Gotta be Pitkanen, right? 4th overall d man, great first year which got him rewarded with a permanent spot on the team, with all the tools and potential who just DGAF. Once realized he was safe in the NHL, just stopped trying. Rumors of Desjardins getting into fights with him for how much he didn’t care.
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xxphantomxx77
Nolan Patrick, not necessarily “wasted” but a huge what-if
snot3353
Nolan Patrick
birdsboiii11
C Hart
Narrow_Book_42069
Isn’t this answer also Big E? For as sensational as he was, he was supposed to be even better. A lot of wasted potential for him due to off ice antics and then on ice injuries and organizational mismanagement.
Psychological-Day630
Vinny lecavalier!!😂😂
Bhut_Jolokia400
2017 #2 Overall Draft Pick Nolan Patrick
2013 #11 Overall Draft Pick Sam Morin
1969 #6 Overall Draft Pick Bob Currier
MaximumDeathShock
Alexandre Daigle.
azsoup
I’ll stay away from players impacted by injury/legal issues for this one. Joni Pitkanen seemed to have all the attributes you want in a highly drafted defenseman. Just couldn’t get his head on right.
Diseman81
Pavel Brendl
AutoMattic21
Gotta be Carter Hart, no?
samcoffeeman
I’m going to say Dmitri Tertyshny. He wasn’t a high draft pick, but he looked really good as a rookie and we really needed Defensive depth at the time. It was really terrible how his young life came to a tragic end.
beastrace
Hart
corpseluvver
I kind of feel like Provorov should be in the discussion. Guy should have been our 1D, and based on his assets I expected a lot more, but he seemed incapable of rising another level on his own.
Part of that might be recency bias or just the fact that we don’t normally develop our own 1D, so there may be more hype there than I remember tbh.
natty_mh
Ilya Bryzgalov
phantom11287
I feel like wasted potential pertains to players who had potential that was wasted by something they had control over. If this is the case it’s gotta be Carter Hart.
Steppyjim
Feels like Pelle, Patrick, and Lindros don’t fit here because their potential wasn’t wasted it was stunted by injury and tragedy.
I guess that leaves us with Alex Daigle? Thats my pickl
Edit: I just realized, are we including potential we wasted by trading it away? Because if so 1000% Sergei Bobrovski
dpolidoro
Daigle. Never put in the work, just wanted the money and lifestyle.
bmack1998
It has to be Carter Hart..
Noodles_McNulty
Nolan Patrick
Torvus_742
Remember when Bobrovski was on the Flyers? And then we traded him?
Yeah. Bobrovski.
shinyRedButton
Depends on your definition of wasted. Pelle, wasted because he died. Lindros, wasted because of head injuries. Giroux, wasted because they never built a proper team around him. Hart, wasted because of being a piece of shit. I think we need more context than just “wasted”.
shrimply__pibbles
Pelle Lindbergh, died just before entering the prime of his career, could have been one of the best goaltenders ever. He might have been the X-factor the flyers needed to win the Stanley cup in 86-87, Hexy did win MVP of the finals, but we will never know
Aggressive_Use_5580
Patrick, bob, hart all good options here. I don’t have a dog in this race. I’m honestly waiting for slowest because there’s SOOO many options there
IronChefPhilly
Carter Hart
mb2231
Carter Hart.
I would say Giroux but his career was wasted by 2 incompetent GMs so that was out of his control.
LAClipShow2020
For OG’s it’s Pelle, for young OG’s Lindros could be placed here too… for the youngsters it could be Patrick or Hart. This organization has been snake bitten with wonder kids not fulfilling their potentials.
GrizSeahawk84
Carter Hart
thatdudefromthattime
Hart, Lindbergh
Prudent-Psychology66
Mike Richard’s. After he sign his big contract the dude just party harder and the details of his drug problems are pretty well known. There were plenty spoken about being out of shape and just not the same guy. He should have been a 70-80 point selke candidate for 10 years but dude just hit the wall hard
PaddyMayonaise
Might be an unpopular opinion but I’d say Lindros:
As a player he could hand been as good as Mario. He’s was physically dominant, as fast as anyone, and had great touch. Dude was a stud.
But we managed him poorly, his family got in the way, and he was out of the city by 26 years old. 659 points by 26 years old.
Only one Stanley cup finals appearance. Only one Hart.
Lindros was supposed to be the GOAT of the 90s. He was supposed to be what Crosby has been.
But he didn’t reach that potential.
Only-Nature7410
Patrick was most wasted potential. Nothing came of such a high pick
leonidas76426
Nolan Patrick
Thelegassy
Pelle Lindbergh is probably the right answer for this one, lindros and Patrick are the recent ones to come to mind but I’d go Pelle.
flyermeup
Pat Fallon, ate his way to being terrible
DoctorCockter88
Carter Hart…..the fucking bastard
roadblok95
I’m going to go with the unpopular choice in Claude Giroux. The organization wasted his potential by not putting a better team around him.
shobot11
If we are looking for real world examples, bob won a cup lol
jlando40
Nolan Patrick
dishwasher_mayhem
People aren’t old enough to recall this bu the Flyers spent 22 overall on goaltender Maxime Ouellet. He has all the talent but couldn’t put it together.
