Amid the team's three-game losing streak, Tocchet wants the Flyers to be more direct, get to the middle of the ice, and not focus on always trying to make the perfect play.

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  2. What is the disconnect here with the team not being able to “get to the middle of the ice”.

    Tocchet has been saying that all season and apparently nothing has changed. Like I swear he says that exact thing after almost every loss.

  4. >Travis Sanheim credited the Flyers’ lack of power play success to poor communication, leading to players being out of sync on their reads away from the puck.

    this doesnt bode well for our russian-speaking star

    >“The stuff that I get frustrated with is how [do] you not retain it,” Tocchet said. “We have to think of a way for players to retain some of the information we give them, because we’re not giving them a lot. Maybe early in the season we did, which wasn’t bad, but now we’re going to have to really dummy it down a little bit.”

    owen tippett in shambles

    >Tocchet mentioned Brandon Hagel’s power-play goal in Monday’s loss as an example of something he wants to see more from the Flyers, instead of deferring to find the perfect one-timer opportunity with the man advantage.

    >“He tried to cross ice pass, doesn’t connect, the puck comes right back up, he sees an opening to shoot it, scores a goal,” Tocchet said. “We get it, we see an opening, but for some reason, we have a tough time pulling that trigger.”

    i think we’ve gotten better at ‘pulling the trigger’ and shooting the puck. we just have to work on actually hitting the net

  5. A lot of doom and gloom. We played one of our worst games of the season back in November against Tampa and got shut out. We not only don’t match up against them well, but their play style makes for boring and disheartening games from our perspective.
    The wheels could very well fall off, but I don’t think it’s happened just yet.

  7. I like Tochs “the players just aren’t doing what I tell them” philosophy instead of “I’m going to teach the players what to do”. If I tell you to solve world hunger with this 1 cheeseburger and you don’t do it, I’m gonna say idk why they won’t listen to me. I already gave them a single cheeseburger.

  8. If we’re trying to get “down the middle of the ice,” could we get some big bodies out there to clear a path?

    I swear that the Flyers are obsessed with two kinds of players: redheads; dwarves.

    Could we hire some players that when they move the puck toward the net, it doesn’t look like they’re all rushing the ring back to Mordor?

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