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Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:06 pm
by Dickie Dunn
Flyers fans aren't blessed with the level of self-awareness that has overcome Caps fans in recent years.
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:19 pm
by IMFC
Glad to see that the Pens' regular season road woes didn't carry over into the playoffs.
Matt Murray has not lost a playoff series. I have no clue what's going on in that dude's head, but got damn, he was built for the SC playoffs
Murray is like a sick 9-1 after a playoff loss with like 1.5 GAA. Not losing 2 games in a row is a HUGE advantage in the playoffs.
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 4:45 pm
by shmenguin
The game he lost was Nashville game 4, right? We outplayed them in that one too. Guentzel elevates the puck a few inches on some of his infinity chances and we got 10-0 going on.
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 8:04 pm
by Robot B9
Lol Philly columnist guy. Clarke is the 564th player I'd compare sid to. Translation, nobody outside of Philly gives a whit about Clarke anymore, and sid is already twice the player Clarke ever was.
Back to your cage, flophat.
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:35 am
by shafnutz05
Yeah, the Clarke comparison was clearly just throwing a bone to the dopey old callers on WIP.
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:48 am
by mikey
I don't compare them stylistically really...but if it was all over now, Crosby and Clarke are probably both top 10 but not top 5 centers in NHL history...Clarke was really, really good. Arguably the best two-way center in history...
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 7:19 am
by NTP66
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:30 am
by shmenguin
Whoever those 2 are, they are worse than the people they’re mocking.
The first comment was thoughtful and 100% accurate. But sure...let’s ridicule it as a demonstration of taking the high ground?
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:39 am
by Tico Rick
Clarke was really, really good. Arguably the best two-way center in history...
That's just crazy talk. A half dozen better two-way centers come to mind just off the top of my head: Gretzky, Mario, Messier, Jean Beliveau, Stan Mikita, Forsberg, Yzerman, Joe Sakic, maybe even Ron Francis. I'd take any of those guys ahead of Clarke.
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:44 am
by Gaucho
That's the first time I've seen Gretzky or Mario being described as two-way centers.
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:47 am
by nocera
Let's just say **** Bobby Clarke and move on.
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:48 am
by Gaucho
Fine by me.
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:52 am
by Silentom
**** Bobby Clarke
**** Dad
**** Bonino
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:59 am
by meow
I don't compare them stylistically really...but if it was all over now, Crosby and Clarke are probably both top 10 but not top 5 centers in NHL history...Clarke was really, really good. Arguably the best two-way center in history...
Boo this man
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:37 pm
by shafnutz05
Whoever those 2 are, they are worse than the people they’re mocking.
The first comment was thoughtful and 100% accurate. But sure...let’s ridicule it as a demonstration of taking the high ground?
That was bad. And yes, that first comment is honestly what we all wish more Flyers fans were like. When I first saw the Youtube posted I thought that MORKLE had posted it
@slappybrown
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:32 pm
by Dickie Dunn
**** Bobby Clarke
**** Dad
**** Bonino
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:48 pm
by mikey
Clarke was really, really good. Arguably the best two-way center in history...
That's just crazy talk. A half dozen better two-way centers come to mind just off the top of my head: Gretzky, Mario, Messier, Jean Beliveau, Stan Mikita, Forsberg, Yzerman, Joe Sakic, maybe even Ron Francis. I'd take any of those guys ahead of Clarke.
Clarke was better defensively than all listed players. He was the common factor of greatness on 74, 75, 76 and 80 finalists...teams with no #1 d-man...Parent didn't do anything for them in 76. He was insane defensively. Only Frank Nighbor could wrestle the title of best defensive+dominant center away from him.
The offense that he brought is obvious, easy to look up...including being the main reason his winger broke the playoff record for goals and is the only non-goalie to win the Conn Smythe in a losing effort...his peers and coaches clearly saw his value to a Flyers team that owned a lot of real estate under his watch...
1971 Coaches' Poll
1st Hardest Worker
1974 Coaches' Poll
1st Best Penalty Killer
1st Best Checker
1st Hardest Worker
2nd Most Valuable Player
2nd Best on Face-Offs
3rd Smartest Player
3rd Best Playmaker
1976 Coaches' Poll
1st Most Valuable Player
1st Player to Start a Team
1st Best Checker
1st Best Penalty Killer
1st Best on Face-Offs
1st Best Playmaker
1st Hardest Worker
2nd Smartest Player
1979 Coaches' Poll
1st Best on Face-Offs
1st Hardest Worker
4th Smartest Player
1984 Coaches' Poll
2nd Hardest Worker
4th Best on Face-Offs
1981 Players' Poll
1st Best Forechecker
1st Best on Face-Offs
2nd Best Defensive Forward
3rd Best Backchecker
The guy was a monster...
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:51 pm
by Gaucho
**** Bobby Clarke
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:51 pm
by meow
There were, what, 12 teams then? And goalies still wore six sweaters instead of pads?
NEXT
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:53 pm
by nocera
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 2:01 pm
by shmenguin
There were, what, 12 teams then? And goalies still wore six sweaters instead of pads?
NEXT
My man
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 2:57 pm
by mikey
There were, what, 12 teams then? And goalies still wore six sweaters instead of pads?
NEXT
No!
And no...don't be stupid, they wore deer hair pads...six sweaters is ridiculous...
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:33 pm
by Tico Rick
1979 Tico Rick's Poll
Most Over-rated
Biggest Crybaby
Biggest Cheap Shot Artist
Seriously, not that Clarke was a bad player by any means, but the type of goonery allowed in the 70s, along with the kind of players that the Flyers surrounded Clarke with, allowed him to be as good as he was. But as I said earlier, there are at least a half dozen, and probably a dozen, players who were better two-way centers than Clarke. One could even argue that Lindros was a better two-way center than Clarke.
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:35 pm
by NTP66
Pens. Flyers. Game 3.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:40 pm
by Blue Canary