0:00
And like Steve, it's just I'm I'm just
0:03
I've had it. I've had it, man. Like, and
0:05
listen, I'm going to keep watching the
0:06
games. I'm going to keep rooting for the
0:08
Flyers. Like, there's no way I'm going
0:09
to just like abandon ship. That's not
0:11
how I roll. But like, it's how can you
0:15
be enthusiastic about this team right
0:17
now? It listen, it's the season's not
0:19
over, right? Like, it is possible that
0:22
they could go on a heater and claw their
0:25
way back into playoff contention. Am I
0:28
expecting that? No. Is that likely? Abso
0:31
fuckingutely not. Like, it's just not
0:34
that's not gonna happen. We've seen this
0:37
movie so many times. We know what's
0:39
going to happen. We're all bringing out
0:40
Tankathon. Like, we're all like hoping
0:43
to get some sort of top 10 pick.
0:45
Hopefully top five. Like, maybe they get
0:47
McKenna. Who the hell knows? But like,
0:49
you know, it even if that happens,
0:51
people won't be happy because he's a
0:53
goddamn winger. It's a [laughter]
0:55
[Β __Β ] drama soap opera, Steve. this
0:58
whole [Β __Β ] thing. It's just my god,
1:02
It is so funny to me because I, as you
1:05
know, I've been doing this quite a while
1:06
at this point to see when people hit
1:08
their breaking points with this
1:11
iteration of the team because it seems
1:13
like it hits people at different times.
1:15
I feel like mine really hit in the Tony
1:17
D'Angelo, uh, you know, Nick Delore off
1:21
seasonason. That one really got me. But
1:24
everybody kind of breaks at some point
1:26
because that you have to because the
1:29
perpetual mediocrity, the uh just
1:32
blunders, the errors, and it doesn't
1:33
matter who the coach is, it seems like
1:35
it's going to happen. And I don't know
1:37
how to fix it. They talk, you know, I
1:39
it's funny because like I haven't been
1:41
as online as I used to be because I'm
1:43
not on Twitter. Uh I'm mainly I you
1:47
know, I do Blue Sky and I I don't do it
1:49
as much as I used to do Twitter because
1:50
I kind of broke the addiction which is
1:52
great. Uh, and it doesn't have as big a
1:54
hockey community. There are some great
1:55
pe people on there that I do love
1:56
talking puck with, but um, it doesn't
1:58
have the same sheer number of people as
2:01
Twitter had. Uh, but it's good for
2:02
mentally because I'm missing out on some
2:04
just scorching hot takes that people
2:06
have. And apparently culture is back in
2:09
the conversation as far as like, oh, see
2:11
what they did with the culture. And you
2:13
know, I'm going to get into this
2:14
conversation with Shan Couttoriier in a
2:16
few minutes because I think that's an
2:18
interesting and a big part of, you know,
2:21
I think the the struggles here and the
2:24
um attempt to turn the corner and change
2:26
this team. But it's it's just so funny
2:30
because like they did try the culture
2:31
thing with John Tortoella. That's when
2:33
the culture thing was the big
2:34
conversation there. They've tried to
2:37
change a few things but they just keep
2:38
getting the same mediocre, you know,
2:42
just results out of this team and it's
2:46
frustrating because you do just watch
2:47
the same [Β __Β ] different year and I just
2:52
at this point I'm kind of feeling more
2:54
and it part of this might be just having
2:56
to do the sheer number of post games
2:58
that I've been doing but for me I'm just
3:00
like okay I guess they just they fooled
3:04
us for a couple months But they've
3:06
resorted back to the mean. And in a lot
3:08
of ways, it's better that they just
3:10
don't get into the play. Like we said
3:12
this two years ago, too, where it's like
3:13
when they just missed the playoffs,
3:14
like, yeah, it's probably better they
3:16
didn't make the playoffs so that they
3:18
get a better draft pick. Like I I went
3:20
on a rant the other night where I I
3:21
talked about how sick I am of hearing
3:25
about draft picks. Like, I hate knowing
3:27
draft picks. Like, I I hate doing
3:29
research on them. I like the days when
3:32
they would just trade the pick and I
3:33
didn't have to think about it because
3:34
they take these wild swings and you
3:36
watch teams like Vegas, you take these
3:38
big swings. I've got a list of guys I'd
3:40
love for them to take big swings on that
3:42
I if we have time I'd love to talk
3:44
about. I'm not sure we're going to get
3:45
to talk about it because there's so many
3:47
just bad rotten things to talk about.
3:49
But I miss when this team did have the
3:52
capability of taking these big swings
3:56
and made the playoffs routinely and we
3:58
didn't just have to talk about this team
4:00
being in the the 20 to 15 range as far
4:04
as the NHL standings go and just
4:08
what has happened over the past three
4:10
weeks. It's like it's hard to point to
4:13
one specific thing as the problem, but
4:16
there's definitely like a multitude of
4:18
issues. But it it it the main thing is
4:20
it sucks. It sucks to watch this every
4:24
year. At some point it just feels like
4:26
even if they're doing good the you know
4:29
Lucy's going to pull the football away
4:32
That's what it is. And if you know
4:34
that's the hardest part is we got a
4:36
taste of what a competitive hockey team
4:38
looked like earlier on in the season.
4:40
They were legitimately good. Like really
4:42
really good. Um, they were I mean at one
4:44
point they I think they had like the
4:46
fourth best points percentage in the
4:48
entire league. Like they were a crush
4:50
team and now they look like a shell of
4:54
that team. They look like the same old
4:56
Flyers that we've known since the Chuck
4:59
Fletcher days basically. And it's just
5:03
it's it's so frustrating. And I'm at the
5:08
point now where it's just like listen
5:10
man like they've tried to shake things
5:11
up. They've tried, they've tried, you
5:14
know, they traded Joel Farby, they
5:16
traded Morgan Frost, they've, you know,
5:17
they've made some moves.
5:20
I don't care, man. You got to start, you
5:22
got to shake it up more. You got to
5:24
shake it up more because it's not
5:25
working. And we're hearing reports of
5:27
the locker room like it's super
5:28
tight-knit and everything, but like guys
5:30
are like they're not holding each each
5:34
Something's got to change. What's going
5:38
So, what do you think? What do you think
5:39
needs to change? Is there anything in
5:41
particular you you really think needs to
5:44
I mean, listen, they've been changing
5:46
the coaches. They've been changing the
5:48
general managers and it's been the same
5:50
result for 10 years, a decade.
5:54
the roster is different like the only
5:55
guy that's not different and maybe this
5:57
is part of it is Sean Couttori before
6:01
this is [clears throat] a perfect
6:02
transition to Couttoriier, but I do have
6:04
my due diligence to do here. And you
6:06
know, Travis Conknney has also been here
6:09
for a good portion of that. Yeah. And I
6:11
don't really think he's a guy to blame
6:13
for this because I think he's fiery. I
6:15
think he's a good leader. I think he's
6:16
been consistently good for this team.
6:18
You can make an argument all day about
6:20
whether they should have traded him
6:21
before they resigned him, but Travis
6:23
Kenki is a guy who consistently performs
