Anita L
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2-6 is not exactly crushing themYeah, we're good with that. Other than Philly running our players, we're pretty used to crushing them. They do have a promising goalie, tho, RIP BOB.
2-6 is not exactly crushing themYeah, we're good with that. Other than Philly running our players, we're pretty used to crushing them. They do have a promising goalie, tho, RIP BOB.
I don't know how anybody is blaming Murray for anything last night.
Okay. Phil, though... I've never seen him look so bad before. He's gone through rough stretches before, but this another level.
He didn't suck. He deserves blame, absolutely - but compared to the actual efforts by the three I mentioned, he's not in the same stratosphere.
The shots on net were not particularly special, despite NBC doing everything they could to pump Hart.
We allowed only two goals, neither of which was the fault of any defenceman, you yourself say Murray was lucky, and yet you blame two defencemen the most? And Phil was bad but he did have the primary assist for the goal which was going to be the GWG if not for Sid's brainfart.
Not true at all, Schultz alone had like three glorious chances.
BUT, BUT.... HE'S A POINT PER GAME PLAYER!!!!!
Yeah man, there are plenty of folks who are over it. Guentzel is the clear cut choice for PP1 but is the more complete hockey player and A) Will get his points elesewhere, and B) Won't sulk for not getting top unit time.
The classic Phil wrister is a thing of the past. The best we'll see is the hard skate, stop/turn, look for Geno pass. I don't think he's had one single breakaway wrister this entire season (though i've seen one or two forced shots with defenders smothering him). He's a guy who, when not doing the one hockey thing he's good at - is noticeably bad. For whatever reason - Sheary could be the product of Sid and get criticized for his lack of production away from Sid, and his one-dimensional play-style, but a player who is exponentially more expensive, who has the exact same issue (away from Geno/away from PP1) gets a pass from the entire fanbase because he likes hot dogs. As we all know - he's not our biggest issue though...and lord knows what GMJR would do with the cap space if he was dealt.
Wow. You realize he's 30+ goal seasons while playing next to Tyler Bozak, right? That's the main reason people haven't completely written him off. You put him a competent passer and he's good. The biggest problem with Phil right now is how he's approaching the game. He - and by extension his line - will only take off once he gets his **** together.
We're people of different philosophies if you think that because Phil put the shot on net it excuses him for everything else. I'm no stat watcher, but that's just not the way I do takeaways from games. Ironically, Sid can have a great, strong, hard working game - but you blame him for two shifts, therefore his game is bad. Phil can have an assist yet blow chunks the other 95% of his ice time and have a good game?
We had zone time but not many quality shots on net (and definitely not many he was directly responsible for saving).
To say Murray saved the day is asinine.
I understand the frustration but it's kind of insane how the "Phil is dead" talk supersedes any talk of him, for whatever reason, simply not playing well for half a season. If Phil starts bringing it, all will be forgotten. I'm willing to stay patient. Looking motivated and simply scoring a goal early in the first round absolves a lot of sins once it happens.
Also Phil is right-handed, can enter the zone with the puck (granted he's had some eff ups this year) and without question is a better passer than Jake. That is why he's in that spot on the PP so I don't know why that was brought up. Not every coaching decision is an inherent criticism of another player. Jake is the man but he doesn't belong on that spot on the PP.
Phil is no longer a fit on this team regardless of his talent.
If he’s trying to be a set up man on the Malkin line. He has no fit, especially with Hornqvist as our third line RW and Jake, McCann and Rust all succeeding on the top line.
The argument has been he creates on our power play. But he’s been pretty terrible there for nearly a calendar year. He’s not 26 anymore, everything in his game points to a Heatley style decline.
Wow. You realize he's 30+ goal seasons while playing next to Tyler Bozak, right? That's the main reason people haven't completely written him off. You put him a competent passer and he's good. The biggest problem with Phil right now is how he's approaching the game. He - and by extension his line - will only take off once he gets his **** together.
Phil is no longer a fit on this team regardless of his talent.
If he’s trying to be a set up man on the Malkin line. He has no fit, especially with Hornqvist as our third line RW and Jake, McCann and Rust all succeeding on the top line.
The argument has been he creates on our power play. But he’s been pretty terrible there for nearly a calendar year. He’s not 26 anymore, everything in his game points to a Heatley style decline.
Since when is 73 points in 73 games terrible?
It wasn't so much the number of mistakes Crosby but their nature, you expect better even from a rookie in such situations, let alone a superstar Selke candidate who has a history of torching the Flyers.
Please explain how a shot can be saved without the goalie being "directly responsible" for saving it. And I contend that we had a lot of chances. If the PP had half a clue we would have probably had over 50 shots too.
And I still don't understand how two of our D were apparently terrible yet the Flyers couldn't create much. Then again you also claim Phil is getting a pass from all the fans despite having been lambasted regularly on this very forum for months.
Frankly, if they had Simmonds in last nights game we probably lose 3 or 4-1 with the effort our offense showed. Things felt very different compared to normal flyers games (minus the slew foot on Dumo) yet we couldn't do anything.
92 points last year when he was also apparently terrible for half the season as well. I'm not saying I'm not at all worried about Phil, but it's getting absurd.
So you're saying Hart was spectacular last night? I don't think so. We had zone time but not many quality shots on net (and definitely not many he was directly responsible for saving).
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Since when is 73 points in 73 games terrible?
92 points last year when he was also apparently terrible for half the season as well. I'm not saying I'm not at all worried about Phil, but it's getting absurd.
Since when is 73 points in 73 games terrible?
Heatley was never a great skater, or even close. Completely different situations.
BUT, BUT.... HE'S A POINT PER GAME PLAYER!!!!!
Yeah man, there are plenty of folks who are over it. Guentzel is the clear cut choice for PP1 but is the more complete hockey player and A) Will get his points elesewhere, and B) Won't sulk for not getting top unit time.
The classic Phil wrister is a thing of the past. The best we'll see is the hard skate, stop/turn, look for Geno pass. I don't think he's had one single breakaway wrister this entire season (though i've seen one or two forced shots with defenders smothering him). He's a guy who, when not doing the one hockey thing he's good at - is noticeably bad. For whatever reason - Sheary could be the product of Sid and get criticized for his lack of production away from Sid, and his one-dimensional play-style, but a player who is exponentially more expensive, who has the exact same issue (away from Geno/away from PP1) gets a pass from the entire fanbase because he likes hot dogs. As we all know - he's not our biggest issue though...and lord knows what GMJR would do with the cap space if he was dealt.
Kessel is a sniper who last sniped an even strength goal last year and a PP playmaker on the team that gives up an absurd amount of short-handed chances and allows the most short-handed goals. Sure, posters here can overdramatic but points don't really the whole story.
Since when is 73 points in 73 games terrible?