between Lindblom and JVR wherein the former goes for the bro handshake and JVR goes right for the hug. Is this a sign of Claude Giroux’s poor leadership? Very concerning.
As someone who never entirely got over P.K. Subban hitting Giroux up high and giving him (what was almost certainly) a concussion and Habs fans suggesting Giroux was faking it back in 2016, Alain Vigneault is operating at a level of petty that I cannot help but envy.
Hey friends. You know how sometimes it’s hard to believe good things happen to you until they’re happening? Anywho, not going to be tweeting much this weekend because I’m getting married tomorrow. Enjoy the draft.
As Travis Konecny is named an all-star for the first time ever, never forget who was out there doing whatever was necessary to get him since the beginning.
Eli Manning on
@Eagles
fans: "You go there, and that 9-year-old kid is giving you the double finger. Not a thumbs-up. Not, ‘We’re No. 1.’ And he said something about my mom; I had to Google what it was. It’s just different. It’s a different culture.”
what’s neat about this hockey season ending is that it’s the last hockey season before Matvei Michkov joins the Philadelphia Flyers, which he will be doing this coming season, not in two additional years like the haters and losers thought
(/watches Jamie Drysdale casually pass the puck to another guy at the blue line before said other guy skates it in and scores) I will walk through fire for this man
Flyers have given up a 1st and three 2nds between 2021-24 in the name of having the privilege to give multi-year extensions worth $5M a pop to Risto and TDA.
I just ... man.
man I have largely tried to stay away from Niners Whining Discourse because i generally believe every fanbase would be insufferable if that happened to them but like … when they changed that rule they gave teams an extra active roster spot! Ya coulda used it for this and didn’t!
#49ers
HC Kyle Shanahan and GM John Lynch said they'd be in favor of bringing back the third QB rule, which allows teams to have an emergency QB in uniform on gamedays.
Lynch explained "it would be good for football" because these QBs will get to develop.
Can we just take a second to appreciate that the Flyers are going to set a record for Goaltending Instability this season and yet at the same time can rightly feel more optimistic about their long-term goalie situation than they've been able to in decades?
"I looked over at the Eagles' medical staff walking out of the tunnel, and they mouthed to me, 'There is nothing good in the world. Life is just the time we spend before death. Everything is pain.' Back to you, Joe." -- Erin Andrews there, more or less
So Brian Elliott comes back from a three-month injury and is immediately asked to play four games in a row, something that became necessary after the starting goalie got hurt after playing three games in four days, all while the backup that they traded for still hasn't played.
2010 WC: Michael Leighton starts
2012 WC: Bob starts over Bryz
2017 outdoor game: Neuvirth starts over Mason
2019 outdoor game: Elliott starts over Hart
Maybe we should have seen this coming.
on this night six months ago a backup quarterback was like “hey coach you should have the third tight end throw me the ball on fourth down” and the coach was like “yeah totally sounds awesome thx” god that never gets old