deadhead
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- Feb 26, 2014
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Are you planning Seppuku if Ersson/Fedotov turn out to be a good pair of goalies, the team stays healthy and makes the playoffs?I need it to be October to watch this team suck and everything gets exposed.
The variance of outcomes for this team is probably as great as any team in the NHL, a goalie meltdown could leave them in the bottom ten, a healthy Couts and emerging Michkov could put them in the top ten.
They finished ahead of NJ and those high draft picks despite having worse goalie play.
They were better at 5x5 than the Rangers,
xGF 52.30% v 49.28%, HDCF 53.32% v 49.64%
the difference between the teams was Shesterkin and the Flyers inability to finish on the PP
PP xGF 51, GF 32 v xGF 63, GF 65
Replacing Atkinson with Michkov improves depth, other than that, rest of improvement would have to come from young players taking their game up another tier.