The Flyers are on pace to get 164 points. Ray Emery may never give up a goal for the Flyers. Jeff Carter is on pace to have the most goals since Brett Hull. The Flyers are on pace to kill a thousand penalties, but that’s not going to surprise anyone. I vote for starting every season like this.
Kimmo Timonen will get the reputation he deserves in about 2 months. He’s constantly being referred to as “The Underrated Kimmo Timonen”. Usually this sort of thing gets overdone and he’ll be overrated soon after. If he keeps playing defense like he did tonight though, that won’t be possible. He was the best player on the ice.
One comment on the offseason: good job by Holmgren getting Betts to sign for $515K. He fits the Flyers like a puzzle piece, because he can win faceoffs and kill penalties. Still, his agent was barely able to get more than the minimum. The comment to the media that the deal wouldn’t happen if it isn’t done by yesterday (Thursday) seemed to do the trick.
Rundown:
- Ryan Parent is a rock. Carolina players lined him a couple of times and bounced off him. He’s going to need a nickname if this keeps up.
- Coburn carried the puck well.
- Carcillo took two penalties to start the season, then drew one against Rod Brind’Amour, then was quiet.
- Tim Gleason is a pretty good defenseman. Good for him for standing up to Carcillo, too, even though he negated a power play and took his team’s best defenseman off the ice for 10 minutes.
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