Philadelphia Flyers fans deserve the Matvei Michkov excitement | PHLY Sports

Philadelphia Flyers fans deserve the Matvei Michkov excitement | PHLY Sports

last night I put together this list of the biggest flyer story since 2010 and just off the bat I’m going to tell you Carter Hart situation not on this list because listen that’s a huge story and it’s a huge deal but to put that on the same list as like the reveal of gritty I thought like was inappropriate honestly so you’re right right listen we know about the Carter heart situation but this is everything else biggest flyer story since 2010 and uh just to flash the graphics like we don’t need to through every single one but you know the I I ca this I bookended this list the first thing I put on there May 6 2010 Flyers sign Sergey bobovski and spoiler alert the last thing on this list is bossk’s Panthers win the cup his backup goalie is a guy we got in return in the bobski trade like we drafted him with one of the picks that we got for Bob and he’s and Nick cousins is on that team too part of the Carter trade what was painful was nasty me from the nasty Knuckles podcast great podcast by the way for Flyers fans well he posted the picks with Bob when when he was the what was he he was like the equipment manager right yeah with the Flyers and he’s posting picks of him very young with Bob and it was like oh my God he was actually an orange in Black yeah man it happened in that rookie year like he wins that first game in his NHL debut 29 saves against the pens goes on to put up a 915 save percentage they win the Atlantic division like when’s the last time the Flyers won the division like that happened with a rookie goalie winning your 28 games like the Bob stuff that’s that’s 14 years ago at this point you know like that’s when that happened and it all leads to you know getting Elia BRZ galov and then the Richard and Carter trades we know how all that ended some there is a good thing in there uh the signing of yogger yeah like that was when I was going through this list like I almost forgot about it I was like oh you know what that was a great day claude’s best linemate maybe honestly Philly yeah that year I mean it’s one of one of claude’s best years and like I think yogger had a lot to do with uh J’s development I think he had a ton to do with Jake vor’s development like the Flyers Got Jake in the uh Carter trade because it was like oh he’s kind of disappointment since we drafted him and then he became a point of game player like he was right there with G but like yeah I thought that like yogger it’s fun he’s a legend and it was his he was gone for three years and then he came back to the Flyers you know the Rival he was one of the guys who tortured us for years like that was just a cool moment but we also were like okay we know he’s 37 right like we’re not getting 26y old yger we’re not getting the MVP but that was like of the 2011 stuff that was an actually good moment that one was pretty cool and then you move on through the years like the 2012 one um like after June 11th 2012 after acquiring Jeff Carter at the trade deadline reuniting him with Mike Richards the Kings win the Stanley Cup and that’s going to be a uh running theme throughout this list and of things with this team it’s I I know sometimes we we look so much back with rose-colored glasses at these guys who like went on to win elsewhere yes but godamn man when you haven’t won since 1975 and you have these players inh house and can’t quite figure it out and then they go on to win somewhere else like that does hurt like I was very happy for Richards and Carter and I was uh at this time 2012 2014 wearing a king’s hat until they got rid of Paul my God I was like I think it was the 2014 year I was like until they get rid of Paul holgren I’m going to be wearing the king’s hat and that’s you know we uh we go back to the bris signing it’s like how did these things worked out where well like you know um bab rovski won a VZ in Columbus and two years into a 9-year 51 million contract bris Gallow gets bought out you know we’re going to be paying him through 2026 27 Oh God he’s just hanging out yeah when uh when he was I think he was h on an AHL stint uh before he came back up into the league after the buyout he took all his teammates out to dinner said this is on the Flyers boys and it was it’s just like man we had the Russian goalie the wrong one though that mistake was humongous absolutely but eventually Ron hexall is named the Flyers general manager and good things start to happen like Shane were you were you optimistic when they hired Ronnie as a g okay yeah because I liked they said he had everything to do with like the development uh of you know the king’s core and all that like he was integral in that and okay that’s what we need we need someone who can build up this young core and his plan made sense to me at first cuz