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mostly hockey, sometimes art, always random| she/her

[hiyaluronic]

[artymissheart]

Sassy Essek is my favorite Essek

[martypantone]

Do NOT listen to the miserable people already clamoring to spin this as a failure for Danny B. Remember the league-wide narrative going into this offseason? “Oh nooo, their group chats!” “Oh nooo, the NHL is turning into the NBA!” “Oh nooo, players are suddenly [gasp] advocating for themselves, and if we don’t put a stop to this there will be no incentive for anyone talented to choose any team except Florida/Vegas/Minnesota!” And amidst all of that noise, absolutely no one took the Flyers seriously. Because why would they? We were an unsexy hockey market who weren’t real competitors because last season was a fluke. Our GM was soft and unable to close and way too scared of big moves that could move the needle.

Look at where we are now. Danny B put Philly back on the map. He sent a message to everyone that we are taking this seriously, and we believe in the guys we have, and we are ready to invest a LOT into getting the pieces they need to succeed. And he didn’t do it by sticking to the old boys’ club mentality that’s been pushing so hard against the kinds of player-friendly moves he’s prioritized from Day 1. He recognized the value of a young, rising star that you can build a franchise around and capitalized on the fact that Carlsson’s own organization wasn’t treating him with that respect. There were four offer sheets sent to Leo Carlsson, and he chose the Flyers.

No one is that surprised that Anaheim matched, because ultimately yeah, it would have been a worse loss to let your star center walk. But they put themselves in this position of weakness by not taking him seriously in the first place—by playing PVB’s old boys’ club style games to try to dictate to him what he was worth—and I’m glad that this was absolutely the hardest and most public way they could have learned that lesson. Because now other front offices will remember. And other players will remember. Philly was actually always a great place to play, and Danny Briere’s balls were actually always this big. But now everyone knows it.

[mediacircuspod]

Big day for being hrpf pilled.

Jamie Drysdale and Trevor Zegras just said, “No matter what, together.” With their whole chests.

[martypantone]

Danny B said remember that it’s friendship AND spite. The Philadelphia Flyers run on the power of friendship and SPITE.

[martypantone]

You will remember July 3, 2026 as the day Taylor Alison Swift got married. I will remember July 3, 2026 as the day Daniel Jean-Claude Briere did his Big One.

[artymissheart]

Briere, you glorious madman you. Absolutely insane work.

[notsoangrybabsarts]

"come to my heart and bring it to rest"

[depsidase]

[audible-smiles]

the worst part of summer is that people get sooo comfortable expressing their disgust at having to see other people’s bodies. they’re always complaining about wrinkly old men at the nude hot springs or fat women in bikinis at the beach. I hate that shit. if you’re not capable of being normal about bodies you personally don’t find attractive, just turn your head to look at something else! and if you’re not smart enough to do that, then at least do the rest of us the courtesy of suffering in silence, because we don’t wanna hear your weird comments. thanks.

[artymissheart]

Normalize bodies, ALL kinds of bodies, being visible and unharassed.

[washedupkam]

broad street bullies yes hard hitting big bodies brute force winning wear down the opponents through physicality that’s the flyers that’s philadelphia and that’s what the media has assigned and that’s what the organization leans into and that’s why two significant playoff clinching games were through shootouts (skills competition) and that’s why one two three four first round picks all set to become synonymous with the flyers are also synonymous with undersized and that’s why the guy we call mr playoffs is absolutely not big at all and was such a cerebral player he was good in the postseason bc the series format allowed him to study each team obsessively and now he’s the gm and that’s why the current big name for the franchise is a reclamation project player who once had a “soft” reputation and why every fan gets up in arms about our under six foot skilled twenty one year old and the flyers used to be so bad at shootouts but now have the best because actually the broad street bullies were fifty years ago and just like how back then, philadelphia set the tone for a specific way of playing hard nosed hockey that defined the pre-2000’s era, the transition into fast and skilled hockey is fully taking over and it makes certain people uncomfortable it makes the media all tangled up because what about the working class style flyers what about brutal hockey? get over it.

[starscelly]

the nhl will never recover from what it does to itself. personally i am always pushing and hoping for change but jesus christ it's never going to happen at this rate. so cartoonishly evil to have a man who, upon googling his name, you are met with articles on articles of a legal case describing in stomach-turning detail about he, especially, was involved in a group raping of a woman, then meet with a group of youth players to talk to and inspire them. and even when doing surface-level good pr shit like that he can't even have the half decency to not wear the most politically fucking stupid bullshit possible. i'm sure it's really inspirational for those kids to hear that if they, too, have no moral backbone and no sense of humanity, and as long as they all stick really close together and love each other and cover for each other, they too can ruin the lives of an innocent person and not take any accountability for it.

[artymissheart]

All of this

[washedupkam]

it’s so fascinating how philly sports teams continuously maintain that underdog identity even as decades pass and rosters are turned upside down. like the flyers specifically, the 2025-26 team had first round rejects from their original teams that then all had career years with the flyers: trevor, jamie, owen, risto. also major redemption seasons for players like dvorak and especially vladar, who no one thought could hit this level. then players who were always underestimated because of their size: emil and denver. nick seeler who worked in his dad’s paint shop thinking about giving up hockey just a few years ago. even our recent first round picks porter and matvei have chips on their shoulder already. picking up glendening off of waivers and him being crucial to our fourth line. coots having a bounce back in a different role since back surgery. trav2 putting the team on their shoulders at various points in the season, both late first round picks that clearly want to dedicate their careers to this city. the loyalty the determination the rising to the occasion the growing collection of players that were severely doubted in their careers. it’s the same vein as like how a philly sports team will never have a mcdavid or celebrini. every single player, even our points leaders, will always be polarizing to the outside and there will be no consensus “good” player. there’s always threads of doubt and underestimation and bias that influence how philly players are perceived. now how much of this is because they’re in philly or because philly attracts these chip in the shoulder guys.. well that’s like a nature v nurture question.

[solarpunkfool]

What if we win?

What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?

What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?

What if the rainforest ADVANCES?

What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?

What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?

What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?

What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?

What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?

What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?

What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?

What if we win?

How would you win?

[artymissheart]

Fuck defeatism. In this house, we dream and then we do something, just one thing, every day, however small an action it may be, to make the future better.

[dimension20memes]

Thought this was fitting for the current events

[washedupkam]

maybe the team that inexplicably gave up 7 goals to the flyers, penguins, predators, canadiens, and canucks had some major holes that everyone was willing to overlook..

[washedupkam]

porter is like someone made a wish to gritty for a magic philadelphia flyer baby. the aura of giroux the spirit of tk the physicality of richards the sniper skills of carter the height of coots the big game mentality of briere the net front presence of hartnell the eyebrows of drysdale

[teex]

some of my favorite jamie+trevor moments from their first season on the Flyers together | 25-26 Season