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Offensive dynamo Dominik Bokk could tempt Flyers

The NHL 2018 draft is only three days away from the road and is - apart from the deadline for the conclusion of the contract - the best time for teams to run and trade commercial phones.

With that in mind, let's take a look at what Flyers can have on a trading block, which will enter the project this time.

The former Kings selector of the second round became one of the most lethal weapons in the NHL game. From 2012, he is second in the NHL with 75 goals, for the second time only for Alexander Ovechkin. It also has 127 power points in the same span, which is good in 17th place. Simmonds was also rugged, despite his harsh style, playing at least 75 games in each season, which has not been shortened in his 10-year career.

Taking all this into account, why the hell do Flyers want to make Simmonds available?

Hextall said just last week that he plans to make both choices, but it all depends on how the board falls and what can be on the market. Leaflets are in a perfect position thanks to two elements in the first round, a competitive NHL list and a deep potential pool.

Leaflets need to be upgraded at some point and they can really use a more effective third site than Valtteri Filppula last year. Hextall can use these two types to improve in the center, catch another defender or chase the goalkeeper.

If the player assumes that Flyers participated in the pre-design process, they could use their first round capital to exchange the plan and implement the project.

He kills the punishment, blocks a lot of shots and makes Flyers a bit unpleasant in the back room, but his many suspensions started to tear a bit out of the game. Taking into account the perspective of Flyers' defense and a great contract for Ivan Provorov, Gudas could have been sent to create a place for a young man on the blue line, while saving some space for a future hat.

Although we saw the name of a recruit named Travis Sanheim, mentioned in some commercial talks, there is no way that Hextall waits until Sanheim arrives and pulls out the plug, including him now for everyone who is not called Erik Karlsson or Drew Brave. Sanheim was Hextalla's first pick-up and flashed in his 49 games last season, nowhere to go.

On the other hand, Hagg can and should be available if you only want to make a move on a business day. The 23-year-old played last year in 70 games, scoring three goals and six assists for nine points, and on average 18:08 ice time per match. He will never publish a lot of offensive numbers, but he is young, physical, he kills punishment and does not always treat the album like a live grenade. The Swede still needs work, but there are tools for work.

Considering the presence of Ivan Provorov and Shayne Gostisbehere as the best pair of aviators, Sanheim and Phil Myers on the way, there may soon be no room for Hagg. If it comes to the right deal, Hextall can transfer Hagg as part of the package to the player or pick and not lose much sleep.

Considering what Alex Lyon showed to Ron Hextall and Brass Flyers in an emergency last year, losing one of Elliott / Neuvirth would not be the end of the world in any way.

Leaflets would probably want to see someone fly in the thirty years and we too. Lehtera gave just three goals and five assists while playing in 62 games last season after he was won as a cash register from Hextall to get another first round of the Blues. Lehter could easily be replaced, and using his swollen salary elsewhere on the list would really help Flyers in the short term.

Hextall will probably not be able to move Lehter in the trade without linking it to a sweet pick-up, but we are sure that every team with whom GM Flyers will contact will remember that the Fin is available. Hextall also said he did not plan to use the buyout on the previous pick from the third round, so that's it.

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Philadelphia Flyers see value in a game like Vegas

The appearance of Carter Hart in the past few years, who won the CHL Goaltender of the Year award on Saturday for the second consecutive year, is the only hope that Philadelphia Flyers will have to fill one big gap on the list - goal. With the team closed for another year with the tandem of average goalkeepers Brian Elliott and Michał Neuvirth, the team must hope that Hart, who joins AHL at Lehigh Valley Phantoms next year, can meet the hype and lead Flyers to this next level in a year.

Only 19 years old, Hart made three dominant seasons with Everett Silvertips from WHL. In the 2015-16 season as a 17-year-old, Hart published 2.14 GAA and 0.918 percent of savings. Flyers prepared him in the second round after this season. This year he scored 1.99 GAA and 92.7 percent savings in the 2016-17 season to get the first CHL Goaltender of the Year. It just got better. Despite some respite in December to represent the Canadian Team at World Juniors, he scored 1.60 GAA and 0.947 percent of savings in one of the best juniors' season for the goalkeeper in history.

He recently joined Lehigh Valley to take part in the playoffs, but he did not get into the game. This work should be given to him next season, although Hart wants to make a rare jump straight to the Leaflets.

"I want to be (in NHL) next season," he told Courier-Post. "My goal for the summer is to become bigger, faster and stronger, so I'm prepared for a training camp. That's what I focus on now that summer is huge for me, I'm excited to be able to come home when it's happening, and start training and prepare for the next season. "

Sam Carchidi from Philly.com compares this year's Flyers team with the Golden Knights team, which has four wins from the Stanley Cup title. One big difference Carchidi notices between the two teams is that Vegas hit the mark when they got Marc-Andre Fleury in the Pittsburgh Penguins expansion. This move is a key factor that has run out of Leaflets this year. When Elliott was not injured, he brought decent numbers with 2.66 GAA and 0.909 percent savings in 43 games, but that's not good enough for the team to take another step in the playoff phase. Neuvirth was not much better with 2.60 GAA and 0.915 percent savings in 22 games.

Carchidi points out that what Fleury did, shows the other 30 general managers in the league that the goal is the most important position in the game. Flyers only hopes that Hart is as good as advertised as soon as he reaches professional qualifications. We hope that one year at AHL, hopefully, will prove that he is ready for being the future goalkeeper in Philadelphia. Of course, Flyers could learn this lesson a few years ago and have their own pipeline with promising Swedish goalkeeper Felix Sandstrom, who is due to come to the US to join Hart in Lehigh Valley next season.

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Carter Hart is CHL Goalie of the Year

Carter Hart approached Garry Davidson with a message.

For that brief moment, Davidson did not have to answer his phone, hang up and then ask himself.

The general manager's decision was made, and by the teenager who sought him out as a 30-year professional.

