By Uppy
The Flyers beat the Florida Panthers 3-2 in OT to extend the win streak to 6 games, the first time the Flyers have had such a win streak since December of 2011. The Flyers are playing inspired hockey and have been getting the nitty gritty done over the last few weeks. It's unfortunate that we had to go to OT because we need to learn to stop allowing tying goals in the 3rd period, but gosh dangit the 3v3 OT is just so dern exciting. Therefore:
Now let's start highlighting the men in Orange. ALL ABOARD THE WAYNE TRAIN I tweeted it tonight and I'll say it again: Wayne Simmonds and I would be best friends. Simmer notched two more goals today, accounting for four over the last two games. His first was a bit of a different goal than he's used to as he sped through the neutral zone and ripped a low glove side shot past Reimer, but his second came as he parked his ass right in front of the net and deflected a point shot to take a 2-1 lead. Simmonds now has 8 powerplay goals on the year, the most in the NHL. His two goals tonight also put him in a tie for third in the league with 15. JAKUB VORACEK ROUGH start to the night for Jake. First he whiffs on a puck early, breaks his stick on a power play, then rings a puck off the pipe on a WIDE open chance from point blank range. THANK GOD Jake put home the OT winner (his 9th of the year) for the Flyers or we may have had to hide his belts from him for a while. STEVIE MASON Mason stopped 42 of 44 shots tonight, with quite a few of them being of the spectacular variety. Stevie got me out of my seat a few times during OT and I am forever grateful to that man. IVAN PROVOROV The 19 year old phenom is my new favorite Flyer. He just plays like a Philadelphia athlete. Always hustling, always making smart plays, and he made Jaromir Jagr his BITCH tonight. He took a dive on the wily vet and Jagr DID NOT like it. I was praying for them to drop the gloves for the sheer fact that I know Jagr would find a way to win that fight. You don't mess with a 44 year old hockey player no matter how young and Russian you are. You lose that battle. You lose that battle 9 times out of 10. Overall the Flyers are making me forget about the Eagles and be happy again. Dear Flyers win streak:
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By UppyThe Flyers beat the Nashville Predators 4-2 last night thanks to two powerplay goals from Wayne Simmonds, a disrespectful power move from Raffl, and an empty netter from Chris Vandevelde. The win gave the Flyers their fifth in a row and made them 5-1-1 this season in the second game of a back to back. That's a huge stat seeing as how the Flyers have won 5 games in 8 days. They are playing a lot of hockey right now and for the first time in a while, they are streaking in the right direction. I hate being a Philly fan because I'm just waiting for the 5 game losing streak that we'll inevitably start when we go on our 3-game homestand. That's what we do. We beat the Flames, Bruins, Senators, Blackhawks and Predators. Sexy. Now with the Panthers, Oilers and Stars coming to town, we'll probably shit the bed and watch Brandon Manning turn the puck over in our own zone for a couple of goals against and we'll be right back where we started last week. Speaking of goals against, Mason improved to 9-8-3 after making 26 saves last night. With Neuvirth out I'm still itching to see Stolarz in net more. Getting back on the good mood track, here's Raffl's goal that caused me to audibly shout in a quiet room while the game was on on my laptop last night: Excuse me Michael, you forgot to wash your hands. This is the goal I want to see more often. I feel like too often now we try to make the cute pass instead of just taking the puck to the net and getting good shots off. Well if you can use this type of #gritness to get past your defender then you do so 10 times out of 10 Mr.Raffl.
By UppyThe Rangers are coming to South Philly for a little Black Friday Metropolitan Division matinee action today. Read along as I give updates and my reactions to the game as it goes along. Expect some vulgarity and a lot of muppets to help me make fun of the Swedish monster that is Henrik Lundqvist. 1:15pm: Realized the game is on NBCSN which means we get Doc Emrick on the play by play. Oh happy day. Also, Emrick's got the SHAKES. Can't even hold the mic in the pregame show. 1:23pm: Can we please get rid of these 50th anniversary jerseys? 1:24pm: 20 seconds into the game and we're in the box good lord. 1:29pm:
HUGE 4 minute penalty kill. Love the aggressiveness to make the Rangers make mistakes. Great tone setter. Love the move by Hakstol: "Hey go take a 4 minute high sticking penalty so we can kill it off and get the people going" Genius. I see you.
