An Uncomfortable Look At The Standings

by Travis Hughes on Mar 1, 2009 11:26 PM EST in Commentary

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standings as of Sunday night

A quick glance at these Eastern Conference standings makes you feel a lot less comfortable about the Flyers circumstances. A few days ago, as the Flyers were coming off of wins versus Washington and Los Angeles, things looked a lot better. The orange and black were four points ahead of the Canadiens and they were seemingly ready widen the gap between the fourth and fifth seeds to a six point margin.

Now, thanks to Montreal's four-straight-surge, the Habs are right on the Flyers door step. The Panthers withstood a hiccup yesterday against the Devils and cruised against the Capitals today. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh has climbed back into the top eight for what seems like the first time in months, and even they are within striking distance of the Flyers.

Nothing is guaranteed right now, and the Flyers need to step it up. It starts with a tough road game on Tuesday night in Boston, and hopefully the Flyers will have Kimmo Timonen and Claude Giroux to complete a healthy, stacked lineup and provide a much needed boost.

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These games in hand are huge, and let me sleep at night. As it is, I’m not too worried about making the playoffs, and am pretty sure we’ll hold on to fourth to boot.

Swing by The Flyer Frequent if you have nothing better to do.

by Ben Rothenberg on Mar 2, 2009 2:18 AM EST reply actions

Games in hand

Those games in hand are the first thing I keep noticing. Even if we only got one point per game in the two, we’d be up three on Montreal. Three points can’t be made up in one game. Although, if we keep playing like we forgot that winning is the goal, even those games in hand can’t save us. I think a big move, like acquiring Bouwmeister (sp?) from Florida could be the shake-up we need to get back on track.

As always, Go Flyers!!!

by chillicothe20 on Mar 2, 2009 12:40 PM EST up reply actions

The cost of confusion

What we saw recently is the cost of the confusion involved in all the working around the salary cap the Flyers have been doing. In order for a team to hit on all cylinders, you need some stability — not having to throw guys up on waivers and bouncing guys up and down like pinballs, especially when that involves one of your best rookies in Claude Giroux. Bringing Briere back right now is a necessary but disruptive situation across the board, because lines have to be juggled in order to figure out where he’s going to play.

by Gizmoitus on Mar 2, 2009 4:21 AM EST reply actions

Timonnen needs to come back right now. after seeing how weve played this past week its easy to say hes our second most valuable player after Mike Richards. you could even argue he is our most valuable player because we have a lot more depth ta forward than we do on defense.

I wear, theres some sort of curse that says the flyers arent allowed to be fully healthy at any point in a season.

by njh3293 on Mar 2, 2009 9:20 AM EST reply actions