Flyers Raise Banner, Win Home Opener
It would have been really, really shitty if the Flyers lost tonight. Between raising the Eastern Conference Championship banner into the rafters, Chris Pronger's unannounced return to the lineup tonight, and oh yeah, that whole home opener thing, I think beating the Avalanche tonight was the only possible outcome.
The Flyers pounced on the Avs early, with the forwards as a whole showing an energy that just wasn't there in the previous two games. Players were skating harder, finishing their checks, and creating tons of good scoring chances. For the whole game, they managed to put 37 shots on goal, but there were really times where it seemed like they all came before the first intermission.
Claude Giroux got the scoring going at 12:13 of the first, with Jeff Carter banging one home five minutes later.
The second period saw a drop off for Philly. During the second intermission, Neil Hartman called the Flyers play "uninspired". I think this was really my only complaint of the night. I can't tell you what else he said, as I decided to flick between the Jets game and WWE Raw until some intelligence came back on the tube, but I really don't think the Flyers came down from their game at all. Colorado stepped it up quite a bit, and their coach Joe Sacco should get credit for that. It wasn't that the Flyers fell off, it's just whatever Sacco said to his players worked.
It pisses me off to see members of the Philadelphia sports media be so quick to lambast all the local teams, not just the Flyers, when there's a lack of production or a loss. I wish these people (Howard Eskin, i'm talking to you. Angelo Cataldi, you too homie) would just take a second to realize that sometimes, the other team is just better. If a team plays hard and does everything right, but it just ain't enough, it's not that team's fault. The other team was just better. Lighten up, douche nozzles.
But I digress. Colorado got one midway through the second, and Milan Hejduk (it's pronounced heyduke, your welcome) tied it up thirty seconds into the third, but Jeff Carter poked in his second goal of the night at the 17:22, which proved to be the game winner. Darroll Powe scored an empty netter with 1:11 remaining in the game to put an exclamation point on an awesome night.
I think this was a great night to build off of. The team felt the difference of a friendly crowd, felt the difference in their performance when they clock in for a full sixty minutes. This was the first game of a five game homestand, their longest of the year. This win generates momentum for the next one, and on we go. Before you know it, we're through the stretch with guns blazing, and last season starts all over again.
Next game is Thursday night, c'mon back then for another round with Moose. Thanks for reading, and take care.
The Flyers pounced on the Avs early, with the forwards as a whole showing an energy that just wasn't there in the previous two games. Players were skating harder, finishing their checks, and creating tons of good scoring chances. For the whole game, they managed to put 37 shots on goal, but there were really times where it seemed like they all came before the first intermission.
Claude Giroux got the scoring going at 12:13 of the first, with Jeff Carter banging one home five minutes later.
The second period saw a drop off for Philly. During the second intermission, Neil Hartman called the Flyers play "uninspired". I think this was really my only complaint of the night. I can't tell you what else he said, as I decided to flick between the Jets game and WWE Raw until some intelligence came back on the tube, but I really don't think the Flyers came down from their game at all. Colorado stepped it up quite a bit, and their coach Joe Sacco should get credit for that. It wasn't that the Flyers fell off, it's just whatever Sacco said to his players worked.
It pisses me off to see members of the Philadelphia sports media be so quick to lambast all the local teams, not just the Flyers, when there's a lack of production or a loss. I wish these people (Howard Eskin, i'm talking to you. Angelo Cataldi, you too homie) would just take a second to realize that sometimes, the other team is just better. If a team plays hard and does everything right, but it just ain't enough, it's not that team's fault. The other team was just better. Lighten up, douche nozzles.
But I digress. Colorado got one midway through the second, and Milan Hejduk (it's pronounced heyduke, your welcome) tied it up thirty seconds into the third, but Jeff Carter poked in his second goal of the night at the 17:22, which proved to be the game winner. Darroll Powe scored an empty netter with 1:11 remaining in the game to put an exclamation point on an awesome night.
I think this was a great night to build off of. The team felt the difference of a friendly crowd, felt the difference in their performance when they clock in for a full sixty minutes. This was the first game of a five game homestand, their longest of the year. This win generates momentum for the next one, and on we go. Before you know it, we're through the stretch with guns blazing, and last season starts all over again.
Next game is Thursday night, c'mon back then for another round with Moose. Thanks for reading, and take care.
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