I don’t want to dogpile too much on this team right now given the state of things recently, but it really is disappointing to see NHLers finally back in the Olympics and for the Flyer’s representation at the tournament to be a replacement D for Canada and 3 depth players on European teams…
That’s weird when he’s been lined up with Theadore every practice. I thought he would have earned to start with the team with how played in 4 Nations.
Sanheim is definitely better than Doughty at very minimum
Took a quick look because I was curious, here’s the list that I found of all Flyers players going to the Olympics historically (not including this year).
# All Flyers Olympic Appearances
**Sochi Winter Olympics 2014**
* Austria- Michael Raffl
* Czech Republic- Jakub Voráček
* Finland (Bronze Medal)- Kimmo Timonen
* Slovakia- Andrej Meszaros
* Switzerland- Mark Streit
**Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010**
* Canada (Gold Medal)- Chris Pronger, Mike Richards
* Finland (Bronze Medal)- Kimmo Timonen
* Latvia- Oskars Bartulis
**Torino Winter Olympics 2006**
* Canada- Simon Gagne
* Finland (Silver Medal)- Antero Niittymäki
* Germany- Dennis Seidenburg
* Slovakia- Michael Handzus
* Sweden (Gold Medal)- Peter Forsberg
* United States- Robert Esche, Mike Knuble, Derian Hatcher
**Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 2002**
* Canada (Gold Medal)- Simon Gagne
* Czech Republic- Roman Čechmánek, Jiří Dopita
* Sweden- Kim Johnsson
* Ukraine- Ruslan Fedotenko
* United States (Silver Medal)- Jeremy Roenick, John LeClair
**Nagano Winter Olympics 1998**
* Canada- Eric Lindros, Rod Brind’Amour, Éric Desjardins
* Finland (Bronze Medal)- Janne Niinimma
* Czech Republic (Gold Medal)- Petr Svoboda
* United States- Joel Otto, John LeClair
People who think he is a #1D are the same bozos claiming Cates is a Selke candidate.
This fanbase loves to delude themselves about our level of talent. For example, people actually thought Ersson was good until they saw Vladar play and they realized what an NHL caliber goalie looks like.
Same thing here. If we ever get a real #1 defenseman people will realize how mid Sanheim was.
Lol, I’m not that surprised. Just because he’s our #1 defenseman, he’s realistically just a really good #3 on most teams
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I don’t want to dogpile too much on this team right now given the state of things recently, but it really is disappointing to see NHLers finally back in the Olympics and for the Flyer’s representation at the tournament to be a replacement D for Canada and 3 depth players on European teams…
That’s weird when he’s been lined up with Theadore every practice. I thought he would have earned to start with the team with how played in 4 Nations.
Sanheim is definitely better than Doughty at very minimum
Took a quick look because I was curious, here’s the list that I found of all Flyers players going to the Olympics historically (not including this year).
# All Flyers Olympic Appearances
**Sochi Winter Olympics 2014**
* Austria- Michael Raffl
* Czech Republic- Jakub Voráček
* Finland (Bronze Medal)- Kimmo Timonen
* Slovakia- Andrej Meszaros
* Switzerland- Mark Streit
**Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010**
* Canada (Gold Medal)- Chris Pronger, Mike Richards
* Finland (Bronze Medal)- Kimmo Timonen
* Latvia- Oskars Bartulis
**Torino Winter Olympics 2006**
* Canada- Simon Gagne
* Finland (Silver Medal)- Antero Niittymäki
* Germany- Dennis Seidenburg
* Slovakia- Michael Handzus
* Sweden (Gold Medal)- Peter Forsberg
* United States- Robert Esche, Mike Knuble, Derian Hatcher
**Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 2002**
* Canada (Gold Medal)- Simon Gagne
* Czech Republic- Roman Čechmánek, Jiří Dopita
* Sweden- Kim Johnsson
* Ukraine- Ruslan Fedotenko
* United States (Silver Medal)- Jeremy Roenick, John LeClair
**Nagano Winter Olympics 1998**
* Canada- Eric Lindros, Rod Brind’Amour, Éric Desjardins
* Finland (Bronze Medal)- Janne Niinimma
* Czech Republic (Gold Medal)- Petr Svoboda
* United States- Joel Otto, John LeClair
People who think he is a #1D are the same bozos claiming Cates is a Selke candidate.
This fanbase loves to delude themselves about our level of talent. For example, people actually thought Ersson was good until they saw Vladar play and they realized what an NHL caliber goalie looks like.
Same thing here. If we ever get a real #1 defenseman people will realize how mid Sanheim was.
Lol, I’m not that surprised. Just because he’s our #1 defenseman, he’s realistically just a really good #3 on most teams