Why couldnt a guy like Zherdev?

Sometimes, you just have players that work hard shift after shift, and others that dont.

What is Lava doing that has Rinaldo and Grossman working their ass off every night, but the rest of the team takes shifts off game after game. Perhaps management needs to do a better job of identifying players that have better work ethic and arent so damn streaky when it comes to putting forth that effort.
- flyer_nutter

I think for the most part this team has very good work ethic, they just don't know how to properly use it.

kennedy has 3 goals this season. all against the flyers.
- flyfan1212

and there it is.

atta boy kimmo

that didn't take long.

The Pens dumped it in, and managed to keep possession along the boards for extended periods of time.

Exposing a slow D that has a hard time moving the puck, and forwards that get exposed along the boards. The Penguins didnt win that period through transition scoring, they won it by sheer puck possession time in the Flyers zone. How many times did the Flyers have the pens out-numbered along the wall and lose the puck?

At some point, even if Lava doesnt "preach" d-first hockey, the players have to look themselves in the face. Up 4-1 to this?
- flyer_nutter

Nothing to do with a slow D. Absolutely it was one in transition. How do you think you get puck possession time in the Flyers zone? They skated the puck through the neutral zone the entire period unchallenged. Easy entries. And when you don't challenge player and allow them speed through the neutral zone, it's easier for them to retreive pucks.
With a team that is well Coached with a solid defensive structure. With the bounces the Flyers got in the first. The game is over.

Great start to the 3rd huh?

Awesome. Great start guys.

oh my

Bye bye.

"The answer" is obvious... you put in Brian Bou....cher?

season ender??

WTF......................................................

nice whiff kimmo. so, so, so bad.

season ender??
- griouxmvp2012

Just pack it in

That was unbelievable. Two forwards on their stomachs in the offensive zone once again leaving the defense and goalie hanging in the breeze.

How do the Flyers just s$&@ the bed. This is a joke.

season ender??
- griouxmvp2012

Season ender

Laviolette tenure ender

Why couldnt a guy like Zherdev?

Sometimes, you just have players that work hard shift after shift, and others that dont.

What is Lava doing that has Rinaldo and Grossman working their ass off every night, but the rest of the team takes shifts off game after game. Perhaps management needs to do a better job of identifying players that have better work ethic and arent so damn streaky when it comes to putting forth that effort.
- flyer_nutter

Don't know. But Rinaldo played his ass off in the first period, then had 3 shifts in the second period, for 2:46 of ice time.

It's completely illogical coaching.

that didn't take long.

- FlyerGuy

think of it this way: it gives them the whole period to get it back.

this is my biggest issue. their inability to win battles in their own end, or even when they do, they still have a very difficult time getting it out when pressured by the other team. eventually the puck ends up in the back of the net.

to blow a 3 goal lead - especially when having scored the 4th goal with 5 seconds left in the period - is inexcusable. that said, i've seen this script of scoring 4 goals in a period, chasing the goalie, and going limp the rest of the game far too many times in the last several years. it doesn't surprise me in the least.
- hammarby31

A lot of these consistency issues were here even with Stevens. A large number of the players have been switched over, and so has the coaching staff. What has remained the same? Scouting and management.

This organization does a piss poor job identifying talent that CONSISTENTLY works hard.

Its not all doom and gloom to be, but they need to ship a few guys out to shovel the sidewalk and give this team a real infusion of guys that work hard first and foremost. That is what makes the best players, the best players. Not a system. Or a coach.

The issues here are larger to me than an indetity, or a certain defending/attacking scheme.

Boucher's lateral movement there looked like he was in super slow motion.

How many starting goalies in the NHL have sub .900 save %?

this season sucks but i am excited for the future