Shortly after Tuesday night’s game, Cape Hayes tied his rod in half like a baseball player destroying his angry baseball player after a strikeout.
The frustration felt like Deja Vu. Hayes smashed his stick to pieces on Monday. These days, flyers probably. Going through more sticks than usual.
Frustration from both the club and its fans – reached a palpable level on Tuesday night at the Wells Fargo Center as the flyers’ problematic march reached a new low. The Flyers stumbled with a 4-3 loss at the hands of the Devils.
The pair of Sean Couturier’s third-period goals came close to scoring, but the Flyers fell short of equalizing.
When the second-period market sounded, the Flyers (15-12-4) heard a sharp increase from the 2,882 fans in attendance.
Voice resentment was guaranteed.
“We have a lot of confidence in our group,” Cloud Giroux told PostGame. “We still think we’re going to make a playoff. In our game we need to be a little more consistent. It starts with me. You can’t play a good game and then a bad game and keep going. We need to have some games here. “
The Devils (12-14-4) are 1-2-0 against the Flyers this season.
With a press conference on Wednesday at 1 p.m., general manager Chuck Fletcher will keep his typical state-the-team address around the middle mark of the season.
It will not be a glowing address.
In many key areas of the board, the Flyers have suffered since last season, when the team won its first playoff series since 2012 and is out of the game from the Eastern Conference Conference finals.
Here are the Flyers’ 31 standouts compared to the first 31 games of last season:
2019-20
- Record: 17-9-5 (39 points)
- Goals per game: 3.03
- Target approval per game: 2.68
- Power play: 17.9%
- Penalty Kill: 85.1%
- Game Shots per: 32.5
- Permission for one shot per game: 28.8
2020-21
- Record: 15-12-4 (34 points)
- Goals per game: 3.10
- Permission to target per game: 3.52
- Power play: 19.1%
- Penalty Kill: .5 74..5%
- Game Shots per: 28.4
- Permission for shots per game: 29.4
Troubled, the flyers have also rested, during the season. It would be one thing if they started to find their identity after a slow start.
That did not happen.
In March, the Flyers took the intermission lead just four times. Thirteen games in his 17-March slate, the Flyers are 4-8-1 and have conceded 57 goals (4.38 per game). They allowed 52 goals in their first 18 games in which they went ahead 11-4-3 before the March slide.
After allowing 2.77 goals per game last season, the seventh-lowest joined NHL, the Flyers are allowing 3.52 goals per game this season. Only senators are giving more at 3.82.
“We know we haven’t been good enough, we’re very aware of that,” Ellen Vignault said before the game. “We know we need to get better. Our goal is to get into the playoffs first, that’s our first objective and we’re working on it. To work on that, we have to take care of tonight’s business and we Intended to do. “
The Flyers didn’t do that and the head coach will probably ask his GM for help as the assessment will heat up before the April 12 trade deadline.
Flyers can safely say they won’t buy like Stanley Cup contenders. Thirty-one games and flyers in the 56-game regular season are still out of play play f picture in the pre-loaded section. Are they currently risking a big sacrifice to make the postseason?
Fletcher will be active in search of help but the flyers should be justified in what they are willing to give up.
Ly Flyers surrendered the goal in the final minutes of the first and second periods. Travis Zazak made a second-term honor for New Jersey, which sounds like the Boo Birds.
“I think overall, as a five-unit unit, we weren’t even working last year,” Ivan Provorov said. “We played a lot closer, a lot tighter, we were killing plays and we got the puck back early and spent less time in our zone. Later, we weren’t able to play the same, so I think that That’s why there are so many crashes and so many targets. “
• Carter Hart came in strong numbers in his youth career against the Devils, but no track record seems very important with the Flyers right now.
The 22-year-old made 28 shots and saved on 32. It could have been better and the flyers were porous in front of him. Have you heard this story before?
New Jersey netminder Mackenzie Blackwood faced the Flyers for the first time this season. The 24-year-old entered his career against the Flyers 2-0-1 with a percentage average and 1.63 goals with a saving of .955.
His impressive game against the Flyers continued when he converted 30 saves.
The Inter Flyers trailed 2-1 in the first half. During March, they have been outsourced to 20-9 in the first period.
It’s hard to win.
Michael McLeod gave New Jersey a 1-0 lead in the middle through the frame and Kyle Palmieri took advantage again on a power play marker with six seconds left in the period. The holding call on Travis Sunheim was highly questionable, but the Devils took advantage of it.
They were also a clear-cut good team to start the game when the Flyers ad n Baka said they needed to start a strong performance.
With an inconsistent start, you can see why they have allowed three or more goals in all but one game this month.
“It’s my job to work with these players,” Vigaunte Postgame said. “They’re good players, they care, they want to win. Obviously we’ve got a compatibility issue at the moment and it’s my job to find the right buttons to push – and that’s what I’ll continue to do. I haven’t found it yet, but I’m continuing to work. I have no doubt in my mind that these people have the best intentions, but at first it seemed that we didn’t have much in the tank. “
El Joel Farabi scored his 14th goal in 30 matches to get the Firiers on board in the first period. His marker came on power play, which took 3 wickets. Went on the wicket.
On the other side of the flyers special teams units, penalty kill for. For for, the Flyers hit four penalties before the game was halfway through.
Wednesday Flyers is off practice on Wednesday and hosts Rangers on Thursday (7pm ET / NBCSP).
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