Rinaldo Faces Hearing

he and Sestito need to be watched, or maybe warned before someone gets hurt, they don’t seem to discriminate who they go after (think Carcillo vs. Gaborik). i do think Rinaldo has some talent, he seems to forecheck pretty well and might collect some goals in front if he kept himself out of the box.

what i don’t get is, they’re clearly hurting the Flyers. why do they keep playing them or try to alter their role a bit?

i think its just an old school way of managing the team. some management personnel just can’t escape the old belief that every team needs its goon. sather has signed his share of talentless goons for the rangers. luckily, these days, our goons aren’t really goons and they actually have a fair amount of talent to go with their toughness. i can see what they are trying to do…they have a potent offense and they want to balance it with some toughness…but unfortunately for the flyers, sestito and rinaldo are dopes. if i’m the flyers, i’m sick of their crap…and someone else is dressing in their spots.

A team reflects its coach, and that’s exactly what we’re seeing.

When the Flyers are losing games in the 3rd they try to goon it up. The coach sends these guys out there if the game is out of reach. He knows what he’s doing.

Going back decades… they seem to have a quota for it. These guys still have jobs because Philly likes to play dirty and keep their trashy fan-base happy.

The city has this dillusional image of the Broad Street Bullies persona being passed down through generations. It’s the closest thing to ‘tradition’ that they have, so they need to continue paying the bottom-feeders of the league to play dirty for them.

Rinaldo and Sestito make me wish Carcillo was still on their team….and I hate Carcillo.

Notice that Rupp hasnt been mixing it up lately? Rumor was that he broke his thumb on a rinaldo hit a couple games back. Anybody have the scoop on this?

Shanabanned!