The Travis Konecny Era Sparks Yet Another Flyers 3rd Period Comeback
Final Score: Flyers 4, Sabres 3 (SO) | (3-3-1)
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Travis Konecny Era has Officially Begun. The moment Travis Konecny hopped on to the ice last night, you could tell there was an extra gear in his game. The kid was flying around from his very first shift doing exactly what we’ve already come to expect out of the 19-year-old. It seemed like the Flyers had at least 5 primetime scoring chances in the 1st period and he was involved in all of them someway or some how. Nothing was going and you could tell it was getting to him. After each shot he took that got gobbled up by Nilsson, he’d slam his stick in frustration. He wanted to get that monkey off his back and he wanted to get it done in front of the hometown crowd. So with just over 15 minutes left in the 3rd period with the Flyers down 3… BANG BANG. A Travis Konecny tip-in off a Provorov bomb from the point. Got damn does that sentence get me aroused. These two small beautiful baby children who were sent here to Philadelphia by the Hockey Gods themselves spark yet another big time 3rd period comeback from the Flyers. Only unlike their comeback in Chicago last week, the boys grab both points against Buffalo last night after playing 40 minutes of “holy fuck just get off the ice you guys are so bad” hockey. We’ll get to the rest of the comeback in a minute, but let’s start with that first.
Flyers Generosity
The holiday season is almost upon us. A season for giving and thinking about others. And it looks like the Flyers are trying to get a head start by allowing the other team to score the 1st goal every goddamn fucking game. That’s 6 out of 7 now. I love a nice comeback just as much as the next guy. But let’s maybe stick a pin in the plan to NEED to climb out of a hole every night. They’re obviously capable of scoring. I just don’t know why it takes them playing like a hot steaming pile of shit in the 2nd period. The Flyers were a legitimately bad hockey team in the 2nd. They couldn’t get anything going through the neutral zone. They were losing battles in front of their own net. They were low energy. I guess you could make the excuse that they played 3 games in 4 days but even that isn’t enough of an excuse for how awful they looked down 3-0 heading into the 3rd.
You Can All Thank Me Later
I don’t necessarily need credit for last night’s 3rd period comeback. But I’d at least like everybody to know that you can thank me for sparking it. I had a Beer League game at 10:15 last night so I figured since the Flyers were down 3-0 and playing like trash, I could get to my game on time and just leave after the 2nd period. All it took was me switching things up and leaving the house for the Flyers to finally turn it around. So again. I don’t need credit. But if you’d like to thank me for this comeback, you can thank me via Venmo.
The Flyers Are Going On The PECOOOOOOOOOOO Powerplay
The Sabres took 3 penalties in the 3rd period (bad idea), and the Flyers scored 3 powerplay goals to send this bitch to overtime. So yeah, they got a little help from the Sabres having no idea how to close out a game. But that’s 2 games now already this season where the Flyers went into the 3rd period down 3 goals and managed to find a way to tie the game up again. Like I said above–it’s not necessarily a great idea to put yourself in a 3-goal hole. But this teams’ resiliency should give you plenty of hope for the future. Just imagine what they’ll look like if they ever put together a full 60-minute performance. They could have easily blamed the scheduling for how flat they looked last night and they could have taken the L. But Provo-Konecny2016 got the boys started. Baby Schenn gets his first of the season to bring them within 1. And then it only makes sense that this game would come down to a terribly ugly goal involving half of Brayden Schenn’s body in the net to tie it up. That’s just hard dick hockey right there. Crashing the net hard and keep playing until you hear a whistle. What a bunch of fucking beauties.
Now To The Shootout…. But First…
Listen. I don’t know the guy at all. Maybe he’s a nice dude off the ice. But Dmitry Kulikov is a fucking idiot. The dumbest piece of shit I’ve seen in a while. The hit clearly comes after 0.6 seconds after Voracek passes the puck to Konecny. He sees that Voracek’s head is look at Konecny following the pass and then brings his body up high to bury him. So yes. It’s a bullshit hit. But that’s not what makes him a fucking idiot. It’s the fact that he tried to take out Jake Voracek. The dude is an indestructible maniac this season. All this fucking twat did was send the Flyers on their 2nd powerplay of the period where they scored their 2nd goal. Sparked the comeback even more so in the 3rd after they already had momentum. And then lead to this in the shootout.
What hands. What patience. What a fucking boss. Jake Voracek is back to being the player he was when the Flyers threw $8.25 million his way, and Dmitry Kulikov can go sit on a fucking broom stick.
Arizona is up next tomorrow and then some dweebs from Pittsburgh come to town on Saturday. #BackToWork
highlights via Broad Street Hockey, Sons of Penn, and Brady Trettenero. All good people who you should follow.