The first two days of Philadelphia Flyers training camp were boilerplate practice days. Saturday, however, some the competitive juices really got going, in the form of a full scrimmage.
Well, not quite full — 20 forwards, 12 defensemen and four goalies participated, leaving 21 camp attendees to skate on the secondary rink, far away from the throng of fans that got up early on a Saturday morning to watch the proceedings. But all of the NHL roster locks had their names called for the scrimmage, as did everyone who at least qualified as being on the distant outskirts of the bubble. Given the truncated nature of this year’s training camp, the Flyers coaches didn’t want to waste time on players with no chance of getting NHL action. If you were deemed potentially important to this season, you played.
And while there’s only so much to be gleaned from a scrimmage — head coach Rick Tocchet made sure to point out that for many concepts (including the power play), it truly was Day 1 of camp work — there were plenty of noteworthy takeaways to be made as the Flyers head into their first off-day of camp on Sunday.
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7 Comments
fiat500
THANK U CHUCK
ifollowcharlieo
Appreciate the summary, thanks!
I’m Flyered up.
Bruce
Please save the proving you are a tough guy for the other teams idiots.
Brian Freundlich
In Basketball practice we called that running drill where you hit every line and come back “suicides.”
Kiall Jennett
We have always called it the Mountain. You can go uphill or downhill as well – both when the coach is bag skating you.
Evan Mantel
Charlie showing off that UPenn education with the Montagnards. (And I’m here for it!)
David LaVeck
The scrimmage was interesting to watch, Michkov stood out as did others such as Bump & Knuble. It was good to see how competitive it was. I like the line of Michkov-Barkey-Bump but I think adding Foerster in place of Bump and maybe even a future line of Foerster-Zegras-Michkov would work. That is a nice top line, I don’t think Tippett is consistent enough for the top line, Foerster is a better choice. Move Tip & TK down. Martone also dies not seem ready for the top line so far this camp. Pair him with Barkey & Tippett. Put TK with Cates and Bump, that is a good top 3 lines. I think the key is to out the smaller guys with larger ones, spread them out.