What we learned from the Flyers 7-1 loss to the Lightning

2 years ago  /  Broad Street Hockey

• The Flyers dropped last night’s game to the Lighting 7-1 to close out the season series, and it was another pretty brutal showing.
• There were some small improvements made in this one (more on that later), but the mistakes and miscues were still glaring, and that’s really overwhelming the feelings we’re coming away with.
• This was not a terribly complete game from the Flyers, and some of the defensive breakdowns were pretty remarkable.
• The Flyers really weren’t on top of their details in that regard, and that burned theme pretty badly.
• But the bigger issue here is not a new one—the Flyers were again pretty badly outdone in the shot quality differentials, and put up just a 49.61 SCF% and a 41.02 xGF%.
• And as far as more specific improvements go, we did see the Flyers moving much more cleanly through the neutral zone, which was a pretty stunning change.
• They almost had some really good looks in this one, and that came as a direct result of improving how they were able to move through the neutral zone with control, but the issue of them over-passing and looking for a more difficult play than the one in front of them often killed those chances.
• We appreciate the small improvements, we hope that we’ll see more of it going forward, but fixing the one issue obviously wasn’t the magic cure-all.
• As we made of above, the spiral is only getting deeper here, and even though we did see some small improvements in the overall process, there wasn’t anything from last night’s showing that suggests to us that this group is going to be able to pull out of this spiral all on their own.
• But even though last night’s game was exactly the type of ugly showing that gets someone fired, presently right now the Flyers are in a weird spot where something needs to happen, probably is going to happen, but can’t happen because they still have another game coming right on the heels of this one tonight

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