Philadelphia Flyers chairman Ed Snider used "the P word" in a recent interview, which had to shock a lot of the team's longtime fans. Snider said that management would be more patient in the future. But based on the organization's history over the past few decades, the idea that the team has suddenly learned to wait for prospects to develop has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Snider finally admitted that the Flyers organization has lacked patience since the team's glory days of the mid-1970s.
"I have probably been a little too anxious to win another Cup," Snider told Sam Carchidi of The Philadelphia Inquirer. "I was very patient when I was young, when we built the winners. We let the other five teams trade away their draft picks and some of their top kids, and we didn't do that."
Historically, the Flyers have traded away younger players in order to acquire or sign veterans. The goal has always been to win now, rather than to allow draft picks sufficient time to develop.
The signing of Ilya Bryzgalov to a nine-year, $51 million contract may have been the worst move economically. It also led Philadelphia to tra ...
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