Comments on: Assessing The Claude Giroux Trade Rumor To Ottawa (Flyers)

By: Shawn J Swintosky

Shawn J Swintosky — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:58:30 +0000

@Flyerguy…
Man you are way off base. You sound like the typical bottom 50% of Flyers fans who can never appreciate anything good here. G has been almost a point per game with a subpar team for his entire career. He is an elite faceoff guy, can play both ends of the ice, as well as PK and PP. I get the frustration of no cups. But you literally said he is one of the most overrated players the Flyers have had? How many cups did Londros (one of my all time favs) have? God know Lindros had talent surrounding him. 46 years brother and no cups and you literally say G is the most overrated Flyer? G has been the leader of a team that has been in a terrible rebuild for the last 6 seasons. This team has recycled coaches and multiple GMs in his tenure as well. Crazy thing… not one coach or player thar has ever left this squad has said one negative thing about him as a Captain. All that being said… with all the organizational chaos, garbage goaltending, and overrated talent surrounding him each year, he has managed to be a top 7 scorer (I believe) over the last 10 years in the league. Give the Giroux hate a break man, you sound like a pissy whiny bottom feeding Flyers fan.

By: FLYERSGUY

FLYERSGUY — Mon, 31 May 2021 00:15:03 +0000

@Buzz

The leadership problem is self evident in the play of the team. The Flyers were in a downward spiral for most of the season, and the same problems occur year after year and is never addressed.

It doesn’t even matter who the coach or GM is. How many seasons now have Flyers fans complained about the lack of scoring, the power play, the penalty kill, the lack of toughness, etc.?

Almost every season. How many years under Giroux’s “leadership” have the Flyers missed the playoffs?

As for blaming a lack of a superstar, that’s seems like a cowardly thought to me. Like you’re making excuses. Crosby, Kane, Bergeron, and McDavid are, by themselves and without anyone else besides them, light years better than Giroux is individually.

The same problems year after year, and yet, all you can say is he doesn’t have a superstar next to him or we have lacked goaltending?

That’s laughable. The Stars won the Cup with Jake Allen and Jordan Binnington splitting duties. Chicago won with Corey Crawford. Washington won with Holtby. The 2011 Bruins won with Tim Thomas who was exceptional only for that one playoff run.

Please stop with these excuses. Giroux is a perennial loser, plain and simple.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Sun, 30 May 2021 22:46:11 +0000

Can’t agree with Flyerguy. What superstar has Giroux had to play with in the last 10 years? The closest you could say is a 40 year old Jagr for one year. Crosby has Malkin etc. Kane has Toews. Bergeron has Pastranak and Marchand. McDavid has Draisaitl. Would you put Voracek in that class? I wouldn’t. Couturier has been a defensive center for most of his career. In the case of leadership, unless you were with the team how would you know what is said in the locker room or to each individual player from a captain? The only ones that can judge a captain are his fellow players and coaches. I have never heard a leadership problem coming from any of those that could have made public. For 9 of his years playing here he has had terrible goaltending in front of him. This is a problem that the Flyers have had for the last ten years being in salary cap trouble so they couldn’t supplement Giroux with All Star teammates. Yet with all of these reasons he has still managed to be third in career points for the Flyers averaging almost a point a game.

By: FLYERSGUY

FLYERSGUY — Sun, 30 May 2021 19:03:37 +0000

Giroux is by far the .ost overrated player in Flyers history. They have won exactly nothing with him. He himself has never won anything on an individual level.

He has never “led” the Flyers to anything but one playoff failure after another. That is, when they actually make the playoffs.

He also is probably the worst captain of the team, as far as real leadership goes, in at least the last 30 years.

We saw this season, this team had no fight, no determination, no will to win.

The lack of leadership on this team falls directly on him. Giroux’s time here has been a near total disaster.

There used to be a time when it was automatic that the Flyers would be in the playoffs.

Now, it’s a cross-your-fingers deal. I hope the rumors are true and Ottawa trades for him. The sooner he goes, the sooner this organization can get back to building a competitive team.

By: tom mullen

tom mullen — Sun, 30 May 2021 18:04:18 +0000

He can’t play defense by himself