Mailbag Monday: Matvei Michkov, Jamie Drysdale & the Philadelphia Flyers biggest offseason questions

[@PassTheBiscuit]

I remember watching the flyers on PRISM when I was younger with my dad.. we never got the pay channels either but if I positioned everything correctly it’d come in sort of a rainbow scramble picture with choppy audio.. that’s how I watched them for years and I’ll never forget it

[@LHeat87]

Another show of Bill, Kelly, and a laugh track!

[@OlsenMath]

i absolutely loved the street hockey talk! I appreciate how you wouldn't move the nets for some neighbors. We almost got in a fight with neighbors over how far to move the nets for their car to pass through.

[@billblake9665]

Anything could happen....for gods sake they should have sucked last year but for around 65 games they did very well....they beat the panthers TWICE in their own damn building!!! They beat some of the top teams on the road and suddenly they were awful...........they got destroyed........my heart got ripped in half........maybe things will be good this year. maybe they.......... maybe...................Yo flyers............lets fucking GO..........do you hear what the fuck i am saying????????? ....lets fucking GO. sink or swim.......I am with you because you guys are my goddamn team.........I bleed when you lose......goddamn you flyers LETS GO

[@Clyde-lw6oq]

lock them all in ,,,y not/////////////////////////

[@chrisolivo6591]

I want to know why my comment was deleted about Kelly and her Twitter remarks after the shooting of an ex-President? The Delco Fire Chief resigned for his twitter remarks (he said, “Alittle to the left”). I want Kelly to publicly apologize for her Seinfeld meme after the shooting. “That’s a shame.” And the context of the Seinfeld scene does not mean he thinks it’s a shame.

[@blackrocks8413]

Thumbs down.....

[@OlsenMath]

Delaware beach sand is not fine like NJ sand. NJ sand is much better.

[@BPatton17]

Like being tied down to dudes?

[@JayBurton-tw5es]

Second youngest roster in the NHL and idiots are whining that it’s not a rebuild.😂

[@kod8933]

Yea if you had 12 Poehlings you'd also be the youngest roster in the league. So. Youth =/= Skill

[@JayBurton-tw5es]

@@kod8933 WTF does that even mean?😂The team is getting younger and higher end prospects like Bonk, Barkey, Lachanko are on the rise. Drysdale is still 21 and Michkov is here at 19…plenty of cap space next summer and 6 picks in the first 2 rounds. Quit your fkn whining and enjoy the season and watch them get even younger at the trade deadline when they acquire a few more assets. I almost forgot about Foerester and the progress he made😂kid had an excellent rookie campaign.

[@kod8933]

@JayBurton-tw5es your optimism is as misguided as most. Bonk is doing fine and will probably be an adequate 2nd pair Dman. Many of his points you're gonna boast about came from his bumper position on Londons PP, a spot he won't play in the NHL. Barkey will be a winger at the NHL level and the team is currently only heavy in wing. Specifically right wing. Which is what Barkey would transition to. Michkov is good and he's going to be good. He will not however single handedly drag the team into Cup contention. Drysdale has 150 games of subpar play to his name and major injury history, I am not counting on him becoming the next Cale Makar. Foerster is looking good but again, he's a winger on a team whose offensive is entirely driven by wings. Luchankos scouting reports by people much smarter than you or I placed him as a late 1st round pick who's probable ceiling is a 3C. Which we have in Frost, and in Coots seeing as his 2nd half performance last season was not good enough for a 2C let alone 1C. 13 mil in cap space next summer would be optimistic. Assuming they do not aquire any more cap dumps from other teams in order to acquire picks. And assuming they don't sign TK to some albatross contract which is very likely. Another boat anchor to the cap alongside Coots and Sanheim. 6 picks in the first 2 rounds is good but it doesn't mean anything if a) the picks suck or b) they're packaged to move up due to not winding up in a Top 10 pick at least. If we pick 16th, 25th, and 32nd that's not the makings of a true contender. Odds are those picks would all become bottom of the roster players. Optimism is fine. But check it.

[@kod8933]

@JayBurton-tw5es in addition youth has no correlation with rebuilding whatsoever. Both the Blackhawks and the Sharks had older rosters than we do and came away with Bedard and Celebrini. Buffalo has the youngest team, and finished 11th OA in the NHL. It's almost as if age is a useless factor in the measure of rebuilding. But go off man. Spout something that doesn't make sense to feel superior