A Christmas Miracle: Your Philadelphia Flyers Are Going Streaking
Flyers 5, Wild 2
So let me get this straight. The Flyers have won 3 games straight on the road, Vincent Lecavalier is on a 2-game goal scoring streak, the fourth line looks great, Voracek keeps pulling away with the points lead in the NHL and these sacks of shit have managed to claw themselves back to .500 on the year? Excuse me while I go find a change of pants. And listen, we’ve all been down this road before. The Philadelphia Flyers are that girlfriend you had who was amazing to you in the weeks leading up to Christmas so that you would buy her a really nice present. Then a week later she decides to break your heart and leave you with an empty bank account. Heartless bitch. I get that the Flyers are in hockey purgatory. I get that they’re not going to be good enough to actually do anything spectacular, but also not bad enough to land a top pick in the draft. But you know what? Life is all about living in the now. I’m in the present and I’m loving every second of these Flyers right now. So don’t you fucking dare rain on my parade. The Flyers gave us a 3-game win streak for Christmas, so let’s all be thankful for that.
As much as I really don’t like Andrew MacDonald for his contract, I hope he has a great holiday for this play right here. This had Flyers hockey written all over it until Old MacDonald sold out and made a hell of a play. It’s fun being in the holiday spirit and not despising every single player on the roster.
It’s great to see Lecavalier find a little bit of rejuvenation in his game as of late. I love Rinaldo’s heart and everything but that line of Pebbles-Vinny-VandeVelde has been on a tear. Probably the best 4th line the NHL has ever seen. So hopefully Rinaldo gets a few new suits for Christmas that he can wear in the press box for a while. Knowing Berube though, he’ll probably find a way to get him back in the lineup and maybe take out Giroux or something. I don’t know, the mind of Berube works in mysterious ways.
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Speaking of Giroux, the captain has FINALLY been stepping up and playing like a captain lately. He’s finally acting like a leader for this team and doing a ton of extra shit on the side that doesn’t get quite as much attention as all the numbers he’s been putting up. Also, his Twitter game has recently picked up with this gem.
Told the guys we need to keep our composure on the bench. @Simmonds17 leads by example. pic.twitter.com/ESQTH7OLhv
— Claude Giroux (@28CGiroux) December 22, 2014
So yeah, I guess that’s all for now. Solid goal distribution last night throughout all the lines, solid goaltending from Razor Ray, and a couple of defensive plays that weren’t terrible. Here’s to just going along for the ride with the Philadelphia Flyers this year I guess.