Flyers drop eleven round (!) shootout, game to Leafs in London, 4-3

I think Schenn’s actually bleeding from before Rinaldo even threw a punch. When they fell his visor cut him. Rinaldo definitely hung tough and landed some good shots. The ejection was bad luck. The tie down probably just ripped.

Meszaros better be playing the rest of the preseason games after this one. No way does he deserve a spot over Bartulis, Bourdon or Joonas L.

Yeah, tryout contract my ass. Guerin is in and I think everyone knows it. His locker is already in the middle of the room from what I understand. All signs point to him being signed and all of this is just a formality. As an aside, we don’t have to do that lameass WWBGD stuff here do we?

Agree with everything you said Travis. I’ll just add that the article from Seravalli today on Nodl really stuck with me while watching him tonight. It was obvious, to me at least, that Nodl was trying to do a lot more on his own tonight. Problem is, none of it worked.

The positive out of that, obviously, is that a) the coaches are letting him loose; b) he listens to his coaches; and c) he has the confidence in his game to do that, which was severely lacking two years ago. The negative, obviously, is that he didn’t succeed. He had a couple nice chances – the shot through the crease in the first stands out – but he had a few turnovers when he went at it alone.

I want to see him play a lot more in the preseason to see if he can finally breakout.

JVR proved why he doesn’t participate in the shootout.

JvR agrees with you, Travis…about himself! haha

Deserve a ‘blue card’ after missing two penalty shots tonight, brutal!

I would say Rinaldo is just as skilled as Downie. Obviously, Downie can score, but Rinaldo is by far a beter pure skater, and he can fly out there(which means he gonna take a charging penalty one day haha). I would love him, one day, over Carcliio and Shelly. Maybe next year if he plays well in Glenn Falls.

Is Mez really this bad? I have high hopes, but with Coburn and Carel, Id rather not put a 3rd guy back there who makes defensive mistakes, especially with our 4 average goalies. walker and O’Donnell may not be offensive or fast puck movers, but they can at least hold a 3rd pairing defensively.

Nodl is Nodl he is not unlucky he just can’t produce points. He is a fine Defensive Forward maybe better than fine but this notion of Nodl ever been a point producer has to go away.

Meszaros I thought Meszaros had a much better game than he did in game 1. I don’t know how you are blaming him on that Armstrong goal. He completely negated Armstrong had body position on him the puck just caught the side of Armstrong pant leg and deflected in that is a bad bounce not a bad play. Comparing that to Bartulis who couldn’t do anything with that guy in NJ allowing the easy deflection. The scrutiny is going to be extremely high on Mez give the guy a fair shot. And the 1st goal was a complete scramble situation as was much of the game too much running around a lot of things went wrong on that play.

Bourdon and Lehtourvi (sp) Neither really impressed me. Bourdon seemed to get turned around a lot he was a bit nastier than I thought he would be as a frenchmen. Lehtourvi was strong on the boards which I also didn’t expect but both these guys where out of position a lot and turned the puck over way to much.

Testuwide Is it time for those stories to end with him making this team. I wasn’t too impressed with him either lots of turnovers. Lots of running around.

Guerin I though Guerin also turned the puck over a lot more than expected with poor decisions especially on the breakout and in the defensive zone. But in the offensive zone I think he is play strong on the puck and simplifies his game getting the puck to net.

Boucher Boosh was pretty damn good last night. The defensive coverage was scrambling and Boosh played well couldn’t fault him for any of those goals and made some key difficult saves. For I guy I usually bash Boosh played really good under control goaltending.