Deadline Day Has Come And Gone And The Flyers Hold Steady

Compared to other sports, the NHL has one of the more active trade deadline days, but you would not know it from following the Flyers today. Somehow, someway, Flyers GM Paul Holmgren (from here on out referred to as Homer, his BSH nickname) managed to do absolutely nothing. While doing so avoids the bone-headed trade, a team not making any deadline deals is rare, especially when you are "burning the phone lines".

But Homer succeeded. It was tossed around in the beginning of the day that the Panthers wanted Jeff Carter for Tomas Vokoun. But Carter is untouchable in the eyes of Homer, therefore no deal.

Combine the fact that Homer considers half the team untouchable (and with pretty decent reason too), the lack of cap space on the Flyers, the dearth of 1st and 2nd round draft picks (exactly how many 2nd rounders were swapped today?), and the overabundance of no-trade clauses (NTC) prevented a deal from being done oday. Hold on, wait a minute, that is not true. I have just received word that Homer has signed a bag of pucks to a 2-year deal complete with an NTC! Forget all I wrote above, Homer is the best GM in all of hockey! A bag of pucks with an NTC! This is like my hockey dream come true times 100,000!

Oh, and about that whole Jeff Carter-Tomas Vokoun speculation, yeah, they were on the same sheet of ice as opponents tonight in Miami. Carger got a goal but Vokoun won the night as the Flyers defense crapped out on them, Scott Hartnell and Braydon Coburn took their classic dumb penalties, Michael Leighton had an off day, and when Brian Boucher was called in to replace Leighton and thus play his first hockey in months, completely sucked monkey dick, goat balls, and cheetah ass before rebounding slightly for a scoreless 3rd period. In other words, the Flyers lost 6-4 to an offensively inept team that just lost it's best defensive players to the trade deadline! Lord Stanley, HERE WE COME!

And the second that Bettman hands Mike Richards the Cup, Homer will steal it away from him and proceed to give it a no-trade clause.