Preseason Gameday Preview: Flyers. Canadiens

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September 23, 2024

The Philadelphia Flyers take the ice once more tonight towards the Montreal Canadiens, following a robust efficiency towards the Washington Capitals on Sunday afternoon.

Bobby Brink and Olle Lycksell are the one gamers on this roster that additionally performed towards the Capitals.

The Flyers have been capable of come away with a 6-2 victory over Washington, with a number of gamers having nice outings because the crew will get used to taking part in video games within the leadup to their common season opener.

Tempering Expectations

The win of their first preseason recreation is clearly one of the best ways to start out their preseason recreation schedule, however head coach John Tortorella would not need anybody getting forward of themselves in relation to assessing the crew’s readiness for the common season.

“It was a superb efficiency, however not a number of Nationwide Hockey League gamers in that Washington lineup,” he mentioned. “You have to mood these things each methods—whenever you lose or whenever you win an exhibition [game], as a result of I do not know what [Washington’s] camp has been like.”

However even with holding expectations cheap, he in fact acknowledged that it was an excellent technique to kick off their slate of video games.

“[It was] good for our offensive video games [to] rating some objectives, get some factors—that is at all times good,” he mentioned. “The outcomes are outcomes. I actually do not pay an excessive amount of consideration to the leads to exhibition [games].”

New Names

A lot of the roster that will probably be taking part in towards the Canadiens did not play in final night time’s recreation, so there will probably be a very new group for followers to control. Gamers like Sean Couturier, Tyson Foerster, and Egor Zamula will give followers an concept of how the work they put in over the summer time has helped them in recreation settings, like prospects like Oliver Bonk, Hunter McDonald, and Massimo Rizzo will proceed to attempt to show to the Flyers higher-ups that they deserve some actual consideration.

There’s loads of expertise at this 12 months’s coaching camp, and with cuts anticipated to start out taking place quickly, these video games are a major alternative for gamers actually combating for a spot on the roster to point out why they deserve to remain.

Grind By no means Stops

John Tortorella runs a bodily and mentally demanding coaching camp—we all know this. To the common Joe, it may possibly appear unfathomable to be labored as exhausting as these gamers have throughout camp, and nonetheless have sufficient feeling in your legs to play a good schedule of video games, however this crew has embraced the grind.

Tortorella acknowledged that this crew “needs to be pushed,” and his gamers agree. Whereas they acknowledge it is something however straightforward, they’ve recommended the way it toughens up their minds and their our bodies, and permits them to develop nearer as a crew as they bond over the shared hardships after Tortorella’s seemingly limitless skating drills.

Matvei Michkov summed it up completely when he mentioned that the troublesome practices make taking part in in precise video games simpler, and it is wanting like that’s shaping as much as be the case to date.