Flyers have not played well as a team in this series, sure Thompson sucks, but he's not alone, when you look at the metrics, there's a whole group of players putting up a mediocre performance.
Bunnaman, Thompson, Pitlick, Farabee are double digit negative xGFrel.
Grant, JVR, Niskanen and Provorov aren't a lot better.
top dogs: Voracek, NAK, Couts, Raffl, Laughton, Braun and Giroux.
Voracek is playing some of his best hockey b/c he seems to have taken my advice to heart and is playing with more heart, he's been going hard to the crease and making things happen.
Not surprising 3 of our top performers are bottom six types, NAK, Raffl and Laughton.
They fit the profile of what I've always wanted in the bottom six, size, speed and some snarl, with a modicum of skill.
Sandin should add that next year, Pitlick tries but I'm afraid he's on the other side of his career trajectory.
Bunnaman, Laczynski, Twarynski, Sushko, Rubtsov and Cates may fit that in the future.
Farabee will when he fills out, but like Lindblom, just because he can do it, he's too good to waste in that role.
JVR should move up to the second line and Laughton down because of their relative strengths and weaknesses.
But for that 2nd line to work, TK really has to pick up his game.
