Our Favorite Little Team

So, most likely against their own personal feelings, the New York Islanders come to town tonight. Currently, the longest winning streak against one team in the NHL is held by the Flyers, and you guessed it, against the Islanders. We have made it 14 straight games over the course of the last three seasons. That's just embarrassing. Although we do play them six times every year, you would think out of pure luck that they would be able to slip at least one of the last 14 away, but to the happiness of all Flyers fans, that has not happened. I personally blame the streak on my good friend Luke, who, back around the beginning of this streak, claimed that no longer were the Islanders his favorite team (after about 15 years of only watching them) and now the Sharks are. He completely jumped ship on his boys, and ran off to one of the best teams during the regular season every year (we all know how they play in the playoffs). So to my friend Luke, I say, tonight makes 15 buddy.

As for the game itself, we will have Leights starting in goal as usual, which after reading Broad Streets blog post arguing for Bouch to start, I am not happy about. Leights should do fine, but we will see Bouch flop around this weekend and give up two soft ones as expected when he gets in. Besides that, everything else will most likely stay the same. I would like to see Leino get in again for Hartnell with the Carter/Briere line, but that is extremely doubtful. Looking over at the Islanders, their savior Tavares has fallen apart and has now scored I believe 3 goals in his last 23 games or something like that. I'm sure he will bounce back at some point, but it won't do anything to help the Islanders salvage this season. My biggest worry about this game will be the Flyers being over confident and playing down to the Islanders level of play, as we have done many, many times in the past. We should be able to walk into this game tonight and win 38 to 0, but we won't. My prediction is this, 6 to 1. I'm going big in hopes that the team wants to prove that they won't play down to a much worse team for the rest of the year. Let's watch Carts, Richie, Briere, Gagne, and the rest of the gang keep up the solid play.

Let's Go Flyers!!!