Couldn't have let him play another 11 to hit Ironman streak of 1000 games?

[The Big M]

Yandle expected to be a healthy scratch. Why not let him play as the Flyers are out of the running this year anyway, even sparingly?
Yes, it's for the good of the team, yada yada yada, but there is the good of the game and its history as well.
Maybe I'm too much of an old softie... eace:

https://www.nhl.com/news/philadelphia-flyers-keith-yandle-nhl-record-games-streak-could-end-at-989/c-332516884
Michael

 

[manthis]

ouch
that would be hard to take.

time to get rid of..

Flyers coach Mike Yeo

 

[re-ac-tor]

If it was based on performance he would have been benched much earlier, he won't be back next year so the team has to see what it has with some of their younger players.

My best,

Ken

 

[cygnusx1]

If it were for the good of the game he wouldn't have even made it to the record

 

[will-411]

Why make it to 1000 - it’s just a number with no more significance than 989. He’s got the record and he should be grateful he made it there, which he seems to be.

Cory

 

[creasecollector]

I think they should have let him reach 1,000 games considering where the team is at. I get it if it was a key matchup and playoffs were on the line, but they weren't, so you might as well let the guy reach his milestone and then sit him for the rest of the year if you really want to give a younger guy a few games.

 

[The Big M]

I think they should have let him reach 1,000 games considering where the team is at. I get it if it was a key matchup and playoffs were on the line, but they weren't, so you might as well let the guy reach his milestone and then sit him for the rest of the year if you really want to give a younger guy a few games.

My thinking exactly!

To the others with opinions about Yandle's value, I doubt he'd have made it to 989 if coaches and general managers hadn't figured he could contribute effectively. Hell, even formerly 1st-liner Sean Monahan was a healthy scratch recently and will never reach 989.
Michael.

 

[cygnusx1]

My thinking exactly!

To the others with opinions about Yandle's value, I doubt he'd have made it to 989 if coaches and general managers hadn't figured he could contribute effectively. Hell, even formerly 1st-liner Sean Monahan was a healthy scratch recently and will never reach 989.
Michael.

Yandle has been dead-last in the league for plus/minus nearly the whole season, and most Flyers fans will tell you that he has been awful to watch. If anything, seeing Monahan get scratched probably lends more credence to the idea that the Flyers only kept Yandle on the ice this long so he could break the record, because he could have/should have been replaced long ago

 

[MMarch]

Would have been cool to see him hit 1,000 straight, but he’s been on the decline the last few years. And with his $63 million in earnings and the record, I doubt he will be too bummed getting in more golf that he loves just as much as hockey.

 

[Boom Boom]

When a player can play one shift and that qualifies as a "game played" it takes a lot of the meaning out of this record IMO.

 

[DynastyCentralSports]

Dude should’ve been benched back in Florida before the world cried for his record. He isn’t good anymore and 1,000 is just an arbitrary number that means very little between 989 and 1000. Players shouldn’t play 82 games anyways most stars should be sat closer to playoffs and younger players should take the spot of scrub vets when a team isn’t good.