Flyers Roundup: Exit Day, Report Card, CWIP and More

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The Philadelphia Flyers announced their Exit Week interview schedule for the week following their Eastern Conference Semifinal series loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. The players will speak throughout the day on Tuesday (May 12), starting at 9 a.m. EDT until the late afternoon (or sometimes early evening) hours. Head coach Rick Tocchet speaks on Wednesday, starting at 10:30 a.m. EDT. Finally, general manager Daniel Briere goes on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. EDT.

I will have onsite separate coverage both for PhiladelphiaFlyers.com and for HockeyHotStove.

Final playoff stats: 10 games

Trevor Zegras — 6 points (2g, 4a)
Porter Martone — 5 points (2g, 3a)
Rasmus Ristolainen — 5 points (1g, 4a)
Travis Konecny — 5 points (1g, 4a)
Jamie Drysdale — 4 points (2g, 2a)
Sean Couturier — 4 points (1g, 3a)
Noah Cates — 4 points (1g, 3a) — 8 games
Christian Dvorak — 4 points (0g, 4a)
Travis Sanheim — 3 points (2g, 1a)
Alex Bump — 2 points (2g, 0a) — 6 games
Owen Tippett — 2 points (1g, 1a) — 6 games
Garnet Hathaway — 2 points (1g, 1a) — 8 games
Cam York — 2 points (1g, 1a)
Denver Barkey — 2 points (1g, 1a)
Noah Juulsen — 2 points (0g, 2a) — 5 games
Alex Bump — 1 point (1g, 0a) — 5 games
Tyson Foerster — 1 point (1g, 0a)
Luke Glendening — 1 point (1g, 0a)
Matvei Michkov — 1 points (0g, 1a) — 8 games
Carl Grundstrom — 1 point (0g,1 a) — 3 games
Emil Andrae — 1 point (0g, 1a) — 4 games
Jett Luchanko — 0 points — 1 game
Oliver Bonk — o points — 1 game

Flyers Playoff Goaltending

Dan Vladar — 10 GP, 4-6, 2.18 GAA, .922 SV%, 2 SO
Samuel Ersson — DNP

Team Stats

GF/GP: 2.10
GAA: 2.40
Power Play: 3-for-36 (8.3 percent) — 1 SHGA
Penalty Kill: 35-for-41 (85.4 percent) — 1 SHG
Faceoffs: 50.7 percent
5-on-5 Corsi: 40.05 percent

Playoff Grades

Relative to their respective roles on the team, the Flyers had a few players who were positive difference makers in most of the 10 games the team played in their series against the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Carolina Hurricanes. These are subjective grades based upon the purpose of their presence and their consistency in executing their roles. Raw counting stats and public analytics are secondary considerations.

A grades

Travis Sanheim — A
Dan Vladar — A-
Sean Couturier — A-

B grades

Rasmus Ristolainen — B+
Denver Barkey — B+
Porter Martone — B
Jamie Drysdale — B
Cam York — B (played injured)
Luke Glendening — B
Nick Seeler — B
Trevor Zegras — B-
Noah Cates — B-
Christian Dvorak — B- (played injured)
Garnet Hathaway — B-
Alex Bump — B-

C grades

Noah Juulsen — C+
Travis Konecny — C
Matvei Michkov — C-

Incomplete

Owen Tippett — Played 1st round injured, missed 2nd round
Emil Andrae — Played in just four of 10 games; C+ in the four he played
All who played in fewer than four games

Flyers Daily: Playoff Wrapup Edition

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Terry Crisp — number `15 on the Broad Street Bullies era Flyers — was born May 28, 1943, in Parry Sound, Ontario. A tireless worker who was a focused competitor on the ice and a dressing room leader, “Crispy” was known away from the ice for his friendly and gregarious nature, story-telling prowess and hearty laugh. Those traits eventually made him a good complementary fit to the Stanley Cup championship puzzle that general manager Keith Allen and head coach Fred Shero assembled.

Crisp played junior hockey with the Niagara Falls Flyers before turning professional with the Boston Bruins’ organization. After the NHL expanded from six to 12 teams in 1967, Crisp joined the St. Louis Blues. He later spent a short tour of duty with the New York Islanders in 1972-73 before he was traded to the Flyers on March 5, 1973 in exchange for defenseman Jean Potvin.

Crisp spent the remainder of his 536-game NHL playing career with the Flyers. Centering the fourth line, he served as a mainstay on the penalty kill, Crisp was a valuable role player on Flyers teams that won the Stanley Cup in 1973-74 and 1974-75 before reaching the Stanley Cup Final yet again in 1975-76.

Crisp played two games the next year before retiring permanently as a player. For his Flyers playing career, Crisp appeared in 194 regular season games (25 goals, 54 assists, 79 points,78 penalty minutes, combined plus-33 rating) and 47 playoff games (seven goals, 13 assists, 20 points,
eight penalty minutes).

After his retirement as a player, Crisp embarked on a coaching career while still with the Flyers’ organization. A protégé of Shero’s even while still an active player, Crisp served as an assistant coach under Shero during the 1977-78 season and then remained on as an assistant under Bob McCammon and Pat Quinn the next year. Before focusing on coaching, Crisp also briefly did some broadcasting work with the Flyers.

Seeking head coaching experience, Crisp moved on from the Flyers after the 1978-79 season. Working his way back up the hockey ladder again, Crisp went from coaching junior hockey to the American Hockey League and then up to the NHL again. As head coach of the 1988-89 Calgary Flames, Crisp won the Stanley Cup. He later coached the Tampa Bay Lightning, opposing Terry Murray’s Flyers in a war of a 1996 first-round series that Philadelphia won in six games.

When his lengthy coaching career ended, Crisp later focused on broadcasting. For many years, he was the broadcast analyst for the Nashville Predators in a popular and successful tandem with play-by-play veteran Pete Weber.