Flyers can't solve Quick
With the puck spinning on its edge like a quarter on a table, sitting in the sacred blue paint in front of an unknowing Jonathan Quick, Danny Briere tried to take a stab at it.
Flyers can't solve Quick
With the puck spinning on its edge like a quarter on a table, sitting in the sacred blue paint in front of an unknowing Jonathan Quick, Danny Briere tried to take a stab at it.
Before Briere’s stick could touch the puck, he was denied by Quick’s glove and the play was whistled dead.
Pushed by a Kings defenseman, Briere bounced against the end boards and looked up to the rafters and smiled. That was all he could do. The Flyers were exasperated and exhausted.
Quick kept the Flyers at bay for a full 60 minutes, shutting out the league’s highest-scoring offense as Drew Doughty scored the game’s only goal to give Los Angeles a 1-0 win at the Wells Fargo Center on Sunday afternoon.
Quick stopped all 38 of the Flyers’ shots. It was the fifth time this season the Flyers have been shutout.
The Flyers’ power play squandered three opportunities, including a span in the second period that saw the Kings take two different bench minors for too-many-men on the ice. With a 5-on-3 advantage for just 20 seconds, Jeff Carter lost a faceoff to the right of Quick that sent the puck the length of the ice and killed any of the Flyers’ gained momentum.
Even with the loss, the Flyers maintained their three point lead in the Eastern Conference as Pittsburgh fell to the Rangers at Madison Square Garden earlier in the afternoon.
Los Angeles, under former Flyers coaches Terry Murray and John Stevens, climbed back into the 8th and final playoff spot in the West, despite being in last place in the Pacific division. No division has ever had all 5 teams make the playoffs in one season.
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You Flyer fans are spoiled rotten. Your team is on top of the east, and -- from what I saw watching the Kings game -- the Flyers are a great team. Lemme say that again because you guys don't seem to get it -- THE FLYERS ARE A GREAT TEAM. You lost a one-nothing game against a tough defensive squad, yet still managed to fire forty shots on goal, win the lion's share of face-offs, and had moments in all three periods when you were all over Quick like a coat of paint. Oh, and by the way, your own goalie played a helluva game, too. So howcum you fuss like your team is gonna go down the toilet unless heads roll and changes are made?
I'm a Kings fan. No one has to tell a Kings fan about the Flyers. But after beating us steadily for the past buncha years and getting a cakewalk win in a seven-four whupping of us on December 30, someone has to tell Flyers fans about the Kings. This is not, as some of you think, a game you should have "won easily". It's not a game that was handed to your opponent by the referees. And the fact that you lost even though you played as well as you did is not cause for alarm. Be grateful for what you have. You guys are a good bet to win the Cup.— tuanjim
