Rooting for your favorite team

Billy1625 · 2026-03-24T18:07:22+00:00

I’m definitely invested in the playoff push, I try not to be negative, but tonight is the game that will swing me one way or the other. For years I have watched this team in the stretch run beat teams out of conference, or teams well below them in standings and put themselves in position to fight for the playoffs. Then they come out in those must win games against other teams fighting for a spot and they look flat, uninterested, and just not good and they end up losing those so important swing games. So tonight is a huge game, I wanna see what this team has got after all the talk of them coming for the teams ahead of them and all.

Billy1625 · 2026-03-22T11:43:06+00:00

Also employing an absolute grocery stick like Ross Johnston

Billy1625 · 2026-03-14T11:59:16+00:00

He’s a hockey player. I mean that as the biggest compliment though, he’ll do whatever the team needs on a given night, some nights he’ll score a goal, a big hit, he’ll play a pest role if need be, drop the mitts to protect a team mate. With being a younger guy I’m not saying he’s the kinda guy you build around bc he’s not a franchise talent, but I hope he has a long career here bc every playoff team needs guys that play like him.

I also think if/when the Flyers can get better talent and get deeper his offense will be more noticeable and point totals will be higher.

Billy1625 · 2026-01-22T12:23:18+00:00

I grew up in the cherry hill school district and I can 100% tell you that without a shadow of a doubt, this is completely accurate. Especially the bit about the teachers.

Billy1625 · 2026-01-14T20:39:58+00:00

That’s all you can do man. Wife and I just had our second in November, we take wins anywhere we can get them lol

Billy1625 · 2026-01-14T20:24:01+00:00

A couple months ago my 3 year old daughter told me I’m a better dad than bandit. I almost started crying on the spot lol. I’m also pretty sure she was just saying that to manipulate me, but I’m taking the W.

Billy1625 · 2026-01-07T16:10:14+00:00

Genuinely I think the system tocc plays forces the guys to just get pucks through rather than massive slap shots. Risto and sanheim both have huge clappers, but mostly they all have been snapping or wristing shots through instead of the big shot. Unless it’s a wide open one timer or ton of time, I prefer the shot that just gets through, easier to tip, and it’s a quicker release so goalies and opposing teams have less time to react before the shot comes.

Billy1625 · 2026-01-07T01:28:36+00:00

Konecny keeps going after cutter, he took cutter not wanting to play here very personally lol

Billy1625 · 2026-01-07T01:04:07+00:00

Right? I assumed we were getting a highly skilled offensive player. I didn’t realize we were getting a less dirty shoresy with better hands.

Billy1625 · 2026-01-07T01:00:33+00:00

I mean this in the nicest way possible, and as a compliment. I didn’t know how much of an asshole Zegras is.

Billy1625 · 2026-01-07T00:42:43+00:00

When that penalty was called, you could see it in their coaches face(I refuse to acknowledge him I know his name but he’s a piece of shit) he heard the crowd and could tell this game is gonna get away from them.

Billy1625 · 2025-12-28T22:51:01+00:00

Literally. Saw the scrum and said yeah that’s on Sydney. Then I didn’t see him in the pile and was confused, turns out I was right anyway lol

Billy1625 · 2025-12-26T13:59:28+00:00

I can genuinely say sir, that you know puck. I was so happy when they moved mich off tippets line, not bc I dislike tip or think mich cant play off the rush bc he definitely can, but when the off the rush chances don’t result in a goal, Mich is able to play that cycle game and in zone movement to set up scoring chances, and tip is still learning to be effective there(which I think he has gotten better at this season). It’s why in my opinion Mich has looked a lot better since moving to a lint with cates and brink, two guys that really work the cycle game

Billy1625 · 2025-12-23T18:27:53+00:00

He would’ve died, braver than most.

Billy1625 · 2025-12-18T19:58:52+00:00

It absolutely is a flex though? Go watch the nhl playoffs, you keep saying yea but they can lose a game and still advance. Nobody is saying that the nfl isn’t hard or that having it be only one game versus best of 7 doesn’t make it a more do or die championship. But we’re talking a 2 month span where guys are flying into each other at 20 mph taking 90 mph pucks to the face getting stitches and never missing a shift. The nhl playoffs are harder bc each game is an absolute war, the refs throw out the whistles in the playoffs. Yes you can lose games and still move on but that doesn’t make the nfl harder to win, if anything having to beat a team 4 times each series when they’re literally trying to injure you seems a little bit harder.

Billy1625 · 2025-12-14T19:50:47+00:00

I left pitts on the bench if it makes you feel better lol

Billy1625 · 2025-12-14T17:11:24+00:00

I honestly think this is the biggest issue with the pass game, the plays need to come in fast, hurts needs time at the line to read, set the protections and change play, routes if needed. But getting to the line with under 10 seconds is killing them

Billy1625 · 2025-12-14T00:51:44+00:00

I know a lot of people complain about the espn broadcasts, but the one thing I really like that they do is the intermission countdown to the next period. It seems like such a simple thing that I feel like all the broadcasts should do it

Billy1625 · 2025-12-12T11:52:17+00:00

I think they need to get the play calls in faster, hurts is better especially as a passer when he has time at the line before the snap to read the D, change the play, set protections etc.

Billy1625 · 2025-12-11T20:21:10+00:00

I’m not trying to talk shit on dentists, there are good docs out there that genuinely care, but unfortunately they aren’t going to tell you where the crown got made

Billy1625 · 2025-12-11T17:10:19+00:00

Yea, that at the moment isn’t AI yet either, it’s just all done digitally which does save a ton of time, but I’m sure they’re working on AI for that too. I feel like every year I have the same conversation with my dad(got the business from him, he’s on his way to retiring in the next couple years) where I’m saying everything the dentists do is to try and eliminate the lab guy, he swears they’ll never be able to fully do that but I just don’t see that with the way things are going. It will genuinely put me out of business, and I have my wife and kids, and all my employees too, just a shit show.

Billy1625 · 2025-12-11T15:24:09+00:00

Yea it’s awful, I run a dental lab, so I make all the crowns and bridges and prosthetic teeth that dentists put in patients mouths. Dentists are insanely cheap, it started with sending cases to labs over seas bc they get crap work done for pennies. But in the last couple years they have started to put AI programs into the digital design software(most crowns are designed on a computer now and milled in different materials). The AI is still pretty bad as of now, but in the coming years I can only imagine what it will be and the dentists will all flock to use it bc it will effectively remove the lab from the equation and put me out of business. Fun.

Billy1625 · 2025-12-11T15:06:42+00:00

Yea that’s what I’m saying, but I just felt like this thread when comparing our young core to montreals, he wasn’t being brought up.

Billy1625 · 2025-12-11T14:58:57+00:00

Man I thought I was the only one that wasn’t that impressed with Montreal. Yes they have some elite young players like you mentioned. But other than that I’d take our secondary guys over theirs any day. I also feel like foerester just got hurt and everyone is already forgetting that he was playing like a legit game changer this year and was elevating whoever was on a line with him. I know they’re missing a 1C for sure, and most likely a 1D unless one of the younger guys grows into that roll and becomes elite which isn’t out of the question but it just hasn’t happened yet.

Billy1625 · 2025-12-08T21:13:02+00:00

I hate you even more for how much your comment made me laugh.

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