It’s everyone’s favorite topics: Sean Couturier’s captaincy and trades! Amid a frustrating losing streak, Charlie O’Connor and Bill Matz of the PHLY Flyers Podcast break down what’s really going wrong in Philly — from Tocchet’s NHL locker room culture and leadership questions, to roster construction and long-term rebuild strategy.
Who needs to step up for the Flyers? Travis Konecny has provided the team’s offense in the last 2 games, so is it time for Noah Cates? Nick Seeler? Owen Tippett? Bill and Charlie discuss front office decisions, player development concerns, coaching impact, and more.
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Imagine spending 5 years on culture only to need to fix said culture
Coots needs to be the soon to be 4C and he needs to change lettering from "C" to "A" as we need someone fiery to be the captain … Need a change no matter what!!!
They have to nail draft talent and move on from bloated contracts
Time for the annual players only meeting
(Waterboy halftime meme) … anybody got any ideas what “culture” even means anymore?
More high-end skill would do wonders for "culture."
Isn't this why we got rid of Richards and Carter ? The issue is we are missing someone like Pronger, We need a no fucks given personality who says shit when shit needs to be said.
Martone is a leader. Oh, wait, he's not here yet
Strip the CEEEEEEEEE
It is a shame that Couturier, Konecny, and Sanheim learned about leadership from Giroux (very good player. Not a good leader) and not from Pronger.
“CuLtUrE” is the most overused and harmful words in hockey team building. Winning games and talent builds cUlTuRe.
Couturier is not a great choice for Captain, they are completely lacking in the leadership department.. Does anyone on this team remind you of Pronger, Richards, Lindros, Primeau? Not even a little bit.. hopefully a guy like that is traded in soon.
Tochette looking worn out on post games with all these losses’ this team is still a long way from being in playoffs’ if this season is going nowhere they should bring up some of these young guys and give them a look
Why don't they think of Chris Pronger? As a coach of some sort, like power play coach. Guy was never afraid to make his teammates accountable for mistakes. He also quarterbacked power plays his whole career, teach sanheim how to do that…
What’s happening now to the Flyers is the best thing that could happen. They need to suck to get into the top end of the draft. Otherwise, we’ll just be spinning our wheels like we did during Claude Giroux era. Another year or two plus this year getting into the top 5. I’m so sick of hearing about Buffalo in Edmonton and how long they sat at the bottom for while the Flyers have never done that ever. We have never drafted in consecutive years in the top five. Might as well try something different. Leave your pride at the door as a fan if you wanna win a Stanley Cup one day.
Go trade for Robert Thomas and another defender, get some new high end talent in here to change the culture.
I thought the last 5 years have been working on culture? Now you think we need to work on culture? You can not make this shit up
This is one of those D) all of the above
'culture' is just fluff, roster construction is throwing darts at this point, and rebuild strategy is a problem.
Omg, we not going there with York or Drysdale
Both can be gonna
they sucessfully built a culture…a culture of soft and frequntly injured
Couturier is not a leader. Giroux was not a leader. Pronger was actually the last true leader.
Strip the C yesterday. This is so bad and embarrassing
It needs to follow through on their fing checks and stop this poke check peel off BS
isnt this what we have been trying to do since Giroux left which was like fucking 7 years ago?
Agree with all saying we need high end talent- Danny and comp. Is not experienced enough to spot it.
Hey look, it is not rocket science, they have not drafted enough TALENT. Bringing in coaches and changing captains, aren
t making THIS team anything more than what they are,
.
I am so tired of hearing about Flyers culture as if they have exclusive rights to culture. Flyers culture hasn't won squat in 50 plus years. You think teams like Florida, Colorado, Tampa Bay don't have culture? Talent, and especially winning, breeds culture.
Coots isn't getting it done. Hes just showing up on the ice.
Whoa! Hold up on Sanheim. Sean C*ntourier is soft as baby diarrhea, he was misused by the Flyers in his youth and ruined physically but he is absolutely thee worst captain in Flyers history. Always at odds for some reason with the coach, regardless of what coach. He made a big “i’m tired of losing” statement and has lead by example and that’s why they suck as much as he does. He’s a man baby,he’ll cry about this comment by Tocchett as well.
A decent backup goalie that isnt a sieve would have been nice, that 5 million in cap space isn’t a badge of honor when you could have signed a decent goalie for 2 mil
Jake Vorcheck is a loser.
The culture change shifted when Giroux was named captain the biggest pussy captain in all of hockey history!
I am a flyers fan because they’re the closest and most convenient team to root for where I live and I get free tickets and occasional free merchandise. I do not like anything else about the team. I am not a flyers fan in the sense that I actually go out of my way to be one and actually enjoy being one. They’re run so bad! I ask for two things every night for all of my sports teams I root for. 1. An honest effort each game.
2. A smart game plan/ team chemistry. That’s it. In hockey, you need team chemistry more than anything. Those blind passes, those blind plays you don’t need to see because you just know where everything is. The flyers do not have that factor and they haven’t even made an attempt to build that factor for quite some time.
“Keep this rebuild going”. Yeah, sorry dude, there is no rebuild.
Stop hiring good ol’ boys, AKA former Flyers. Tocchet. Briere. Jones. Hextall. Berube. Stop it. Stop it, stop it, stop it.
They tried to change the culture when Torts was hired but kept almost everyone. They're rebuilding but not taking it apart. They care more about short term butts in seats than to rip the band aid off and burn it down for long term success. What does drafting 12th every year get you? Reaching at the draft for average at best players gets you where they are now. A team full of 2nd and 3rd line players.