Post by flyers on Apr 18, 2006 1:01:58 GMT -5
At the Flyer's practice facility in Vorhees, New Jersey, GM VanStrepen held an impromptu press conference to announce his Flyers. "This team is a combination of youth and vets with the emphasis on youth." said the GM, adding " we will be a team that won't be handing out 2 points in our own barn or on the road."
"When we set out to make our first ever draft pick we wanted to get a player with tons of potential as well as immediate impact and we think........... NO! We know we have that player in Jason Spezza, He is the future Captain of this team."
For our 2nd pick they went with one of the leagues top goaltenders in Marty Turco, he will be asked to tutor his back up and future IWHL AllStar Kari Lehtonen.
After that they drafted another future star in Nic Zherdev, who will be given some time to mature on 4th line."
The Flyers were thrilled that young blue-chip prospect d-man Joni Pitkanen was available with their 4th round pick, he will be paired with Assistant Captain Chris Phillips on second line.
Amazingly the Flyers pick their Captain with their 5th round pick."Jovo has to be one of the best 5th round picks in the league!" joked GM VanStrepen. Jovo will man the first set of dmen with rookie Chris Campoli.
The Flyers captains are as follows;
Ed Jovanovski (C) , Dean McAmmond (A) , Chris Phillips (A)
Flyers lines will start as follows:
LEFT CENTER RIGHT
Dagenais Spezza Carter
McAmmond (A) Kraft Ekman
Pahlsson Boyes Korolyuk
Zherdev Richards Lupul
Lundmark Laraque
Kobasew
LD RD
Jovanovski (C) Campoli
Pitkanen Philips (A)
Melichar Beauchemin
Schultz Preissing
#1 GOALIE BACK-UP
Turco Lehtonen
"When we set out to make our first ever draft pick we wanted to get a player with tons of potential as well as immediate impact and we think........... NO! We know we have that player in Jason Spezza, He is the future Captain of this team."
For our 2nd pick they went with one of the leagues top goaltenders in Marty Turco, he will be asked to tutor his back up and future IWHL AllStar Kari Lehtonen.
After that they drafted another future star in Nic Zherdev, who will be given some time to mature on 4th line."
The Flyers were thrilled that young blue-chip prospect d-man Joni Pitkanen was available with their 4th round pick, he will be paired with Assistant Captain Chris Phillips on second line.
Amazingly the Flyers pick their Captain with their 5th round pick."Jovo has to be one of the best 5th round picks in the league!" joked GM VanStrepen. Jovo will man the first set of dmen with rookie Chris Campoli.
The Flyers captains are as follows;
Ed Jovanovski (C) , Dean McAmmond (A) , Chris Phillips (A)
Flyers lines will start as follows:
LEFT CENTER RIGHT
Dagenais Spezza Carter
McAmmond (A) Kraft Ekman
Pahlsson Boyes Korolyuk
Zherdev Richards Lupul
Lundmark Laraque
Kobasew
LD RD
Jovanovski (C) Campoli
Pitkanen Philips (A)
Melichar Beauchemin
Schultz Preissing
#1 GOALIE BACK-UP
Turco Lehtonen