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Lance,

This was the first article of yours that I have read lol. As far as being blocked goes, join the club lol. I’ve been banned multiple times on HFBoards for simply being honest.

Like I said, sacred cows lol. You see the plain truth as I do. Your observation on Morin is correct indeed and the thing most don’t understand about him.

Being physically gifted like he is, means you’re naturally advantaged over most.

He has the capability to be a workhorse for the Flyers if they would just get out of his way and give him the opportunity.

He can play 30 minutes a night no problem. Instead, they choose to give thr majority of minutes to players that can’t play D.

Provorov, while good offensively, is a literal traffic cone on the PK. It’s been that way since he started in his rookie year and nothing has changed.

Sanheim, good offensively, close to atrocious on the PK. Same with Myers but Myers isn’t nearly as good offensively.

The result is that no matter who is in the net for the Flyers, the goaltender winds up getting shelled for 3 periods.

We could have Bernie Parent, Jacques Plante, Dominik Hasek, and Martin Brodeur in goal and they wouldn’t be able to save this defense.

Why? Sacred cows.

Provorov has never lost a minute yet since he started. No matter how utterly awful he plays.

Don’t criticize him though, he’s on the Pantheon.

Same for Couturier, Giroux, and Voracek.

It used to be Timonen and now it’s these guys lol. The Flyers never change and so neither will the results.

Have a great day.

*today

Oh my are you sure you have not been reading my articles before? A great deal of this sounds oddly familiar lol. Don’t worry about me becoming fake sir I’ve been blocked by them all. I tend to write my observations of how the team is playing currently regardless if it’s good or bad. Sam Morin was gifted both physically, and offensively when he was drafted. The Flyers saw his size and stuck Kjell Sammuelsson on him to covert him to a stay at home defender. SMH. This team has grown soft and needs a change in leadership on the ice. I just put out a new article to day along the same lines as this one but on the goalies.

Lance,

Great to hear. I’m going to follow your articles from now on my good sir. Please don’t ever lose your honesty in assessing this team and the organization.

Unfortunately, nearly all the beat writers for this team have their own agendas or favorite players that somehow become a sacred cow which, at that point, they refuse to criticize in any way.

Don’t ever become one of those phony people, Lance. Always tell the truth no matter how much it hurts.

I sometimes hate the way my brutal honesty makes me feel. You think it doesn’t hurt to say that Provorov sucks defensively? That he’s completely awful on the PK?

Sure it does. As a Flyers fan, I always want only the best for this team? That being said, progress can never be made in anything less than a brutally honesty assessment of things.

About Morin……he’s clearly far and away the best and most competent defensively out of all our defenseman.

He was nearly ruined early on by Paul Holmgren. First, after being taken in the first round of his draft, the Flyers sent him to the Phantoms.

While there, they incorrectly and stupidly assessed him as having close to zero offensive value.

This was after a training camp in which Morin recorded the hardest slapshot in the history of the Flyers.

His shot was recorded as being harder than Shea Weber’s.

You would think that a guy whose shot power exceeds that of Shea Weber would be put on the power play to use that weapon of his and let him bomb away on the opposing goaltender.

Nope. Not the Flyers. They only wanted him to be a stay at home defenseman.

His development was and has been stunted by this organization.

Morin grew up playing forward in Canada in his formative years. There is definitely offense to his game that hasn’t yet been shown. Mostly because this organization hasn’t allowed it to be developed properly.

This guy could be a monster…..if they only let him be and give him the opportunity.

Instead, what we are left with is an organization that has it’s sacred cows (Provorov, Giroux, Voracek, Couturier) which are above any and all criticism, and as such they are placed in an Olympian Pantheon as this organization’s gods whose places and ice time are never to be questioned let alone getting benched.

The not so surprising results of this insane mentality is what we are seeing now.

Year after year of abject failure. A first or second round exit in the playoffs (when they are able to make them) despite how high expectations might be.

I sincerely wish you all the best, Lance. Being a fan of this team can drive one quite mad if you let it.

Keep your head up and keep your integrity. I’ll be watching.

FLYERSGUY I have been writing about all the things you just mentioned numerous times over. I am a huge Morin fan and think he’s the only Defenseman on the team right now that plays the position the right way. I just wrote a piece ripping G, Voracek, and the management etc. like a week or two ago. No will get no argument for anything you said here sir. I’ve been preaching the same things for months now.

Myers and Sanheim play the game like cowards. There’s no other way to put it. They looked scared, intimidated, and weak.

Ghost has been up and down but has been better than Sanheim and Myers.

Morin is the only man on D that plays the game the right way. The only one. It is wrong to state that he can only do so much, especially because we haven’t seen what he is fully capable of yet.

When he was on the Phantoms, he was a dominant force. He needs playing time to show what he can do. He’s looked very good so far in the limited action he’s seeing. Especially compared to the absolute garbage everyone else on defense has been.

Dougie Hamilton is not the answer. The answer for the Flyers is they have to put the correct players in the correct position.

This means taking Provorov and Myers off the PK since they are both putrid there. It means putting Morin on the PK where he excels.

It means letting Ghost run the first unit PP not Provorov.

It means letting go of players who can’t play, like Hagg and Braun, and replacing them with ones who can.

Finally, the leadership of this team needs to be addressed. Claude Giroux is finished and so is Jake Voracek.

Both of them disappeared for entire weeks at a time this season. Giroux usually saves his disappearing act for the playoffs but now it’s during the season.

Both Giroux and Voracek’s contracts are an albatross around this team’s neck. Giroux, unfortunately, has a no trade clause so we’re stuck with this lame duck until his contract runs out.

As long as the Flyers continue to make bad coaching decisions and the leadership group remains the same, nothing is going to change.