“We played a good hockey game … Thought we played really well, just couldn’t score.” That’s all Philadelphia Flyers head coach John Tortorella was able to say with confidence after Sunday night’s 4-1 loss to the Florida Panthers.
A result which happened after his own Flyers team had 18 more shots on goal, more than double the amount of high-danger attempts, 11 more scoring chances, and had over 72 percent of the shot attempts at 5-on-5. Simply, it was a perfectly executed game for the Flyers except for two things: Scoring goals and not allowing anymore goals.
Tortorella was able to (briefly) speak on not scoring goals, but when it came to Flyers backup netminder Felix Sandstrom allowing three goals on the 14 total shots he faced, the coach was speechless.