FLYERS NEWS

Maple Leafs 4 Flyers 1

It Was Over When....

Alexei Ponikarovsky scored the Maple Leafs 3rd goal of the night with 4:oo minutes left to play in the 3rd period. It only made the score 3-1, but the way the Flyers have played this season you just knew it was going to be too much for them to overcome.

The Game Puck Goes To....

Alexei Ponikarovsky who assisted on the 2nd and eventual game winning goal for the Maple Goals, and as I said scored the clinching 3rd goal for the Maple Leafs.

The Stat Of the Game Is....

41, as in 41 shots on goal, and 7 as in power play chances for the Flyers. Incredibly after all those chances the Flyers came away with just 1 goal, which is simply inexplicable.

The Bottom Line Is....

Apparently the Flyers have forgotten how to score goals. They seem to know how to put shots on goal consistently , they just can't seem to put any of them in the goal. Now obviously part of that is good goaltending, but only to a certain extent. At some point you have to put some of the blame on the Flyers offense. I mean you have got to know what to do when you get the puck on net. You can't just thrown it in there, you have to keep at it until it's in the goal. Maybe it's youth and inexperience or maybe it's boredom and indifference, or maybe it's just a general lack of talent, but whatever it is they had better figure it out fast and start turning all those shots into goals because they are quickly running out of time to turn things around.