Sebastien Thinel

[Billkmc]

Here's the stats of the latest signing
www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=11047

[mavor1987]

Looks a decent signing.

[happydaysdancer]

That's a wow signing. We ain't short on firepower that's for sure.

[swarfiga]

That looks like a good signing, not only his points but basically in the all star team every year in the CHL and been the leagues top scorer a couple times, you could argue he's been the leagues best player in the CHL for years straight....

[harlan]

Make no mistake this is a top signing.

Thinel regularly outscored numerous players who have come to this league from the CHL such as Jason Pitton, Ed McGrane, Bruce Graham, Alex Leavitt who have all done well here. He scored 16 more points than Chaumont in the season he played in the CHL and had more points than Brendan Cook who went at nearly 1.5 points per game across here.
He will do ok here

We look to have points galore across all three lines and don't look as if we have a shut down line and will score for fun.

Suspect it will be

Thinel- Brooks-Sisca
Fox-Stockton-Dingle
Finucci-Schaber-Brit

[jaymac]

Now, Imagine how people would have felt throughout the summer had he been one of our earlier signings.

Certainly would've had a positive effect on our Season ticket sales.

But nonetheless, very happy with that signing despite age.

[flyer007]

Aug 10, 2016 6:55:10 GMT harlan said:

Make no mistake this is a top signing.

Thinel regularly outscored numerous players who have come to this league from the CHL such as Jason Pitton, Ed McGrane, Bruce Graham, Alex Leavitt who have all done well here. He scored 16 more points than Chaumont in the season he played in the CHL and had more points than Brendan Cook who went at nearly 1.5 points per game across here.
He will do ok here

We look to have points galore across all three lines and don't look as if we have a shut down line and will score for fun.

Suspect it will be

Thinel- Brooks-Sisca
Fox-Stockton-Dingle
Finucci-Schaber-Brit

My thoughts exactly. I still question the balance would personally have gone for a shut down line on 3 and had a power forward in instead of Foxy. Would also have signed a gritty player/enforcer instead of Finnuci to give us a better balance. Your dead on though Harlan goals galore in that team. I fear we may ship a few though and just hope we are not too easy to play against due to our lack of size and toughness.

[coloradoflyer]

this is a very good signing, happy with this one

[eldiablo]

Aug 10, 2016 6:59:12 GMT jaymac said:

Now, Imagine how people would have felt throughout the summer had he been one of our earlier signings.

Certainly would've had a positive effect on our Season ticket sales.

But nonetheless, very happy with that signing despite age.

Do you expect us to announce signings that haven't been made yet?

[losttheplot]

Aug 10, 2016 8:37:34 GMT eldiablo said:

Aug 10, 2016 6:59:12 GMT jaymac said:

Now, Imagine how people would have felt throughout the summer had he been one of our earlier signings.

Certainly would've had a positive effect on our Season ticket sales.

But nonetheless, very happy with that signing despite age.

Do you expect us to announce signings that haven't been made yet?

It also wouldn't matter in what order signings were announced as people would complain regardless. If the signings were front loaded they would complain that they had nothing to look forward to over the summer. The flyers can't keep everyone happy as we all have different ideas on the best way to announce signings. I do feel that people forget that we are a provincial club operating in a national league that is only able to compete through the benevolence of the owners. It can't be easy attracting people to kirkcaldy if they are offered the same money as teams from Belfast, Glasgow, Cardiff, etc. Every other club on the league is operating out of a city which can boast a far wider range of shops and amenities that must make it more enticing for players, particularly those with families, to come to. So on that note this is a great signing, regardless of when it was announced.

[stewartgibson]

One of the best players to grace the north american minor leagues,you cant complain. We have some amount of firepower

[bobdee]

Aug 10, 2016 9:51:55 GMT losttheplot said:

Aug 10, 2016 8:37:34 GMT eldiablo said:

Do you expect us to announce signings that haven't been made yet?

It also wouldn't matter in what order signings were announced as people would complain regardless. If the signings were front loaded they would complain that they had nothing to look forward to over the summer. The flyers can't keep everyone happy as we all have different ideas on the best way to announce signings. I do feel that people forget that we are a provincial club operating in a national league that is only able to compete through the benevolence of the owners. It can't be easy attracting people to kirkcaldy if they are offered the same money as teams from Belfast, Glasgow, Cardiff, etc. Every other club on the league is operating out of a city which can boast a far wider range of shops and amenities that must make it more enticing for players, particularly those with families, to come to. So on that note this is a great signing, regardless of when it was announced.

Agree with most of what you say.  Do the Flyers show a loss every year making the benevolence statement justified.

[johndabomb]

Looks like he knows where the net is! Out of interest what sort of level is the CHL?

[eldiablo]

Aug 10, 2016 11:18:30 GMT johndabomb said:

Looks like he knows where the net is! Out of interest what sort of level is the CHL?

CHL merged with the ECHL, basically same standard

[Dirty Lyle]

Aug 10, 2016 11:08:05 GMT bobdee said:

Aug 10, 2016 9:51:55 GMT losttheplot said:

It also wouldn't matter in what order signings were announced as people would complain regardless. If the signings were front loaded they would complain that they had nothing to look forward to over the summer. The flyers can't keep everyone happy as we all have different ideas on the best way to announce signings. I do feel that people forget that we are a provincial club operating in a national league that is only able to compete through the benevolence of the owners. It can't be easy attracting people to kirkcaldy if they are offered the same money as teams from Belfast, Glasgow, Cardiff, etc. Every other club on the league is operating out of a city which can boast a far wider range of shops and amenities that must make it more enticing for players, particularly those with families, to come to. So on that note this is a great signing, regardless of when it was announced.

Agree with most of what you say.  Do the Flyers show a loss every year making the benevolence statement justified.

Flyers do make a loss, I believe last year was propped up by Mr Muir to the tune of a few tens of thousands,new sponsorship direction this year will hopefully see things change, look at the team, the wages bill clearly has risen with a few more proven top players (and still Davis to come if rumours are right), in my opinion we are slowly getting better in all departments.
An extra import last year and some of the top earners in the league this year. No one can say that the owners are not afraid to spend.