PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Flyers outshot, outchanced, and outplayed the San Jose Sharks tonight at the Wells Fargo Center. They just couldn’t outscore them. After surviving a Sharks power play at the start of the overtime session, a miscommunication between Michael Del Zotto and Claude Giroux in the offensive zone sent San Jose on an…
Microstat Tracking is a new feature that attempts to quantify the performance of the Philadelphia Flyers in the offensive, neutral and defensive zones. All statistics are manually tracked by Charlie O’Connor. Part 1 consists of the raw data; Part 2 will include Charlie’s thoughts on interesting trends in the metrics. Last week’s metrics can be…
Last in the NHL in goals scored, the Philadelphia Flyers are obviously dealing with serious offensive issues. They’ve been shut out in two straight games, and have lost five out of their last six games. As a result, it was fair to expect a number of changes to the Flyers lineup for Monday night’s game…
The Philadelphia Flyers know that Shayne Gostisbehere’s rookie season will come with growing pains. But those growing pains are much easier to swallow when they come with offensive instincts that can singlehandedly turn a game. Gostisbehere was the hero tonight, finding an open space in the slot during a 4-on-3 power play opportunity and blasting…
The Flyers travelled to Ottawa to take on the Senators on Saturday night, where they were unceremoniously dumped, losing 4-0. Hakstol started the game with the same starting lineups he’s used the last several games, with Brayden Schenn on the Giroux (who perhaps was trying a little extra hard today, as his hometown of Hearst,…
Following Thursday night’s shutout loss to the San Jose Sharks, the Philadelphia Flyers officially became the low-scoring team in the NHL. Through 19 games, they’ve averaged 1.79 goals per contest, last in the league behind the Anaheim Ducks. The main culprits early in the season were superstars Claude Giroux and Jakub Voracek, who started slow…
With the Flyers coming into today as the NHL’s lowest-scoring team, facing off with an opponent that is both outstanding defensively and a-bit-less-than-that offensively, a low-scoring game would have surprised no one. And for the most part, that was what we got. But a higher-paced third period and overtime saw things pick up a bit,…
Bad news: through 22 OHL games, Travis Konecny has scored just five goals. That’s one goal for every assist he had in his most recent game. Yup – the Ottawa 67’s defeated the Oshawa Generals 6-2, and Konecny had five assists. In one game. Because he’s pretty good. Travis Konecny back at it tonight. 5…
Microstat Tracking is a new feature that attempts to quantify the performance of the Philadelphia Flyers in the offensive, neutral and defensive zones. All statistics are manually tracked by Charlie O’Connor. Part 1 consists of the raw data; Part 2 will include Charlie’s thoughts on interesting trends in the metrics. The general consensus surrounding Shayne…
Not going to add a ton of commentary to this one. Just going to provide one chart, showing a number of on-ice categories, the percentage of those types of categories that had been going the Flyers’ way this season in the 16 games up until November 14, the percentage of those that have been going…