Post-Game Talk: ECQF 3 (Flyers lead series 2-1): FLYERS 1 vs. Canadiens 0, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020

[Here4ThaLids]

THE 4TH LINE HAD THE MOST 5v5 ICETIME

Meanwhile...

Giroux-Couturier-Jake = 66.67 CF%, 90.88 xGF%
Anyone complaining about any of the three is out of their minds.

In a one-goal game, to boot! It's not like the top guys were out there on fifteen full power plays and needed the breather, or it was a laugher and the time was (rightfully) spread out.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Uh, he’s a dog... maybe that’s how dogs talk?

Have you ever heard a dog talk?

I have seen your Very Good Boy and I believe him to be capable of better, yes.

 

[Striiker]

lel I never said I was just talking about the players

I wanted them to come out and give the kind of response Lavy would want. I get that they got their ultimate "response" by getting an early lead and slowly choked the opponent out, but f***.

The kind of response you want isn't possible with the current lines/pairs. They're all busting their asses, even the trash players, but their ability is severely capped by a mix of bad players, bad lines/pairs, bad systems, and bad usage.

 

[Beef Invictus]

The team looks bad because you people like Scooby Doo

 

[Rebels57]

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The team looks bad because you people like Scooby Doo

The team looks bad because you people don’t like Scooby Doo.

 

[GapToothedWonder]

Tk is really struggling

I think TK actually looks like he has some jump to his game, but Laughton and especially Hayes have been rough. Hayes hasn't looked this out of place within the system all season, he has constantly skated himself into positions where he has zero clean options and only low probability plays to make.

Ill say it at again, Hayes has all star skills but is very much held back by his IQ, not that its atrocious but it is the bottle neck that holds him back. A team that plays the low event shut down hockey that the Habs do can very much expose that weakness in a player.

Couts is great, I see no flaws in the line up. The cup should be a lock.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I want to be positive, and it's not about style points in elimination games. But the Flyers game plan was to basically make the game as low event as humanly possible -- although Scott Laughton didn't get the memo -- and grind their way from an early 1 goal lead. Rely on the Couturier line, one defense pair (Sanheim-Myers), and goaltending. Against the 12th place team in the East. That's a strategy a team does because they LACK the talent advantage, not because they're the 1st seed.

Canadiens were a hair and a post off today. The Flyers did everything in their power, at evens and special teams, to not run away with the game. They probably beat the Canadiens this series, as they should. But these just aren't inspiring wins for a team that wants to go deeper. There's enough in this tape to not take this win for granted, but I smell a whiff of confirmation bias coming from tomorrow's coaching meeting.

The three forward lines (especially the bottom six), the bottom pairing, Niskanen, the PP, etc. we’re essentially winning in spite of these things right now. If we somehow win this series it’s not going to get any easier if these issues still exist.

Hart is essentially the biggest eraser in this whole equation right now that’s justifying the stupidity in not trying to correct these things.

 

[Appleyard]

The team looks bad because you people like Scooby Doo

Talk about toasted...

 

[GapToothedWonder]

Provy, Sanheim, Myers were all pretty great.

Hagg playing is much less of an issue than the bottom 6.

Which in itself is a huuuge issue.

Couts is great, I see no flaws in the line up. The cup should be a lock.

 

[Starat327]

The team looks bad because you people like Scooby Doo

The team looks bad because you people don’t like Scooby Doo.

This team looks bad because we continue to test out below replacement level players. Let's get this straight right now.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Today? Every game so far.

They made the problem even worse for this one.

The Flyers didn't suffocate anything in Game 2. They just got steamrolled.

 

[StarterHart]

The team looks bad because you people like Scooby Doo

The team looks bad because you people don’t like Scooby Doo.

The team looks bad because Michel Therrien is Scooby Doo.

 

[JXC]

I saw a defenseman who played it simple instead of getting exposed each and every time he's on the ice. When Ghost has the puck in the corner my heartrate is comparable to a breakaway on Bryz. What was he, minus-5 last game?

Gostisbehere is what he is. You can win with guys like that but your other defensemen have to be ROCK solid. Sure would be nice to see him on the power play.

Anyway, Gostisbehere has a chronic knee or hip problem; he can’t turn the way he used to, it seems stark to me when I watch him these days. Left knee maybe? They are some plays from last year where it’s obvious. It’s a shame.

 

[Striiker]

The Flyers didn't suffocate anything in Game 2. They just got steamrolled.

I was responding to “chose a low event style game today”.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

This team looks bad because we continue to test out below replacement level players. Let's get this straight right now.

You’re not giving enough credit to fan base intangibles playing a role in this series.

 

[Appleyard]

The Flyers didn't suffocate anything in Game 2. They just got steamrolled.

Yeh.

2.5 periods today they controlled play. It was not pretty play. But they controlled it.

3rd period of game 1.

was the only time in first two games they did that so far. (1st period of game 1 was good... but a bit pond-hockey-ish/runaway train.)

I hate the hockey they played. But it was effective. And not too "lucky" but generally effective.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The team looks bad because Michel Therrien is Scooby Doo.

Therrien is more of a Muppet than Scooby Doo.

 

[Starat327]

Therrien is more of a Muppet than Scooby Doo.

Therrien is scrappy doo, the worst type of doo.

The kind that should have never existed.

 

[Appleyard]

Therrien is more of a Muppet than Scooby Doo.

Cannot resist.

Tim Curry should have won an Oscar. Somehow he played a perfect Long John while surrounded by Muppets. And sang beautifully.



Now take Sir Francis Drake, the Spanish all despise him
But to the British, he's a hero and they idolise him
It's how you look at buccaneers that makes them bad or good
And I see us as members of a noble brotherhood

Some say that pirates steal and should be feared and hated
I say we're victims of bad press that's all exaggerated
We never stab you in the back, we never lie or cheat
We're just, in fact, the nicest guy you ever want to meet

 

[JXC]

This team looks bad because we have forgotten what playoff hockey sometime looks like - no time, no space, no art, no creativity, no formation or organization, no beauty.

 

[Flyer lurker]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">AV praises play of Hagg and Raffl; he thought the fourth line was among team’s best tonight.</p>&mdash; Sam Carchidi (@BroadStBull) <a href="">August 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Starat327]

I'm here to post the one beautiful thing we can talk about after tonight's game.

 

[AndHeMissedTheNet]

Michel already hard at work on the PP adjustments for game 4:

 

[Starat327]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">AV praises play of Hagg and Raffl; he thought the fourth line was among team’s best tonight.</p>&mdash; Sam Carchidi (@BroadStBull) <a href="">August 17, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Live and die by Thompson it is, then.

At least the flyers will get some rest before next season.