Eastern Conference Quarterfinals Gamethread
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I'm not sure I like this move to automatically call goalie interference even if you're pushed in. What happened to just blowing the play dead and no penalty?
Or just call nothing. If Timonen pushed Pouliot into Mason, the Flyers shouldn't benefit by having the play blown dead while the Rangers are pressuring.The Napkin said:
I don't understand Philly's forwards' attitude defensively. Down a goal in a game 7 and everyone's doing fly-bys in the defensive zone.
And as I type it...
And as I type it...
Rangers look good, but you have to wonder wtf the Flyers defense in general is doing right now. Mason is the only reason it's 2-0.
You guys don't watch the Flyers much. Team defense is a work in progress. Its far better under Berube than it was under Lavy. The breakout now is much more of a single unit up the ice than before, although they still run around in their own zone when facing a good cycle. The upside is that their core is young, they have a solution in goal.
Mason's gonna go off on some people in the locker room. Totally being hung out to dry. It could be 4 or 5 or worse.
The Flyers look terrible. All their forwards went to the Blake Wheeler School of Entering the Offensive Zone
Couturier isn't terrible. He's not as good as Dougie or Brodin but....man, how excited were we when Hamilton fell in our laps? At least we know Chiarelli isn't an idiot. But yeah. Holmgren is brutal. Trading for MacDonald and trading away Meszaros? I'm not sure he really upgraded on that. Their blue line on the whole is just embarrassing. Hopefully, the forwards can take over in the third because, as much as I hate the Flyers, I do want to see this Pennsylvania series.PedroSpecialK said:
Fred in Lynn said:
Not at all - only that they didn't draft to fill a glaring need, and that the Bruins benefitted greatly from them passing on Hamilton. If anything, the bigger gaffe was Winnipeg drafting Mark Scheifele at #7 when he was projected to go mid-1st.
Had the Flyers drafted Hamilton, they could have kept JVR as Schenn would have been unnecessary. IMO a core including Hamilton/JVR is much better long-term than one with Luke Schenn/Couturier
Oh, a front office discussion. I'm in therapy over that. Still, I have a hard time criticizing that choice. Couturier will play a long time in this league, and it's hardly clear that Hamilton is much better. Your position of need thing rings true, but on a long-term, organization-wide level. And I'm not upset they traded JVR, but that they accepted only Schenn in return. Yeah, Homer needs to retire.PedroSpecialK said:
Huge play by Streit to poke that away from Nash. Giroux is playing some of the worst hockey I've seen from him
