The Philadelphia Flyers 2024-2025 Season: Progressing Towards Lord Stanley's Cup

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Big, come from behind 3-2 win on the road, and also against a team that had already played a game a couple days earlier. Obviously, Ersson shut the door frequently throughout the 1st period and again late in the game (and shootout) to give us a chance. Konecny scores a clutch shootout goal to avoid what we all probably considered to be an inevitable SO loss. Frost then came in nice and slow and just sniped one low glove on Lankinen (who was out of place) for the W and the critical extra point. Huge reaction from Frosty, his teammates and everyone on the bench too.

Foerster and York had beautiful snipes in regulation to keep the game close and then to tie it late. Believe it or not, our power play ends up 1 for 4, or 25%. It's early, but that would be a massive improvement over last season's pace (more than double).

Ersson definitely stepped up to the plate and saved our bacon last night. We need to support him more and I think we started to rectify that in the 2nd, 3rd and OT. He then stops 4 of the 5 Canucks in the shootout and amazingly, both Konecny and Frost were able to beat Lankinen, who was also pretty good throughout the game.

Tough game for our youngsters, but I think that can be expected. Guys like Luchanko and Michkov just need to keep after it and the pay off will eventually come. Michkov already has vision, anticipation and passing abilities (overall offensive awareness) that we perhaps haven't seen on this team since Forsberg nearly 20 years ago. And by that time, Forsberg was pretty much in the twilight of his career and not the player he once was. This kid is still 19 years old and the sky is the limit. It's an exciting time, for sure.

Really liked the improvement on the Power Play. Spot on analysis Maverick, as usual.