After Saturday's embarrassing 6-4 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, Paul Holmgren added more depth to the defense by trading draft picks for the 34 year old Pavel Kubina. Kubina, along with Nicklas Grossman, will try to improve things in front of the net and try to help out goalies Ilya Bryzgalov and Sergei Bobrovsky as they continue to search for consistency. The new look defense will hopefully help these two get back on track and it will be interesting to see how they play.
I think the key to tonight's game for the Flyers will be to continually attack the net. After Saturday's debacle, it's clear that no lead is safe and the Flyers have to continue to try and find ways to score because the defense playing behind them is basically in shambles right now. It will take time for the two new guys to get used to the system so there might be a few mistakes between the two. The Flyers need to start this game with some jam and make a statement early on.
Guys like Jagr, Simmonds, and Giroux need to continue their hot play and try and put in as many goals as possible. In addition, I would like to see JVR continue to play well. In his first game back on Saturday after being sidelined with a concussion for over a month, JVR created some great opportunities. He needs to continue to be aggressive tonight.
It's quite obvious that the Flyers are beginning to get fed up with the goalie situation. While the players and coaches may not express it verbally, you have to figure that they are not happy that both Bob and Bryz continue to give up nonsense goals and squander leads. The key for the Flyers is just to keep working hard and hope that the goalies and defenders figure things out.
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