GDT: #14 | Flyers at Lightning | Thursday, November 7, 2024 | 7:00 PM | ESPN+/Hulu

[CanadianFlyer88]

Tippett again.

Michkov sits out next game.

 

[Gert B Frobe]

That was kinda weird

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

 

[BigToe]

The funniest outcome is the Flyers winning. And then going on a winning streak. And Tortorella refuses to change the lineup. By funny I mean hellish.

It's all your fault

 

[CerpinTaxt]

Lol amazing. Fedotov had a good game

 

[Kelmitchell2]

We have to be living in a simulation

 

[BringBackHakstol]

Dumbass team

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Good for Fedotov. It would be stupid to give up on him after 10 games.

Flyers are boring and a trap game team. Teams will be lulled to sleep and every now and then Flyers will squeak out a win they shouldn’t

This team would be unwatchable without TK. He’s like the entire Flyers offense outside of Michkov on the PP and Tippett here and there

They still suck and TBL should be ashamed

 

[Curufinwe]

We’re 31! We’re 31!

 

[Coffee]

Team just might be legit

It was always early in the season to be panicking

 

[Hanover Fist]

Good win boys

 

[Angry Hockey Dad]

Idiots can’t even lose properly

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Nice for Fedotov to finally bag an NHL win. Tampa went easy on him in the shootout.

I really enjoy watching Andrae. Brink had some good moments today. Tippett's goal was a beauty.

Pretty pedestrian game, otherwise.

 

[deadhead]

Good game, missed the 1st but the rest was exciting, good goalie play kept the Flyers down to 1 goal, could have easily had 3 or 4, they were getting good shots on Val.

Farabee had his best game of the season, Couts is playing more like a top six center, but was a bit overused in this game. Michkov will probably replace Brink who was meh or DeLo. Do they keep that Couts line together? Risto is legitimate, people have to accept it. Andrae playing better each game, so is Drysdale. Both are mobile, but Drysdale is the best pure skater on the team, you can see why they're intrigued with him, really nice agility forwards and backwards. If his brain catches up to his skates he could be dangerous.

Players are breaking out of funks, Tippett goal in the last two games and very active.

maybe:
Tippett - Couts - TK
Farabee - Frost - Michkov
Foerster - Laughton - Brink
Richard - Cates - Hathaway

Fedotov is a work in progress, TB blew a couple prime opportunities, but he looks smoother and was tracking the puck well. Dilly is working hard with him. But they didn't sign him on a whim, two years ago he had a great PO run in the KHL.

 

[scumpup]

michkov is a bust guys guess we gotta trade him to ottawa...

 

[CerpinTaxt]

michkov is a bust guys guess we gotta trade him to ottawa...

For Giroux

 

[trostol]

Lol a 1-1 shootout is exciting

 

[DAVIDE1333]

Frost won't be here at the trade deadline. Maybe he shouldn't be. Might be better for a change of scenery. Risto and Laughton will still be though.

 

[WIP CALLER]

Good game, missed the 1st but the rest was exciting, good goalie play kept the Flyers down to 1 goal, could have easily had 3 or 4, they were getting good shots on Val.

Farabee had his best game of the season, Couts is playing more like a top six center, but was a bit overused in this game. Michkov will probably replace Brink who was meh or DeLo. Do they keep that Couts line together? Risto is legitimate, people have to accept it. Andrae playing better each game, so is Drysdale. Both are mobile, but Drysdale is the best pure skater on the team, you can see why they're intrigued with him, really nice agility forwards and backwards. If his brain catches up to his skates he could be dangerous.

Players are breaking out of funks, Tippett goal in the last two games and very active.

maybe:
Tippett - Couts - TK
Farabee - Frost - Michkov
Foerster - Laughton - Brink
Richard - Cates - Hathaway

Fedotov is a work in progress, TB blew a couple prime opportunities, but he looks smoother and was tracking the puck well. Dilly is working hard with him. But they didn't sign him on a whim, two years ago he had a great PO run in the KHL.

lol it was 2-1 low event shootout win… so “exciting”! Much fun! This organization is great and there’s nothing wrong! New era of orange baby!

