There was a lot of Philadelphia Flyers goodies in Elliotte Friedman’s weekly 30 Thoughts column this week. Some of it related to their actual play (#17, #18), but it’s the stuff off the ice that’s a bit more interesting to discuss, I think.
After all, for the most part, we can see pretty much everything that goes on on the ice. We don’t know what’s going on off of it; we can only speculate as to that. So glimpses into that off-ice world? They’re awesome.
Take, for example, #20, on why Bob Clarke flubbed Claude Giroux’s name when the Flyers were selecting him at 22nd overall back in 2006:
According to MacLean, Philly was going to take Trevor Lewis.