deadhead
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For a guy who ignores years of data and twists stats every which way, you are aware of what a 2 game sample size is, yes? He could have a game with 80% everything next and balance it out. That happens. But yes, VandeVelde, yes. A good coach would sit Voracek. Yes.
And you should be clever enough to realize I'm making fun of the people who freaked over one bad period by Folin (he was fine the rest of the game other than a penalty that was marginal).
Though Voracek has been really, really bad the first two games, and it does make sense to shake things up, either he's injured or he's in a mental funk. If the latter, maybe G can shake him out of it.
The best lineup the Flyers could put on the ice tomorrow is:
Giroux-Couturier-Voracek
Lindblom-Patrick-Konency
Weal-Vorobyev-Simmonds
Raffl-Laughton-NAK
Provorov-Ghost
Sanheim-Gudas
Hagg-Myers
Myers and NAK earned their ticket back to LHV.
NAK showed nothing in preseason, clearly outplayed by both Vorobyev and Knight. And it's obvious they don't see Laughton as a center. He's not beating out Raffl right now.
Myers was OK in preseason, but nothing special, if he was a second line prospect Hextall probably would have kept him on the roster as a #6/#7 defenseman, but he didn't look NHL ready and is too valuable of an asset to rush. A few months in LHV won't hurt his development, needs to make quicker decisions in the D-zone, looked hesitant at times in preseason.
I think Hextall is considering the possibility of Myers, Morin and Friedman all on the Flyers next year (Folin is on a 1 year deal, and MacDonald and Gudas will be on their last years of their deals). So he wants to err on the side of caution and make sure they're ready to start in 2019-20.