#PhiladelphiaFlyers #Flyers #NHL Dans l’épisode d’aujourd’hui, Russ et Rachel discutent de la défaite des Flyers contre les Maple Leafs de Toronto. Ils sont passés à la vitesse supérieure pendant les 8 dernières minutes environ, mais le reste du match a vu les Flyers être extrêmement dominés par les Leafs. Morgan Frost, Owen Tippett et Travis Konecny se sont bien démarqués, mais Kevin Hayes était-il testé par John Tortorella ? Ensuite, nous passons au match contre les Hurricanes de la Caroline. Les Flyers peuvent-ils affronter une équipe de Canes coriace? Enfin nous exprimons nos doléances pour Festivus ! Pour en savoir plus sur les Flyers tout au long de l’année, abonnez-vous au podcast Locked on Flyers ! https://linktr.ee/lockedonflyers
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The Hayes-Torts battle is ugly because both are at fault & both are stubborn. Torts benched him for lazy play, lack of forechecking, poor defense. Directly led to goals surrendered & games lost. Hayes feels he should play because he can be strong offensively, currently second in points on a low-scoring team. Maybe so, but he wouldn't even be considered to be a contributing factor if this was a better team. Third, & I feel not even related – he holds some grudge for the way the organization mis-handled his good buddy Yandle's situation last year. Wants to equate both benchings together. Don't know why, Torts wasn't even hired yet. The organization signed Yandle, after a long successful career & was a 'name' going for the 'Ironman' consecutive games played record. Maybe it was purely a publicity stunt, or maybe they really over-evaluated what he still had left 'in the tank'. His skills had diminished terribly, to the point of being the worst +/- rated player in the league. They kept putting him out there, getting himself & the organization embarrassed, game after game when he deserved to have been benched long before. Or never even signed in the first place. Once he got the record, they quickly benched him, despite still being healthy & willing to play. On a team that was going nowhere in the win/loss standings, that had been out of the playoff hunt for months prior. Wouldn't have mattered to let the man continue, but no, they set him up to lose the record streak to Phil Kessel this year. The two are not related as I see it – but maybe not in Hayes' mind. Somehow he thinks Torts is treating him the same way. I'm siding with Torts on this one. Hayes' play has been inconsistent. At 6ft 5in, 235 lbs he still can be an offensive force but some games he plays 'disinterested' to even be there, especially defensively. He feels he should get more playing time, so Torts caved in & put Hayes in every offensive situation of the Toronto game like Hayes requested. It turned out to be his worst game effort-wise this year. Did nothing 5-on-5, took only 1 weak shot on a 6-on-4 Flyers advantage power play, & his sloppy defense caused 2 Toronto goals. Flyers lost the game 4-3. Wait & see tomorrow.
I am enjoying watching the youth develop, Torts is making a difference and the results are coming.