These were the words of the king of elbows Chris Pronger after today's terrible and controversial loss against an extremely inferior Calgary team. As all of you who watched the game know, the Flyers did indeed get screwed out of their first powerplay goal in like a year...which also would have given the Orange and Black the overtime win and the 2 points instead of 1. As an avid and lifelong Flyers fan, I'm all too used to calls like this...but seriously an unsportsmanlike penalty for pointing to the corner? In the words of Prongs after the goal was waived off "FUCK YOU!" (anybody that can read lips a bit can see it on the replay).
But enough about the zebras being on Gary Bettman's personal payroll...I for one happen to agree wholeheartedly with what Lavy, Richie and Prongs all said in their post-game interviews...They didn't deserve a win tonight, and are extremely lucky they played such a bad team, any playoff team would have wiped the floor with the Flyers and they would have walked away with nothing. Their powerplay was absolutely horrible, as it has been for quite a while now...Ponach said it was frozen, which seems to be the appropriate adjective. Being 1 for your last...33 or something is pretty terrible after operating at over 30% during that 10 game point streak they went on earlier in the season, actually, it's pretty terrible period (admittedly if the ref wasn't a complete asshole, the game winner would have been a powerplay goal...but we all know how that went) . What adds insult to injury regarding the powerplay is giving up a shortie to Calgary.
Their puck movement was pretty bad and their faceoffs were terrible. As were they in the Wild game but a 6-1 victory will make anyone not care about gettin slapped around in the faceoff circle. Groo seems to have gone into a walk-in freezer lately, he did have the lone Flyers shootout goal but Forsberg Jr. has definitely seen a slip in his production over the last few days...still love the guy and he's a beast but sometimes the truth hurts.
All that said there were a few glimpses of light tonight...the JVR, Richie, Noodle line looked pretty solid and JVR's goal was the product of a beautiful steal by Noodle and an even prettier backhand pass by Richie. Zherdev was lookin pretty sweet tonight, his dangles are as good as ever and that toe drag to wrister goal was a thing of beauty. Bob did excellent again under the circumstances, his D did leave him out to dry and he did a little break dancing in the blue paint to steal the charity point. But what I've been sayin since Bob started playin still holds true, dude isn't too good with breakaways. They should have put Boosh in there for the shootout, I hate Boosh but he beat the Rags last year and Washington this year so shootouts seem to be his strong point.
They play the D's tomorrow and this should be a nice bounce back game. I don't put anything past the Flyers and they could very well end up losing to a completely terrible team but I have faith...of all the things the Flyers do wrong, they usually correct them against the Devils. Tomorrow's another day and hopefully the Flyers that played so well last month will dispose of their evil twins and show up tomorrow afternoon at The Rock.
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