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Some fans may want general manager Ron Hextall to bypass his patient process, trade for a quality player who would aid a playoff run now, in order to go for it this season, but such a decision would be a grave mistake.
December has now come to a disappointing end with losses in five of six games and three straight after the Flyers 2-0 loss to the San Jose Sharks on Friday night. And when that happens, the negatives can be just as easy to identify. Here are 10 Postgame Points from the loss.
For the third straight game, a lack of energy and overall lifeless hockey did the Flyers in. From the start, the Flyers were handed their third straight loss and fifth in the last six games, their worst six-game stretch of the season. This loss was very much like the first one, right before the holiday break. The Flyers couldn’t solve Aaron Dell and the Sharks in a 2-0 loss on Friday night.
The Flyers Alumni Association has released the full list of participants for Alumni Weekend, to be held on Jan. 13 and 14, including the playing roster for the alumni game against the Penguins alumni.
For Flyers fans, the World Junior Championships this year is especially gratifying as Philadelphia has a total of nine players competing at the games. No other team has more than five players participating.
Days 3 and 4 of the World Junior Championships featured two games for some Flyers prospects. Most importantly, all nine prospects saw action in some form on Wednesday or Thursday. Here’s the rundown.
The post-Christmas blues caught up with the Flyers again in St. Louis. If last Thursday’s result in New Jersey wasn’t frustrating enough, this certainly brought out a lot of frustration. The Flyers made a disappointing and downright pathetic return in a 6-3 loss to the Blues on Wednesday night.
As the Flyers embark on a three-game road trip, starting Wednesday in St. Louis, getting back to the level of play they had to start December is a focus for GM Ron Hextall.
Four Flyers prospects were in action during the four games on Tuesday. One of the Flyers Russian prospects was the standout this time around, and it wasn’t their 2016 first-round pick.
The 2017 World Junior Championships got underway on Monday with four games, and there were Flyers prospects in all of them. Eight of the Flyers nine prospects participating played on Monday and a few started off the tournament on a strong note.