Also loving Gudas and Provorov on the PK together. 1:41pm: DING DING DING!!!! KONENCY YOU DOG!! Flyers were going on the Powerplay for a bad hit on Brandon Maning so Konecny hits em with a crosscheck and takes him to the ground with the ground and pound! But FUCK they just announced Konency is getting two for instigating and a 10 minute misconduct. Bullshit he didn't even drop the gloves first. Let the kids play. Here comes my bitching and moaning. 1:45pm: Ryan McDonaugh just got hit with a screamer from the point and limped off the ice. Flyers need to capitalize. 1:51pm: UGH. Flyers are putting all the pressure on the Rangers and then Scott Laughton just coughs the puck up in the defensive zone and hands the Rangers the first goal of the game. 1:56pm: WTF.... Steve Mason just looked like a pee wee as Puempel beats him easily for the Rangers second goal. Stevie needs to shape up. 2:03pm: Brandon Manning off to a rough start. Gets hit from behind to start Konency's fight then takes a hit from Kreider and decides to drop the gloves at center ice. Manning stung him with a few jabs but took the L on the fight for sure. First period over Rangers up 2-0. The Flyers have been pushing the envelope on every shift but can't beat Hank just yet. Flyers gave up two soft goals so I'd be happy to see Mason pulled in favor of Stolarz before he lets up another softy. " 2:37pm: Why can't we control passes?????? 2:38pm: 3 on 1 and Giroux"s point blank shot goes off Lundqvist's face. Unreal. Flyers can't catch a break. 2:45pm: This is a joke. The Flyers are dominating this game but for the second time just give the puck away in our zone and line the Rangers up for a tic tac toe goal. What the fuck guys? 2:58pm: 2nd period over and I just have a bad taste in my mouth. This is what we get from the Flyers all the time. They play great but can't scrape across a goal and then just give up easy opportunities for opposing teams to capitalize and score easily on us. 3-0 Rangers and unless Hakstol's got some serious motivational speaking skills to light a fire under their ass for the 3rd, we can kiss this game goodbye. 3:18pm: Great news- the Rangers are 12-0-0 this season when leading after two periods. 3:19pm: ACTUALLY GREAT NEWS- Andrew MacDonald just chucks the puck in front and it ricochets in. Just the kind of break we needed. FUCK we're going to review.... GOOD GOAL LETS GO BABY!!! Flyers down 3-1 with 18 and a half minutes left in the game. 3:45pm: Stevie just stonewalled Grabner!! Keep us alive Mason! If they would've scored off another turnover I would've thrown out my TV. 3:52pm: GHOST!!!!!! Clapper from the point gets us down 3-2 with two minutes left. We're still alive!!!! 3:55pm: Fuck. Unreal finish. Crazy pressure by the Flyers in the last 3 minutes really thought we were pushing the third one across in all that. If G doesn't fan on that one timer from Ghost we may be heading to overtime as we speak. 42 shots and two goals. Fuck Lundqvist is good. He's the king for a reason. Fuck the Rangers. But thank you Flyers for that last two minutes so I don't have to sulk for the rest of the day. By UppyErik Karlsson and the Ottawa Senators came to Philly last night and Steve Mason did everything he could to stave them off but the offense refused to cooperate. Nick Cousins scored his second goal of the year on a beautiful breakaway move and Michael Raffl also added his second on a #gritty face off win from Bellemare, a great shot by Del Zotto (thanks Rangers), and an easy trash goal for Mikey. Steve Mason stood on his head all night, including the majestic 3 on 3 OT, which ended as a tie thanks to Stevie winning the battle in a 2 on 0 with Karlsson and Turis coming in HOT. Then in SHOCKING fashion, the Flyers failed to score in the shootout and Stevie finally got beat by Karlsson, who notched his 399th career point in the NHL, in the fifth and final round. He is now one point away from becoming the 12th NHL defenseman with 400 points. The Flyers now sit at 7-7-3 which is a travesty considering how well they've been playing. It just seems like we take every 3rd period off and put ourselves in bad situations. The offense needs to wake up and help this defense and our two great goalies out for once. But if we're talking goalies I will say one bad thing: if we get beat by another wrap around goal this year I'm gonna fucking lose it.
