Am I drunk? No, not yet. Shortly though. But I took a look at another possibility as to why we are so damn awful right now and this popped out at me. In the past ten games we have played these teams: Buffalo, Atlanta, Van., Wash., Mon., NYI, Ott., NJ, Bos., Pitt. Their standings are as follows in the same order: 3, 7, 10, 1, 10, 9, 6, 2, 5, and 4. That's 7 out of 10 teams in playoff position, including the number one team in the NHL, and two teams that are tied for second in the NHL. The results of those 10 games are as follows in order: L, L, L, L, L, W, L, L, W, and L. The wins were against a number 10 team, NYI who pretty much never beat us, no matter how bad we are, and a number 5 team that we had an amazing effort against.
Now, if you will recall back to the past several seasons for the Flyers, we ALWAYS struggle against teams that are in playoff position. Last year was rather scary as we hit the end of the season, knowing we can't play up to their level at times. Now I am not saying we can't play against these teams, just for some reason the team decides not too. Onto why I can see a 7-0-0 run.
The next seven games including tonight are against: Pitt, NYR, Fla, TB, Car, NYI, and NYR. The standings for these teams are as follows: 4, 12, 8, 13, 15, 9, and 12. I can see Philly coming into tonight really, really pissed off about Tuesday and grinding out a win against Pitt, then all the other teams are out of playoff position besides Fla, but Fla has a hard time beating Philly at the Wach. That would lead us to a nice little 7-0-0 run and pull us out of this craptastic death streak we are in. It would also lead us on a 7-0-0 run into the Winter Classic, which would be sweet.
What do you all think? Am I just completely in my own world here, or is this a real possibility? Maybe I do need a beer or two or ten and then look at this again...
it should be understood that you need to always at least have a little buzz going when you watch the flyers...especially this year. Great point about the schedule, i realized that they were in a hellacious stretch, but i forgot that after thursdays game, they go through a week of slightly less difficult games. however we need to play well to win those games. florida, tampa & the isles arent guaranteed wins like they used to be
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