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Preds tie it with less than 30 left in the third, but Arizona wins in OT.

You forgot Patrick, who also needs a new deal. I think the more likely option is they move on from either Hagg or Gostisbehere. With Friedman signing a new deal, and Morin healthy as your #7, they only need one of the other two. Either is probably easier to move than JVR, who would probably require some salary coming back. That said, I don't really know that they need to move anyone out. Myers is probably going to be the most expensive of the bunch, and I can't see him costing more than 2 million unless they go after a long term deal, which I would support. I imagine Patrick and the Flyers will go for a low cost short term deal. NAK will come in under 1 million. If they bring back Moose he should be low cost, and they have Ustimenko, Sandstrom, etc waiting in the wings. Sandin is probably going to have a strong shot at the team, and Frost and Farabee are other guys on ELCs that should probably make full time contributions.

Voracek out is not a coach's decision, so illness/injury.

Per Meltzer, lines for tomorrow: Giroux - Couturier - Farabee Laughton - Hayes - Konecny JVR - Grant - Aube-Kubel Bunnaman - Thompson - Pitlick Provorov - Niskanen Sanheim - Myers Ghost - Braun Hart in net.

“When Oskar was diagnosed with cancer, I had numerous talks with our doctors about, ‘Is there a chance I could get him back for the playoffs?’ Obviously the answer was no, he wouldn’t,” Flyers coach Alain Vigneault told reporters Wednesday. “But come next training camp in September he should be back if everything went the way they thought, and things have gone the way they thought. “This year, with the stoppage in play and the COVID factor, the season has been stretched out and September is a less than a month away. So I was told come training camp he’d be able to play in September so I guess we have to get to September.”

Checked the scores this morning, and all I have to say is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yeah, no to expanding an already long tournament. You're going to be pushing towards July at that point. This is actually working for me as a compromise given the way the season ended, but I wouldn't want to see it in a normal year.

First line has to figure their thing out though. Farabee and NAK looked good, Grant seemed like he was just along for the ride with the two of them.

Oh, yeah. That gave me IBS.

ICP? Is he responsible for the Juggaloos?

So what, 6 months? I think Bettman gets a lot of crap for two things: 3 lockouts Arizona Other than that, I can't really say he's bad for the sport. OK, maybe CTE. 5 things.

Word is McElhinney is likely to go for Tampa on Saturday.

Correct, if they win in regulation. It also ensures that they can't meet Tampa until the ECF, as they will be 1/2 in some order.

While I think JVR needs to pick up his play a bit, he is a complimentary player. He's never been one to carry the puck and start the offense himself. Sticking him with Grant and then expecting him to do... something is a bit counterintuitive. I think, for example, you'd see more offense out of JVR with Frost in, but they don't seem inclined to give him a go. He'd be better served if you could get him on a line with Jake in the absence of a puck carrying center. Giroux - Couturier - NAK Farabee - Hayes - Konecny JVR - Laughton - Voracek Bunnaman - Grant - Pitlick I don't think NAK is a first-liner, but with two top-tier forwards, he wouldn't have to be. This makes the third line more dangerous, as well, with Laughton and Voracek. Farabee did about as well as Laughton with Hayes-Konecny from a metric standpoint, though the actual GF/GA numbers were better with Laughton.

Looks like Farabee Line 3, JVR rotating with Bunnaman on Line 4.

He's due to fly to Toronto from Sweden tomorrow, then he needs to quarantine for several days (daily tests) before he can join the team.

Game 2, Flyers (Home) vs. Capitals (Away): Thursday Aug 6 at 4pm.

Well, it's not COVID, since the NHL released a total of zero positives in 7,000+ tests over the last week.

He was in streetclothes. "Unfit to play."

They count as playoffs for stats. The Regular Season is over. Besides, do you really want to add 3 games, zero points to your prorated stats for Mathews?

OK, all of that makes sense.

Thanks. I know they had been talking about it but never saw the confirmation. So with all the potential upsets in the making, the Flyers just made it more likely that the Bruins and Leafs meet in round 1.

All the Flyers did was guarantee that the Leafs/Jackets lose to Tampa in the 1st round, rather than to the Broons. Actually, I'm not clear. Are they re-seeding the brackets?

Raffl out "For a while," Farabee in.