Meltzer’s Musings: 2/22/12

by Bill Meltzer, PhilaPhans’ Contributor (Bill Meltzer-HockeyBuzz)

Recap:

It is not often that a team gets badly outplayed on special teams, runs into an opposing goalie who performed as well as the Winnipeg Jets’ Ondrej Pavelec did last night, finds itself staring at three separate one-goal deficits and still wins the hockey game. But that’s exactly what the Philadelphia Flyers did in last night’s 5-4 win at the MTS Centre.

The Flyers showed a lot of character last night, bombarding Pavelec with 55 shots and refusing to quit. As bad as the Flyers were on the penalty kill (0-for-3, with three goals against on three shots), that’s how dominant all four lines were at even strength. Eventually, they got rewarded.

Ilya Bryzgalov had another uneven game in goal for the Flyers. There were times he fought the puck or flopped around his crease in seeming desperation (on one occasion in particular, Brayden Schenn’s stop along the goal line prevented a goal). The fourth Winnipeg goal — a fluttering shot from the high slot by Evander Kane — was headed over the top of the net until Bryzgalov misjudged his attempted glove-hand catch, the puck hit off the goalie’s glove, and dropped into the net.

Meltzer’s Musings: 2/22/12

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Posted by Bill Meltzer on Feb 22 2012. Filed under Bill Meltzer’s In the Zone, Breaking News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry