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This game against the Canucks could be the lowest event hockey game I’ve ever watched. 🤮
Amazing, how is a very lunch bucket group of players, largely devoid of high-end talent, sitting second in the Metro at the Christmas break? Tocchet is a damn coaching savant or they are very lucky with some solid goaltending…LOL!! *wink-wink*
Things did pick up in the 3rd. VAN looked like they were happy with their road trip and win streak and didn’t really press in the finale. The Flyers didn’t play down to their level and got some nice balanced scoring. Tocchet is a good coach. .600+ record over the last 4 seasons.
Hawks have lost 13 of their last 16 games and both Nazar and Bedard are out with injury, they’re sinking to the bottom again very quickly.
Flyers still have 4 games left in this stretch against inferior opponents. 7 points is a lot in 4 games, but they could use them.
The Flyers are only 3-3-4 in their last 10. .500, not good enough. A win tonight and the go 4-2-4 in the last 10, .600 hockey. Much better with the next four games vs. inferior opponents. Pivotal game. Vladar starting is good news.
must have missed it when the flyers became an elite team.
Never said they were an elite team, said the exact opposite. Just said they’re better than the bottom dwellers.
Second game in a row where the Flyers left points on the table against inferior opposition. 1 out of 4 points where they should really be beating their opponents and taking at least 3 there. Playing down to their competition again. They let Penarin and Zibanejad beat them yesterday. It’s all the Rags have really. Even bad teams have very good players in this league. Goalie depth is their biggest issue now over scoring depth. Ersson has not been hood the last two games after putting together a stretch where he was winning, however imperfectly. They can still score enough to win games.
Yikes Tim Saunders!
I wonder who will do the radio for the next two games?
We should all mute the TVs and listen to the radio feed for a while when Saunders returns. Due to no Hulu, I listened live. Fedoruk is a broadcasting hero. Incredible situational awareness.
Bad game. If that wasn’t Sanheim’s worst game of the season, I can’t remember what was. Not as bad as the losses to TOR and CGY, but close enough. Need to get things back on track fast vs the Rags. Can they go 5-1 over these next six games against inferior opposition? Not with more efforts like last night.
doesn’t matter how long (hasn’t been 25 years) they have had it, its dumb. no complaining, stating simple facts you fcs.
any of those teams in the conference can go on a positive or negative run. sabres 3-0 last 3. panthers 6-3-1 last 10. pens 0-6 last 6. makes for boring ass hockey. begging and praying for OT.
go flyers. path to the ECF goes through philly.
The loser point was brought in during the 1999–2000 season. A century is 100 years, one quarter of a century is 25 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_all-time_NHL_standings#
Sure any of those teams can go on a hot streak. Will they? They don’t show signs of it. The Panthers can certainly make the playoffs because their division is terrible and the top 3 make it no matter what. If there’s a flaw in the NHL, it’s that and the playoff seeding. Five Metro teams are going and the Flyers seem more and more likely to be one of them.
what evidence is there risto will cut the goals by a good bit? there is next to no chance carl puts up half point per game rest of the way. nothing but an ok dime a dozen 4th line player.
there is very little separation from top to bottom. all propped up by artificial points. like the flyers 4 games up on buffalo. that is not a huge deficit at all. this is what the owners want. makes for boring hockey. like how the flyers and others play.
you should not get any points for losing. never ever. not sure why they find that hard to implement. regulation wins having the same value as OT and shootout wins is also flawed. again, this is what the owners want to prop up teams.
go flyers. brick by brick.
who will they trade a 1st for to replace the forest? looking forward to seeing the forest back for the ECF.
One game is a small sample size but holding MTL, which does have a decent offense, to one goal at home is a nice start. They’re only 32 games into the season so things are still a little tight. Which team in the bottom half of the conference looks like they’re going to turn things around and start on a 7-3 streak any time soon? The NHL has had the loser point for a quarter of a century now. Perhaps going outside and yelling at clouds will be more effective than complaining about that.
The Flyers just got through two six game stretches against tough competition with enough points to get them to the second best record in the conference. Now they’ve got a 7 game stretch where they need to take care of business against teams they’re clearly better than. I don’t care that 6 of them are on the road. Ten points in this stretch should be the goal. I don’t care at all most of them are on the road. This is take care of business time and they need to put some distance between themselves and the teams chasing them . . . which is everybody except CAR.
Thu, Dec 18 @ Buffalo
Sat, Dec 20 @ New York
Mon, Dec 22 vs Vancouver
Tue, Dec 23 @ Chicago
Sun, Dec 28 @ Seattle
Tue, Dec 30 @ Vancouver
Wed, Dec 31 @ CalgaryBUF stinks, the Rags can’t put the puck in the ocean, VAN is worse than BUF, CHI was sagging before Bedard got hurt, SEA showed little in their first matchup and there’s should be some revenge in mind vs. CGY.
Foerster was never going to be available for these games, but his injury news is bad. The combination of Grundstrom, a career .25 PPG guy over 300 games who needs to produce at about a .5 PPG clip to keep some offense going, and Risto, who should cut the goals against a good bit, will have to do for now. The Flyers have to hope that adding those two will wash out the loss of their top GPG guy in TF.
They also need to use Ersson so Vladar doesn’t tire. Around 54 games should be the max for Vladar. That’s 2/3 of the starts.
That seems about the balance they’re going for. Pretty common distribution of starts between 1 and 2 Gs. I would expect Ersson gets BUF tomorrow, Vladar gets the Rags Saturday. That will be an important Metro game, but the Rags stink this year.
This season goes as far as Vladar takes it. If he continues this level of play they will make the playoffs. Lack of skilled center depth and scoring from the defense will kill this team in the playoffs though. Regardless of how good Vladar is.
At least in the playoffs, you know Vladar is going to get the games. A lot depends on matchups, but it’s still a ways away.
Ideally I would still like to see the center depth sometime this season as follows- Zegras, Dvorak, Cates, and Couts. Couts as a 4th liner would still get more minutes then Abols right now with trying to protect a lead in the 3rd period. Moving Zegras to center hopefully allows the team to get more then a one goal lead heading into the third period more frequently. I’m not hopeful it will ever happen.
Not happening this season. Foerster had season ending arm surgery on Monday.
How bout dem Flyers!!! Third in the Metro almost halfway through the season, who’d a thunk it. Let’s GO Flyers!!!
Not me. I was cautiously optimistic at the start of the season but did not see this coming. NYI has 1 more point, but the Flyers have two games in hand. They have the 2nd best record in the East. Their schedule gets easier the rest of the way. Barring an injury catastrophe, they’re a playoff team.
MTL has the worst team D in the conference. The Flyers should be able to generate more offense, which has been in short supply except the Zegras line. We’ve also seen them shut down pretty well by teams struggling on D, so no guarantees. Some line juggling coming with Grundstrom moving up to Top 9 and Michkov flipped to Cates and Brink. On the plus side, Risto is back. This is a huge upgrade despite there likely being some rust that has to be played off. If the PP doesn’t pick up, look for him to be added to one of the units. He does have two 20+ PP assist seasons from his BUF days. If the Flyers get two points tonight, that’s 7 in this very tough 6 game stretch they’re wrapping up tonight. Not bad. The schedule over the last 50 games gets easier. Hopefully, that shows up in their results.
