For
a team that was projected to be a top threat, the Philadelphia Flyers
have sunk into a funk that has led to two straight losses.
Fingers can be pointed in an array of directions; has it been the entrance of twenty-year-old Canadian, supposed phenom, Brayden Schenn? Possibly. Or is it a lack of chemistry that is a regular issue at the beginning of any season? Who knows.
What we do know is the Flyers need to step it up. Poor play at the beginning of the season can quickly become a habit, and lead into worse play as the season progresses.
Claude Giroux has also been an extreme disappointment. He has reached a career high, in a statistic that he’d rather forget: being a minus player. At Minus-5 over four straight games, Giroux went on record, courtesy of NBC Sports, saying that “Sometimes you get the minuses, sometimes you get the plusses”.
That isn’t the right attitude to turn around a season that appears to be on a slippery slope.
This week, the Flyers have a tough schedule taking on Toronto, Buffalo and Montreal throughout the week. What a better way to turn around a losing streak than three wins against two teams that are the class of the league, and one that is a gimme-game against Montreal.
Fingers can be pointed in an array of directions; has it been the entrance of twenty-year-old Canadian, supposed phenom, Brayden Schenn? Possibly. Or is it a lack of chemistry that is a regular issue at the beginning of any season? Who knows.
What we do know is the Flyers need to step it up. Poor play at the beginning of the season can quickly become a habit, and lead into worse play as the season progresses.
Claude Giroux has also been an extreme disappointment. He has reached a career high, in a statistic that he’d rather forget: being a minus player. At Minus-5 over four straight games, Giroux went on record, courtesy of NBC Sports, saying that “Sometimes you get the minuses, sometimes you get the plusses”.
That isn’t the right attitude to turn around a season that appears to be on a slippery slope.
This week, the Flyers have a tough schedule taking on Toronto, Buffalo and Montreal throughout the week. What a better way to turn around a losing streak than three wins against two teams that are the class of the league, and one that is a gimme-game against Montreal.
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