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Post by waterboy on Aug 8, 2017 12:57:37 GMT
What a shame for the flyers, welcome to professional sport. The accommodation is usually heavily discounted at the bay hotel anyway. Yeah that's when The Bay Hotel were a major sponsor of the Flyers, I can't recall them being involved this year with the great 8 sponsorship? Not in the great 8 but still a sponsor.
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Post by joestoyanovich on Aug 8, 2017 13:35:22 GMT
Quite expensive for friendlies I think, £10 or less would have been better, but what do I care I'll be giving them a miss. Flyers have to pay flights , hotels , meals etc for these teams to come across , will be looking at a break even figure A friendly match at ice hockey is a shadow of a real match. A friendly match with potentially several imports missing will be even worse A friendly match that our assistant coach, from his FFP comments recently, clearly thinks means nothing will be little more than a glorified non contact scrimmage game As I've said before great for the players in terms of gaining fitness and getting to know team mates, but for the paying spectator poor fare indeed.
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Post by waterboy on Aug 8, 2017 13:42:33 GMT
Pre season games are exactly what everyone knows they will be, its not full bloodied playoff hockey its as you say to get the guys match fit and get rid of all the rust before the real stuff kicks off. Nobody going to these games expects or thinks anything other than that.
You will get the chance to see teams you never have before, some new imports hopefully most of them. Also gives the coaches a chance to see our younger players as they did last year with Chad and Martyn Simpson.
If you go expecting game 7 stanley cup final atmosphere your heading to the wrong game.
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Post by jeeves on Aug 8, 2017 13:59:13 GMT
Pre season games are exactly what everyone knows they will be, its not full bloodied playoff hockey its as you say to get the guys match fit and get rid of all the rust before the real stuff kicks off. Nobody going to these games expects or thinks anything other than that. You will get the chance to see teams you never have before, some new imports hopefully most of them. Also gives the coaches a chance to see our younger players as they did last year with Chad and Martyn Simpson. If you go expecting game 7 stanley cup final atmosphere your heading to the wrong game.
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Post by Dirty Lyle on Aug 8, 2017 13:59:58 GMT
Pre season games are exactly what everyone knows they will be, its not full bloodied playoff hockey its as you say to get the guys match fit and get rid of all the rust before the real stuff kicks off. Nobody going to these games expects or thinks anything other than that. You will get the chance to see teams you never have before, some new imports hopefully most of them. Also gives the coaches a chance to see our younger players as they did last year with Chad and Martyn Simpson. If you go expecting game 7 stanley cup final atmosphere your heading to the wrong game. I don't think anyone is expecting that, but I was expecting more or less a full team. To see what we can expect for the season
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Post by jeeves on Aug 8, 2017 14:00:24 GMT
Pre season games are exactly what everyone knows they will be, its not full bloodied playoff hockey its as you say to get the guys match fit and get rid of all the rust before the real stuff kicks off. Nobody going to these games expects or thinks anything other than that. You will get the chance to see teams you never have before, some new imports hopefully most of them. Also gives the coaches a chance to see our younger players as they did last year with Chad and Martyn Simpson. If you go expecting game 7 stanley cup final atmosphere your heading to the wrong game. Think our tea will be out against the Germans. We might scrape something v the Danes.
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ronniemac
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Post by ronniemac on Aug 8, 2017 14:48:37 GMT
Friendlies are in place so the public yet again can cover the costs of import players being in the country prior to cup or league action to gain a bit of match fitness and gel in the room .......it aint rocket science
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Post by swarfiga on Aug 8, 2017 16:15:51 GMT
They're completely necessary regardless if it's great to watch or no, imagine the stick we'd hit the club with if they had none arranged!
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rossco
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Post by rossco on Aug 8, 2017 16:30:37 GMT
Friendlies are in place so the public yet again can cover the costs of import players being in the country prior to cup or league action to gain a bit of match fitness and gel in the room .......it aint rocket science I would have that ordered differently as money isn't the primary driver BUT if we don't get all the bodies in then the benefit of playing them as everyone knows is diminished but certainly not worthless. As regards the public being "bled dry" then naturally they will decide if it's worth their time and money.
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tml
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Post by tml on Aug 13, 2017 15:46:14 GMT
Flyers have to pay flights , hotels , meals etc for these teams to come across , will be looking at a break even figure A friendly match at ice hockey is a shadow of a real match. A friendly match with potentially several imports missing will be even worse A friendly match that our assistant coach, from his FFP comments recently, clearly thinks means nothing will be little more than a glorified non contact scrimmage game As I've said before great for the players in terms of gaining fitness and getting to know team mates, but for the paying spectator poor fare indeed. Rather see foreign teams, than teams we see dozen times in season
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