"If he had not come in and hit those buttons," Davidson said, "who knows what he would have done."

The 2016-17 season of Everett Silvertips had just finished in the second round of the WHL playoffs. Davidson, the team's general manager, was exchanging trade after an exchange with his goalkeeper.

It seemed that everyone wanted a part of Hart's last lap in junior hockey.

"In the offseason of last year, several teams were already approaching me," Davidson said last week in a telephone interview with NBC Sports Philadelphia. "'Would you move to Hart?' There were probably six, seven teams that came after us, and as a general manager, I had to weigh everything up to see how it could work. "

Even Hart, the exciting goalie prospect, had a word with him.

Hart was selected in the eighth round in the Everett Draft at age 14 before signing his WHL educational contract at 15. Eventually he became a record-setting junior goalie and wanted Davidson to know he had goals to finish what they started.

"Carter came to me and said, 'Hey, I'd love to do something here with my team and my teammates,'" Davidson said. "He arrived at 15 and obviously did not play much, but he was around 15 years old and then he was a regular member at 16 when he was allowed to stay here." When he came in and we had that discussion, then I tried and tried to see what he could do to make us better. "

Hart's plea and circumstances offered to reveal aspects of why the 19-year-old has fans of the Flyers waiting for his arrival. The competition after Hart's services says a lot about his ability on the network; however, perhaps even more impressive was the loyalty to his team and the maturity behind it.

"That's one of the great things that Carter has always been, old for his years," Davidson said. "Everything is about doing things, day after day, the right way."

Davidson never imagined what Hart finally became.

But he saw the makeup.

"I always liked Carter because I thought he was athletic, but I always liked his composure," Davidson said. "He played with confidence and not with emotion.

"We had a pretty good goalkeeper here, so we signed [Hart] and said he would be our number 2 player. He came here at 16 and one month he sat in my office and said, 'You know what, I think I can be the best goalkeeper here and I'll show you. " Not in a smug way, but only in a confident way. And then he kept doing it. "

In more ways than one.

The second-round selection of the Flyers' 2016 draft became the first goalkeeper to win the Delville Memorial Trophy (WHL's best goalie) three times, while his 26 shutouts in his career are tied in the history of the Canadian Hockey League. His average of 1.60 goals against, WHL leader and .947 save percentage this season, make him a favorite to win the CHL Goalkeeper of the Year for the second time, something no netminder has ever done. He also rewarded Davidson by leading the Silvertips in the WHL 2018 Final, where they lost in six games against the Swift Current Broncos.

While all the compliments surprised Davidson, success did not. Not with a child as detail-oriented as Hart, who over time, grew in his body to 6 feet 2, 185 pounds.

"He made a comment at our departure meeting the other day, 'Oh, we went out last night and I really enjoyed a double hamburger,' and a lot of food that I would not normally eat," Davidson said with a smile. "Because he deals with all aspects : your rest, your food, your diet, your workouts out of the ice, but that's Carter. "

Hart's game will test the pro ranges in 2018-19 when he turns 20 in August. Given the situation of the big club, a season in the AHL seems more than likely.

"That's a decision that the Flyers are going to make," Davidson said, advising patience. "It's also a decision that Carter will make because it will depend on his performance and what he does between now and the start of the NHL season in October."

Long odds or not, Hart already has one thing for him.

He knows how to make a GM believe.

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The case for shaking things up

It should be the answer to the longest problem in franchise history.

He does not keep track of his own statistics, removes applications for social networks from his phone in the season, has a sports psychologist who doubles as a "vision coach" and does not allow heads or people to get into the head.

Goalie Carter Hart can be the most interesting person of Flyers alive, and after a brilliant junior hockey career he becomes a professional.

Ten days after his Everett Silverteats lost to the "Fast Current Bronze" in the final of the Western Hockey League, Hart watched as the Phantoms of the Lehigh Valley lowered the game of the 3 finals of the Eastern Conference of AHL. He is technically with the Ghosts, but does not like it if there are not a few injuries or suspensions. If it depends on him, he will not play for Ghosts next season.

"I want to be in the NHL next season," he said. "This is my goal for the summer - to become bigger, faster and stronger, so I'm ready for a training camp. In fact, everything I concentrate on is that this summer is huge for me. I'm happy to return home when it will, and start training and prepare for the next season. "

This training is helped by sports psychologist John Stevenson, who also has a Washington Capitals goalkeeper Braden Holtby as a client. They focus not only on the mind, but also on what Stevenson calls "peripheral awareness."

Huge public pressure on Hart before he played a game for the Flyers. Not even preseason.

He was in the first round of cuts after he was drafted and never played an exhibition game. Last fall he had to play, but was sick. He was soon interrupted and played one and a half games for the SilverTypes before he discovered that it was mononucleosis, and then missed more than a month.

Hart was told how impatient fans of the Flyers see him in the NHL. He shares this mood, but does not feel the weight of the 43 seasons of the Stanley Cup on his shoulders. If he is a messiah, he does not act as he knows it.

"It's nice to see the support that you get, but at the same time it's just people's opinions," he said. "Of course, it's good to hear this stuff, but you can not let it get to the head.

"He is a vivid example of what we want our young players to try to accomplish," Hextstall said. "He's become a better player, in addition, a year from now, and he's such a guy who tries to get better every day, as you get better. We are very pleased with the way he played. He played a lot of games, and he was the dominant player in junior hockey. We hoped that he would do it, and sincerely expected this, and he expected it from himself. "

This season, Hart had his best performance - the otherworldly 1.60 goals against the average and 0.947 saved in 41 games - and became the first ever three-time winner of the Del Wilson Trophy awarded to the best goalkeeper of the WHL.

He also supported Canada in his first medal at the World Junior Championships in 2015. Hart called her "one of the best days of my life," in part because he was able to avenge the same attention the year before and lost the US gold medal in the shootout.

The goalkeeper of 6 feet 2 says that his improvement since the Flyers developed by him came mainly from the great game experience.

