Daily News | Flyers finally wave white flag, pivot toward a Sixers-like ‘Process’
“I’m not sure on the time frame. ... It’s going to be a longer process that, clearly, what we want,” Fletcher said. “We’re not looking to take short-cuts right now.”That’s good news for the guys on the trade block. That’s not-so-good news for 24-year-old franchise goalie Carter Hart, who’s wasting his prime years in a rebuild. Hart should be playing behind with a bunch of other Carter Harts. Instead, he’s playing with Nicolas Deslauriers and Patrick Brown.
They had a chance to rebuild properly in 2015, when Giroux was just 27 and Jakub Voracek was 25, but they hung on to both far too long. By the time they cut bait with both — Voracek was traded in June of 2021, Giroux in March of 2022 — they’d paid them almost $115 million and wasted everybody’s time. Over their final seven seasons together, the gingers combined for one playoff series win, and that one has an asterisk given it came in the COVID bubble.
They’ve blamed their misfortunes on injury absences, and yes, it’s tough to win without a $62 million Selke winner like Sean Couturier, and it’s a blow to have Ryan Ellis make $13 million to play four games in two seasons, and losing Cam Atkinson in December to a neck injury is rotten luck, even if he is 33 .But injuries had nothing to do with Ivan Provorov’s sulky regression.
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