Your hate is refreshing and enjoyable. We should come back to this conversation after the first round. My guess is that when you lose to the Rangers, you are going to say "if only we had Fleury/Malkin/etc".

Extremely sad to hear about Ed Snider. I met the man 2 times in the luxury seating booths at Flyers games. 1 time in the Spectrum like 15 years ago and the other in the Wells Fargo Center not that long ago. Both meetings he took the time to shake the hand of everyone in our party and talk with us. Was a really down to earth individual and had an amazing passion for the Flyers and hockey in general. A huge loss for the whole league.

Wouldn't it turn out to be one of the greatest sports stories in Philadelphia history if the underdog Flyers were able to being home a cup for Ed. Gives me chills just thinking about it coming true. RIP Snyder

Agreed, I predict the path for the cup will go through Dallas this season.

Let us also not forget the Philadelphia Flyers Ice Girls. One of the best reasons to have tickets along the ice.

http://flyers.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=109565

Ovechkin just nailed #50 this season. Absolutley amazing to hit that number of goals in the NHL these days. This dude does it 3 seasons in a row

I just don't want anyone to get injured tomorrow against the Islanders in a meaningless game. Hopefully both teams just coast through and treat it like an All-Star game or something.

Mason will probably get some rest and we will possibly see the return of Neuvirth. I personally want to see the first game for our future goaltender, Anthony Stolarz. The kid is a massive 6'6 230 pound monster in net.

hell yeah GO FLYERS! I bleed orange and black and always will.
My neighbors must hate me this time of year. Every big goal or awesome defensive play gets an eruption from me.

Playing the Capitals will be a very difficult series but I predict it will be the most physical series of all in the 1st round. It is really going to come down to how well the Flyers can do 2 things. First, they someone to step up and neutralize Ovechkin. (kinda how we did it to Malkin a few season ago in the playoffs). Secondly, the Flyers have not been a great team on the road. They need to win at least 1 of the first 2 games to have a solid chance in this series.

Whichever team advances will be a tired group of players for the second round though.

As a roamer main, booties annoy me to no end but so do many unlocks currently in use. To be honest, there are some weak reasons in this thread to supporting banning the booties. Tops on the list is "forcing the other demo to use booties". Don't give me that crap, nobody can ever force you to use a particular item. Unless an item is totally broken or leading to excessive stalemates (quickfix) then it falls on the player / team to find a strategy that works if you can't break another team.

I agree that items need to be tweaked from time to time but in this case I don't see Booties breaking the game in any fashion. You can compare booties to Kritz or playing against a sniper/heavy more than anything else. There are accepted play styles to counter each problem a team may face and this is no different. Just because booties forces teams to play differently against a skilled demo does not mean an item is broken.

Every single unlock in this game means that the player more skilled in the use of that unlock will provide some sort of advantage to his team. Booties are no different in this respect so it seems like players crying because they are not good enough to deal with a new strategy or a particular player skilled in the use of an item hence the call for "nerfs".

Just don't tell your mom

Thanks, edited my post

Some LAN / Playoff stats for the teams / players involved:

Ronin vs 20B is a pretty incredible comparison.
Both teams have almost identical career stats when all players are combined.

• Combined Playoff Wins / Losses -------- Ronin -- 94--83 -------- 20b -- 96--81
  
• Combined Playoff Matches ----------------- Ronin -- 177 ------------ 20b -- 177
  
• TF2 Championships --------------------------- Ronin -- 8 --------------- 20b -- 8
  
• Players ---------- Playoff Record -------------- Championships
  
• phorofor -------------- 6--1 --------------------------- 1
  
• rando ----------------- 10--18 ------------------------- 1
  
• bdonski ------------- 20--22 ------------------------- 1
  
• Ma3la ----------------- 20--22 ------------------------- 1
  
• yomps ----------------- 6--1 --------------------------- 1
  
• shrugger ------------ 32--19 ------------------------- 3
  
• cozen ------------------- 7--2 --------------------------- 0
  
• showstopper -------- 3--9 --------------------------- 0
  
• duwatna -------------- 25--11 ------------------------- 3
  
• cyzer ------------------- 45--36 ------------------------- 4
  
• ash ---------------------- 14--18 ------------------------- 1
  
• alec ---------------------- 2--5 --------------------------- 0

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By comparison, Froyo vs EVL couldn't be more lopsided based off the stats alone. However, it is obvious that b4nny and Clockwork carry the All-Time numbers. EVL is completely made of players in their first season with no playoff experience to date but so is half of Froyo and will hopefully make this a fantastic first round matchup.

• Combined Playoff Wins / Losses -------- Froyo -- 135--68 --------- EVL -- 0--0
  
• Combined Playoff Matches ----------------- Froyo -- 203 -------------- EVL -- 0
  
• TF2 Championships --------------------------- Froyo -- 15 ---------------- EVL -- 0
  
• Players ---------- Playoff Record -------------- Championships
  
• ninjanick ----------- 4--13 --------------------------- 0
  
• b4nny --------------- 80--32 -------------------------- 9
  
• muma --------------- N/A ----------------------------- 0
  
• freestate ------------ N/A ----------------------------- 0
  
• paddie -------------- N/A ----------------------------- 0
  
• clockwork --------- 51--23 -------------------------- 6
  
• Nursey -------------- N/A ---------------------------- 0
  
• Aim ------------------ N/A ---------------------------- 0
  
• hassassin --------- N/A ---------------------------- 0
  
• Slemnish ---------- N/A ---------------------------- 0
  
• botmode ----------- N/A ---------------------------- 0
  
• arekk ---------------- N/A ---------------------------- 0

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All-Time Invite records at: http://tf2db.github.io/tf2database/

Wasn't there a video that had a military fighter jet come swooping down at one point? Anyone have that link?

BLANC is ready for lower bracket. BUGS Forfeit to us. Admin help we have no contact with you

unable to contact anyone on thebugs, BLANC is ready to play in lower bracket. any admins around?

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