Hey Clark, looks like you have a winning formula!  Hahaha.  Thank God for the CBA, or teams like the flyers would not be hating life for the mistakes they make.  See Briere, and soon to be Pronger contracts.

Clark you are an idiot.

Posted by Gretzky_to_Lemieux on 07/30/09 at 03:02 PM ET

Pittsburgh never had deep pocket owners like Philly. Bobby Clarke was one of the worst GMs ever. He wasted more money than the Pens entire payroll before the cap. Pittsburgh did what it has to do so it could survive until the cap was put in place. Clarke is a dinosuar and his formula has never won Philly a cup

Posted by Randy from Butler PA on 07/30/09 at 03:43 PM ET

Clarke showing his frustration with the league and the direction its going. But i agree what he said. i think he’s trying to say that if the wasnt a cap, pittsburgh wouldnt of been in the position it was.

Posted by FlyersFan on 07/30/09 at 03:59 PM ET

“It’s somewhat embarrassing that three of the last teams (in the 2009 playoffs) missed the playoffs six or seven years in a row; Washington, Chicago, and Pittsburgh,”

Hey dumbass, since the 91-92 season only 2 teams have made the playoffs more than the Penguins, the Wings and Devils. Pens missed the playoffs for 4 straight seasons, not six, not seven. Get over it. Thats what happens when the best player in the league retires and the second best cries about life and asks to be traded, while at the very same time contracts made up by an idiot GM can’t be paid and the team has financial troubles.

What’s more embarrassing, Mr. Clark, is that the only way your team can be competitive is if you have no salary restrictions and can buy a championship team. And even doing that, you haven’t won a cup since the 70’s.

Stay classy Philly.

Posted by Kstewy16 on 07/30/09 at 05:51 PM ET

I think someone is getting frustrated because their in-state rival has just been to back to back S.C. Finals and just won the Stanley Cup.
The Flyers are NOT being penalized!! Stop your crying and get with the program. This is 2009 not 1975.
Call the Wam-bulance, somebody’s sulking.

Posted by Lindas1st on 07/30/09 at 06:08 PM ET

Yeah, Washington, Chicago and Pittsburgh all tanked and won the lottery with very good top draft picks.  They also did what well run teams do and made good lower round draft picks, good trades and good free agent pickups.

Penguins:
Scuderi: 134th overall
Talbot: 234th overall
Guerin: Trade Deadline Aquisition
Orpik: 18th Overall

Hawks:
Havlat: Free Agency aquisition
Keith: 54th overall
Versteeg: Traded as a prospect from Boston
Sharp: Traded from Phily

Capitals
Green: 29th Overall
Varlamov:  23rd overal

OK, the caps don’t have a lot of talent that was drafted by them in the top half of the first round by them but I’d still rank last years Hawks and Penguins well above them, so my point stands.

Posted by UMcastaway from Ann Arbor on 07/30/09 at 06:43 PM ET

another thing that Philly hasn’t done in the past few years - Beat the Penguins when it matters.

Posted by greg on 07/30/09 at 06:52 PM ET

You wanna know their real problem? They draft awful players. Other than 1st round picks, they have no one even half good on their team who was drafted by them. As far as I can tell, they don’t have a single player who was drafted by the Flyers and is playing by the Flyers who wasn’t a 1st round pick.

Keep blaming the Penguins because your a joke franchise from a joke town.

0 Superbowls.
1 World Series.
2 Stanley cups since ‘67.

Way to go Philly.

Posted by Kstewy16 on 07/30/09 at 08:27 PM ET

gee maybe flyers should tank couple of season and see what it gets them. pens got successful because they tank season after season. pens have 4 #1 picks and 2 top 5 picks on their team.

i guess clarke is getting sick of paying for other teams mistakes for not attempting putting a product on the ice.

clarke is agruement is basically pens got good because they tank season after season. Capitals,Hawks and Pens never spent money until the cap was shoveled down the owners throat.

Posted by FlyersFan on 07/30/09 at 10:19 PM ET

pens have 4 #1 picks and 2 top 5 picks on their team.

Crosby was a 1st. (Whom the Pens didn’t “tank” to get, the won him in a league wide lottery)
Fleury was a 1st.(whom the Pens didn’t “tank” to get, the traded up for him)

How is that 4?

2=4?

Wow.

Think before you type.

Posted by Kstewy16 on 07/30/09 at 11:01 PM ET

I wish Clarke(with an E, Pitt fans) was still around to lay a two-hander on Crosby’s ankle like he did to Kharlamov.

Posted by mike from austin on 07/31/09 at 02:28 AM ET

I wish Clarke(with an E, Pitt fans) was still around to lay a two-hander on Crosby’s ankle like he did to Kharlamov.

Shows why the Flyers are the cheapest, dirtiest fans in the world. Fine, you can absolutely hate the Penguins, I’m fine with that. But to wish a player to get hurt by some scum bag who for some reason is thought so highly of? That’s just crap.

Posted by pensfan from Pittsburgh,pa on 07/31/09 at 11:16 AM ET

Phuk Filly

Posted by Rich63 from City of Champs on 08/02/09 at 08:37 PM ET