Scott Stevens fait la poupée de chiffon Eric Lindros dans un match Devils-Flyers. Rivalité de la fin des années 90 à pleine température. Deux capitaines, deux équipes lourdes et une image qui circule encore chaque fois que les gens parlent de l’identité des Flyers.
Question honnête : les Flyers ont-ils vraiment retrouvé leur avantage après cette époque ? Pas une saison difficile au hasard, mais cette culture du « personne ne veut nous jouer » à laquelle ils avaient l’habitude d’accrocher leur chapeau.
Était-ce juste un moment d’une rivalité brutale, ou est-ce que cela ressemble au moment où l’aura des Broad Street Bullies s’est finalement transformée en nostalgie ?
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Limp_Bar6899
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Lindros should have run Stevens first.
Nope
I think they did recover. They haven’t recovered from pronger’s injury, however.
I was there and am still mad no teammates knocked this guy’s teeth out.
No. Stevens concussed the entire franchise that night.
I’m not sure the identity then was worth recovering. It was an awesome squad but outclassed by other teams. Management realized it wouldn’t work and moved on.
I’m still mad management had never gotten the goalie right. I’m so sick of all these other teams rolling out studs while the Flyers stumble along.
They haven’t had a player like him since. It’s not michkov either.
Flyers did Lindros no favors by constantly rushing him back, his brain didn’t have enough time to recover between like 5 different brain injuries.
The flyers have been pretending to have an identity they no longer have since 1980
I think of the Flyers in terms of “eras”. This was obviously the end of the “Lindros era”. Then they went on a journey where they kept trying to find a replacement for him (Primeau, Roenick, Forsberg), I call this the “post-Lindros era”. I consider this to have ended in 2007, when they seemed to give up on that strategy and went for little Danny B instead. This and the emergence of the Old City crew began the “Old City era”. This ended very dramatically in 2011 and began the “Giroux era”. Obviously this ended with trading him and now we’re in the “post-Giroux era” with no real face of the franchise, direction or identity.
Will this become the Michkov or Martone era? I don’t think so. It’s more like the pre-Lindros era. This team is going to be treading water until they either win the lottery in a year with a special talent, or make a massive trade to get one. I don’t know how the latter happens in the modern NHL though.
Captain Elbows
It definitely was a turning point in our franchise. Tbf the Flyers did him absolutely no favors in allowing him to come back after multiple concussions in a short timeframe. Obviously we didn’t know the true impact of concussions back then as we do now so hindsight is 20/20.
Richards and Carter came close but then they fucked it all up
I think the Salary Cap did more damage to the Flyers organization than Scott Stevens ever did. This franchise used to write checks on July 1 to plug holes, but that doesn’t scale into a hard cap league. They never had to actually develop a pipeline of players, which is more and more the dominant path in this league.
Fuck Scott Stevens, Joe Carter, and Ronde Barber
Is this code for the salary cap?
Fuck Scott Stevens forever
Every few years this comes up & I get to say again that I hate Scott Stevens
Do most fans these days consider the 96/97 team as part of the « Broadstreet Bullies » lineage? I’m not gonna fight ya on it but I’m not sure what « edge » they lost. Not to say the Flyers through the 90’s-00’s werent tough or anything but they clearly didnt play the same style as Clarke-era boys.
The Panthers are playing a modern « Broadstreet Bully » way so the style ain’t dead.
The team never recovered from the salary cap.
The salary cap & the rules changes really affected the Flyers
They have to think now. Was easy pezzy before writing unlimited cheques like drunken sailors.
They’ve made a cup finals since then so I would say yes
They lost the “bullies” after the hit. We are basically the NY Jets of the NHL. Bad drafts, over value “meh” players. Over paying players past their prime. Bad luck with injuries. Never fully in rebuild mode. Cant find a QB (goalie). Cap purgatory. I can go on if you’d life…
Side note: Can we fire Brent Flahr? What does he do? He’s from the chuck fletcher regime so I don’t understand.