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Written by Ryan
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 08:11 |
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I'm seeing all these reports this morning that Ryan Potulny scored a truly back-breaking goal with 17 seconds left in the game last night, but no where am I seeing a report that says Ryan Potulny scored at 11:58 Eastern Standard Time and I wish I would have been in bed at 8:30 Eastern Standard Time. That must have been enjoyable for him.
If the NHL had decided to award points on successful offensive zone cycles in last night's game the Flyers would have won 37-4. But instead the league was afraid to break from tradition and stuck to their orthodox points-for-goals system. The Flyers just couldn't get any real scoring chances. Which is a shame because even just casting the puck at the net led to two posts and a number of open net misses. They weren't 'taking it to the house' as Trick Daddy would say.
Only time will tell if that at-least-one-point we (Chris Pronger) couldn't bear down and salvage will lead to us not making the playoffs. But I don't think it's something to get all worked up about. Sure it'd be nice to see our hopefully Cup contending team pound on the weakest team in the league but this is the Flyers we're talking about. If you're not used to this by now you're either a very advanced baby that can read or a new fan - in which case how the hell did you find this site? I searched us on Google last night and we came up as the 4,786th Flyers blog. But I digress.
Games like those make me wonder what it was like to cheer for a team with Lemieux or Gretzky on it back in the day, as Ahmad would say. One of those guys would have skated up to their own teammate and literally taken the puck from them, taken it to the net, and shot it through the goalie. They just would have made something happen. Was probably pretty cool. It makes me wish Mike Richards would be the captain he was on Monday night every night. Part of being captain is being clutch, like Shane Doan was against the Red Wings last week. And there's plenty of times he is, but Mike Richards hasn't developed that consistency yet.
ps - If you watched that game on the Edmonton feed man do they like their hockey up there. Hockey commercials, like 17 analysts working the game, Sports Centre cut in's to other action. And best of all you got to see who Canada's version of Morgan Freeman is.
I should have known it's be a Sutherland.
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Actually, oh yeah, they changed that rule AFTER we lost and while we only had 25% chance at the first pick in 2007 the Islanders had a 48% at the first pick last year...can't win for losing...
So yes, cheer for loses Jay, and I'm as sorry as you are that we didn't get those points.