With the Phillies World Series win and all the drama surrounding the Eagles, I haven't had much time to write about the Flyers. After a slow start to the season, the Flyers have rebounded and find themselves in third place in the division. Considering how awful they looked at the beginning of the year and the number of injuries they have overcome, third place sounds pretty good.With winning streaks of 4 and 6 games and losing streaks of 6 and 3 games, the Flyers have been riding a roller coaster all season long. Two major issues seem to rise up for this team when they lose: defense and goaltending. After injuries to Randy Jones and Ryan Parent at the start of the season, their inexperience on the blueline was exposed on a nightly basis. Acquisitions of Andrew Alberts and Matt Carle have shored things up significantly but the Flyers are still prone to giving up bad turnovers.Bad turnovers aren't necessarily costly when you have a goalie standing on his head, unfortunately the Fl...
Found November 30, 2008 on
All Things Philly Sports:
PLAYERS:
Simon Gagne,
Randy Jones,
Ryan Parent,
Andrew Alberts,
Martin Biron
TEAMS: Philadelphia Flyers
TEAMS: Philadelphia Flyers
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