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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.
Should be an easy win against the sad sack of players that currently make up the Vancouver Canucks, talk about a dysfunctional organization. Let’s Go Flyers!!!
Should be, but VAN has goalies capable of stealing games which happened with Grubauer Sunday although SEA did check pretty effectively. In that game, lots of rebounds that bounced past Flyers who were tight on the crease, too much passing when shots were available. They need to play better tonight.
cant wait to get tickets for that December 2025 banner raising ceremony. amazes me what flyers fans now accept as “success”.
You’re not going to have success in the playoffs unless you’ve had enough success during the regular season to make them. This is a fairly simple concept to grasp.
The Flyers will have the 2nd best record in the conference on Christmas Day and the 6th best record in the entire league. Merry Christmas to everyone but their miserable haters.
Blue line competence and goaltending can take a team pretty far. The Drysdale/Andrae pair has been a revelation. They were supposed to get caved in because of size, but that has not happened. I hope Tocchet has learned if he wants to roll 4 lines, he is going to have to put some talent on the 4th line as opposed to “culture guys”.
On the plus side, they’ve given plenty of guys a fair shot. On D, they can absorb some injuries without depth guys simply killing them. The forward/scoring depth is thin if they’re banged up. The team D can keep things on track with D injuries but can’t score goals. Even depth players have to make plays once in a while. They found at least a temporary solution with Grundstrom/Barkey in over Foerster/Hathaway.
Probable playoff contender is an improvement. However, to avoid purgatory Briere will have to trade assets to improve the roster. Prospects in the pipeline will not be enough to push the team to a true Cup contender. I do believe the Hughes trade was an insight into the future when the few times an elite talent becomes available. With all teams having cap space now with the cap rapidly rising, it will be a highly leveraged seller’s market. Now, there will be more Zegras type trades out there in the future also. He has to be involved in those and hit big like Zegras.
I’m not convinced of that. They have some clear tweaks to make on F, D and G, and a blockbuster trade for the right guy would make a difference but I think they have a 2 year window for that. In this season, Briere seems intent on leaning on internal solutions first for fixing problems and that seems to have held up . . . and it’s a good culture move.
On a side note, that TOR 1st just keeps elevating in value. Grebenkin has more points then Laughton so far this season (granted Grebenkin has played 7 more games).
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.
