GDT: #54 Kings at FLYERS, Thursday, Feb. 7, 7:00 pm ET

[PHILOUDELPHIA]

We easily have this game.

Don't use that word easy, they are still capable of screwing easy up

 

[Fight4yourRight]

The Athletic has the Flyers playoff chances at 16% as of today.

Carolina 2 points ahead with one less game played.. and at 45% odds? I'm assuming they are factoring in the records of the teams in the remaining schedule?

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Interesting that the Canucks, with the same record, are occupying that WC spot in the West.

Really hope they can keep this run up for as long as they can. Columbus is faltering, and it'll make it easier for them to rationalize dealing some of their big guys at the TDL.

The west is wild this year. The Canucks have 54 points, but 5 teams behind them have at least 51 points and all but one have games in hand.

Long story short, the west sucks this year.

 

[BernieParent]

The Flyers are making the playoffs.

 

[Adam Warlock]

Flyers actually have the same number of wins that they did last year on this date.

Last year 2/5 - 24-19-9 - 57 points
This year 2/5 - 24-23-6 - 54 points

Gotta love those Hak points!

 

[GKJ]

I guess, are they going to get enough points to run down the Capitals or are the Islanders going to fall apart? Buffalo and Carolina are who they are, Columbus is talking about trading their best player, I'm not scared of these teams. But I also don't want to make a run to get in - again - and just to be led to slaughter - again, this time by the Lightning, who are way better than the Capitals or Penguins were when they beat us.

 

[FlyerFaithful17]

Carolina 2 points ahead with one less game played.. and at 45% odds? I'm assuming they are factoring in the records of the teams in the remaining schedule?

Perhaps that and the assumption that the Flyers are due for a significant cool down coming up.

 

[AdamParrot]

Let's go Avalanche!

 

[prototypical4thliner]

Let stolie get the nod. There is some value to getting some good tape on him—it’s better to know what we have with as many of the lottery picks than to pin the hopes on hart (it appears to be obvious, but hey we haven’t been able to do it in decades).

I hope fletcher is smart enough to realize what this is. They are playing loose with no pressure from expectations l. That should not preclude him from moving assets that should be internally replaceable. Again, beaten horse, but Simmonds is internally replaceable going forward. Let the team sink or swim on the backs of the guys who will be leading them to contention again.

That said, I continue to actually look forward to hockey. Holy crap, haven’t said that in a while.

 

[Tripod]

The other thing with playing Stolie, is it gives other teams a chance to see him if we did want to move him in a bigger deal as a throw in...and go with an older goalie next year to pair with Hart.

 

[orangecrush8]

The Flyers are making the playoffs.

I like this guy

 

[Beef Invictus]

I guess, are they going to get enough points to run down the Capitals or are the Islanders going to fall apart? Buffalo and Carolina are who they are, Columbus is talking about trading their best player, I'm not scared of these teams. But I also don't want to make a run to get in - again - and just to be led to slaughter - again, this time by the Lightning, who are way better than the Capitals or Penguins were when they beat us.

Gordon isn't running a style that wins playoff series. We would need an advantageous matchup to do anything.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

I hope fletcher is smart enough to realize what this is.

He was smart enough to attend & graduate from Harvard.

And call up Hart.

Fingers crossed.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

My first thought was about our Carter. My HART almost stopped!

JEFF CARTER is not playing tonight at New Jersey. I bolded it and colored it red.

 

[Embiid]

GO ME!

 

[Ghosts Beer]

The other thing with playing Stolie, is it gives other teams a chance to see him if we did want to move him in a bigger deal as a throw in...and go with an older goalie next year to pair with Hart.

I wasn’t a big Stolarz fan, but I think he’s improved a lot despite his injuries. Ideally I think I’d get a vet backup for a year & see how Stolie & Sandstrom do in the AHL. But Stolie may yet prove he’s ready.

 

[Here4ThaLids]

I like this guy

He's a Hall of Famer with a big hog, what's not to like?

 

[flyersjim73]

The other thing with playing Stolie, is it gives other teams a chance to see him if we did want to move him in a bigger deal as a throw in...and go with an older goalie next year to pair with Hart.

I’m of the opinion that Stolie is our second best goalie. I know it would be extremely young, but I hope we go with Hart backed up by Stolie next year. Hart seems mature beyond his years and I believe they’re certainly the two most talented ready to play goalies that the Flyers have.

 

[magnumpi]

Frose and Lindbergh were young

and I believe rookies together

 

[Stop the Madness]

It's so ****ing enormous that they have to measure it on a seismograph, but unfortunately, the ****ing thing is so huge that it broke the machine. So we will never know.

All I read was this post and clearly thought the conversation was about Nick Foles

 

[Cootsfanclub]

The Flyers are making the playoffs.

100%

 

[BiggE]

Didn’t get any help on the scoreboard last night. Hopefully the Ducks at least wait to fire Carlyle until after we play them.

 

[usahockey22flyers]

Didn’t get any help on the scoreboard last night. Hopefully the Ducks at least wait to fire Carlyle until after we play them.

The Avs have a fragile mentality as a team. You get that vibe when they are down a goal, the game is already decided.

 

[ggunky]

The Avs have a fragile mentality as a team. You get that vibe when they are down a goal, the game is already decided.

That is what poor goaltending does to a team.

Funny, I would say it all the time, the Flyers goaltending is killing them and the Kool-aid drinkers would come out in force and say "that is the lazy narrative" and "the goaltending is good enough".

 

[BiggE]

That is what poor goaltending does to a team.

Funny, I would say it all the time, the Flyers goaltending is killing them and the Kool-aid drinkers would come out in force and say "that is the lazy narrative" and "the goaltending is good enough".

People who thought the Flyers goaltending, pre Hart, was good enough, are a special kind of stupid.