Post by andi renson on Mar 13, 2022 21:29:26 GMT
That was a point stolen by Flyers tonight in a horrible scrappy game. The first period was all Storm, who looked more up for it than Flyers. Flyers scored first with a tip by Stadnyk then lost the equaliser 20 seconds later. Looked like Flyers had lost McNicholas, who limped to the dressing room after a boarding by Springer. Magee then dropped Springer before continuing to punch at him while he was on the ice. Springer gets 5 and Magee gets 5+game. McNicholas returned later in the period.
The second wasn’t much prettier, with Manchester on top again and making Flyers look disorganised for large parts of the period. Storm were well deserving of their 3-1 lead after forty minutes. Flyers created very little to bother the keeper.
Flyers got off to a great start to the third with a nice wrist shot from the blue line from Blumenschein on the powerplay, but coughed up another goal 24 seconds later, that the usually reliable Owen didn’t look clever on. Carter then redirected one in from in front of the net on a great Benson pass then with just over two minutes to play, Benson scored from just in front to give Flyers an unlikely point. A late Emmerdahl penalty was seen out and continued into overtime. It was still 4 on 4 when too many Flyers got caught behind their own blue line, allowing the puck to be passed out in front for Storm’s winner.
This was two pretty poor teams tonight and Flyers looked like a tenth place team for long spells. Yet again the basics like passing and skating into space were sadly missing. Storm broke out from defence to attack at speed, while Flyers nearly always looked laborious. The positive thing is that it was a three point weekend.
The second wasn’t much prettier, with Manchester on top again and making Flyers look disorganised for large parts of the period. Storm were well deserving of their 3-1 lead after forty minutes. Flyers created very little to bother the keeper.
Flyers got off to a great start to the third with a nice wrist shot from the blue line from Blumenschein on the powerplay, but coughed up another goal 24 seconds later, that the usually reliable Owen didn’t look clever on. Carter then redirected one in from in front of the net on a great Benson pass then with just over two minutes to play, Benson scored from just in front to give Flyers an unlikely point. A late Emmerdahl penalty was seen out and continued into overtime. It was still 4 on 4 when too many Flyers got caught behind their own blue line, allowing the puck to be passed out in front for Storm’s winner.
This was two pretty poor teams tonight and Flyers looked like a tenth place team for long spells. Yet again the basics like passing and skating into space were sadly missing. Storm broke out from defence to attack at speed, while Flyers nearly always looked laborious. The positive thing is that it was a three point weekend.