"He just continues to improve, to me, in all aspects of the game and in the mental part of the game," Hextstall said. "I already talked about this before, but for the goalkeeper who plays in Canada in the Junior Junior tournament, the same pressure as the hockey player, and he passed it with flying colors."

Hextall does not expect that next goalkeepers will appear next season. The Flyers have Brian Elliott, Michal Neuwirth and Hart on the contract, as well as Felix Sandstrom, who will play in Sweden with a contract in his contract if the Flyers keep him on the NHL list. Then there are the limited free agents Alex Lyon and Anthony Stolarz.

They will carry two in the NHL and two in the AHL. What league Hart is playing is still in the air.

"I'm very good at our depth," Hextstall said. "It's a bit younger, but I feel very good in our depths."

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What should the Flyers do in goal next season?

As we watch the "Golden Knights" wade through the Western Conference and the Stanley Cup Final, it's hard not to notice the game at the glow of Mark-Andre Fleury and be surprised aloud about the Flyers own situation between the pipes in the next season.

The expected Flyers tandem in the goal last season was at least expected from the expected, but there is a case when the Flyers must maintain the status quo and return Brian Elliot and Michal Neuwirth again to the 2018-19 grid.

The tandem began only in 60 of 82 games, as various injuries will befall both goalkeepers. Elliott missed almost two months due to surgery on muscle tissue in early March, before returning just in time for the first round of the Flyers series with Pittsburgh. Neuwirth, meanwhile, missed a month after Thanksgiving due to a lower body injury, and then damaged the groin at the end of March to return during the penguin series thanks to the inefficient Elliot game.

And when they were healthy, not one guy lit the whole world, but they were, at least, more respectable than the fire of fire that was Peter Mrazek.

Having thrown out the emissions of Mrazek and Lyon, the veteran of the tandem of Elliott and Neuwir published a combined 0.912 percent stock, which was good for the NHL average in 2017-18. Now that's not quite .947 save the percentage of Fleury Vegas made with four Cup wins, but it can be worse (see Mrazek, Petr).

Part of the case against the preservation of the tandem goal in another season is that Elliott and Neuwirth were exactly the average goalkeepers in their careers and nothing more. Elliott has a career of 0.913 with the exception of a percent, while Neuvirth is a lower mark with a mark of 0.912. Teams with so-called "gates" made deep playoffs before (Hello, 2010 Flyers), which simply means that Hextall will have to become creative in the icing designed to mask the area that probably will not be a direct force, This is also a disaster .

Now, of course, none of this matters if none of them can remain healthy and requires a third and even fourth goalkeeper, like last year, but you can not always act on the assumption that injuries will occur.

Both netminders really benefited from the violation of Flyers, than jumped from 20th place, scoring to 12th per year thanks to career years from people like Claude Giroux and Shawn Couturier. But even while Giraud (probably) headed some regressions in the next season, guys such as Nolan Patrick and Oscar Lindblom figure to be primed for more spectacles production, and the Flyers got virtually zero offense from the rotating door of the bodies in their lower six years ago,

Last season, the defense of the Flyers also improved significantly and should continue in the up direction in front of any goalkeeper. Shayne Gostisbehere made huge strides in his own zone, Ivan Provorov continues to progress as the best defender of the pair, and the players are better than Brandon Manning on the way with Travis Sanheim and Phil Myers knocking on the door.

Apart from all this, about 17 million dollars in space for Hextall to play with this summer, to add to your list outside the folds. He has a hole in the middle, and he certainly can run at one of the top corners in the market of Paul Stastny, Tyler Bozak or even John Tavares. Hextall could even use this money to further strengthen his defense, given that on July 1, no goalkeeper flew.

And if the flyer goalkeeper will be set as not good enough next season, Elliot and Neuwirth will be free agents, and the network will be empty for Carter Hart if he is ready. Even if Hextall spends the summer in this hat, he still has teams and potential teams with established goalkeepers who want to pull them out.

It's not sexually in any way, but maintaining the state of the status quo on the network and focusing on other improvements can be the best way to act for Flyers right now.

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Sam Morin’s injury could carry over into next season

During the Lehigh Phantoms valley, the historic five-time victory in overtime wins, the wound to Sam Morin nearly fell under the radar. Morin will need an operation on his knee, which effectively ends his season.

If it were not for a recurring "nagging" trauma, the 2017-18 season may have been the year of Sam Morin's breakthrough for the Philadelphia flyers. In November, Maureen played in games against the New York Islanders and eventually returned to the Phantoms with an undisclosed injury.

This minor injury suffers from Morin all season, limiting him to only 15 games with Phantoms. In these 15 games, Maureen put seven points, and only one of them was the goal.

Maureen can face a long recovery time after a registered knee surgery, which can last up to six months. This recovery time will introduce a dent at the beginning of the next season, not allowing him to participate in the training camp.

If he is not healthy to start the season, the Flyers are likely to leave Maureen on the injured reserve. He will have to go through the refusal to rejoin the Phantoms, and Flyers risk losing him in another team for nothing.

A large adult defender Flyers also needs a new contract to keep him in Philadelphia.

In past seasons, news of injuries such as this would mean that Maureen will sink below the depth chart of the Flyers behind defenders such as Brandon Manning. In this season, the Flyers will not have the opportunity to bury Morin under mediocre veterans.

There is no longer room for defenders of stop-logs. The biggest obstacle to Morin's addition was Manning, who became the favorite of coach Dave Haxtol. Fortunately, Hextstall decided to move forward in favor of promoting prospects.

With Morin's injury, it was a vague possibility that Hextall would return Manning, but Charlie O'Connor of Athletic believes that this will only open the door for Phillip Myers, as discussed below.

