Flyers vs. Senators: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Flyers were not as good as they seemed in the first half of the season and they’re not as bad as they have been recently. This is just water seeking its own level. They will be a lottery team but, regrettably, they’ll be stuck in the mushy middle again.

I thought the game was so bad and boring that Bill went to sleep and wiped it from his memory. It was bad boring hockey by the Flyers and we are all worse off for having watched it. People who went to the game should have their money refunded.

Despite another hatchet job by Kevin Kurz after the Caps game, i thought Michkov was one of the better Flyers players on the ice with other players not being held to the same strict standard that he has been held to. Whoever (Tocchet) inspired Kurz to write that article needs to be fired.

Friedman called the Flyers out for the Michkov Saga, DB went to bat for his hand picked coach, hand picked coach FINALLY told Michkov he could stay on the ice longer, Michkov looked good, Flyers won. The heat was dying down. Then Kurz publishes his article saying that many in the building think Michkov is basically a lost cause for this year. WTF? Only an idiot would protect Tocchet even though every advanced metric says Tocchet is wrong.

The icing on cake against the Sens were 2 things :

1. Juulsen whose only defining hockey trait is being tall was to important to let the smaller but much more talented Andrae play in the Sen was responsible for what was, up until the last 2 minutes, the only goal in the game.
2. Michkov, who still leads the team in OT goals over the last 2 years, once again not seeing OT ice because …. Tocchet. The Flyers never even made it to the first line change with Tocch’s boys making all the mistakes he keeps saying he’s afraid Michkov will make.

2 goals in 18 OT games and counting. The Flyers are so so bad but apparently the extra 45 seconds of ice time in OT would break Michkov.

DB has been forced to take deserved heat for Tocchet despite only being 6 months into his 1st year. It’s going to be a loooong contract for DB to answer for as this goes on.