The Philadelphia Flyers said that they needed to learn from Thursday’s 3-2 loss to the Rangers, when they blew a 2-1 lead in the third period due to a combination of lack of discipline, poorly-timed mistakes, and a general taking of their foot off the collective gas.
Apparently, they did not learn their lesson at all.
Holding a 3-2 lead entering the third on Sunday night against the Calgary Flames, the Flyers once again choked away their advantage, this time falling in overtime by a 4-3 final score. Matt Coronato scored the game winner for the Flames, who sent the Flyers to their 15th loss of the season.
Noel Acciari, Denver Barkey and Owen Tippett scored for the Flyers, while Sean Couturier added two assists. Dan Vladar made 22 saves in defeat; Devin Cooley stopped 32 to earn the win.
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7 Comments (6 conversations)
jackettmac
This is just miserable. Thanks for your efforts Chuck.
yoni
Thanks Charlie. This is last Januarys team. Coots can’t play 60 games like this. The playoffs are reachable for bad teams , but discourage rebuilds because Concast won’t take a team apart during a run. You’ve nailed it with the effort of the mid twenty year olds. Embarrassing. All they have to do is keep up with Barkey and Coots. Danny’s up to bat here. I think he saw this coming , but Hilferty HAD to make the play offs. Step back indeed.
Michael Curran
Is the water line connected to both the Linc and XFinity Mobile Arena? All of these guys drinking from the same trough?
Let’s be honest folks. DId anyone, anyone think the Sixers would be the bright light in the Philadelphia Sports scene?
Chris
At this point I’m going to assume next year’s draft is going to be historically bad at the top since we are cruising into a top 5 pick. It’s just miserable being a Philly fan right now.
Michael Perez
draft has two top tier players(D and W) then a trauncg of about 6 2Cs.
Warren Broudy
This coach got a lot out of this team last season not so much this season. There were no significant personnel chgs so this pathetic first 19 games is on the coach gm and prez to be accountable for .
Michael Sheahan
When you start talking about he Flyers playing “scared” and “thinking we can’t win”, well that is by anyone’s measure a job for the coach. The coach sets the agenda, the coach SHOULD help to control the team attitude going into each period. No one wants to see Tocchet be successful more than me, but right now, Tocchet seems to come up short with a solution to this ongoing (and worsening) problem. It appears that among what the team needs right now, is a consistent difference maker. For those of us around since the beginning, think of the John Leclair trade back in the day. That move took a team, a bit like this one, mostly in games, but coming up short too often, over the top and we all know how that worked out. Maybe bring in a sports psychologist? The talent is not far off, but the “We just can’t win” attitude needs to be erased. We need ideas and solutions.