Admirable_Food_9056
Going older, Todd Bergen. Looked like a point a game player then disappeared.
Trip4Life
Lindros again? He was great, but he was never the next great one and injuries held him back immensely.
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Pelle Lindbergh
Sergei Bobrovsky
Gotta be Pitkanen, right? 4th overall d man, great first year which got him rewarded with a permanent spot on the team, with all the tools and potential who just DGAF. Once realized he was safe in the NHL, just stopped trying. Rumors of Desjardins getting into fights with him for how much he didn’t care.
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Nolan Patrick, not necessarily “wasted” but a huge what-if
Nolan Patrick
C Hart
Isn’t this answer also Big E? For as sensational as he was, he was supposed to be even better. A lot of wasted potential for him due to off ice antics and then on ice injuries and organizational mismanagement.
Vinny lecavalier!!😂😂
2017 #2 Overall Draft Pick Nolan Patrick
2013 #11 Overall Draft Pick Sam Morin
1969 #6 Overall Draft Pick Bob Currier
Alexandre Daigle.
I’ll stay away from players impacted by injury/legal issues for this one. Joni Pitkanen seemed to have all the attributes you want in a highly drafted defenseman. Just couldn’t get his head on right.
Pavel Brendl
Gotta be Carter Hart, no?
I’m going to say Dmitri Tertyshny. He wasn’t a high draft pick, but he looked really good as a rookie and we really needed Defensive depth at the time. It was really terrible how his young life came to a tragic end.
Hart
I kind of feel like Provorov should be in the discussion. Guy should have been our 1D, and based on his assets I expected a lot more, but he seemed incapable of rising another level on his own.
Part of that might be recency bias or just the fact that we don’t normally develop our own 1D, so there may be more hype there than I remember tbh.
Ilya Bryzgalov
I feel like wasted potential pertains to players who had potential that was wasted by something they had control over. If this is the case it’s gotta be Carter Hart.
Feels like Pelle, Patrick, and Lindros don’t fit here because their potential wasn’t wasted it was stunted by injury and tragedy.
I guess that leaves us with Alex Daigle? Thats my pickl
Edit: I just realized, are we including potential we wasted by trading it away? Because if so 1000% Sergei Bobrovski
Daigle. Never put in the work, just wanted the money and lifestyle.
It has to be Carter Hart..
Nolan Patrick
Remember when Bobrovski was on the Flyers? And then we traded him?
Yeah. Bobrovski.
Depends on your definition of wasted. Pelle, wasted because he died. Lindros, wasted because of head injuries. Giroux, wasted because they never built a proper team around him. Hart, wasted because of being a piece of shit. I think we need more context than just “wasted”.
Pelle Lindbergh, died just before entering the prime of his career, could have been one of the best goaltenders ever. He might have been the X-factor the flyers needed to win the Stanley cup in 86-87, Hexy did win MVP of the finals, but we will never know
Patrick, bob, hart all good options here. I don’t have a dog in this race. I’m honestly waiting for slowest because there’s SOOO many options there
Carter Hart
Carter Hart.
I would say Giroux but his career was wasted by 2 incompetent GMs so that was out of his control.
For OG’s it’s Pelle, for young OG’s Lindros could be placed here too… for the youngsters it could be Patrick or Hart. This organization has been snake bitten with wonder kids not fulfilling their potentials.
Carter Hart
Hart, Lindbergh
Mike Richard’s. After he sign his big contract the dude just party harder and the details of his drug problems are pretty well known. There were plenty spoken about being out of shape and just not the same guy. He should have been a 70-80 point selke candidate for 10 years but dude just hit the wall hard
Might be an unpopular opinion but I’d say Lindros:
As a player he could hand been as good as Mario. He’s was physically dominant, as fast as anyone, and had great touch. Dude was a stud.
But we managed him poorly, his family got in the way, and he was out of the city by 26 years old. 659 points by 26 years old.
Only one Stanley cup finals appearance. Only one Hart.
Lindros was supposed to be the GOAT of the 90s. He was supposed to be what Crosby has been.
But he didn’t reach that potential.
Patrick was most wasted potential. Nothing came of such a high pick
Nolan Patrick
Pelle Lindbergh is probably the right answer for this one, lindros and Patrick are the recent ones to come to mind but I’d go Pelle.
Pat Fallon, ate his way to being terrible
Carter Hart…..the fucking bastard
I’m going to go with the unpopular choice in Claude Giroux. The organization wasted his potential by not putting a better team around him.
If we are looking for real world examples, bob won a cup lol
Nolan Patrick
People aren’t old enough to recall this bu the Flyers spent 22 overall on goaltender Maxime Ouellet. He has all the talent but couldn’t put it together.
Going older, Todd Bergen. Looked like a point a game player then disappeared.
Lindros again? He was great, but he was never the next great one and injuries held him back immensely.