I hate the Flyers and I hate the Penguins but I'd love to see both of these teams destroy each other one more time after this!
Pens fan...
I thought Philly was ready to cumble after game 4 but they came out Friday night and today and are putting up a hell of a fight.
Flyers fan...
I agree. Surprised we're putting up a fight. Fun to watch despite the multiple blowouts the Pens have put on.
beautiful goal by courterier, flyers go up 3-2
very fun series
Minnesota is down 5-3 to Iowa in the 9th.... the Gophers are 1 game back from us at the moment.
Hagelin just got DRILLED
Weak goal given up by Murray. Philly pulling away for now, but things can turn fast.
Wow... this game is getting really good. Back and forth, Flyers unable to pull away.
I gotta say, I detest when PA Announcers, announce that the home team is going on a (sponser name) "POWWEERRRRR PLAAAAAAAAY." I have no idea how many arenas it happens in but nonstop with this bullshit in Philly today.
Flyers had their chance to put the Pens away and didn't, Pens didn't make the same mistake letting the Flyers back in it when it mattered the most.
It's always the same story with the Flyers in the playoffs when it comes down to it, goaltending. I can not believe that franchise has not had an upper echelon goaltender for the last 40 years!
would probably differ with you on that, though granted favell's time is around that 40 yr mark. some great goalies in that lineage.
Hextall was too much of a hot head for his game to be taken to the level he needed it to be. Outside of the 87 Playoffs, he could never really be the guy his team could steal a game or even a series for.
Pelle Lindbergh unfortunately had his life cut short, Pete Peters was "EH" in his years with the Flyers outside of their trip to the 80 Cup Final and Doug Favell was primarily Bernie Parent's backup and had a losing record at that.
is something along the lines of had to be on a winning team most every year, and even if they've taken their team to the cup finals, still not good enough? using that standard, i'm not sure how many goalies would ever qualify given that some of the very best played for dog teams at some point or another in their career. that is particularly so in the earlier years, 60's/70's/80's.
My standard for "top echelon" is were they consistently amongst the top of their position, where their team could ride them to winning games and series that they shouldn't, on a consistent basis and the answer is no.
If you look at the Flyers goalies in their history, outside of Hextall and Parent, they've had one goaltender, Steve Mason, win 100 or more games as a Flyer and in the Playoffs, only three have over 20 career wins, Brian Boucher is the only outside of Hextall and Parent.
So I'll give you Hextall but since then, have the Flyers drafted, developed or obtained a "top echelon" goaltender since Hextall, which is now two full decades ago? No.
Spurs put up a win, something I did not expect. Kind of amazing how the Spurs continue to win despite their rotation being below average besides Aldridge imo.
I have no problem with the Penguins per se, but just very tired of seeing them win. Really would be nice to see Washington finally get over the hump, or Tampa/Boston take them out in the ECF
April 22nd, 2018 at 11:20 PM ^