Unacceptable: Flyers blow late lead, fall in OT 4-3

I think the only thing I like about this post is the comment of the night…. Not that the article itself, I mean the subject matter it contains.

I don’t get why the guys hate to support Boosh, he really doesn’t seem like that bad of a guy. I don’t really hear him badmouthing specific individuals or anything that would make them feel betrayed, but I don’t know what happens in the locker room. Well, I don’t think Gagne hates him, at least, so maybe being teammates in 2000 counts for something.

For me personally, the Gagne/Briere/Leino line showed some potential. I don’t remember noticing before that Leino isn’t half bad at puckhandling, but tonight was a small sample size. I’m a little mad at Giroux though, in his opportunity to step up he seems kind of invisible most of the time. I’m not sure I’m ready to declare officially that his effort has dropped off dramatically from the first half of the season, but I’m certainly getting there. I remember how on the west coast road trip from hell he looked like the best player on the ice to me in the Avalanche game, and I haven’t really felt that way lately. To give him a small bit of credit though, the one overlapping shift where Giroux was out there with Gagne and Briere for a rush gave me a glimpse into just how awesome that potential line could be, even though when we discussed it as a hypothetical possibility months ago it was noted that defense could be a bit of a problem.

I think all the users from BSH in the area should get together after this weekend and have a ceremonial “burying of the season”

 Who do we get rid of, what free agents are available, are any of our young d-men in the AHL ready? Considering we have to face to of the 2 best players in the league who pay for good offensive teams over the the next few years where do we go? I say we scrap this leftwing lock/3rd man high system unless we get players to fill in for the obvious defciencies. It just isn’t working with our personnel.

Not only does the defense look bad, but Boosh just does not seem to be seeing the puck well at all.

I completely agree with you. I have no specific examples because I’m abroad right now, so it’s been hard to watch the games, but I am up to date.

This is going to be broad (because of my location/time difference)… but no matter what the circumstances are, the team should play with passion, otherwise they are not only bringing down themselves and their fans.

It’s a full team effort and I’m not going to start blaming one guy or another, so I’ll keep it simple and say, that the Flyers need to figure out a way to win and work together so that we make the playoffs and go on a hot streak. The ups and downs of the season have been frustrating, but maybe last night’s home loss has provided fuel to their fire and they turn it around.

I am confident in squarely laying the blame for this loss on KreiderDesigns. Because he was the only wild card in the events as they unfolded last night. He did not watch even one of the 3 total minutes the Flyers played well and as soon as he got control of his own television the lackadaisical malaise which blanketed most of this game took hold on the psyche of the whole team. Really sarcasm is my only outlet for this kind of frustration.

T-SHIRT IDEA: A team picture with 2009-2010 Philadelphia Flyers and “Comfortably Numb” under it. The most worked up this entire group has gotten through this miserable year was when they were accused of partying too much.

Watching them right now just makes me sick. In the thick of a playoff race and you turn in a performance like this. It seems like some of them have already knocked the dust off their golf clubs and would rather be doing that. Freakin man up and play the game the way it’s supposed to be played! Sixty minutes of heart and determination, both ends of the ice, thats all that a hardcore Flyers fan wants to see. If they give that we fans have nothing to bitch about.

This is my first time posting here on BSH, but I read your stuff every day, and have been an avid poster over at CBSSports for a while, although those boards/threads are getting really old, really quickly…

A couple of things from last nights game, and I know some people have already touched on this….

I think the line shuffling worked out well last night. I feel bad for Richards having to play with Hartnell and Carcillo, but he needs guys that play with their heads down straight toward the net, so I think that will utlimately benefit the team, as Scotty and Dan tend to get the dirty goals, and both have shown a knack for being in the right place at the right time. Leino Briere Gagne looked like my favorite line out there last night. That line has so much speed and puck moving ability, they just need to take more shots! The speed and finesse is there, but start moving pucks toward the net. I also really liked Powe with JVR and Giroux. I have been saying all year, JVR Giroux and whoever else is on the ice with them on a given night, need to see more playing time. Giroux and JVR are both very talented, and it seems like every time I see them on the ice, they are in the offensive zone.

Whoever was talking about the lack of size and Giroux’s inability to play along the boards must not have been watching hockey over the past 74 games or so… Giroux consistently excels in board play. He uses his size to his advantage and has great leverage on the puck. I do agree that Giroux could use a more talented winger, but JVR is there. Those 2 guys seem to have a lot of chemistry going on, and they have shown that all year. I feel that Giroux looks for the pass too often (basically every shift) rather than using his skills to get into the open ice and fire off a wrister. Maybe his shot isn’t as accurate as he’d like, but you can work on that…

I know that was kind of a jumbled/rambly post, but I just wanted to say SOMETHING! The Flyers still have a chance of making the playoffs, but unfortunately, I don’t see them, at least how they are currently playing, beating Caps/Pens/Devils. We’d have to get back into the 6 seed and play Buffalo to have a shot of making it out of the first round…

I’m sorry Geoff, but Boucher’s performance last night, was full of suck.

Might as well give Backlund a shot in net this weekend. The team likes to step up their play when they feel like they have a weaker man in net.

I have to take into consideration what I heard last night on HNIC on sirrius. Jeff Marek and the boys were talking about Boucher and were pretty unanimous that the respect quotient goes both ways. The team needs to see Boucher load one up on his back and be off the hook. Because there has been more than a few games now that an opponent has been held to well under 30 shots and he lets at least one by that kills the momentum. This is not saying the blame for the lackluster season is on his ass but if he really wants to be a starter in the league he needs to be out of his mind a couple times.

#4. depression.

i’ll move back a few steps if the flyers win both this weekend.

if they collapse again, i am finding a bell tower and a very high powered rifle.

for the most part, they were pretty spot on and even-keeled last night.

the one point they had mentioned quite a few times was the hit lappy layed on brodziak in the third. for a recap:

http://wild.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=522784

scroll to point #2
did i miss something? from what i saw, lappy hit him in the chest with his shoulder, and i believe there was minimal contact, if not no contact, with brodziak.

i would have normally just shrugged it off as bad/biased announcing, but like i said, they weren’t that bad.

I wish he would eat our GM