And now we move on to the good ole' days and welcome back to the starting goalie position, Brian Boucher (crowd starts cheering frantically, half dies from hysteria). Seriously though, I feel almost the exact same, if not better to see Boosh get back into the creese for us tonight. He hasn't started a game since December 21st, but he is our go to guy for the rest of the season and most likely through all of the playoffs. Boucher's numbers this year are ridiculously deceiving. He is no where near as terrible as it seems, just got unlucky being thrown into games, just to have the team come back and score enough goals for him to end up with the loss. Take at least 3 or 4 of his losses and hand them right over to Leighton and it makes more sense. All of his mop-up duty has started with him getting in, giving up a goal or two because he was rusty, and then playing lights out the rest of the game. Hopefully, now that he's starting, he won't need to let in that early goal and will get the shut out tonight.
As for the rest of the team, if they play like they did when Leights came in earlier this year, Boosh should be fine. Hell, if they played the way they did with Leights I could see him getting a few shut outs before the season is over. The defense needs to tighten up starting with Pronger and all the way down to Parent/Coburn. The forwards need to have just that little bit more jump in their step and get to the loose pucks first. Our last game was great in stretches, and honestly, the bounces will go our way, starting with the game tonight. We can chase Turco/Lehtonen tonight easily just like the last time we played them. If we play good sound hockey, we will break this 13 year(!) winless streak in Dallas. It's time to show the West what we're made of. My prediction 3 to 0 win. Goals by Carter, Lappy, and Prongs. Let's do this, plus I want to win the Flyers Goal Scored By... t-shirt this week!
LET'S GO FLYERS!!!
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