Post-Game Talk: #66 | FLYERS 1 at Panthers 4 | Sun., Mar. 4, 2018,

[Tripod]

On the upside hopefully we see Sanheim come up and play while Oduya sits in the presser.

And if he does, deadhead gets to gloat.

Plays well, "the demoting worked, he now listens, etc..."

Plays poorly, "see he isn't ready and you all are dumb"

Win/win for him.

Lol

 

[Striiker]

And if he does, deadhead gets to gloat.

Plays well, "the demoting worked, he now listens, etc..."

Plays poorly, "see he isn't ready and you all are dumb"

Win/win for him.

Lol

He’s gonna be furious when Sanheim hits his stride, same as how he hates that Ghost and Konecny are doing so great.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I skip right by some people’s posts.

 

[Flyerfan13]

Happy I missed this train wreck game.

 

[Delete99991]

Do i want to know what Clement is saying?
I am going to guess probably not.
There are reasons why I listen to the radio crew. I dont like verbal diarrhea

But then you'll miss his humorous why-I-oughta! And the awkward silence that follows!

 

[onlylordsvsmorebp]

barkov and the other russian were super impressive. how high was barkov drafted?

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

barkov and the other russian were super impressive. how high was barkov drafted?

2nd overall in 2013. It was a bit controversial at the time as Florida picked him over Drouin & Jones who went the next two picks.

It obviously worked out well for them. Drouin really hasn’t lived up to the expectations. Jones is pretty good but took him longer than it did Barkov to establish himself as a higher end player. So Barkov supplied more value on his ELC which is why forwards that high are typically more valued over defensemen.

 

[boxcar65]

Exactly...Sanheim and Morin were extremely high draft picks and they can’t even get out of the minors.

Sarcasm, guys.

 

[Tripod]

At least everyone else lost too yesterday except CBus and they are still 8 points back.

 

[Rebels57]

At least everyone else lost too yesterday except CBus and they are still 8 points back.

The cushion is really 10 points for us.

9 ahead of Florida plus we have tiebreaker.

 

[AdamParrot]

Ideal lines for wednesday:

1st line
Oskar-NP-Jake
Raffl-Laughton-Simmer
Leier-Filppula-Weal

Provy-Ghost
Sanheim-Gudas
Manning-Hagg (with high sheltered minutes)

But Hakstol's lines for next game:

1st line
Jake-NP-Simmer
Leier-Laughton-Raffl
Lehtera-Filppula-Weise

Provy-Ghost
Manning-Gudas
Hagg-Brennan

And Oskar will be a HS and learn from Lehtera's play.

 

[dats81]

Need to reinvent the controlled team effort that had them ride on an unlikely wave of success until recently.

Playoffs are almost guaranteed but it would be worthless to somehow sneak in as the lower WC seed on a losing streak to get torn apart by a contender.

 

[Tripod]

The cushion is really 10 points for us.

9 ahead of Florida plus we have tiebreaker.

See Florida is only 1 point back of CBus with 3 games in hand, so in my mind, they have passes them for the last spot which takes CBus out of the playoffs.

And CBus is 8 back but we do have the tiebreaker, so it's 9 back really.

Regardless, it would take a big collapse AND multiple teams getting hot for us to miss the playoffs.

 

[baudib1]

This was definitely a game where Simmonds was missed. 40 shots, many of them from the point without effective screens, 1 goal.

I'd love to see Simmonds on a line with Laughton and either Weal or Raffl, with the other moving down to the fourth line. It'd be a nice grindy line that would pop in the occasional goal.

 

[deadhead]

At this point, why does anyone care if Leier or Lehtera play - I've seen nothing from Leier this season that suggests he's a NHL player.

I thought everyone wanted Hakstol to ditch the scheme for more of a Lavi "wide open" game.
Of course, that would require the same depth as we had in 2010-2012.

 

[Amorgus]

Boy I'm REALLY glad I missed this one. I was afraid after seeing the final score that maybe someone important got injured. Nope, they just suck.

 

[BernieParent]

See Florida is only 1 point back of CBus with 3 games in hand, so in my mind, they have passes them for the last spot which takes CBus out of the playoffs.

And CBus is 8 back but we do have the tiebreaker, so it's 9 back really.

Regardless, it would take a big collapse AND multiple teams getting hot for us to miss the playoffs.

Hakstol says, "Hold my lite beer."

 

[backburner]

Ideal lines for wednesday:

1st line
Oskar-NP-Jake
Raffl-Laughton-Simmer
Leier-Filppula-Weal

Provy-Ghost
Sanheim-Gudas
Manning-Hagg (with high sheltered minutes)

But Hakstol's lines for next game:

1st line
Jake-NP-Simmer
Leier-Laughton-Raffl
Lehtera-Filppula-Weise

Provy-Ghost
Manning-Gudas
Hagg-Brennan

And Oskar will be a HS and learn from Lehtera's play.

Uh, is Claude out?

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Uh, is Claude out?

He wrote it as the 1st line, so it's implied he's on the 1st line.

 

[AdamParrot]

Uh, is Claude out?

Uh, what's 1st line? Yeah, it's G-Coots-TK line.

 

[tucson83]

The whining is out in full force, we lost to a team that had a day off, at home on an extended stretch, while we played a tough game on the road the day before.
And the primary reason we lost (0ther than Raffl and Ghost getting caught on breakaways and Gudas and Voracek colliding for another) was that Luongo at 38 (.928%) is a better goalie than Mrazek.

The Florida "juggernaut" is primary the product of tanking and patience:
Barkov #2 (2013), didn't emerge until he was 21
Ekblad #1 (2014)
Huberdeau #3 (2011), didn't emerge until he was 22
Trocheck #64 (2011), didn't emerge until he was 22
Bjugstad #19 (2010), starter at 21, but has flatlined
Matheson #23 (2012), starter at 22

Even then they're not a good team without Luongo, with Reimer starting they're 16-13-5.

Nothing surprising about this game, we made some mistakes and a hot goalie shut us down.
I'm still focused on 95 points, which given our goalie play would be seriously overachieving.
Anyone who thinks you could coach this team to much more with this bottom six, bottom four, and below average goalies, please send me what you're smoking.
There's a reason Hextall wasn't trading assets at the trade deadline, he knows what he has and he knows this team is two years away - which is why it shouldn't surprise anyone if we struggle on the road against the better teams in the NHL.

By the way, does anyone still think playing Leier and Oduya is an upgrade?
A scrub is a scrub is a scrub.

TRUST THE PROCESS.

dead, what's the difference between the flyers and panthers, they can score goals and we cant, end of story. i hate trust the process, it's more like trust the bs.

 

[onlylordsvsmorebp]

they can score goals and we cant,

been a while since i felt we were dominated like that...they just seemed to be bigger stronger faster and their forwards more skilled... they could have had more goals too. mrazek is not the answer either....his positioning is hilarious...half the time our net is wide open...its ****ing unnerving.

 

[FlyersMania2]

But then you'll miss his humorous why-I-oughta! And the awkward silence that follows!

Clement used to have such random, hilarious things to say. Now he sounds like an organizational hack trying to sell us players we don't want. I miss Coatesy - I listen to him on the radio sometimes and quite frankly we all made fun of Coatesy but he offers more intellectual commentary than Bundy

 

[onlylordsvsmorebp]

2nd overall in 2013. It was a bit controversial at the time as Florida picked him over Drouin & Jones who went the next two picks.

remember hearing his name but just dont remember him going that high...weird cuz do remember the seth jones hype tho...

 

[VoiceOfTheFlyers]

So how did Provorov look yesterday? I had to miss the game due to a work emergency.