L’avantage numérique des Flyers, qui est une cause perdue depuis cinq saisons maintenant, est de 3 en 31 depuis le 5 février et ne tourne qu’à 15,2 %.
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PhillyInquirer
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L’avantage numérique des Flyers, qui est une cause perdue depuis cinq saisons maintenant, est de 3 en 31 depuis le 5 février et ne tourne qu’à 15,2 %.
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PhillyInquirer
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They could fire Tocchet for starters.
Tocchet has shown he refuses to adjust and not giving Andrae a chance shows that.
Beyond the coach our PP seems to always look like 5 guys standing still and just passing back and forth. Seems like 0 movement.
SHOOT!
At this point, it feels like every year I’m reading the same story with a different publishing date.
Not a slight on the Inquirer, just, damn flyers. Do something different.
Watching out PP suck year after year is so disheartening. I thought after Rocky left we’d be so much better but NO
Get way better players. Thats it.
I think I’ve read this article before….
It’s just a severe lack of quality. There’s no quick fix to this with the current personnel. They just aren’t good enough. Get better players and this will be an automatic fix.
You can change coaches and philosophies all you want but until the players on the ice can actually all tape to tape pass it won’t matter. The players are bad, simple as
Putting michkov on the top unit over dvorak might help
I remember the run up to our last playoff appearance. We had almost the longest streak in club history for 30+ shots on goal.
Its the players, not the coach. They arent very good.
Step 1: Sell the team
Step 2: Fire Briere / Jones
Step 3: Fire Tocchet and his coaching staff and hire a young coaching staff that can grow with young players
Step 4: Trade every player 25 and older and enter a serious rebuild
Step 5: Draft elite talent in the top 5 for 3-5 years in a row
Step 6: Profit
Is anyone here old enough to remember when special teams were consistently at or near the top of the league, both power play and penalty kill? Feels like a lifetime ago.
We just need more talent. Half the guys listed below aren’t NHL caliber PP guys.
PP1: [Travis Konecny](https://www.inquirer.com/topic/travis-konecny), Christian Dvorak, [Owen Tippett](https://www.inquirer.com/topic/owen-tippett), [Jamie Drysdale](https://www.inquirer.com/topic/jamie-drysdale), and Zegras
PP2: Michkov, Denver Barkey, [Noah Cates](https://www.inquirer.com/topic/noah-cates), [Alex Bump](https://www.inquirer.com/topic/alex-bump), Rasmus Ristolainen or [Cam York](https://www.inquirer.com/topic/cam-york)
Starts with personnel . The team looks like they will end the year without 1 30 goal scorer and no ppg players. Pretty tough to get much better when you don’t have the horses.
It’s not going to be fixed until they have more elite talent in the top 6. TK is a very good player, he’s not great. Michkov shows flashes but consistency isn’t there yet. They just have way too many NHL rated bottom 6 forwards that have to play top 6 due to lack of better options and it’s been this way for the better part of a decade.
I watch other teams do power play, and the main difference I note is some of the guys on PP who do NOT have the puck are moving this way and that, trying to get defenders and the goalie to shift in a east-west motion, sometimes even circling all the way around to the other side (behind the goal) to draw defenders away from their zones, and once that happens, even a little bit, someone will skate into open ice and get a SOG, whether passed there or the player who already is in possession. Sounds easier than not but the one who goes to the open ice has to anticipate the opening a little bit. In light of that, our PP sucks and has sucked because we don’t fucking move. And when someone *does* get a shot, they’ve been standing in that same spot the whole time, and the goalie sees it the whole way. We also seem to put guys on the PP who were just out there (and possibly tired), or who are not really known for « close quarters combat, » if that makes sense. The best PP goals I’ve noticed from other teams were super quick one-timers, not the type of shot where you have to control the puck first, tuck it in, then fling a wrister. (I present into evidence Alex Ovechkin…). All that « wind up motion » is wasted time and allows a fraction of a second longer for the goalie or blocking defensemen to pick it up.
And don’t get me going on the Flyers’ 5-on-3 power play opportunities… Jesus Jackfucking Christ it’s infuriating AF
For the coaches…that always works🙄
Start by getting elite players and a coach/staff that knows about lateral play.
What kills me is that they don’t move but simultaneously don’t seem to know where eachother are on the ice. Pucks are constantly thrown around the boards and out of the zone
What if we took the power play, look at where the players are positioned.
And push them someplace else?
Also some actual motion and cutting during the power play, supporting with extra man on the half wall – instead of incessantly meandering for a screen that doesn’t matter without possession. And taking more shots with deflection intent instead of looking for the perfect play. Would be nice. Also the D man pinch a bit too much and it catches them flat footed on any soft flips when we do lose the board battles cause of the above.
Fix that, you’re at least 25th. Start lifting up your heads when you pass, instead of blindly thinking you always have support behind you or aside you(TK is a big sinner of this on half boards) and you may even be 20th.
Need better players, pretty simple really. The last 3 coaches could t figure it out, it’s clearly a personnel issue.
1. Fire Tocchet
2. Fire Tocchet
3. Fire Tocchet
Michkov on PP1 – 60+ games into season and Coach blockhead can’t figure this out !!
i would love to have a statistician try to figure out the probabilities of one franchise being so bad at one thing for so long. it feels like one of those six standard deviation kind of things.
So Rocky wasn’t the problem?
The fans in the stands have all the answers… SHOOT! Right? Right???
Smh. Honestly an easy indicator that someone knows nothing about hockey, but it still makes my blood boil.
Sell the team. It’s the only answer. Sell. The. Team.
1. Movement
2. Puck Retrievals
3. Net Front Presence + Rebound Goals
Fixed it