I called for us to sign him to last years team and was shouted down on this because "DeAngelo was bad for the locker room" We couldve had him for peanuts last year.
Yes you did, and I was one who was against it because of locker room dynamics. My bad (I think) based on what he did on the ice and no apparent poisoning of the canes locker room. And based on how the Canes bought really low and sold high - it was an absolute home run for the Canes.
Its quite the opposite with us as we buy high and sell low.
Hasn't started to skate yet. Sounds chronic.
From a quick look up, they are all listed as having good speed. At 18 years old, they will keep growing and hopefully don't slow down.
Comcast is going to turn this program into a shit show. I mean we had AV as a coach, pretty good Pedigree but was probably not involved in getting players he wanted, therefore development suffered, I can see the same thing happening to Torts.
I'm pretty confident that the Flyers would have won the cup against the hawks if Kane was a Flyer and JVR a hawk. That draft position swap was brutal.
Yep I guess when you are bad you may as well grab any potential talent you can and hope for the best. I didn't think the guy would be as good as he was for the canes so i was lukewarm. Hopefully he can continue to play to that level and he'll be well worth the price. If anything one more solid year and he will fetch even more!
I think that's fair to say. He had 28 points in 22 playoff games (1 point behind Toews, who won the Conn Smythe) that postseason, including the Cup-clinching goal in overtime of game 6 against us in the Finals. The fluke goal that nobody but him knew was a goal right as it was scored and shortly thereafter too.
However, the main reason his value rose is the fact that he was on a stacked team in Carolina. Tough to say what he would've accomplished on our 61 point team in Philly that battled big injuries to key players for the entire season.
I mean, doesn't Nashville owe us some kind of compensation if Ellis plays literally only 4 games for us after the trade!? That's some kind of bullshit. You mean to tell me that this "chronic" issue occurred entirely after the trade!? I think not.
Definitely no one looked great on the Flyers last year that's why everyone is being questioned now but I will admit that Deangelo played a lot better than I thought. If he was still on the rags they may have went even further. Guy knows how to move the puck and QB a PP.
Good question but I doubt it Philly would have had to clear him so it's on their medics.
Then I don't trust our doctors that cleared him either. How could this guy develop a chronic, multi-layer injury to his groin while having played just 4 games with us!?! Furthermore, he hasn't played a game for us in 8 months. So what exactly has he been doing for that entire time!? It seems like he's been in the exact same spot health-wise for many, many months with little to no progress.
