The Philadelphia Flyers can potentially do the funniest thing on Thursday night against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
In case you missed it or are simply trying to never think about the blue and white team north of the border and their fan base, in a game against the Ottawa Senators, youngster Ridly Grieg was on a empty-net breakaway and decided to pull back and unleash a wicked slapshot into the empty net. A quasi breakaway dunk to put the game to bed. Toronto defenseman Morgan Rielly decided that he should be punished for having fun and then jumped him and crosschecked him square in the face. The veteran blueliner got suspended for five games because of it, and sparked a debate all across the hockey world.
Should Grieg even hit the slap shot into the empty net? Was Rielly correct to give it to the rookie because of it? When was the line crossed?
All of this hoopla was caused because an 11-year veteran pissed his pants so bad. With a filled diaper, he unleashed a cross check to a player having some fun in the NHL (how dare he) and now has to sit on the side line for some time.
So now, we have to ask the question: Can the Flyers, while facing the Leafs on Thursday night, pull off something similar and cause an even larger uproar across the entire hockey universe? It would be the funniest thing imaginable.
If they were in the scenario to do it — a breakaway with an empty net in the dying minutes of the game — we have a few ideas how the Flyers could score that easy goal to set fire to Toronto.
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