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go flyers. brick by brick.
they wouldn’t be able to get all that in 10 offseasons. When will you admit this is a poorly run incompetent franchise.
The improvement over last year’s team is still notable. Last year: .463 win pct. This year: .545. The areas where they can and must improve, aside from the obvious need for a reliable #2 goalie, is physical size and mental toughness. They look small out there against too many other teams. Even their bigger guys are about the same size as their opponents, which is OK. Too many smaller guys. That Anaheim game was the tell. They won that battle but lost the war when they saw two of their guys get knocked out. They were playing .622 hockey and then the bottom fell out. That’s where the slump started. They’re 3-3-2 in their last 8. Not good enough to gain ground in any race. Hopefully, they can win Thursday vs. Ottawa and come back and play close to their full potential, which I still think is .600 hockey.
they need a #1 and #2 center
they need 2 top 4 dman. with at least 1 being a #1.
they need a better goalie.
they need better coaching.
they need a better GM.Team is in pretty much the exact same spot since danny boy took over. How anyone can have any hope that this team is on the road to contention is nothing but a straight up delusional fool.
You’re not getting all that in one off season. Zegras can still develop into a reliable PPG guy and play center but he is still bad at faceoffs. The rest of his centering game is fine. That’s one spot. The better goalie is a #2, so that’s not a tough fix. They’re going to have jump on an opportunity for a #1/2 Dman or center and need to build out their depth to put a package together to get that. Probably a two year project.
Briere said the team overachieved up until January 6 and underachieved since then. He believes the reality is somewhere in between.
The reality is closer to the .600 team before January 6. They have to move away from Errson and his league worst save percentage. At least this year, it’s one awful goalie instead of three. They need another guy there. They also need another top 4 Dman.
Hard to believe they won tonight. Vladar is team MVP. When he’s not on top of his game they have no chance.
Top off season priority clearly is finding another goalie. Vladar has a .650 win pct. Ersson’s is .456.
They need to learn how to play from the Christmas break to the Trade Deadline… that’s the time period everything goes off the rails and sinks the season every year, and this season was no different.
Last three season? Yup. This year is inexcusable though. They didn’t dump (Frost/Farabee was a dump), have the league suspend or trade players.
what are the flyers current winning % in the conf? you were strutting your feathers around for a month. Now that reality has set in not so much.
you like flyers management are dumb as a stump.
Hahahaa! Because, unlike you, when a sports team goes bad, I find other things to focus on. I’m still shocked by the reality of their recent 2-8-2 stretch. Injuries triggered it, but they weren’t significant enough to excuse this collapse.
post the flyers winning % as haven’t seen you do that lately. what place they in.
They’re 2.5 games out of a playoff spot with 1/3 of the season left. 2-3-2 in their last 7. That’s not going to be good enough to make up ground. They need to play better than their first half .600 hockey to make the playoffs. Not seeing any signs that’s going to happen. Third year in a row now the Flyers have had a significant collapse later in the season. First two, they lost key guys to suspension or trade. Don’t have that excuse this year.
They still played .600 hockey, 7-4-4, after Foerster went down. It was after the Anaheim game where Drysdale and Brink got knocked out of action after dirty hits when the team fell apart. They’ve been 2-8-2 since. Vladar got hurt during that stretch. Did not help. Team needs to get bigger, tougher, meaner as well as better.
I already did. What part needs to be spoon fed to you?
big yawn. nothing but excuses. the team was never that good. losing middling depth players doomed them lol.
you and the flyers management think the same hence why they will conitnue to suck for the next 5 years minimum.
no the team needs to add skill before all else. bigger tougher and meaner will get them where exactly?
If the team is so unskilled, how did they play .600 hockey for half the season? No excuses. I said when they were going good only injuries would knock then out of the playoffs but the injuries they sustained shouldn’t have been enough to do that. They had them but they were spread around and only lasted long enough to get them into a season destroying slump. Good teams overcome adversity better than the Flyers have.
if you can’t overcome the loss of the Forest then you were never good to begin with.
They still played .600 hockey, 7-4-4, after Foerster went down. It was after the Anaheim game where Drysdale and Brink got knocked out of action after dirty hits when the team fell apart. They’ve been 2-8-2 since. Vladar got hurt during that stretch. Did not help. Team needs to get bigger, tougher, meaner as well as better.
“Caps are somewhat reeling as well. Flyers very much still in the playoff mix. The other EC just as inconsistent as the flyers. Many underperforming.”
They’re 2.5 games out of a playoff spot with 1/3 of the season left. 2-3-2 in their last 7. That’s not going to be good enough to make up ground. They need to play better than their first half .600 hockey to make the playoffs. Not seeing any signs that’s going to happen. Third year in a row now the Flyers have had a significant collapse later in the season. First two, they lost key guys to suspension or trade. Don’t have that excuse this year.
Flyers are below .500 over their last 10 games for the first time this season. Injuries that shouldn’t have derailed the team are. Tonight it’s a battle for 7th in the conference. Things change fast.
Last 7 games:
Ersson: 1-4-2 173 shots 146 saves 0.844 save pct
Vladar: 5-1-1 166 shots 152 saves 0.915 save pctCan’t ignore this much longer when another option is available.
Depth will be tested against hot TB. No Brink, Drysdale, Konecny. Michkov on a line with Zegras. Should be fun.
still early though I think sens, rangers, blue jackets are done. Devils as well unless they fire the coach and GM maybe the get an uptick. Caps fading. not sure what to make of the pens with skinner in goal. bruins another funny team.
flyers control their own destiny.
no reason at all not to give kolosov a look. doubt they will.
The Pens and Bruins have both been really up and down. The Pens have done it better and are really up again. The bottom half team need to start putting together 10 game streaks at over .500 to even stay close and most aren’t. They need .600+ streaks to gain ground. The Leafs have worked their way back to contention. No complaints about the Caps. Looking more like 98 points to make the playoffs, higher than normal.
They do. Injuries are getting to be an issue again but still at .600 in their last 10.
Wouldn’t rule out a Kolosov look if Ersson continues to struggle.
