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The Flyers will never get it. Dvorak is a 2-3rd line center. Cates is at best a 3rd line center. Coots makes too much money for what he offers. You refuse to play Zegras at center. You will finish just outside of the playoffs this year. How will they improve at center? I haven’t even referenced the defense. They are A LONG WAY away.
When the Flyer signed Dvorak over the summer, I understood the move. Overpaid bottom 6 center for one year. Briere could retain salary at the deadline and get a good asset back. He could fill a spot if Luchanko was not ready. Let Zegras play center and have Dvorak take certain faceoffs when G Was paired with Couts. That plan lasted about 5 games apparently. If Briere does not move Dvorak at the deadline for an asset, it is a failure. Trying to make the playoffs with no shot at the Cup does not justify keeping Dvorak. It would only compound the mistake because I guess the Zegras at center experiment is over. If Tocchet could not allow Zegras to play center against Tampa in the 3rd period last after watching the first two periods, I doubt it happens at all this season with any regularity.
unless the flyers fall out of the race, be prepared for failure.
It is amazing to watch that Torts’ team was about transition offense and Tocchet is the complete opposite. Not sure during the hiring process why the regime thought it was a good idea to do a complete 180 on style of play. They could not break down a blueline missing their top 3 Dmen. If they make the playoffs, it will only happen if Vladar plays 50 games and has a top 10 save %. Tocchet does not have the offensive structure to win any other way. This has proven to be true in all of Tocchet’s previous jobs. Got to give the man credit, he got paid by the Flyers and he has shown no ability to adjust his offensive structure. Play safe and only shoot with traffic in front of the net. Leads to a lot of nights just like what has happened in Tampa.
from just a coaching standpoint, is tocchet worse than Torst?
The Flyers now have given up the 4th least amount of goals in the league, and have scored the 4th least goals. Unless the team gets on a hot streak of shooting %, this is Tocchet hockey. It is no different then his last head coaching jobs. It is generally very boring hockey. Quite frankly, when the team plays three 3rd line centers and one 4th line center, the boredom factor is magnified. Really cannot afford to trade Luchanko or Nesbitt because no matter what the belief is in their ceiling, they have to let those players develop and hope because the cupboard is so barren right now. Couts, Cates, and Dvorak are basically the same type of center, redundancy at its highest.
It sure looks like they are going to do everything possible to make it as a wildcard. This roster is not taking steps to ascend into a playoff contender. It has serious structural issues that place the team right back into purgatory. The HC has zero interest in seeing if Zegras can develop into a top 6 center, which is something they have absolutely nothing close to at the NHL or AHL level. Baffling decisions.
With pretty much every team in the playoff “picture now would be a good time to try to sell high on players. There will be plenty of buyers. Stop with this short term we need to make the playoff nonsense. Its about the future.
Now we know they will not sell. More than likely find the next Nate Thompson or Alex Grant. As you said they want the playoffs. They will view that as a successful season.
Not really when you see what the goal this season is about .
Playing against a depleted lineup especially on defense and what exactly was the flyers game plan? Sit back and relax? Why not attack that D? Tocchet is a boring and unimaginative coach.
MM still with the least minutes of top 9 forwards.
Wonder if they give ND a year contract ext.
Will be interesting to see Andrase usage next game.
The playoffs are all in the flyers hands. They control their own destiny. Anything less than that would be a disappointment at this stage.
Why not? 97 points is the magic number. They need 72 more points to get there and have 62 games to get them. That’s not an insurmountable task.
The playoffs are all in the flyers hands. They control their own destiny. Anything less than that would be a disappointment at this stage.
The playoffs are all in the flyers hands. They control their own destiny. Anything less than that would be a disappointment at this stage.
The playoffs are all in the flyers hands. They control their own destiny. Anything less than that would be a disappointment at this stage.
it does matter, the goal or any points accumulated was not done by the 4th line.
The goal was absolutely scored by a 4th liner, Abols. It was his first of the year. How many of the Top 9 forwards had zero goals going into last night’s game?
man what a dope you are. have a blessed weekend
