Broad Street Hockey · Jan 5, 2022
That wasn’t NHL caliber hockey
Without Claude Giroux, Sean Couturier, Ivan Provorov or Ryan Ellis, it’s amazing the Philadelphia Flyers even managed to keep this game relatively close and score a goal, honestly.
The whole league is going through these issues, and I’m not giving Philly any sort of pass here. It’s more a statement about their overall talent level. Without their two best forwards and two best defensemen, the Orange and Black are dressing a whole bunch of meh.
And that’s exactly what Tuesday’s game in Anaheim looked like. And anybody hoping to get a look at Ducks’ rookie phenom Trevor Zegras was also disappointed, as he was also missing due to COVID protocols.