like it’s something we hadn’t done and he did say like okay we’re not going to go out and spend crazy and try to compete for the Cup every year but then you look back and realize they didn’t go all the way though like you needed to tear that thing down and they just didn’t I wonder if it was Ed Snyder I wonder if it was Comcast just being like no it seemed like a half measure at the time you can compare it to this plan I think they just have a better grasp one Ron hex’s draft were mostly disastrous like that’s that’s why it didn’t work like Gman rubv pasal Le Burge like these things were disasters Jay obrien like we’re getting a comp pick because Jay O’Brien ain’t ever GNA play in the NHL like just [ __ ] went wrong under Ron hexall was his coach in the beginning things were like gosis bear when he uh won the national title with Union and then his uh of course Richard and Carter win their second cup shortly after that but like they bring up ghost he has the crazy rookie year good stuff we think something’s happening and yeah not really and you look back at some of the trades we made like oh yeah we traded jvr for Luke Shen oh we have to dump him with vinea cavaler to get Jordan Wheel in a third like you know just like oh yeah all these trades really worked out just like this the theme of this is just things we think that are going to go well that just absolutely freaking Crash and Burn like we don’t need to go through every item most of you listening live through all this already went through this we don’t need to rehash it all but we we remember Nolan Patrick I mean winning that Lottery was huge I was that draft party our very first one make sure you come out Friday for our seventh draft party at chickies in South Philly but our first one was 2017 at a Smith’s place was absolutely packed Devils make their pick all of a sudden the whole bar is chanting Nolan Patrick I couldn’t hear we’re doing a live show I’m like I I don’t I think they made the pick I don’t know it was just so we know how that worked out like it was a great day in my career everything after that sucked I did want Nolan Patrick over n i i was a heier guy I just kept reading about heier and I just thought he was cool like he skateboards and like plays soccer and other sports I like this is fun he just seems like a cooler guy to me but we it’s not like we had a choice Devils were picking one it was what it was you just go through all this like another fun day I guess all the way in 2018 uh gritty revealed you know like that was something we were all like what the f is this yeah a couple two months after gritty is revealed GM Ron hexall is fired uh that was quite a day and when they brought in Chuck Fletcher I will say I had hope for one reason they started treating us like we weren’t the insane ones they’re like no Andrew McDonald does suck and they bought him out like they waved L Yuri latera they called up Carter heart we like these are all obvious moves and they refused to do them for whatever reason then eventually fired Dave haxall also an obvious move it was okay so I’m not insane Chuck Fletcher at least has a grasp on this stuff and he made some good moves he had the one good off season I thought it led to some uh a couple of good years but ultimately like it all [ __ ] it all [ __ ] out yeah and the my favorite one I like the Ryan Ellis trade okay man we got out of the Nolan Patrick thing Phil Meers didn’t work out we got the next we got we got Ryan Ellis cool man got the next next in for for overall uh November 13th 2021 Ryan Ellis records an assist in his fourth and final game as a flyer that was in Dallas right like Jesus man uh like giru his thousandth game and trading giru hiring torz I guess was a fun day because like we all saw it coming but it’s John torella it’s fun even if it’s sometimes really ridiculous it’s just firing Chuck Fletcher drafting cutter gotier those things were fun um then you know cutter goer gets traded because he don’t want to play here it was F oh man we got the fifth overall pick I’m watching those World Juniors this past you know December January like this is gonna be our guy n they traded him like three days later like it’s came out of nowhere a long list of [ __ ] and it all ends with Sergey bossk’s Florida Panthers along with backup Anthony stolar who the Flyers drafted with one of the picks they got in return for Bob win the Stanley Cup you know what’s painful about that is and and to the Nick cousins also won that team and to the King’s Point as well too is like dude our guys go to these organizations who have been bad for so and Shen yeah that the blues one too the kings were like literally like they had the Gretzky days in the early 90s right the Florida Panthers just been a doormat for for their existence and they these guys win championships with these teams man I think all three were the team’s first uh yeah the Kings