 

[GKJ]

Good enough game for Fedotov to get some confidence since it appears this is a 3-way net for now.

I don’t really have a problem with Michkov sitting given the reasoning. No one trusts it because its the Flyers, though, and rightfully so. Picked the perfect game to do it, ESPN+ exclusive on the road, made it easy enough for people to ignore. there’s a load management trend setting up around the league for rookie players, because they don’t want them to hit the wall too soon. He’s never played 65 games in a season, in Russia, now you’re gonna try to get him to play 82 in the NHL. Not hard to see why that may not work.

 

[HeadLiceHatty]

If this organization is just going to ruin Michkov, I’d rather trade him he’s one of my fav prospects ever. I don’t even think I like the flyers as much as I use to I’m more into players and watching talent. I mean 15 years of absolute trash, hard to be mentally engaged in a team like this.

 

[mr4tno]

Frost decides nah don’t bother even trying to move the puck up ice

That right there is the Tortorella effect. If left to play with his instincts he takes it right up ice, but he is so scared of making a mistake. Mission accomplished - Tortorella has effectively neutered the creativity right out of him.

 

[flyersnorth]

Anyone else’s feed messed up? I just spent the entire intermission on a live cam of the ice with no sound lol

That's not messed up, that's bliss!

I had the same. No commercials (would just stay on the overhead ice cam). No talking heads during intermission. Just the ice cam.

Did I mention no commercials?

 

[CerpinTaxt]

Highlight of the game definitely was the camera panning up to the press box to catch Michkov absolutely not giving a shit

 

[flyersnorth]

If this organization is just going to ruin Michkov, I’d rather trade him he’s one of my fav prospects ever. I don’t even think I like the flyers as much as I use to I’m more into players and watching talent. I mean 15 years of absolute trash, hard to be mentally engaged in a team like this.

The Flyers are not ruining Michkov after 12 NHL games.

Kucherov only started playing in the NHL as a 20 year old. 18 points in 53 games.

And this happened.



MONTREAL — It is here in the city where the Tampa Bay Lightning are trying to dash hockey dreams that one of their most dangerous forwards redefined himself.

A year ago Nikita Kucherov was a healthy scratch for playoff games at the Bell Centre. He was a slightly stubborn soul and an occasionally unwilling pupil. By the time training camp opened in September, some inside the organization wondered if he would even crack the NHL roster.



His rookie campaign in the NHL had been filled with incredible highs and lows. There was a goal against Henrik Lundqvist on his first shift and first shot in the league, but also some tense moments with the coaching staff during prolonged periods of ineffectiveness.

When it came to the deciding games of a first-round sweep by Montreal, he was sitting in the press box.



Like so many young players finding their way in the NHL, the Russian had much to learn about his positioning away from the puck. Last spring, coach Jon Cooper couldn’t fully trust that he would make the right decisions under playoff pressure.

“We had some battles during the year,” Cooper recalled this week. “He made that conscious choice: ‘Do I want to be a hockey player and understand that being on the right side of the puck (is important)?'”

His offensive gifts were obvious — and got him drafted 58th overall by Tampa in 2011 — but they would only ever be of limited use if the coach didn’t feel comfortable having him on the ice when it mattered.

Needless to say, that is no longer a problem.



“I’ve grown a lot and learned how to play defence, how to play for the team and not for my own stats and everything,” said Kucherov. “Team-first and defensive-zone first and I think I understand the situation now and (how) I have to play there.”

“I’ve watched players go both ways,” said Cooper. “Some guys haven’t made the choice and they just still want to try to do it their way and there’s other guys that have said, ‘you know what, I’m going to be a complete hockey player.’

“Kuch made that choice, and he chose wisely.”