Chris18 wrote:
Hasn't he looked lost for a while though? Like, a year or so?
Maybe they're fed up with him and want to start instilling a culture of
at least trying hard, if not actually winning. As much as I like to see the Flyers fuck things up, I just can't see an org making such an obvious blunder for no reason.
Yes. When things go sideways for a team, pretty much everyone stops trying. People to this day still rail on Matt Duchene for "quitting" in that nightmarish season in 2016-17, but newsflash, they ALL pretty much did. Kinda hard to motivate yourself when you know you're not playing for anything and your fate is sealed. I suppose I expected just a tad more jump from Yandle if for no other reason than to prove his many doubters wrong, but that might be a tad unfair. I just feel bad for him, I could be looking way, way too much into it, but he looked pretty dejected out there. I guess I would too if the organization I was finishing my long career with was treating me like Play Now treated George Costanza.
The way the 32 Thoughts guys put it, Seeler took on Deslauriers in a fight the game before and took a beating, he was all kinds of bloodied up. They decided there was no way they were taking Seeler out, and they wanted to take a look at the newly-signed Ronnie Attard. They also said that since Seeler is signed beyond this season and will likely be the 7th/8th defenseman, whereas Yandle is gonzo, they wanted to see him next to Attard.
While I see some of the logic there, this still strikes me as galaxy-brain bullshit.