it was their first cup the blues I think was their first one which is crazy and Florida is definitely their first yeah oh yeah dude like it’s insane the team that hasn’t won in 50 years is stocking the league with their first cups May everyone I think there’s I think there’s 10 teams left that haven’t won and maybe everyone has to get one before the Flyers can go back being the first expansion team to win one maybe now everyone has to get one so uh it’s like when we were Seattle let’s get moving here we did the same thing with the Eagles before 2017 we were like now Seattle just w a freaking super oh my God I I put this list together not to depress our audience JP uh but just to say we [ __ ] deserve something to celebrate yes Flyers fans man if you have stuck with this team and my God if you’re watching this show every day thank you so much I don’t know how in this era of Flyers hockey I have been able to turn talking into this team into like a successful career it’s [ __ ] insane to me because like thank you for being great fans anyone who ever questions Flyers fans like you can’t simp I am I’m not even the team I’m a guy who yells about the team and pain as everyone else there’s enough interest still despite 14 years of [ __ ] like there’s enough interest to drive this can exist yeah man thank you so much Flyers fans we deserve this we deserve mitov coming over and we deserve to celebrate it we deserve to be excited yeah it’s just been so long everything even the things we got celebrate like Nolan Patrick and Ryan Ellis all this [ __ ] it all turned bad Sergey Bovi oh that was fun yeah it was for a year that was a great year though it was fun well I’m I’m always gon to compare this to like the process years because like obviously we’re rebuilding we’re trying to we’re hoping that we get all these assets all these young players that can hopefully unlike the Sixers bring us to a championship but like you know with Mitch kov like dude like this whole time like I’m just I’m I’m you know following hockey newshub and constantly you know refreshing his page news yeah seeing if he’s got any news on Mitch watching all those highlights on Twitter like every little thing that any of our prospects even like the guys in London like I’m just watching and just seeing and and I have these these Visions in my head of hopefully we can Hoist the Stanley Cup or at least go through a couple playoff runs because that’s fun Bill playoff runs are so fun man it’s just every year I watch that cup get presented and like I just love it because hockey’s awesome and the Stanley Cup rules and what absolutely how much it means to them they put their body on the line for this thing like you think about uh Matt kachuck last year playing with a broken sternum like his brother asked to get him out of bed and dress him in the morning and somehow he’s going out there and playing NHL Stanley Cup hockey like he gets it pays off it’s a year later but he gets the reward for like H but part of me is always just like godd damn it when when’s it gonna be my time when do I get to feel this for my team hopefully it’s not another 5050 years JP hopefully it is sooner than later and mitkov is the uh the turning point for this organization again I don’t think it’s right away I don’t even know if he wins The Calder this year I’m hoping he’s a finalist like he should be in the conversation because when he flashes I hope it’s hard yeah but it’s just the sign that things might actually change because they haven’t in so long we’ve been through coaches we’ve been through GMS we’ve been through captains you know we’ve been through uh an aggressive retool or two to we draft picks the Hope goalies and here we are back at square one and we think we finally have the guy you know what I’m excited for is Mitch K’s first game at the Ws Fargo Center bill that place is gonna be sold out and it’s gonna be like a playoff like atmosphere and it’s funny to mention that because at the draft party okay one of the things we’re going to be raffling off is a opening night tickets for this coming I guess it’ll be October Wells Fargo Center uh our guy is hooking us up you’re going to be in a club box it’s one of the many items you might be able to walk away with if you come to our draft party at South Philly chickies on Friday that’s this Friday June 28th starts at 6 we’re going to do a live show giveaways Raffles free food think drink specials gritty going to be a good time going to be a real real good [Music] time we all sitting like the mayor

To start Wednesday’s show, Bill & JP took a walk down Flyers memory lane, summarizing the black hole that has been the last 14 years of Flyers hockey. If you’re still a fan of this team after literally everything good went to hell, you deserve to be happy and excited about Matvei Michkov coming to the NHL.

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