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Aug 26, 2025
ESPN made their Sports Misery Index, and it has the Philadelphia Flyers, well, fairly high. At least we're not as miserable as Sixers fans... Check out Ryan Gilbert's article about the misery index here: https://www.broadstreethockey.com/post/does-espns-sports-misery-index-accurately-reflect-flyers-fans-agony/ #nhl #hockey #flyers #letsgoflyers #philadelphia #sports #philadelphiaflyers Broad Street Hockey is the top place for independent coverage of the Philadelphia Flyers and the hockey world at large. πΉπ¬π¨π«: https://www.broadstreethockey.com/ π΄π¬πΉπͺπ―: https://broad-street-hockey.myspreadshop.com/ πππππππ: https://open.spotify.com/show/5k5IfqqGTBdJmcqdZ6nF91 πΌππππ: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/broad-street-hockey/id1708766515 πππππππ: https://twitter.com/BroadStHockey πππππΌπππΌπ: https://www.instagram.com/broadsthockey/ ππππππ: https://www.tiktok.com/@broadsthockey
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I want to switch gears, Cameron.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You know, they're they're they're coming
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around. I don't know if you know this.
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Yes. Yes. Campbell. Matt Campbell had
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the first uh 25 under 25. Just the uh
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the people who missed the cut.
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Oo.
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The honorable mentions. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. What you
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I want to get to that. I also want to
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ask you something. The Flyers power play
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has been anything but for the last
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couple number of years, let's be honest,
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but last two really stick out. Last
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year, the Flyers were 31 for 254 in the
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power play for a god awful 12.2%.
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Jesus.
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Last year, they were 15%. You think, oh,
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all right, some improvement here. But
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what if I told you that the Flyers only
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scored one more power play goal last
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year on simply 40 less opportunities?
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So, they were 32 of 214 last season as
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opposed to being 31 of 254 in 23-24.
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That does that dim you a little bit, you
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know, like
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Yeah. Also, like I'm not shocked,
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you know, if that makes any sense. Like
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I'm just like that is upsetting. I did
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not know that. That's upsetting. Um
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I took some wind out of your sales on
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that one.
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But also like I I like I also watched
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the team last year, you know, so it's
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also just like yeah, they they did look
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like they sucked every time we we pretty
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much watched them. So like it's it's not
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surprising, you know, but it is like
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it's one of those things that people dig
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bring up people bring up a lot, right?
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where it's like we talk about with a
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team like this, you talk about the
1:27
improvements from day one to day two,
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you're not talking about, hey, they
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didn't want to stay in the cup because
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they're not going to. You talk about
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what did improve and a lot of people
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bring up the power play went from 12 to
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15%. And that's only with Mitchkov.
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That's what I hear all the time. That's
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only with Mitchkov.
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That's true.
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Not as much now, apparently. That's
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tough. Only one more goal.
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Okay.
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Yeah. All right. Yeah.
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I I
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And also makes me think of all the times
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that like Philly was on the power play
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and then just and then just did some
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dumb Now we're on four on fours
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and it's like how often did that happen
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and I don't know about I don't know I
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might just be angry but
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how many times
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Yeah.
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and it's going to happen again this year
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Cameron and I I I know I'm going to get
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angry.
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How many times we're going to watch him
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on the power play where they can't I
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mean they can't even execute his own
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entry. They just they just can't. It's
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just what it is.
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Well me
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says he doesn't want to dump it. He's
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like I don't want to I don't like
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dumping it.
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Well
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I'm not about dumping it. I like I like
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guarant. And I like that. I like that.
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I mean, I I would say take the straight
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jacket off of him a little bit if I'm
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Rick Tocket and let him go be, you know,
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let him go. Listen, the last head coach,
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you know, who I idolized for years to
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become a Flyers head coach and then when
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he finally did, it was, you know, fool's
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gold.
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Um,
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we'll see if Rick Taka can be better at
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unleashing a power play in Philadelphia.
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And Mitchkov is going to have to be at
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the forefront of that. But, you know,
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with, you know, with Zegris as well, you
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know, that's he's another big time Jamie
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Dale. Zaggress. Uh you have obviously
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Mitchkov, you still have Kenkne who's a
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very who's a productive player. For sure
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productive player.
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Yeah.
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Um and also Cameron, you mentioned the
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25, you know, the top five under 25
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under 25 because our very own Maline
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Campbell from Broad Street Hockey went
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through and gave some honorable mentions
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who were the young players that are just
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on the outside of this list. And I have
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to say, Maddie does such a great job
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because she she does a great job like
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covering like the younger guys. She did
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a great like kind of draft analysis when
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we went over that a few months ago.
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She's big with the Phantoms as well. For
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those that don't know her and don't
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visit our website, first of all, if
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you're not visiting the website, you
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know, what are you doing? What are you
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doing? How dare you? But no, yeah, she's
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big with the Phantoms. If if you're ever
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like if you're ever in the mood or in
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the need and you're like, I need to know
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Phantom Maline Campbell's the one.