"However, I guess Manning is still on track, even if Maureen misses extra time next season. Hextall, in an on-site interview, noted that the main defender of Myers, Philadelphia, is close to being ready for the NHL, so Morin's news probably does not do anything except to speed up Myers' time, and not to overestimate the status of Manning's contract. "

In a move that is not as noticeable, the Flyers will also move from Johnny Oduya. After Oduya refused refusals from the Ottawa Senators, the Flyers played him one game this season. Hextall gave Odue the same speech as Manning, the "Pilots" continue.

The only other defender of the sixth or seventh level who played for the Flyers was Mark Alt, who on February 26 was demanded release from the Colorado avalanche.

Today in the club of the hockey club "Colorado" announced that the team signed the defender Mark Alta for a two-year contract in the season 2019-20.

Alt had zero goals or assists in his eight appearances with the Flyers last season, and he was called up by Carolina Hurricanes in 2010. It can be safely assumed that Alt has never been part of the Flyers plans in the future. Alt is now on a two-year deal with an avalanche.

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2018 NHL Draft Prospect Name Power Ranking

In the summer of 2018, for the first time, Ron Hextstall has a significant space for covers and open spaces for growth, to make a surge in a free agency or through trade. There is a loud, vocal segment of Flyers fans who require him to do this as soon as possible, and I think that the vast majority of Flyers fans want to see Hextall supplements this summer. Hextall himself more or less hinted that he was going to make some additions, saying that the Flyers were going to look at the help in the center, on defense and, possibly, even on the winning winger. He also specifically said that they would like to add a good PC ahead. He even said that he is open to consolidate the position of the goalkeeper.

The question is, will this suppress a wave of anger and growing impatience in social networks? Being a loser who has nothing better to do, being an active Twitter user, I interact with many other fans. I usually talk to them about hockey, because not everyone appreciates me when I repeat the Mystery Science Theater 3000 lines when I see tweets about Dustin Beyfulin or my live tweet "Big Lebowski". Damned pagans. Anyway, many of them want the Flyers to take the next step, adding more talents that can help immediately.

I understood. I also want additions. I do not think that fans, players or even coaches have nothing to do with some additions to the list this summer. However, Flyers are in a difficult place. Now they have a spare space, but after a few years guys like Nolan Patrick, Travis Konechny and Ivan Provorov, will receive significantly more money. Hextall should avoid blocking children under the age of 30 years and ending with contracts lasting more than a year or two, even if they are great for immediate Flyers holes. Even at auctions, Hextall should be circumspect. Guys like Charlie Coyle, Ryan O'Reilly and Mattiu Perrault will definitely help. but at what price? If the Flyers had a list of the level of the Stanley Cup and desperately needed the center of the third line, of course, overpay for a guy like Coyle or Perrault. Otherwise, it is really difficult to justify some of the offers for a trade or a free agent.

Now, if a player like Jeff Skinner could be obtained at a reasonable price, discard the tires. He's the guy you could hook up next to Nolan Patrick for the next four years and watch them tear it all up. Or a free agent, such as John Tavares, who comes in as a superstar presence and skill, fundamentally making your team better at one stroke. Guys who are just good for very good players, such as Paul Stastney or James Neal, do not have this level of impact. You probably will like the talent that they bring, but you have to ask yourself, at what level of the game will they be at the end of the contract? I mean, if you could make a deal with JJ Redick with a guy like Stastny, absolutely. Anxiety for a guy like him, not next year, is three years on the road when he is 35 years old, and probably in decline, and Nolan Patrick is asking $ 6 million a year.

Will the masses be happy if the Flyers simply open the list and arrange places for children? Until now, the Flyers have avoided Edmonton Oilers approaching the racing children and allowed them to dive or swim, but the Flyers have solid veteran leaders that Edmondon lacked. Young defenders such as Samuel Maureen and Philip Myers can join the next season and bring more talent (and of course size) to the blue line without signing a deal or a free agent. Of course, this is likely to lead to a hit on Hextaul, which I read on social networks, that he scares about risky trading to add expert details. I do not buy this because the Brayden Schenn trade was a pretty significant step. Of course, this was a big step, in which there was not a significant addition to the list, so it will not reassure those who are worried.

In truth, we can not get any new data about this summer. But this is the first time that Hextall, refusing to make a deal to help the NHL list, would be his choice, not a matter of economics or list. This year, he has both a cap and space in the registry to make some ripples or even a splash, but that does not guarantee it. I would like to think and hope that he will do it. If they stand and just work with children, it's hard to expect that the 2018-19 season will have higher expectations than in previous years.

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Myers Shining in Calder Cup Playoffs

Lehigh Valley Phantoms rookie defenseman Philip Myers' first season in hockey was an experience of learning the vicissitudes of this sport. He emerged from periods of adversity as a more powerful circular hockey player than he entered the season as the much-hyped perspective of the NHL's Blyule.

During the 2017-18 season, Myers was engaged in a lack of posts and adjustments from a junior hockey game to a professional level. He has made great strides in knowing when to be aggressive and when to make safer games.

Dealing with several failures of injury, especially in the first half of the season, but also in the last stages of the stretch, Myers needed a few games each time to get a re-qualification before he was ready to climb again from where he had stopped before , how to be forced out of the composition. However, every time he achieved success.

During the five-time Phantoms marathon with a score of 2: 1 in Charlotte in Game 4, which set a new record for the longest match in the history of the American Hockey League, Myers described a staggering 66 minutes of time in the game that lasted 146: 48 and spanned six hours early in the morning, six minutes in real time from the time of the fall of the opening on the field, until Alex Krushelnytsky's winning goal at 6:48 of the fifth qualifying round. His ice time would have been even higher, had it not been for a couple of minor punishments that he had to perform during the regulation.

"He looked the same in overtime, as in the first period," - surprised head coach Scott Gordon. "He is a horse in a phenomenal form."

Three days later, the Phantoms closed the series with a 5: 1 victory at the Boyangle Coliseum. Myers again played a key two-way role for his team, and also scored a goal. At 4:04 of the third period, beginner rookie Oscar Lindblom won the puck on the boards and sent the puck up to Myers. On the right side Myers shot through traffic that beat Charlotte goalkeeper Alex Nedelikovich and found the net.

