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“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.
In reality, the Flyers need more from Ersson, especially over the next few months.
I’d give Kolosov a shot. Ersson will get a chance in one of the TB games. He’s the kind of guy who will have his best game of the season to make this situation bleed out a little longer. Can’t say the Flyers don’t give their guys chances.
They’re still .600 in their last 10, which is fine, but other teams are getting really hot and passing them. Still not enough to push them down and out of the playoffs, but rivals having hot runs.
Seeing some separation between top nine teams of conference and the bottom seven. Very bottom teams look done. BUF has been the only shock turnaround and they are in at the moment.
Flyers get their depth tested a bit. Can’t remember last time two guys went down from nasty hits in one game. JD took a tougher hit. Was down longer. Could have gotten hurt in a few different places. Flyers said both were UBI, so it’s not a leg. Thought it could have been. Could be a shoulder on JD too. That was the point of contact, concussion also possible. Injuries are the only thing I see derailing the Flyers out of a playoff spot. These are spread around the lineup, easier to absorb. Juulsen in for JD, not an upgrade but they did well enough without Risto for a lot of games and Risto and York for a few. Michkov in for Brink isn’t a problem at all. MM has 7 pts and is +4 in his last 10 games. TML aren’t good on the road and the Flyers are good at home.
sitting n 3rd place and if they miss isnt a failure? interesting take since the playoffs were the goal from day 1.
If they get swamped by injuries, no failure. If they don’t and the wheels just fall off the wagon then yes.
its not about position its the quality of players. 28% and not one even close elite player in that group. I love will the cap goes up so that justifies it mind set. if your already using that nonsense then it was a bad deal from the start
get back to me in april. every team in the east conf is above .500. very little separation. go flyers brick by brick
if the flyers miss the playoffs, since they control their own destiny, would it be an organizational failure at this stage?
Konecny is scoring at .9 PPG and is a +11, Tippett is on pace for 26 goals, Dvorak is having a career year. Hate to tell you, but those are not unreasonable cap hits in today’s market. Couturier got himself a nice deal, for sure. Get back to me in three years. Hahaha!
April gets closer every day.
Depends on how it happens if it does at all. Flyers still aren’t deep, so the wrong injury to the wrong guy could still derail them. That would not be an organizational failure at this point.
8.75 tk
5.1 dvorak
7.75 ex selke
6.2 tippethow much cap space do those 4 eat up the next 3+ years?
Next year, about 28% for 4 of your top 9 forwards. Will get lower after that as the cap goes up.
flyers way ahead of schedule? what schedule is that? this is just another move to keep the mediocrity wheels spinning. imagine thinking dvorak is a key/core player. Flyers evalauto9ns and process are total garbage. love when peeps argue otherwise.
Cant wait for the berglund is a potential #1 center article to come out or what not
playoffs > cup in flyers land
You keep making these claims, the Flyers keep playing .600 hockey. That will get them into the playoffs.
Add to that the system is chock full of bottom 6 center prospects with no top line 1C or 2C anywhere to be seen, the Flyers have a problem. FA is already bare and they will have to be VERY lucky to find one via trade (without an hefty overpay) or drafting in perpetual “Bubble” land moving forward.
The Flyers are way ahead of schedule. They have a good 2 years to make that trade or signing. As it is, a big chunk players on the team up and down the lineup are having career years.
Ducks lost in DC last night. They’re falling. 2-6-2 in their last 10. Flyers, as always, need the points. 5-3-2, still .600 hockey, in their last 10 but conference rivals have gotten hotter and passed them in win .pct. A win tonight and they should be back in the #3 slot in the conference.
Tomasino’s numbers look OK for a young NHL forward: Roughly 1 PPG in the A and close to .5 PPG in the NHL. He also falls into long slumps which tends to get him traded. Hopefully, the Flyers won’t need him and he should boost LHV.
Despite a couple bad losses in their last 4, the Flyers still have the 3rd best record in the conference. Their magic number for points to make the playoffs: 46 points in their final 42 games. Should be doable.
As we begin the final day of 2025, only CAR has a better winning percentage in the East than the Flyers. They’ve cut their goals against from 3.48 per game last season to 2.79. Goal scoring is up slightly to 2.97 from 2.9. Thirty eight games in they are 20-11-7. Last year they were 17-17-4. A remarkable turnaround.
