Post-Game Talk: #49 | Flyers at Red Wings | January 25, 2024 | Loss

[trostol]

funny how now bunches of people here and there(FB and Reddit) are now starting to realize this team was not so good

 

[Embiid]

Didn't know Dr. Evil coached the Red Wings.....what a creepy lookin fellow.

 

[GapToothedWonder]

No O. Bad D. Not finishing checks. Back to last years Flyers...

Almost like playing with playoff level intensity to cover for a lack of talent isn't sustainable for 82 games.

 

[gertbfrobe16]

Flyers= bug Red Wings = windshield.

 

[volnoir]

What did people expect after the team found out their starting goalie has to go to Ontario to give himself in to the police?

 

[BackWithaVengeance]

Mediocrity in no mans land (and probably without play-offs) here we are again.

Watch the Pens sneak in since the Capitals, Islanders and Devils suck too

 

[BillDineen]

I always said we should keep Lyon over Hart

 

[Don Nachbaur 26]

Saving him for the playoffs

Playoff Risto

 

[bennysflyers16]

What did people expect after the team found out their starting goalie has to go to Ontario to give himself in to the police?

I’m sure they knew it was coming.

 

[BritainStix]

Philadelphia wouldn't be Philadelphia if there wasn't some kind of drama.

What's next...news that Danny owes thousands of dollars in unpaid parking fines for parking his Lexus in handicapped spots throughout the city?

I have it on good authority that Morgan Frost is actually the long island killer, and his benching are the result of him being late to practice.

 

[VladDrag]

Laughton was great at taking penalties tonight.

He's been awful this year.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

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He's been awful this year.

Culture/60 through the roof though.

This is gonna be Simmonds 2.0 situation.

 

[deadhead]

For a flat team, Flyers out played Detroit by a wide margin, this wasn't a "blown out of the building game," this was "we couldn't finish a play to save our lives."

Frost went MIA after a great run, hopefully a one game thing.
Can't blame Deslauriers for this one.
Lycksell once again looked like he belonged, unlike last season.

6-7-2 last fifteen games, 77 point pace.
xGF%:
Team GF/60: 1.92 (26), xGF/60: 2.33 (21), GA/60: 2.51 (21), xGA/60: 2.33 (9)
PP: GF/60: 7.04 (19), xGF/60: 8.12 (15)
PK: GA/60: 5.35 (8), xGA/60: 7.71 (15)
Some is puck luck, some is their struggles to finish play, some is Hart playing below average.

Cates 62.02% (6g) - 1.03 pp/60
Frost 59.05% - 1.66
TK 56.37% - 2.43
Foerster 55.84% - 0.82
Poehling 54.35% - 1.53
Couts 51.75% 1.89
Farabee 51.53% - 3.00
Tippett 49.80% - 2.19
Atkinson 49.14% - 2.19

Hathaway 45.83% - 0.36
Laughton 36.56% - 0.64
Brink 33.71% (9g) - 0.00
Deslauriers 27.78 - 0.00

Zamula 54.84% - 0.64
Risto 53.16% - 0.61
Sanheim 52.82% - 0.00
Drysdale 50.79% (7g) - 0.53
Seeler 49.84% - 0.00

Walker 45.96% - 1.34
York 42.90% - 0.00

Erssson xGA/60: 2.54, GA/60: 2.40 (9g)
Hart xGA/60: 2.78, GA/60: 3.25 (7g)

 

[freakydallas13]

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He's been awful this year.

The decisions to keep him several times instead of trade him for a 1st (plus?) looks worse every day.

 

[VladDrag]

The decisions to keep him several times instead of trade him for a 1st (plus?) looks worse every day.

He's been on a downslide for a few years, but I don't think he's as cooked as his metrics are showing. I'm not saying he's been effective, he hasn't, but I think he's better than this....Maybe not. But I doubt he can return a 1st at this point.

 

[deadhead]

I wouldn't be surprised if Laughton had a nagging injury.
York has really fallen off, "Hart is York's roommate and best friend, he said."
Which may explain some of it, that would be a heck of a distraction.

 

[Magua]

He's been on a downslide for a few years, but I don't think he's as cooked as his metrics are showing. I'm not saying he's been effective, he hasn't, but I think he's better than this....Maybe not. But I doubt he can return a 1st at this point.

Laughton was used as a clear cut top 4/5 forward last season. Only Allison and Deslauriers scored less in comparable 5v5 minutes.

His 43 points were artifice based around a ton of unsustainable non-5v5 scoring on a poor team. Truly, I can't think of a more sensible pump and dump in recent Flyers history. I agree, it's hard to believe he's this bad, and he's had some weird years with solid scoring and bad play-driving, but he's getting the shit end in both right now. It's almost impossible to believe his value didn't peak.