The Philadelphia Flyers did not have their A-game on Monday night. Honestly, I don’t quite know if you could call it their B- or C-game.

It was Philadelphia’s fifth game in eight days, and its first since returning home from a four-game road trip, and packing three games in four days. Their fatigue showed from the start.

“We came out flat,” said Flyers’ alternate captain Travis Konecny. “Pucks were seeming to be just on the wall, and it was meant to be a battle along the walls tonight, and we lost the majority of them. [We] gave them a lot of opportunities.”

Losing Tyson Foerster to injury did not help the Flyers either. Already playing tired, the team’s bench was shortened for most of the second and third periods. Not to mention, Foerster does everything for the Flyers. He is a top-line forward, a penalty killer, and a power play guy. Oh, and he is the team’s leading goal-scorer, who scored the only goal for the Flyers on Monday.

Do you know what else did not help the Flyers? Giving the second-best power play team four chances. The Penguins had a 30.4% success rate on the man-advantage BEFORE coming into Philly on Monday. They left going 3/4 on the power play on Monday.

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When playing a team with as much power-play pedigree as the Penguins have, especially this season, you have to limit your penalties. Teams commit penalties; it’s a part of the game.

“The PK, which has been good all year, struggled tonight. [They were] out of structure,” said Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet.

The Flyers coach would continue by saying, “We’ve got to clean up the PK. I haven’t really liked the structure of the PK in the last five games. We’ve got lucky, a little bit, [Vladar] has been good, and Ersson. We got to clean up the structure part of it.”

You could tell from the start that it would not be a great game for the Flyers. Aside from Bobby Brink, no Flyers really came out playing hard. Passing seemed to be a struggle, especially early on.

The Flyers were struggling with their passes, especially early on. It seemed like they could not sustain any real offensive possession. Most of their early chances were off the rush. The Flyers struggled with their neutral zone passing and even had some issues with their defensive zone passing.

Even when five-on-three, the Flyers were not getting off the cleanest passes. It got better as the game went on. But it was hard for the Flyers to build any real momentum on the man-advantage.

With the day off on Tuesday, the Flyers will look to rest, then clean up their mistakes ahead of Wednesday’s game against the Buffalo Sabres.

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