Philadelphia Flyers
1/21/11 Quick Notes From Last Night's Game:
- Chris Pronger returned, and was "eased" back in with 20 minutes of icetime. 2 Assists, 2PMs, and +1 playing with Matt Carle. He didn't really participate in any of the extracurriculars, and seemed to be moving okay.
- JVR led all Flyers forwards in icetime with a shade under 19 minutes, and became the 9th Flyer with 10 or more goals.
- Briere centering Hartnell and Leino was again overall the Flyers best line.
- Richards was easily the Flyers best player. 2G,2A,4PTS,+2 He seems to be making the decision to omit him from the All-Star game look increasingly silly. He would seem to have a good shot as an injury replacemtment if anyone else pulls out.
-Carter and Giroux were the Flyers only minus players, each at -1. Each had a fight as well, Notably Giroux survived unscathed from what looked like a mismatch with a much larger Nick Foligno. Jody Shelley's job appears safe for the time being.
-Zherdev got about 12.5 minutes, had one shot and wasn't a factor.
-Powe seemed to be having an off game.
- Bobrovsky played decent, and was certainly not spectacular, allowed two clunkers. Well, maybe one clunker, and one debatable... He's been providing the Flyers with "decent" goaltending though, which for this team seems to be good enough, ...for now.
- Gonchar saw about 17 minutes of icetime, ...akin to the Flyers Sean O'Donnell's TOI. Only much more expensive.
- Purely my opinion: The Sens hung together and kept battling for each other. Nice to see the competitive fire still burning in a team having such a rough time of late. But they didn't look particularly well organized, or talented. They look like a team that would benefit greatly from the energy and sense of direction provided by a change of the GM and coach.
CBS 8 team keeper(5-8) - Points only
C: Tavares, Duchesne, Eberle, Nugent-Hopkins
LW: Parise, Benn, Neal
RW: Kessel, Giroux, Stewart
D: Green,Karlson, Carlson, Whitney, Edler, White
G: Rinne, Lundqvist
2LW,2C,2RW,4D,1G pts.= G=2, PPG=3, SH=5, A=1, W=3, S=.2, GA=-1, SO=4,
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