The One Man Team

Yeah, no joke, that really is Ilya Kovalchuk wearing a kilt for some reason. Guys still a pimp though.

Anyways, tonight we have Kovalchuk and his AHL teammates in town. It really is pathetic that there really are only 3 or 4 good players on this entire team. Also, as everyone knows, they are trying to deal off Kovalchuk for what seems like will be as many draft picks as they can possibly get. He truly is a superstar, and by far the second best winger and Russian in the NHL, behind only Ovechkin. Even though we lost to Atlanta in our last outing, which was our first lost to them in the previous 14 games that we played them, and that was when we forgot how to play hockey and right after that game, Stevens got the axe. Well, now we are back to playing real hockey, and are doing quite well at it. I believe we are 11-4-1 in our last 16; pretty impressive. Games against ATL are also made easier because all we have to do is shutdown Kovi and we should be fine. Since we have two shutdown defenseman that play on different lines, that job works out perfect.

As for the Flyers' players getting points, the two big guns right now are Carter and Pronger who have been playing very well. Emery has been steady since coming back, which is always a good sign. I have this feeling JVR is going to have a good game tonight, and I think it all stems from reading so many articles about Myers and Duchene and how the Calder race is all about them, which I find to be complete bullshit. JVR is playing third line minutes at best, and is still producing as many points and as good of play as those two dicks. If they don't take into account those things when looking at the Calder this year, I'll be pretty angry. Besides that, look for the Flyers to come out on fire this game after having three days to think about losing to the dreaded Pens and how awful the powerplay was. I'm expecting a HUGE win tonight. Biggest win of the year. I'm going with 9 to 2, and that's at most 2 for ATL.

LET'S GO FLYERS!!!