Post-Game Talk: Flyers 5, Penguins 1 - It's Lit

[KIRK]

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[EightyOne]

Special teams and shot placement killed em.

That is all.

Pens in 5 still. Flyers didnt even shut us out on our worst night. They should still be scared.

 

[Beau Knows]

Well that wasn't very good.

 

[tom_servo]

Not ideal.

 

[3074326]

No sustained offensive pressure, very few scoring chances. The ones we had should have been goals. Murray wasn't the reason we lost, but it wasn't his best game.

The officiating was absolutely terrible, but we were going to lose anyways.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Special teams weren't good. But if the 5v5 chances go similar to that going forward, we're winning this series in 5 or 6.

 

[KIRK]

What was different tonight:

1. Pens didn't get the bounces. The Flyers did.
2. Elliott didn't implode.
3. Flyers adjusted . . . passive 1-2-2 for all but scoring lines, backed up 4 on the PK.
4. Sid didn't bury his chances.
5. Wes Macauley . . . no words.

EDIT: Horny losing his ******* mind doesn't help.

 

[Tom Hanks]

We played well enough to win but Philly got lucky and had the refs on their side

 

[ncm7772]

Just move on to Game 3. No sense dwelling.

Had chances. Didn't score.

 

[SirBrad]

Oh well, just like Wednesday was only a win, tonight was only a loss. Down to best of 5 although they lost Home Ice advantage in the process.

 

[Ryder71]

We were out executed on special teams, with positioning and in net. Philly clearly made adjustments and were much better in taking away our time and space.

 

[HuskerTornado]

Shameful officiating.

Hit 3 goalposts.
Sid missed a wide open net.
Sid blew his breakaway attempt.

Abomination of a first 5 minutes of the 3rd buried them.

Philly's PK owned the Pens PP for the most part, except for when Sid missed the open net.

 

[crossicepass]

Well, I'm glad I didn't drop $500 on that

 

[LOGiK]

For the entire on ice officiating:

 

[Hank Plank]

4 goals on 19 shots. eeeeeeew.

 

[Sideline]

Penguins hit iron 4 or 5 times.

Sid missed a breakaway and an open net.

Brassard and Jake missed on one timers from the slot.

Flyers got some breaks with the reffing.

Meh. Can't go 16 and 0. Penguins in 5.

 

[Ragamuffin Gunner]

- tang
-pk
-mm
-pp
-sid
-phil
-stupid penalties
-refs

f*** it, everyone gets a minus tonight

have to get a split in philly

 

[Brandinho]

I'm expecting a lot of hot takes after this one, so I'll keep it brief and then I'm going to go enjoy some adult recreation. Cole noted the other day that we had all the puck luck going our way, which likely turned a 3-0 sort of result into a 7-0 spanking. The same thing applies to tonight, except reversed. If the shots that hit the posts went in, if Sid hadn't shot it through the empty crease, etc, the outcome is very different. We didn't play well, particularly on special teams, but I'm not reading more into it than that. This was the one game we always seem to throw away. We're still the vastly superior team. Sullivan has always done a good job of resetting the team after a loss like this. All that's changed is that the series is going to take longer than would be ideal. Maybe I'll second guess that if we drop consecutive games, but I don't see that happening. All of the Flyers critical flaws were still on display, we just didn't capitalize on any of them.

PS. Wes McCauley should be keelhauled.

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

2 takes:

The officials sucked

Pens didn't finish

Get 'em in game 3.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Penguins hit iron 4 or 5 times.

Sid missed a breakaway and an open net.

Brassard and Jake missed on one timers from the slot.

Flyers got some breaks with the reffing.

Meh. Can't go 16 and 0. Penguins in 5.

yep. If you replay the exact same scoring chances 100 times, I bet we come out of this game with 4 goals more often than 1 and they come out with 1 or 2 more often than 4. We didn't execute, and they got some bounces.

 

[WayneSid9987]

You know that thing where we said these lines and Kuhn in will be enough to beat PHI?
May have to re-think that.

That nothing call on ZAR and PHI scoring on that PP set the tone.
They or shall i say Sid had chances to get them back in...needed to convert.

Credit PHI and Elliot tonight.
Need to steal one in their barn now.

 

[canadianguy77]

Not often you can sweep a team nowadays. Filthy took a page out of Ottawas playbook when they were up a couple. Makes sense, because it will work close to half of the time if your team is outmatched.
Murray needs to be better, and so do the top 9. Those gingers aren't going to roll over and die. These guys should know that.

 

[PensandCaps]

Few unlucky bounces..especially the Crosby miss..

Outplayed them 5v5. This is the rangers series from 2016 all over again. Flyers don't scare me at all. Brian Elliott got super lucky this game.

 

[td_ice]

Well, we gotta answer on Sunday, just like the Flyers did in this game.

You got a lopsided loss, you gotta rebound. They did it, now it's our turn.

 

[flaneur]

sigh. it's frustrating because it was a winnable game.

oh well. onwards and upwards.