The Ended Flyers Thread

The Flyers did squander a few early PPs (not saying Ghost would have helped, but he couldn't have hurt).

Farabee has young legs, a high hockey IQ, and is skilled offensively and defensively. He could be used on pretty much any line. He's going to be overmatched sometimes, but is too versatile not to play. I understand the argument for Raffl/JVR/Farabee, but I think Farabee is the only one out of those three that can play on the top line. It just seems wrong not to play him after the first game (as long as all are healthy).

Even though I'm not a fan, I can see how Hagg would fit into the scheme tonight. Not sure I would have done the same, but I get it.

I just want to see better hockey.

Hadn't heard about Hawerchuk. I enjoyed his brief Flyers stint.

Crazy that Hart only had one shutout before this series and hes managed back to back shutouts here.

Also hard to believe the Flyers won a day game. Looks like the got this series. Meanwhile the Capitals are a tire fire and are down 3-0 to the Islanders and could be eliminated tonight. So the Flyers would have likely have the Islanders next if both series go as it looks they will, unless somehow the Blue Jackets come back and win their series against the Lightning.

Isles will not be an easy series if we get there. Gotta finish off Montreal first, though... if some of their posts start bouncing in it could get scary...

Flyers win in 6

Well, neither of them played in May, anyway.

That turned into a tough (and feisty) series, very glad it didn't go 7.

Flyers blow a 3-0 and are headed to overtime.

Islanders are our kryptonite. We suck against them.

Flyers luck out and win quickly in OT.

Win the home game and try and get it to 7

Isles are a buzz saw in the bubble. Can't find a way to score on them.

Flyer's top players are really struggling--they don't even look comfortable on the ice.

I'm liking the Farabee-Hayes-Konecny line. Farabee is an incredibly smart player. Reminds me of Couturier with a splash of Forsberg passing.

Aside from Couturier, the top line is struggling. Giroux hasn't done anything since the restart. However, the real issue is the bottom two lines which seem useless. I wish Frost would have been an option. You could put him on the top line and move Voracek down to make a feasible 3rd line. Losing Lindblom and Patrick really hurt the depth of the team.

The bottom lines seemed like their strength in the preliminary games. But they were outworking and out-defending everyone back then. The Isles are just a classic Flyers thorn - never mind the '70s, it is Trotz and Lamoriello now.

If we'd said second-round loss in October that would have seemed fine. And despite the #1 seed they might have been better off playing in April (even though it seemed like it might help them get Patrick back, and Lindblom may yet return).

Well, they weren't really a #1 seed, they were hot when the season was interrupted, but were still 4th when it was, winning three meaningless games to get the #1 seed doesn't mean they were the best team in the East. Still going into the season, we wanted playoffs and second round, we would have been happy with that. It was a weird season with Lindblom's illness and Patrick gone for the year. I think they squeezed the most our of the talent on the roster. Hart should keep getting better, there are still plenty of young talent on the team and in the system. I just wish they had a legitimate 100 point star on the top line. I love Giroux, but 1 goal in his last 26 playoff games, Danny Briere he is not.

The top four yearly salaries in order are Giroux, Voracek, Hayes and Van Riemsdyk, and all of those guys haven't done much in the playoffs (Voracek actually did have a decent series vs. the Canadians). They are kind of hamstrung by those salaries going forward, and if they don't produce, they won't win anything before the young players become expensive too and the cycle continues.

Yes, that's why I said "despite the #1 seed." Had they played in April it might have been a first-round loss to the #5 Penguins, but the lack of interruption and actual home games also could have helped.

The seed should still matter though, inasmuch as we got to play the 12th-best regular-season team and now we're playing #7. But the bubble does seem to have a levelling effect. Our success in the play-in games definitely raised my expectations but even if this series was 2-2 it was going to be a lot tougher to beat Boston or Tampa over 7.

This is what a five year rebuild looks like. The stars at the start begin to age out. Now the new wave is coming but it still needs time to mature. Rest assured that in two years time few opponents will relish coming into the WF building and having to face Hart behind Provorov, Sanheim, Myers & Co. The Flyers will need more fire power up front, down the middle. There is a lot of potential strength on the wings with all of the young guns in the organization. Again, like with the defensemen, two years to mature physically and to add some experience. The Flyers are becoming a force. It takes steps forward and patience.

Flyers stave off elimination with a crazy overtime win, where they took a 3-1 lead deep into the 3rd peried and the Islanders scored two quick goals to send it to overtime, where Hart made a couple great saves to keep them in it before Laughten ended it with a deflection of a Provorov shot.. They lost Couturier early in the game as he banged knees with Barzal and limped off the ice, and he was not able to return.

If Couturier is out for the next game or longer, I wonder if they bring up Frost, or maybe even Lindblom!