Myers, like all young defenders, is still experiencing a learning curve. The 21-year-old is not immune from getting on the wrong side of the puck, incorrect reading of the episode or trying to do too much with the puck in a risky situation. Nevertheless, good plays have surpassed more and more often when he was able to stay healthy. He demonstrates a good balance under pressure and quick rebounds from adversity.

Myers makes very good breakouts of the passage, with the ability to deliver many of his midrange passes directly to the tape, as well as the ability to periodically recruit a teammate with a stretch pass for the opposite defense. He has a heavy blow from the point, he effectively approaches the rush and has enough speed to compensate for some errors. His positional game, hard work and control of the gaps sometimes appeared at the beginning of the season, but improved significantly.

Unfortunately for Myers, the newcomer lost most of it until the Christmas season - including a long stay from late November to late December - to nagging the lower body trauma. The lost time temporarily slowed down the progress he was making in a fast clip after some ups and downs in his game during the NHL training camp and the earliest part of the regular AHL season. However, by January, Myers again struck at his step.

Myers played in his best hockey season, when he was paired with Sanheim during the return of Sanheim's 18 games to Phantoms in the second half of the regular season. These two made for the dualistic duet in many of their games together. Sanheim was soon recalled to the "Flyers". Myers continued to play well, but then received new damage from injury. He missed the last eight games of the regular season with a lower body injury, not related to his problem in the first half.

When the playoff swept, Myers joined the lineup for the first round series against Providence. After the "Flyers" were eliminated in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, Sanheim returned to the "Phantoms" for games 3 and 4 of the "Providence" series. He and Myers quickly regained their chemistry. Unfortunately, Sanheim's injury in the first game of the Charlotte series interrupted his playoffs, but the Phantoms and Myers continued to go.

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Claude Giroux says booing fans may have caused Flyers to press at home

It does not help the popularity of the captain.

But then the captains do not become captains to win pop contests with unwashed masses.

They are made by the captain to help the team win games.

Claude Giroux says that these masses are sometimes so unwashed that they harm his team.

Perhaps Giroux's stunning statement at his press conference at the end of the season on Wednesday will change how the evil Flyers fans manifest themselves during the games. Maybe the pigs will fly.

The flyers did not win any of their three home playoff games against the penguins. They lost the series, four games to two. The pilots were often booed. Flyers are too often booed for sympathy Giraud. He believes that the negative energy has made Flyers too often too often.

"Sometimes I think - I do not say every game - but some games, at home, it was not found. And sometimes it can happen that way. You may have a bad start. You can be down, 1- or 2-0. You [ideally] will continue to go the same way as you planned to play the game. It was not like that. We kind of changed our game. We tried to do too much. Trying to do someone else's work instead of going there and playing the game. "

That's why they were bypassed at Wells Fargo's Center by 18-6? That's why the Runes outplayed the flyers in Games 3 and 4, and then erased 4-2 deficits with five consecutive goals in Game 6? That's why the Flyers were 0-for-13 on the power game at home?

This recognition can be honest, but the overall score will not be popular. If fans of Philadelphia love hate, it happens when athletes are not accountable. If there is another fanatic of Philadelphia fans, that's not all when the athletes are responsible.

But again, the responsibility of Giroux is not to tell people what they want to hear. His duty is to honestly assess the situation in the team to help them win.

You can call them soft or sensitive or millennial, but if Girou honestly believes that the behavior of fans during the games hinders the ability of the team to win, then it is his duty to say this. If anything, saying something else would be a breach of duty.

Do not think that he is alone in his statement. In order for him to say this, you have to admit that this is a common topic of discussion within the whole team; on buses, in the locker room and, of course, on the bench during the games.

Sean Couturier raised the issue.

But Couturier also said: "Some nights probably had the right to deceive us. We were pretty bad, and we probably deserved it. ... I really do not think that this affected the results of our home record. I think that we are a tense group, and we kind of closed it up. "

It is clear that not everyone turned it off.

Giroux says that what often happens in the WFC does not help them win, especially this season.

In the regular season the Flyers went to 22-13-6, which corresponded to their smallest home wins in the season without a lockout from 2007-08, they were 21-14-6. These guys can be young, rich and famous, but that does not mean that they are not people.

Comments Giroux will cause screams from the same throats that caused bruises, which, according to Giraud, make players play tight. They will not care that he is a finalist for Hart Trophy, who collected 102 points, despite the fact that he moved from the center to the wing.

They do not care that for the past three years, Girou earned 27 million dollars .... and scored one goal of the playoffs.

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Goalie Makes 94 Saves In Longest Game in AHL History

Alex Krushelnyski scored at 6:48 in the fifth overtime to finally complete the longest game in the 82-year history of the American Hockey League at 1:09 am, crowning an incredible night (and early morning) of hockey in Charlotte with a 2-1 victory.

Alex Lyon stopped an incredible 94 of 95 shots throughout the night, the second largest in the history of the AHL, which also included 79 consecutive stops in the final 119: 56 game after Charling scored a goal of 6:52 in the second period.

The victory forces the Phantoms to win the final of the conference with 3 games to 1 series, which pass over the checkers. Game 5 of the series - Saturday night at 6:00. in Charlotte.

A total of 86:48, this outshines the previous longest AHL game, also conducted by Phantoms, when the club was in Philadelphia. On April 24, 2008, the Philadelphian phantoms defeated the Albany River rats at 2:58 in the 5th overtime on the winner of Ryan Potulny.

Only three games in the NHL have lasted longer than the newest longest in the history of the AHL marathon, one of which is the game of the 5-day Flyers games on May 4, 2000, when Keith Pramow scored the legendary goal to give the Flyers a 2-1 victory in the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh with a total work time of 92:01.

