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@doom88 amen. so tired of watching other teams pot those easy goals against us with the other team's announcer screaming from my tv.

in general we have a big problem missing the dman guy standing right in front of us in the offensive zone, whether its a shot or a pass, especially evident on our PP. like @RonJeremy said, the rangers had great look after great look at the net and buried their tap-ins and chances. i'm not sure what tune we'd all be singing if Bryz had let in those same goals, but Bob didn't have much of a chance on those. i don't know who to blame for this one, so i'll just go status quo and blame bryz.

tough game. hard to put the blame on any single area. we had some good looks at the goal. Nabokov had some quality saves. Bryz had some decent saves. sometimes luck factors in. i hate the shootout.

@idahophilly i'm hoping they come out pissed off and smack the crap out of the rangers for their performance today

even Chico admittedly it had to be called.

we slam Carle just a little less than we damn Bryz, but I agree with @Bakanekimiwa. something to think about at least.

No, if any of our dmen did that we would immediately blame Bryzgylov, even if he's on the bench. Then the board would explode.

you really want mason? i wouldn't trade schenn for mason 1 for 1. you must be smoking crack.

Haven't seen it yet but I'm sure Carchidi will be whining about it in every article for the next three weeks.

i must be tripping balls. i thought we agreed the only dmen worth getting were Weber, Suter, and Luca Sbisa.

@radoran we can still trade him. we just have to throw in a second round pick to sweeten the deal.

@Spinorama totally. Cachiardi was one of the worst offenders during that time. For weeks he couldn't let it go that Emery was once short with him, probably after being asked the same question over and over. Every story that loser wrote that mentioned Emery had to have the phrase "who was short with reporters a few days ago." Richards was the same way with that and Panoccio always tried to nail him for it. Look at the quality of the questions Bryz will get: go back and look at the video of him announcing he wasn't starting in the WC and count how many times the reporters who can't get untracked from their half-written stories ask him "What's your mindset going into the WC tomorrow?" or something else along those lines. Cachiardi and Panaccio's wannabe TMZ reporters are completely uncreative, unprofessional, and just plain bad and lazy journalists, if you can even call them that.

@ the all-rookie 4th line is great to watch. so much energy out there you just gotta love it.

in all seriousness, it was good to see him get on the board with a couple goals, even if they were served on platter like s3x said. the guy has looked so tentative with the puck in the last dozen or so games, so lacking confidence... hopefully this will push him in the right direction (and get him off my bench in my FHL).

trade him now before he plays another game! his value will never be higher.

looked like perfect shots to me. i dunno who leaves Kane out by himself in front of the goal like that. that was all on Bourdon losing the puck. Bryz had a good number of high quality stops in this game.

too bad i have to watch the chicago feed. all they talked about was how tough Shaw is for taking a pummeling and getting his jersey ripped. the announcers did say Rinaldo got in "one good hit."

i wish i was that guy Ed Neary's dad so i could call him into the living room and say, "Ed, can you come here for a minute?" and then molly-*** the sh!t out of his head for being such a moron. in all seriousness though, this is really what I come to expect out of certain philly fans (not *all* philly fans) these days. I sat in section 429 at the WC next to some guys from North Jersey and plenty of other NYR fans as well as a lot of corporate "guests" (the "let's go, hockey!" fans, as my cousin so aptly said) and had no problems among them. however my experience at the WFC tells me nobody should be surprised by this kind of bs in the video. Alcohol, youth, and team affiliations have a bad way of mixing. I took my brother to two games two seasons ago and one ended with some jackass punching some girl's dad in the parking lot because the girl had the stones to tell jackass to "knock it off" after he was chanting "f**k the Bruins" for several minutes while we were all walking away from the WFC, and then ending it with "I'm from Philly, motherF**ker!" (all involved were Flyers fans, by the way.) The second game STARTED with some drunk sh!thead and his 65 year-old (I'm guessing) dad trying to fight us before the puck even dropped because they thought the cashier lady was taking too long ringing us up for our beers. My brother and I have been hanging out in Philly going to hardcore shows since the mid-90s and both quit going to them and associated clubs since the early 2000s when a remarkable rise in the level of violence (not just the number of fights, but the intensity of them) became the norm. We (especially I) were no angels ourselves when we were going to shows, but something clicked when we started seeing the shift in the level of violence in fights in this area, not unlike what happens in the video. Unfortunately, this seems to be the norm now for Philly warfare. I dated a girl this past summer who lives 3 blocks from Genos and one summer night while walking to the CVS to buy a toothbrush, I walked past no less than four fights, two of which involved at least a dozen people (it was a weekend night). Philly PD should know this is a hot spot for this kind of bs, especially after high profile and competitive games like this. We've all been there in the stage of life where we just wanted to FSU (no reference to the "gang") and cause trouble. But to have something like this happen after the WC at such an obvious hot spot for conflict is partially on the PPD, but mostly on a few morons from our city. Philly fans get a terrible rap and mostly for media hype, but also for good reason. How many fans of sports teams get stabbed by fans of the same team? How many innocent bystanders get puked on by drunk morons from Cherry Hill (and rightly mopped up by fellow fans)? How many Santas get booed (ok, he really actually deserved it). We all get a bad rap and it's because of things like this, kind of like how Carcillo continues to do stupid sh!t and his punishment is exacerbated by reputation. It's no secret why fans from opposing teams treat our general good moods and acceptance of them as the exception rather than the rule.

It's ok for goalies to be crazy unless they are on the flyers. Then they must be stoic and nuanced, calm and emotionless without being alienating and must stop every puck or he's complete garbage.

Didn't know Ken Dryden could write. A pretty good piece esp. in light of the Read announcement today and what we all already know about Pronger, Giroux, Schenn, and Crosby. http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7352942/waiting-science

hypothetically speaking, who do you guys think in the NHL could replace someone like Pronger? It kills me to say the only other guy might be Chara; not for size, but for leadership, experience, and nastiness. Dunno who else could possibly replace a guy like Pronger.

You realize this is all due to the fact that Pronger wears a size 9 skate, right?

this. is. *******. awesome. thanks man!