By UppyOh boy that was an interesting game. I've been flipping back and forth between the World Series so I didn't get to see the full 60+ minutes but I saw the greatest OT in sports- the 3 on 3 hockey OT- and I got enough of what I need. Larkin got an early goal but the defense stood tall in overtime. IDK who it was down low in OT but why they didn't pull the trigger is beyond me. Defense pokes the puck out to center, G picks it up, slides it to Scoracek and that's the ball game folks. Flyers have been playing good hockey even though their record doesn't show it. G leads the league in assists. Matty Read is playing insane hockey, and Provorov and Konecny have been everything as advertised. In great news, the Red Wings haven't won in Philly since 1997, which is surprising but super dope. Now I need to get my ass to the Wells Fargo Center for a game soon. In the meantime, let's go Cubbies!!
P.S These 50th anniversary jerseys are the WORST By UppyThe Ducks accounted for about 6,987 penalty minutes at tonight's home opener for the Flyers' 2016-2017 campaign, and yet the Flyers failed to make Corey Perry pay for tripping every person he saw, and fell to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, 3-2. The Flyers are confusing me. Provorov and Konencny were supposed to sling ice dong all across Philly, yet we've lost two of the first three. The rooks look great but the Flyers just can't scratch out these tough ones with good teams. The power play unit needs to get it together because they couldn't buy a scoring opportunity tonight.
Overall, the Flyers have been flying out but still need to put it all together. Still got 78 games left. P.S. Those 50th anniversary jerseys looked FLY By UppyWell that overtime was fun to watch.
I can sum this game up in a few words: the Flyers took too many dumb penalties. Plain and simple that's why the Flyers lost. Not one, but two too many men on the ice penalties and should've been called for a third. That can't happen to an NHL team. Despite the dumb penalties (the Flyers had five and were getting called for a sixth during the OT goal) both teams were fun to watch. Shane Doan and the kids out in Arizona were flying around the ice and Ghost and co. were getting the many Flyers fans in attendance out of their seats. The Flyers did a great job to fight and get back into this game as Wayne Simmonds helped tie it up. Wayne was then called for a high hit on Oliver Ekman-Larsson which resulted in him getting booed by the Coyotes crowd, which to be honest is just the worst for the NHL. Like oh the one black guy on the ice is getting booed, of course. I digress. The Flyers absolutely dominated the OT and had about 15 solid scoring chances denied by Max Domi while Mike Smith stood on his head. Ekman-Larsson puts in a solid goal and we go home with the L. Oh well a points a point. We're on to Chicago. By UppyMother. Fucker. In 2007, I had to deal with Patrick Kane being drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks when the Flyers rightfully deserved the first overall pick... and now you lay this shit on me! Wayne, why??? Why torture me more? You literally could've died with this secret like Mr.Snider did (R.I. fucking P). So August 9 marked the 28th anniversary of the trade that sent Wayne Gretzky to Los Angeles and changed two franchises forever, this we know. What I didn't know until today was that among the three possible landing spots for The Great One were the Detroit Red Wings and the Philadelphia Fucking Flyers (Patent pending on the name change). The argument has already arisen that to have acquired Wayne would've left us without the roster depth we needed to acquire Eric Lindros in 1992. Uh yea? So what? Obviously number 88 was a fantastic player for Philadelphia and was the reason I sported the number 88 on my hockey jersey as a child. But last time I checked, Eric Lindros isn't the greatest player to lace up a pair of skates. But you know who is? Oh look at that, it's Wayne Gretzky! Who knew?! Obviously, I would've never had the chance to watch the Great One anyway because I wasn't even a cell in my father's nuts at the time. But Mike Schmidt retired well before my time and I still rock number 20 to this day on the diamond because I know what Schmidty meant to my beloved Phillies. To know that I could've been sporting a sexy 99 Flyers jersey is like getting punched in the dick. Are you happy Wayne? You're one statement is already causing me physical pain. Now you're already like a Philadelphia athlete. Oh and one more piece of advice Wayne: You missed the chance to be a Flyer. Shame on you.
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