Phantoms also played the main part of the game with only five defenders after Samuel Morin left with a lower body injury in the first period.

The winning game in the eighth period unfolded when Colin McDonald won the puck in the right-hand corner and contacted open Cole Barro for the net that Kruszleniski found open in the slot for one timer past the blocker of goalkeeper Charlotte Alex Nedalevich.

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Five reasons the Philadelphia Flyers were knocked out by the Pittsburgh Penguins

Philadelphia leaflets are dead.

The Flyers-Penguins series was the most bizarre and chaotic in the first round, and in fact it's not surprising. It was a series consisting mainly of sloppy games and blowouts, but Sunday's game 6 finally brought a decent entertainment value - even if it was very ugly entertainment.

I'm not a hockey genius on any site, but for sure it seems that if you destroy the demise of the Flyers team, a good place to start is their crazy love for giving up several goals. Probably they will want to work on this.

It's been a problem all year, but you do not need to look any further than in Game 6 to see how bad it can be for Flyers.

In the home game "before or die," the flyers emerged from the gate on the ice and looked as if they were in good shape to force game 7, but they let everyone get away from them when the game went on. They had a lot of absolutely terrible defensive breakdowns, which are endowed with chances of Penguins, and Pittsburgh took advantage - scoring eight goals.

On the second goal in the game "Penguins" Karl Hagelin remained completely open right in front of the Philadelphia network.

Then, about a minute after Scott Lawton had just scored the third consecutive goal of the flyers to give Fili 4-2 in the second period, the Flyers allowed the penguins to return to the game due to a bad play from defender Radko Goodas. (You're going to hear a lot of this name.) With the washer on the wand and the flyers that wanted to break out, Goodas made a bad pass leading to the defense of the defensive zone.

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A terrible turn. Taking a bad angle and beating the puck. After driving the guy out of the way and letting Guentzel create a store in front of the net. Anything that is not very conducive to victory. It was a miserable second period for Hudas.

But everything was tied to the final intermission, and the Flyers still had a chance if they could just unite and play smart and tense.

Accelerate forward to 30 seconds in the third period, this is what the Flyers did.

This is Ivan Provorov, a coughing puck, in an incredibly bad unforced error. Provorov, who was clearly ill, gave a brilliant opportunity to Phil Kessel and Gentsel, who asked for a leader whose penguins did not give up. We should have known that this did not work, but Guenzel added two more, and Pittsburgh was furious.

It is important to remember that all these brutal games in the zone were sounded only from game 6. There are not many places for errors in the Stanley Cup playoffs: one of these plays can move the series - and there is even less when you talk about the qualifying game. The Flyers did not have a chance to win the mandatory game due to how many times they shot in the foot.

As bad as protecting the Flyers, you must pay tribute to the Penguins for accomplishing these gifted opportunities. First of all, Sidney Crosby and Jake Guenzel deserve praise.

Each of these guys scored 13 points in the series (six goals and seven transfers apiece) and played an important role in bringing his team to victory, especially with Evgeni Malkin from the line-up in game 6. Guentzel deposited four goals in this final game , adding another great play to his resume, and he is still only 23 years old. He's a guy who seems to find him in big moments.

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Philadelphia Flyers: Looking at 2018 offseason scenarios

The upcoming off-season for the Philadelphia leaflets has a huge potential in both good and bad relationships. It could be the off-season to make a shake-up or do nothing, so why not start guessing now?

As heartbreaking as it was when the Philadelphia Flyers lost in the playoffs of the Pittsburgh penguins, the good news is that this team will have a pretty busy offseason. In fact, looking at some of the uncertainties associated with this team, Flyers will provide fans with many opportunities for discussion over the next few months.

Therefore, without wasting time, let's look at some possible scenarios related to Flyers, so that fans can follow the next months in the off-season.

From the point of view of the regular season, most NHL teams will consider the Dave Haxtol season as a success. Despite having barely escaped because of the peak at the end of the season, the Flyers made the playoffs. They made the playoffs after the continuation of the 10-game series at the beginning of the season. Add to the season a rebound from Claude Giroux, a year of career from Sean Couturier and improvement from such young players as Travis Konecni and Ivan Provorov, there are a number of reasons why Hextstall returned his head coach.

With a few unrestricted free agents leaving the team, there will be room for younger players, and Hextall still trusts Haxtol to develop these young players in competent NHL players. Nevertheless, the team needs proven talents to support the lineup, especially in the central position of the third line.

Hextall stated that he would seek the third center of the line, but in case the free agency does not give an answer, he wants to return to Philpulu.

If the teams above them in the draft set too much for one of the first rounds of Flyers, there is a chance that Hextall will not pull the trigger. If you can not get into the top five, then the trade may not be appropriate for a team such as Flyers, which is already quite simple with prospects. And Hextall is not a person who likes to take a lot of assets.

In his interview about the release, Hextall noted that in the next season the coaching staff could have different roles. It does not make much sense. The only change that could be made, besides firing an assistant, is the appointment of Jan LaPerrier and Chris Knoblaoua. Knoblauch would have run into the penalty area, and Laperrier would have launched a power game.

In his speech at the exit interview of Hextall Charlie O'Connor of Athletic notes that GM wants to solve the exact questions that fans are concerned about.

Indeed, for the first time in setting up the weekend interviews, Flyers GM talked about targeting specific players in a free agency to solve problems with weaknesses in the registry. Hextall and Haxtol were on the same page with the goal of accelerating the youth movement, now that the first wave of "children" is turning into veterans themselves. And as for the veterans, who could not provide the necessary support for the powerful core of the team? It seems that some of the few will not wear Orange & Black in October.

In the past, there are rumors that the Montreal Canadiens was asking about Samuel Morin's defensive perspective. Now that the Canadiens have a common appeal number 3, it is possible that, in an attempt to exchange, Hextall peeks into Montreal to see if there is interest there.

