Enjoyable Reality: You Are Going To Get Your Ass Kicked If You Strive To Battle The Philadelphia Flyers This 12 months

It’s been 50 years for the reason that Philadelphia Flyers have gained the Stanley Cup. FIFTY GODDAMN YEARS. 

I’ve beloved the Flyers for so long as I can bear in mind. Going to video games as a child. Going to the Wives’ Carnivals as a child. Playing Mites on Ice, and pondering it was the best expertise of my life. I’ve dreamed in regards to the Flyers successful a Stanley Cup my whole life. And right here I’m in the present day typing out this weblog as a 33-year-old man, and it hasn’t occurred as soon as. A few shut calls, however not likely. They’ve by no means even had an opportunity to win a recreation that may have clinched the Cup throughout my time on Earth. 

Sometimes with the intention to transfer ahead, you must return. The solely time within the historical past of the Philadelphia Flyers they had been Stanley Cup Champions was in the course of the heyday of the Broad Street Bullies period. The group had gotten the shit kicked out of them in 1969 by the St. Louis Blues. Ed Snider made a promise from that second ahead that the Flyers would by no means bloodied or bullied once more. Out of the ashes of that 1969 season rose the phoenix of the Broad Street Bullies. One of essentially the most feared and violent hockey groups to ever exist, and it resulted in back-to-back Stanley Cups in ’74 and ’75. 

So let’s simply do the maths right here actual fast. Deciding to only beat the shit out of all people = 2 Cups in lower than 10 years. Not beating the shit out of all people = 0 Cups in 50 years. 

Looks like beating the shit out of all people is the transfer. We already know the Flyers have employed native fighters Andre Petroski and Johnny Garbarino to be the official trainers for the Flyers this season. And now we get an opportunity to see them in motion with Oliver Bonk. You do not at all times wish to see a defenseman you drafted within the 1st spherical spend 5 minutes within the field for combating. But if Oliver Bonk must set the tone on the market and carve up someone’s cranium together with his fists? Well now he is aware of what he is doing on the market as soon as the gloves are dropped. The child is a point-per-game defenseman within the OHL. Clearly he has some gentle, silky palms. That’s completely advantageous so long as his knuckles are manufactured from iron. 

The Florida Panthers are clearly the usual within the NHL proper now. Back-to-back Cups, they usually nonetheless have just about all people locked up for the longer term. But you do not have to be higher than the Florida Panthers with the intention to knock them off. All you must do is simply beat the brakes off of the best guys. Have enjoyable attempting to win one other Cup when Oliver Bonk simply despatched Matthew Tkachuk, Sam Reinhart, and Aleksander Barkov to the shadow realm. 

@JordieBarstool