Philadelphia Flyers: Should the Flyers Trust the Process?

After losing nine games in a row, is it time to blow up the Philadelphia Flyers roster, and start over with a new, younger core?

It’s a tough time to be a Philadelphia Flyers fan.

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After playing more or less average hockey over the last half-decade, the team is currently on a nine-game losing streak, with potentially no end in sight. These are the darkest days of the Ron Hextall-era, with fans now routinely booing the efforts of head coach Dave Hakstol and his player.

The team’s collection you aging veterans have consistently played at a high level, yet the team hasn’t even sniffed at the Stanley Cup under Claude Giroux‘s captainship, and while the roster does boast 11 players under the age of 25, it just doesn’t seem like the reinforcements are on the way anytime soon.

So, should the team try once again to plug the leaks with temporary band-aids in the hopes of squeezing out a few more wins, or is it time to take more drastic actions?

This seasons Flyers team reminds me a lot of the Philadelphia 76ers team from 2012. After topping out as a late seed in the playoffs with no real answer in sight, then-GM Sam Hinkie decided to make one of the biggest gambles in professional sports history and trade away his team. In a move that literally cost him his job, Hinkie decides to trade away all of his team’s best players, and focus on developing young players, as opposed to actually winning games.

While it upset a lot of people and turned the Wells Fargo Center into a virtual ghost town, the team ultimately collected quality bits and pieces through a myriad of trades, and high draft selections, and now boast one of the best young collections of talent in the league.

Wouldn’t that be nice for the Flyers?

I mean sure, it would be hard to watch Giroux, Wayne Simmonds, and Jakub Voracek move on to new teams, but getting together a young collection of talent to bolster the core of Shayne Gostisbehere, Travis Konecny, and Ivan Provorov could be too good to pass up.

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As the rest of the teams in Philadelphia move closer and closer to contention with each passing year, it would be a shame to watch the Flyers waste their big three’s prime without any hopes of actually winning a title. Maybe it’d just be easier to move on and start a new.

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