Under the name of Jan La Napier, the Flyers' penalty shooters were close to the bottom of the league for four seasons. This season they were in the 29th place in the penalty game. Hextall said the full coaching staff will be back next season, but perhaps looking at past results, Haxstall convinces me to make a change.

Knoblauch has not been in the coaching staff long enough to really know if he deserves the same level of criticism as Laperierre.

Wayne Simmonds did not have a great season. As we learned, Simmonds played the whole season with a series of injuries that limited his effectiveness. The most likely move for the Flyers is to keep ahead next season to see if he can recover normally from the off-season and spend the rebound season.

In this scenario, Ian LaPaper and Chris Knoblauch receive a shoe. Even in the most unorthodox situation, it is difficult to imagine Hextall shooting at Haxtol.

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Philadelphia Flyers fans throw trash on ice during NHL playoff loss to Pittsburgh Penguins

Whatever happens in his upcoming professional hockey career, Carter Hart will go down in the chronicles of the KHL as one of the most successful goalkeepers in the Canadian major hockey history.

There is only one achievement in the career that is missing in the Hart junior hockey match: a victory in the WHL championship and a trip to the Memorial Cup. Now he will have a chance to do it, as his Everett Silververtse will take "Quick current bronze" in the series of seven best championships of the Western Hockey League for the Ed Shinoet Cup.

During the regular season, Hart published stunning statistics. He led the league with 1.60 goals against the average, 0.947 saved percent and 7 lockouts to agree with his bright 31-6-4 record.

In some context: Portland Winterhawks goalkeeper Cole Koehler was second in the WHL with a 2.77 GAA. Among the qualified goalkeepers, the Victoria Royals Griffen Outhouse mesh player was the second biggest win as a percentage of Hart with a mark of 0.914. Hart's WHL Finals opponent, Stewart Skinner of Swift Current was the regular season, finishing second with six.

Undoubtedly, WHL was the highest score of the three CHL circuits this season. In the league there were 18 different players who scored 40 or more goals, nine players with 100 or more points and 23 players who exceeded 85 points.

When the playoffs began, Hart was a brick wall in most of his games during the first two rounds of the playoffs. He was particularly strong in the second round against the Portland Winterhawks.

From Game 2 to the 5th game in Portland, Hart stopped 138 of 142 shots (0.971 square cent.) And recorded a couple of lockouts. His best game was not even one of his lockouts - it was a 42-saved game in the 4th game, in which the SilverTypes were mass outsiders and came to the fore, but took 1-0 in the third period because of their goalkeeper.

In Game 5, Hart briefly left the game due to illness, and then returned, so it was a technically combined lockout with Dustin Wolf, who played 9:22 in the second period. Hart made 30 saves, Wolff made 4.

In the Final Final of the West, Silverteps met a team of three Americans from three cities that covered each of their first playoff series and offended all the cylinders. Everett prevailed in six games, but it was far from easy.

Hart, who allowed 22 goals in a series with a high rating, was not at a peak against Tri-City. During the series, which he would like to return, there were several goals. He was also a victim of some bad bounces that inflated his goals against the average and lowered his percentage of conservation. However, he competed with difficulty and made enough momentum to save for his team to prevail.

During Game 5 and Game 6, Hart was uncharacteristically receiving a combined nine goals for 46 shots. The two goals he gave in Game 6, including one of the unsuccessful bounces in the original routine rescue, were those in which he was at least partially guilty.

The Broncos experienced sevenfold bouts in the first and second rounds of the playoffs before closing their final series of the Eastern Conference with Lethbridge on Monday. The 51-year-old Broncos house (renovated ten years ago) has historically been one of the most complex WHL road buildings.

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Flyers: Most forwards slipped in the postseason

"Flyers" took third place in the capital's division with 98 points - 10 more points than last year - and lost to the Pittsburgh penguins in the quarterfinals of the conference, four games to two.

Here are the scores of the forwards, with a score of defense and goalkeepers.

Giro had only one goal and two assists, and he was minus-10 - a big reason why the Flyers lost to the Penguins in six games.

Travis Konecni was the most exciting Flyers player in the regular season, but this did not translate into the playoffs.

Konecny ​​became the most exciting player of the Flyers, using his speed and creativity to finish career records in goals and points, with 24 and 47 respectively. He had 20 goals in 41 games in the top line, and Giraud and Couturier are his lineaments. When on the other line he had only four goals in 40 games.

He had an exciting goal in Game 2, but it was the only moment he produced. He managed only seven shots in the series.

He finished with 24 goals, despite the long list of injuries that most players would have given, including a broken ankle and a tear in the pelvic region. Slowed by these injuries, Simmonds finished with the worst team minus-16.

It's hard to give Simmonds such a bad class, because he played the injury, but he was healthy enough (in the mind of coach Dave Häxtol) to play, and he did not score a single goal. He coped with two transmissions and 15 shots.

Despite the lack of production, Nolan Patrick was one of the best flyers players against Pittsburgh.

The patient took some time to blossom, because he was slowed from inter-seasonal core-muscle surgery, and then suffered a concussion in the end of October, but he was terrific in the second half of the season. He had two goals in his first 35 games and 11 in the last 38 games.

Patrick managed just one ball and one assistant in six playoff games, but he was one of the Flyers' best players. Strong in control, he was in the middle of numerous scoring chances, and he tied Shayne Gostisbehere for the most hits from the Flyers (16) in the series.

Raffle played up and down the line and managed to play 13 goals, defending himself in return. He finished the plus-9, the fifth ranking among the forwards Flyers.

Lawton and his line-writers on the fourth line did a solid job against the penguins. Lawton scored a goal that gave Flyers a 4-2 second period lead in Game 6 before the home team collapsed. He was one of the few "plus" Flyers players (plus-1) in the series.

Novobran managed to play just two goals and four assists in 23 games after being recalled from Lehigh Vallley, but Lindblom defended the (plus-4) response and did not seem stunned.

