Post-Game Talk: #52| Islanders at FLYERS | Thu., Feb. 5, 2015

[Beef Invictus]

Coots line has been ****** all year and slow and bland to boot.

This is incorrect. People have shown you it's incorrect all year. And how exactly are they slow and bland? Watching guys outplay a top line in their own zone, drag the puck to the offensive zone, and establish pressure is generally pretty exciting. What, they don't hit enough?

 

[Rebels57]

This version of Matt Read belongs in the AHL and if he continues down this path into next season, he is going to lose his spot on this team to a guy like Leier or Cousins. He is the biggest dissapointment of the 2014-2015 Flyers and it's in a landslide.

Terrible at ES and terrible on the PK.

It's a shame that Berube won't healthy scratch him to send him a message like an reasonable coach would do for a player that is underachieving. That would require "coaching."

 

[Beef Invictus]

I really hope it's due to injury and not because Read is the Roy Batty of hockey; burning oh so brightly but for half as long. Next thing you know he's pushing Homer's eyes in and then dying on a rooftop.

 

[Rebels57]

Major priority in the offseason for Hextall should be adding a Frans Nielsen/Matt Hendrix type of player that can give you quality minutes on the 4th line and be a shootout specialist. Most teams in the league have a guy like this, and we never have, hence we are the worst shootout team in history.

 

[Curufinwe]

Nielsen isn't a 4th liner.

 

[Funf]

I'd really like to see our forward group with a competent defense before I completely write them all off. I don't think that a lot of people realize how a bad breakout can follow you all the way up the ice.

The forwards aren't just in the clear once the puck gets out of our zone. They've already been forced to play incredibly deep, and never exit the zone with any speed because they've all had to stop and bail out our defense. This makes it very easy for the other team to get back in good defensive position in time.

So by the time our forwards are in the neutral zone - they're exhausted, just beginning to move their legs, and the other team is right on them. When was the last time you saw our team hit the opposing blue line with any speed? Or with numbers?

All I'm saying is that there would be a lot more room for our forwards to work with if we had a better defense.

 

[Garbage Goal]

I'd really like to see our forward group with a competent defense before I completely write them all off. I don't think that a lot of people realize how a bad breakout can follow you all the way up the ice.

The forwards aren't just in the clear once the puck gets out of our zone. They've already been forced to play incredibly deep, and never exit the zone with any speed because they've all had to stop and bail out our defense. This makes it very easy for the other team to get back in good defensive position in time.

So by the time our forwards are in the neutral zone - they're exhausted, just beginning to move their legs, and the other team is right on them. When was the last time you saw our team hit the opposing blue line with any speed? Or with numbers?

All I'm saying is that there would be a lot more room for our forwards to work with if we had a better defense.

Now that you mention it, I'm trying to remember breakaways from this season and I'm drawing a lot of blanks.

 

[Funf]

Now that you mention it, I'm trying to remember breakaways from this season and I'm drawing a lot of blanks.

Yeah, I wish there were somebody that kept better track of these things. There's a few articles on http://hockeyanalysis.com, but they're not up to date.

 

[blinds]

Now that you mention it, I'm trying to remember breakaways from this season and I'm drawing a lot of blanks.

There's been a couple, and as far as I remember they've all been as disappointing as Couturier's against the Isles. Our forward group really lacks offensive creativity and stickhandling ability.

 

[Curufinwe]

I'd really like to see our forward group with a competent defense before I completely write them all off. I don't think that a lot of people realize how a bad breakout can follow you all the way up the ice.

The forwards aren't just in the clear once the puck gets out of our zone. They've already been forced to play incredibly deep, and never exit the zone with any speed because they've all had to stop and bail out our defense. This makes it very easy for the other team to get back in good defensive position in time.

So by the time our forwards are in the neutral zone - they're exhausted, just beginning to move their legs, and the other team is right on them. When was the last time you saw our team hit the opposing blue line with any speed? Or with numbers?

All I'm saying is that there would be a lot more room for our forwards to work with if we had a better defense.

You're 100% right.