I didn't need to see last night's game to know the Flyers got bulldozed. All of their flaws were on full display; terrible defensive zone coverage, soft goaltending, lack of hitting, not generating shots from the slot... The Bruins have comprehensively demolished the Flyers this series. Of all those factors though the defensive zone coverage and constantly yielding the slot and crease to attackers is the most disappointing to me because you'd think that would be easy to identify and fix.
Ending this series is just a formality at this point.
Other notes:
-Carter played a lot more minutes than expected.
-Goalie pulled for the 6th time in 11 games. Amazing--not that last night was about goalies anyway. I think every Flyers fan wanted so badly to see Boucher succeed, but he's just not that good of a goalie. Does Bob start game 4, just to get the experience?
It's hard to make heads or tails of this Flyers team. Are they the team that barely qualified for the playoffs last and got bulldozed by the Bruins, or are they the team of last year's cup run and phenomenal first half of this season? There's many directions Holmgren could go in the offseason, but I guess I'll wait until their season is at least officially over before laying out options.
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