He was basically ineffective and did not get points in four games for the postseason; he was a healthy scratch in two of them.

He improved the murder unit after he was recalled from the Phantoms at the end of February. On the other hand, he had just one point in 19 games.

Part of the effective fourth line in the playoffs, he froze a win in Game 5 with a clean net. He also contributed and some effective murders in the murder in the series.

Weiss had four goals in 46 games and was a healthy scratch for long stretches. He has two years left on the contract, which has an annual winnings of $ 2.35 million.

He played only two games for the postseason and finished minus-3, while averaging only 7:23 for the contest.

Lehtera has made some solid killings, and helped the fourth line to hold its own series against the penguins.

Most likely, Weal was the biggest disappointment for the Flyers. Having scored eight goals in the last 19 games of the 2016-17 season, the Flyers counted on big things with the high-speed Weal. Instead, he fought hard and achieved only eight goals in 69 games, showing only glimpses of his former form.

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Potential Flyers Free Agent Targets: Depth Forwards

On Saturday, after the lottery, the Flyers confirmed that they will receive the 14th choice this year in the NHL Entry Draft as a result of the Brayden Schenn trade made with St. Louis Blues last year. This is about the same good result as the Flyers expected for this choice, given that the Blues did not miss the playoffs from 2011 until this season. With this choice, along with their own choice (19th in the draft), the Flyers now have two top-20 peaks to work with the entrance to this approaching project.

This is the first time that the Flyers have entered the project with two rounds of the first round since 2015, when they had their own choice (with number 7 in general, ultimately, for the choice of Ivan Prororov) and Tampa Bay (who sat in No. 29 , and was used by the Flyers to go to No. 24 in the project of Travis Finite). These two choices will give the Flyers a chance to add even more talented talent to the promising pipeline, which remains strong, despite several gradations to the NHL level over the past two seasons.

They also represent two assets that Flyers can use in trading, and one of the ways that they can use it is to make a move up in the project.

Dave Isaac of the Courier-Post made several secondary waves on Saturday night after the lottery when he wrote on Twitter:

It is unclear whether this will simply be a guess from Isaac (a fairly well-informed broken writer) or if he speaks with the internal knowledge of Flyers' plans. In his defense of Flyers GM Ron Hextstall gave a few words about the opportunity to rise in his interview at the end of the year last week (transcription using Flyers PR, our emphasis):

We've seen enough players where this is a good project, and we're going to get a couple of good players if we make these choices. As for the options, yes, it gives you more options. If you want to move up, I would foresee the opportunity to rise. We are a little more specific in terms of the parts that we have. At least you have a good chance of a game. It's slightly downscaling, so if we go up to that spot, we'll be able to get this player who is well suited to the group of prospects that we have. A few more options.

In the simplest sense, yes, the Flyers obviously have a chance to climb. Everything can happen if the team in the top 10 does not like where it stands, and thinks that it can get some value while moving down. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that the cost of trading for the famous top 10 peak in the NHL is also quite difficult and difficult to determine, because it's just not very much.

Tulsky noted in this article that for seven years between a full-scale lockout and this summer there were only three exchange steps in which only the elections participated:

The multiplicity of compromises in the top 10 has largely been delayed for six years since then. In fact, there were only three cases where teams were known to trade the top 10 elections in the last six years, and none of them was an exchange - each of them was a choice deal for the created player, not simple trade, up. The top ten did not have net trade, as the two deals mentioned above in 2008 (both of which came courtesy of the island merchants).

What makes sense when you think about it, right? For the same reason, we are all interested in making Flyers trading from their current position the same reason that teams usually do not trade down from the top of the project. Teams that pick high in a project usually need high-end talent, and they are not very interested in trading from a position in which usually there is a high-end talent. If a team with a high choice does not want to take two fifty percent for a dollar, and if the team trying to rise does not want to cough up to $ 1.50 to get this dollar, then there will be no deal with it.

Remember, however, that the top 10 picks very often, because no team wants to give up a good crack in high-end talent. If the Flyers eventually move forward in the project, this is likely to cost them quite a bit, and probably this will not be as easy as just packing the 14th and 19th choice.

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Flyers have two first-round picks

On Saturday night, for the second year in a row, the Flyers left the lottery with exactly what they needed.

The St. Louis Blues were not one of the three teams chosen in tonight's draft lottery, which means that the Flyers now own their 2018 first-round pick, according to the terms of Brayden Schenn's trade in the last year's draft. That election will be the fourteenth round in the first round, which means that, along with their own selection (the nineteenth draft pick), the Flyers now have two picks in the top 20 of the draft.

If the Blues had been one of the three winners of the lottery, they would have (and almost certainly accepted) the option of keeping their own selection this season and instead give the Flyers their first-round pick next year, in 2019 , together with a third round selection in 2020. However, the chances of that happening were slim; the Blues had only 15 combinations of the 1,000 possible, and as such had only a five percent chance of achieving one of the first three places.

To be fair, it's hard to think that St. Louis misses his choice. Schenn scored 70 points, his best year of his career, in his first year with the Blues, he was more effective in the central role than ever with the Flyers, and besides that, the Blues managed to get out of the onerous contract of Jori Lehtera. . It was not an ideal year for St. Louis, they lost the playoffs for the first time since 2011, but Schenn's overall play was the highlight of his season.

Still, the Flyers have to be delighted with the outcome of the Schenn exchange. Considering the overall success of Blues this decade, the 14th choice is probably the best choice one would have expected them to give up. Between this election and the selection of Morgan Frost last year (just before Frost became one of the best strikers in OHL this season), the Flyers managed to get great value from the Schenn operation.

With two selections in the top 20, the Flyers now have some options to take. The team still has a fairly deep group of talented and young players in development, even with several young guys who graduate from the "prospects" as they gained significant time with the Flyers this year. Will both teams make this June draft in Dallas? Could they use one or both to make a move, either to trade and try to get a high level talent in the draft or to get an NHLer established?