GDT: #56 | Penguins at Flyers | Saturday, Jan 8, 2025 | 7:00 PM | NBCSP, 97.5 FM

Watched an extended highlight package for this one; didn't have the desire to watch the whole thing after the fact...

Kuzmenko flashed some nice skill. Good for him to have more positives than negatives in his debut.

Looked like Michkov had a game to forget. Did the Abols-Couturier-Michkov line stick?

The Hathaway goal was very reminiscent of the Marc-Andre Fleury gaffe vs the US at the World Juniors.



That was actually a really nice goal by our ol' buddy Kev.

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So Pens suck even more than Flyers?
All depends on how you look at it....
- they played without their top 3 offensive weapons (don't come back with Tippet, Poehling) and still doubled the Flyers shot total
- they played their back-up goalie
- they were on the second game of a back-to-back
- the Flyers needed one of the luckiest goals you will ever see just to keep it from overtime
 
I know at one point, shots were triple for pens. In Philly…
Wild luck in this one.
Total 5v5 Shot attempts were 77-40 for pens. Scoring chances 40-21, HD scoring chances 17-6. xG was 3.25-1.55.

Throughly stomped from an analytical perspective. I passively watched this one, it didn’t seem quite as bad as the stats suggest to me, but nonetheless, that’s what they were.
 

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