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Matty, Matty Campbell, definitely. And
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also, she did she honestly makes me feel
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so much better about the farm situation
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or at least I feel more I feel more
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informed about the farm situation after
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reading her stuff. It's not a monster in
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the closet, you know, you at least know
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what you're dealing with.
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But, um, you know, guys like Carson
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Dolart, you know, are mentioned here.
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Matthew Guard Center, um, Alex Churn,
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uh, Hecky, uh, Ruinan,
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um, if I'm saying that wrong, I do
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apologize. And honestly though, Cameron,
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the Flyers draft seemingly went really
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well. Like on paper, we were all kind of
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satisfied with what the Flyers got and
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was like, "Oh, okay. So the Flyers All
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right. So, you know, they're listening
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to their scouts a little bit. This
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wasn't with the Luchenko draft. Everyone
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was just like, "That's a reach. We're
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not thrilled with that one." This year
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was like a different feel. And when I
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talk about the reason I mentioned like
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the top top 25, under 25 is because
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this is a young Flyers team and we're
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going to learn we're going to see a lot
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of cool things I think at the preseason.
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I almost am more excited about the
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preseason Cameron than I am the regular
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season just because I know we'll have a
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chance to see younger players in the
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preseason and see what they look like
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Chief among them. Will Jet Lucheno do
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enough to actually make the team and
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stick with the team this year?
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Yeah, especially like especially him
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considering the signings that they did
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make and they kind of have a full lineup
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almost.
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Um so it's kind of almost makes it a
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little bit tougher for him too. So it's
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like if he's able to to to push that
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extra bit and and make the team that
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would be that would be really really
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rad. Um, kind of same with Muel
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Grabbankin as well. I'm very interested
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to see how he does.
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Um, but no, you're right, dude. That's
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that's exactly kind of like I I don't
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know exactly. I know we're going to
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discuss a little bit later on, but like
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I I know uh Broad Street is going to be
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doing a lot of stuff on the YouTube
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channel in terms of the
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Yes.
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25 under25 um some live stream stuff
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like that which I'm really really
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excited about. Um, and for the exact
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reason you just mentioned, which is the
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young team. Like there are most of the
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be a lot of the best players in the team
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are going to be on this list, which is
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kind of saying something. Um, which is
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kind of like kind of stinks because
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you're like a lot of these are
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prospects, but it makes it very exciting
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for the future and it makes preseason
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actually something to watch like you
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just mentioned because you are going to
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see names that you can actually
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recognize and you will be able to
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recognize within a couple of years. Um,
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and what's also really cool is that like
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a lot of these players seem to really
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really understand all of this because of
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the transparency with the front office.
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Um, was reading an article again with
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Porter Martone and him why he went to go
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back to Michigan State to go or went to
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Michigan State instead of trying to make
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the team possibly. and his whole thing
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was I wanted to do I think the quote was
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I wanted to do whatever is best for
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me 5 to 10 years down the line when
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we're going to be competing for a
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Stanley Cup. And the fact that at at his
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age now just being drafted by the team
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he's had this discussion with with the
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front office and and that is his
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mindset.
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The fact that kind of all these guys at
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the age that they are are are on the
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same page there. It makes this entire
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process extremely exciting. It's kind of
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one of the highlights of of of our
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season, which sucks, but
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I don't know. We always joke the two to
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three years away, but it's just I don't
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know. This this feels a little bit
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different, and maybe I'm just naive, but
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uh
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can I just
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I think it starts here with the 2525.
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What's up?
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We we we talk about like, you know, what
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will Flyers Phantom finally return to
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glory? ESPN made a sports misery index
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that actually was covered. Um does the
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does ESPN sports misery index accurately
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reflect Flyers fans agony? This was Ryan
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Gilbert who posted this just a few days
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ago on the 15th
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and I just as you were talking I decided
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to pull up the misery index now 100
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being the most miserable and I put in
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I'm a Flyers fan of 15 plus years. I
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started rooting for this team in 2004 my
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first season watching them. Good year to
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watch the Flyers by the way. They went
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all the way to the Eastern Conference
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Finals. It's my favorite team, my
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favorite Flyers team ever.
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And they got an 86 out of 100 on the
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misery scale. Six.
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Now I just want to delete them real I
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just want to see I just want to see what
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the Philadelphia Eagles get. I get No,
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they're a zero.
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Yeah, you just Yeah, you're on top of
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the world, right? Like, okay, hold on.
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No, let's try. Put the Phillies. What
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about the Phillies?
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We're going to We're going to put the
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Phillies in. Okay.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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On the up and up.
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Put the Phillies.
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NLCS champs from 5 years ago. Within the
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last five years.
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20 a 20 on misery rating. But here's
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that feels accurate.
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Now, here's the one where here's where
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it needs to come into play. How about
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the Philadelphia 76ers?
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God, it's got to please be higher. If
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it's not higher than the Flyers, I'm
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going to be upset.
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The Flyers got an 86. The 76ers get an
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88.
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Oh, thank God. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz as a
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Sixers fan, I'm more angry with them,
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which is saying something because I
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cover this team, so it's torture.
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