Flyers can't solve Quick
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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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Uh - forum - you aren't even making the playoffs this year. Congrats on the 1-0 win.— gob1234- Is this guy serious? It was a hockey game you idiot! And what the hell are you doing on a Philadelphia Flyers Forum. Go post in Los Angeles. Strange people out there is LA— studiocity96
- Today in the NHL any team can beat any team on any given night! There
is 82 games in a season so relax homies, Flyers got to get ready for
Tampa, they beat us 3 times this year. Lavy is experimenting, he knows
what he s doing!— doublehook - The so called stars ( briere, Carter )seem to disappear every now and then! Why? should have had at least 3 goals if they would just stop in front instead of taking these leisurely circles Mr. Carter!!!!— sawgrass
- with the recent injuries to the nucks and now lowely Penguins , the flyers are now undoubtably the best team in the NHL.But they must continue to get better.games like the one today are gonna happen.the important thing here is that they get back on the horse and win against those dreaded bolts.— lovelyleinolumps
- Some of you people should go root for the Pens. The Flyers didn't suck today so chill out. We had 40 SOG, Quick was really great, and we lost 1-0. It's hardly the end of the world so let's focus on Tampa because they're up next and we haven't beaten them once this year. We're due.— Kanayd
- Shoot the puck Leino!!!!— SFPhillyphan
- Well Lavy's tactic of when all else fails bench Zherdev didn't really get the job done. Please trade him for another role-playing, hardchecking, media-friendly player. I guarantee all, the Flyers will not be hoisting the Stanley Cup this year, and at season's end you'll all be wondering what was missing. In today's NHL a mainly Canadian roster just won't do it.— phillyfury
NO way did the Flyers play that game with any measure of seriousness. The defense was still solid, however. I believe Lavy takes certain games to try different subtle changes, to experiment. this was one such game. I am still happy I didn't waste time to watch the entire game from start to finish.— road515- Some very important signs in this game: (1) Is Zherdev on the trading block? (This is the season for it.); (2) Have the Vancouver and L.A. games exposed the Achilles Heel of our die-hard, hard-working team of blue-collar workers, and is it, of all things, a defensive scheme the Flyers just aren't built to penetrate? If, as I suspect, the answers to both questions are related, look for a new Flyer to appear in the coming weeks, one of those Knuble- or Primeau-like (but not them) presences at the net ...— NMS
- The blue-collar script is getting old, although the Philly faithful get suckered every year. Yeah, trade Zherdev for another player who 'finishes his checks.' The Flyers don't make it out of the conference. The team's management is fiddling with things at a point of the season when things should be gelling. As for Zherdev, can't remember the last time he's received a breakout pass to poach an easy goal. JVR got one a few games ago, and came up empty..... — phillyfury
- I'm going to say they were either looking past this game to the Tampa rematch or to their last tee times before the playoff run during the Tampa/Ft. Lauderdale road trip. Short flashes of urgency in what looked like a practice otherwise. The all-center line and other shuffling obviously didn't inspire them.
Zherdev scratched for a trade maybe? 
this team has a lot of holes in it...they are only 3 points ahead of pittsburgh. Imagine if they had malkin and crosby...it wouldn't even be close. And when are we going to get a shutout?- idiot. 3 points ahead, but also 3 games in hand. Plus we have had injuries as well - namely Pronger.— gob1234
