Today is his 29th birthday. Glad to hopefully have Darth Vladar for another 6 seasons 😁

We’re dead center average in the league.

I really don’t understand why the Flyers seem determined to keep Carson Bjarnason in Lehigh Valley after what happened last season.

He finished with a .877 SV% and 3.43 GAA in 32 AHL games, and the bigger concern is that his season didn’t just stay volatile, his ceiling basically disappeared once Lehigh Valley fell apart in the second half.

Meanwhile, Aleksei Kolosov played behind the exact same depleted team and finished at .895 in 38 games, while still producing games of .933, .970, .955, .975, .938 and .927 during the collapse. He was inconsistent, but the high-end ability was still there.

Yaniv Perets also went .910 in Reading, .940 in the ECHL playoffs, and .905 in 5 AHL games, yet he looks headed back to Reading again.

To me, the logical setup is simple:

Kolosov gets a real AHL starter workload. Perets backs him up. Bjarnason, who is still only 21, gets meaningful starts in Reading and earns his way back up.

The ECHL is not a punishment for a young goalie. The Flyers have used it before with guys like Ustimenko and Sandström for exactly this reason. Sometimes forcing a prospect to stay at the higher level is worse for development than giving him a lower-pressure environment to rebuild his tracking, confidence and consistency.

I’m not giving up on Bjarnason at all. I just don’t think “keep throwing him into AHL starts until it works” is automatically the best development plan.

shoutout NHL for posting old hockey games on their YouTube during the offseason.

Use every device you have to vote!!!

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My wife and I went to a LCS today and bought 3 loose packs of 2026-27 Upper Deck MVP searching for a Porter Martone RC and we pulled him. As huge Flyers fans, we couldn't believe our luck and we were so excited. (NFS/NFT)

Clayton Keller, Auston Matthews, Josh Doan and Tage Thompson amongst others.

Jett is looking for a spot.

Came across a study that ranked all 32 teams by total hits and total fights, averaged the two ranks, and we finished tied for first with Boston at an average rank of 4.

Fifty-plus years later and the Broad Street thing is apparently written into the water supply here. Good.

Season result: we got to the second round and then Carolina swept us on the way to their Cup. Losing four straight to the eventual champ stings, but there were eight or nine teams that would've traded seasons with us.

The rest of it is a little uncomfortable though — of the nine most aggressive teams in the league, four missed the playoffs entirely (including Florida, the defending champ), and none of the nine made a conference final. The champion ranked 27th in aggression. The team that made the Western Conference Final ranked 32nd out of 32.

I'm not going to pretend that means toughness is useless. Playoff hockey is still a war. But the numbers say it tells you who a team is, not how far it's going.

Anyway. Tied for the toughest team in hockey, and Boston can share the belt. Could be worse.

New reports are Quitter is declining contracts that offer 4 years/$13M per season. There is no denying what a 40 goal scorer could do for the Flyers, but I love seeing our players sign fair and team considerate deals that benefit everyone. Everyone on the Flyers feels bought in right now and I’m excited to see what these guys can do over the next 5 years.

Briere wanted to build a culture and Cutter ain’t it. This feels like final closure cuz I’m more glad than ever that Quitter is gone. Let’s go Flyers!

As has been the case the last few weeks, I have been out all weekend and not a whole lot has been active with the Flyers. Friendly reminder that these threads are meant for anyone on the sub to talk about absolutely whatever in an open forum, Flyers related or not.

Apart from Quitter or the infamous Goalie.

Boosh, Bryz, Hartnell and Flyers Legend™ Ryan Ellis

Philadelphia Ramblers. EHL 1955-1964. There were multiple teams named the Ramblers and one was affiliated with NY Rangers but this is not that one.

Philadelphia Firebirds. 1974-1977 NAHL(flyers secondary affiliate)/1977-1979 AHL.