The airing of grievances: Holiday break begins with 5-0 Florida 'ass kicking'

I haven’t gotten to watch more than one game in the past two weeks. That sucks ass. Can’t wait for after the holidays when things are (hopefully) less crazy.

i love your recaps cause you post video/audio from players that the flyers dont, but who the EFF is that 12 year old in the suit thats always in the back of the media scrums? geez they let anyone in there.

but with all that talk last season about how jeff reese refined leightons game and turned water into wine and blah blah, well, how about with all these articles about with all the time off reese has gotten to work with bob, well it looks like hes completely ruined him, no?

BILL FUCKING THOMAS? REALLY? In all seriousness, these games happen, and they suck. Hopefully they learn from it and just move on and come back ready for this brutal road trip

Actually, we’ve been outshot more times than I thought we had. I wouldn’t have realized it if I hadn’t looked at the stats page when orangeandblack20 put up the FanPost about the league rankings. When we outshoot our opponents, we’re 10-5-4 in 19 games, and 11-3-1 when we were outshot in 15 games (for the record, shots were dead even in one game). I was surprised, I thought we were outshooting our opponents almost every time, but it’s more mixed. Problem is, by those numbers we have a better record when we’re outshot, and that definitely didn’t happen today.

I hope Lavy doesn’t punish them so much in practice tomorrow that the skills competition is absolutely no fun; as mikefive already pointed out it’s in jeopardy as is, but a bag skate or something of that nature could make it worse.

O’Donnell’s interview was near perfect.

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the Panthers play about as far (culturally speaking) from New York as possible

Great writeup, but South Florida in the winter is one of two shades of weirdness: Big Coin New York or Big Coin Quebecois. Ironically, both scored Stanley Cup victories in consecutive years while still managing to not tip well. Tradition continues to this day (minus the Cup-winning thing).

moon… zero. howl…meow.

I blame the eclipse. That’s the only explanation for the offensive outburst from the Panthers. That and the total lack of any semblance of a defensive gameplan.

I just hope this Flyers team stays on vacation and when the 8 days are up the one that plays good hockey shows up. It would be so very welcome to not have to experience the traditional annual Flyers Swoon® this season.

First, kudos on the Seinfeld reference. I am pretty confident when I say that the only thing that will stand the test of time better than death and taxes is Seinfeld.

Secondly, that was an absolutely pitiful display last night. Teams are going to have a bad game every so often, especially after they play as many tough games as they did but regardless, I would hope and expect that a team at least shows up in front of the home crowd better than they did.

Let’s hope they come back from their break rested and ready to go on another roll.

I’ll be traveling the next few days so I probably won’t be on here or any of the other SBN sites I frequent much so Happy Holidays to all of you. Safe travels and stay safe.

Go Flyers!

2/5 Mostly b/c he was horribly out of position so many times, I couldn’t keep count.

….NO. Carcillo did get in a tiny scrum and you always yell at him for fighting. Damn him being disciplined all of a sudden. He gets ragged on so much for having no discipline and when he is desciplined you go and knock it. No.

Going into this rough 9-game stretch, we’d all have been happy to know that the Flyers would be 4-1 at the break.

And, odd as it may sound, I’d rather they have lost THIS game than any of the others.

Let-down games are fucking annoying and everything, but at least you know what’s going on. The team didn’t show up and they got beat. It’s easily correctable – just show up the next game and you’re bound to get better results.

Had the loss been to Pittsburgh, Boston, New York or Montreal, I guarantee we’d be hearing “Oh noes the Flyers aren’t for real !!!!!!! They can’t beat good teams and only beat up on bottom-feeders ?!?!?!?!?!?”

Flyers just need to simplify their game. that’s exactly how the panteras beat us, made strong moves to the net and popped er in… we were dancing around, trying for the fancy sports center highlight. I fear to say but this could be the beginning of our annual losing streak, let’s keep it below 5 guys!

I had a premonition before the game that he was going to score. And so he did.

He also scored back in Noviembre against the Flyers.

Ergo, he is going to score once every game against the Flyers.

May as well lump him in with someone who’s “allowed” to score on us, like David Booth.

Aren’t the Panthers just one of those teams we just match-up poorly with?

“I’m sure we caught them with one foot out the door for Christmas break but we’ll take it. I’m not going to complain. Our guys came to play and got that early lead.” — Panthers’ coach Peter DeBoer after his team stunned the NHL-leading Flyers 5-0 Monday night

i was there. it was awful. what made it worst was the fan 3 seats over yelling “mike richards sucks/is the worst captain ever”.

i hate fans like that.

Holy crap. Just saw this: The only two players who finished even for the game were Nik Zherdev and Kimmo Timonen.

That’s pretty impressive.