2019-20 Quest for the cup(The Carter Hart era begins)

[lasgop8]

I am going to go with Morgan Frost for the first tally tonight.

 

[lasgop8]

Preview: Flyers look to extend winning streak to three over Islanders

Looks like Bunnaman gets to hit the press box.

 

[purdue81]

Going with Teapot

 

[chy1127]

TK tonight.

 

[chy1127]

Just spent futile minutes on CapFriendly website, trying to figure out how the Pens could afford this..... I'm more confused than ever....

Zucker is $5.5 m and I was surprised to see Galchenyuk is $4.9 m. The Pens also have 4 dmen under $1.0 m. And they still have more cap space than us

 

[mall3013]

I'll go with Giroux tonight. Let's move ahead of the Islanders tonight.

 

[mall3013]

I am going to go with Morgan Frost for the first tally tonight.

frost is not in lineup tonight @lasgop8 . Try again!

 

[mall3013]

fuck Elliott sucked. So much for moving up. The Islanders have our number this season.

 

[raptorlife4]

Tough loss but lots of heart to come back.
That last shift killed us.

 

[Chris p Bacon]

You have to play a complete 60 minutes, otherwise you'll lose the game.

 

[purdue81]

fuck Elliott sucked. So much for moving up. The Islanders have our number this season.

I'll wait for the experts to wake up this morning, but I'm not so sure I'd pin this one on Elliott. The Islanders were buzzing all night. Barzal looked like " The Flash "... "The Blue Flash"

First goal is a deflection off of Pitlick. Second goal is a two on one breakaway - Laughton did what he could, Teapot coasted in late to not cover. On the Isles third goal, Coots was on his knees and Giroux had his back to all the action that was going on behind, then in front of the goal...

I nearly came out of my skin on the next to last Power Play for the Flyers. There was a scrum behind the Isles net... one Flyer and what appeared to be 3 Islanders.... Giroux was roaming around between the top of the circle and the Blue Line - totally uncovered... Instead of putting himself in position to score, he just coasted FURTHER away from the net. This is just pure mental retardation..... head not in the game, and what absolutely drives me crazy about him.

Sure, we scored and tied with the extra man.... and the shot that beat Elliott for their fourth goal was and absolute laser guided howitzer.

 

[lasgop8]

TK tonight.

Nice call.

 

[lasgop8]

frost is not in lineup tonight @lasgop8 . Try again!

What a dumb move to sit Frost and bring back Farabee early. Some of AV's moves are mind boggling.

 

[lasgop8]

Tough loss but lots of heart to come back.
That last shift killed us.

Why in the world is JVR out there with a minute to go in a tie game??

 

[lasgop8]

You have to play a complete 60 minutes, otherwise you'll lose the game.

Agree the first period killed us last night.

 

[lasgop8]

I'll wait for the experts to wake up this morning, but I'm not so sure I'd pin this one on Elliott. The Islanders were buzzing all night. Barzal looked like " The Flash "... "The Blue Flash"

First goal is a deflection off of Pitlick. Second goal is a two on one breakaway - Laughton did what he could, Teapot coasted in late to not cover. On the Isles third goal, Coots was on his knees and Giroux had his back to all the action that was going on behind, then in front of the goal...

I nearly came out of my skin on the next to last Power Play for the Flyers. There was a scrum behind the Isles net... one Flyer and what appeared to be 3 Islanders.... Giroux was roaming around between the top of the circle and the Blue Line - totally uncovered... Instead of putting himself in position to score, he just coasted FURTHER away from the net. This is just pure mental retardation..... head not in the game, and what absolutely drives me crazy about him.

Sure, we scored and tied with the extra man.... and the shot that beat Elliott for their fourth goal was and absolute laser guided howitzer.

I agree with all of this and id like to add something.

TEAPOT you are 6'3 217 maybe go down and block a shot and get us to overtime you big puss.

 

[awaz]

Why in the world is JVR out there with a minute to go in a tie game??

I did not like that either. I also didn't love Sanheim/Myers out there with a minute to go either.

In AV's defense, Couturier, Konecny, Giroux, Voracek, Provorov, and Niskanen were not really an option. They played like 6 of the previous 8 minutes between the two power plays and the 6 on 5. And they had already used their timeout. So AV went with Pitlick, Hayes, JvR, Sanheim, and Myers. He had to know Barzal was going to come out for the Isles since he probably didn't play many of those 6 minutes while the Flyers were making the push to tie the game. Barzal against Sanheim/Myers/JvR is not the matchup the Flyers would have wanted.

I guess there's something to be said for going for the 2 points in regulation. They had the momentum. And if you're going to try to get a second goal there, the 5 he threw out there are probably the best 5 for it given who was available.

Call me conservative, but I play for the point there. Battled back from 3 down against one of your primary playoff contenders. Get it to OT and go from there, especially since your top guys are all absolutely gassed. So Pitlick and Hayes were fine choices. But I would've preferred Laughton or Raffl to JvR. And on defense I could see having Sanheim out there, but I'd rather have Braun or Hagg out there instead of Myers in that instance. Or, if you want to keep the chemistry, I would've rather seen Braun and Hagg out there instead of Sanheim/Myers. At least get through one more shift and see where you are.

 

[awaz]

I'll wait for the experts to wake up this morning, but I'm not so sure I'd pin this one on Elliott. The Islanders were buzzing all night. Barzal looked like " The Flash "... "The Blue Flash"

First goal is a deflection off of Pitlick. Second goal is a two on one breakaway - Laughton did what he could, Teapot coasted in late to not cover. On the Isles third goal, Coots was on his knees and Giroux had his back to all the action that was going on behind, then in front of the goal...

I nearly came out of my skin on the next to last Power Play for the Flyers. There was a scrum behind the Isles net... one Flyer and what appeared to be 3 Islanders.... Giroux was roaming around between the top of the circle and the Blue Line - totally uncovered... Instead of putting himself in position to score, he just coasted FURTHER away from the net. This is just pure mental retardation..... head not in the game, and what absolutely drives me crazy about him.

Sure, we scored and tied with the extra man.... and the shot that beat Elliott for their fourth goal was and absolute laser guided howitzer.

Here's my thing though. You can get frustrated about Giroux's actions in that play, but he also had the primary assist on the 2nd and 3rd goal. And he has 6 points in his last 3 games. Earlier this week we posted about how important this week would be for the Flyers given all the games against either top contenders (WSH, TB) or teams they're battling for a playoff birth (FLA, CBJ, NYI). Giroux has shown up for those games so far.

TK misses a wide open net on the exact same PP where Giroux was roaming where you didn't want him to roam. But nobody mentions TK blowing a goal any one of us probably could've finished. Because everybody loves TK.

It's easy to find flaws with every player in the NHL, if you're constantly looking for them.

 

[awaz]

Zucker is $5.5 m and I was surprised to see Galchenyuk is $4.9 m. The Pens also have 4 dmen under $1.0 m. And they still have more cap space than us

So the Pens probably got a little better with that trade. And I get wanting to maximize your opportunities with Crosby/Malkin.

But they gave up a 1st round pick and one of their best prospects to swap a 17 point player for a 29 point player. That's a horrible trade value wise.

 

[awaz]

At least the Canes lost too.