Tuesday Morning Fly By: Predators Game Day

by Geoff Detweiler on Mar 16, 2010 10:25 AM EDT in Morning Fly By

Today's open discussion thread, including your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes...

Last night's NHL scores... NJ 3 - BOS 2; CMB 5 - EDM 3; DET 2 - CGY 1
Previews of tonight's game against the Predators: [NHL.com] [CSNPhilly] [On The Forecheck]
In anticipation of tonight's game, Chris from OTF asked me five questions. Check them out here: [On The Forecheck]
An interview with Paul Holmgren: [Daily News]
The Flyers game against the Red Wings on Easter Sunday (April 4th) is now the NBC Game of the Week. [DelcoTimes]
Down Goes Brown investigates the NHL's other cold cases. Spoiler: the Flyers crease is included. [DGB]
As Monday Evening News! told us, Alex Ovechkin was suspended for two games. [BSH] [SBN]
A look at the Vezina Race. [Puck Daddy]
Lastly, an interesting story about Corsi percentage. The Flyers are tied for 5th in the league when the game is tied. [Behind The Net]

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Robert Esche and Brian Boucher would like to protest DGB’s claim. They had .916 and .918 playoff save percentages respectively. It wasn’t Esche’s fault the offense scored five goals in four losses to Tampa.

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by The Dark on Mar 16, 2010 10:40 AM EDT reply actions

the sad thing is that I’d say their goaltending has been missing since long before 1996.

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by HockeyOutsiders on Mar 16, 2010 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions

much, much longer.

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by Travis Hughes on Mar 16, 2010 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions

1989 was really our last good year of goaltending. Since then we’ve had guys go on hot streaks – from Pete Peeters in November of 1990 to Michael Leighton today. But we’ve had no real answer in the net since 1989.

Wait a minute… no “answer…” I KNOW WHO SHOULD PLAY GOAL!

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by mikefive on Mar 16, 2010 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, me too.

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by Geoff Detweiler on Mar 16, 2010 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, I was going to go with 1987 but that seemed too extreme. So I just picked the year that Ron Hextall died.

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by Down Goes Brown on Mar 16, 2010 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions

It’s one thing to have a goalie put up a good post-season (throw ‘08 Biron in that mix), it’s another to go into the playoffs not asking “will the goalie hold up”?

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by Geoff Detweiler on Mar 16, 2010 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions

exactly. When was the last time there seriously wasn’t a story involving Flyers goaltending anywhere in the NHL? I vote for 1992, the first time Hextall was traded.

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by HockeyOutsiders on Mar 16, 2010 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions

When no one cared about the awesome Roussel/Soderstrom combination?

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by Geoff Detweiler on Mar 16, 2010 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions

yeah, i was just looking at the numbers over at hockeydb, man those were some awful years, even the couple of years after the 1989 run were pretty bad. Ken Wregget/Pete Peters dynasty.

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by HockeyOutsiders on Mar 16, 2010 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions

I literally jumped for joy the day we traded Ken Wregget. I could not stand him.

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by mikefive on Mar 16, 2010 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions

I actually have a soft spot in my heart for Roman Cechmanek

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by HockeyOutsiders on Mar 16, 2010 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions

He was a great goalie but a lousy teammate.

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by mikefive on Mar 16, 2010 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Funniest blog quote I read all year—it was on another blog so I won’t name it—was in regard to Ray Emery’s goalie helmet with the all-time Flyer goalie greats. Someone said “Roman Cechmanek’s on it, too, but he’s so far out of position you can’t see him.”

I LOL’d.

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by doubleh on Mar 16, 2010 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions