Flyers Flash: Just Keep Swimming

Recapping the Flyers' four-game week, plus some takeaways from each game.

In this week’s edition of Flyers Flash, we look at some themes from the Flyers’ 4-3 win versus the Toronto Maple Leafs, their 3-2 overtime loss to the Carolina Hurricanes, a thrilling 3-2 win against the Boston Bruins, and a 4-1 loss to the Florida Panthers. What were some overall takeaways?

We look at the Philadelphia Flyers’ much-improved play, give Sam Ersson some necessary praise, and take a peek at what some of their playoff chances stand. As always, we look at the Flyers’ upcoming schedule to end off.

Let’s talk about it…

Flyers Found Their Game Again

In their games two weeks ago, the Flyers definitely had their flaws. Their poor defensive coverage, inconsistent offense, and overall subpar goaltending did them in. But almost all of that changed last week.

For starters, the Flyers had one of their best defensive weeks in a while against an incredibly difficult schedule. They almost folded against the Maple Leafs in the third period, sacrificing three goals and letting them sustain all kinds of pressure, but it was a net positive aside from that scare.

The great part is that the depth played the best of all. Ronnie Attard and Adam Ginning, 25 and 24 respectively, had even-strength stats of a combined 62.9 percent expected goals percentage (xGF%), a scoring chance percentage (SCF%) of 60.4 percent, and a high-danger chance percentage (HDCF%) of 100 percent. Though they played in depth minutes, that’s a definite improvement from where they were just a week prior.