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Flyers take a defensive hit

DAVID SHOALTS

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Latest comment posted at 8:35 PM EDT 15/05/08

Philadelphia will be without its top two blueliners in a must-win game tonight, reports David Shoalts ...Read the full article

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  1. Pat Billings from CDN, Canada writes: Expect a blowout and then watch for cheaphots. The Flyers are unraveling. Birion is shaky, the top scoring lines are all being changed and the defence is getting slower and more tired with each game. The Pens are looking stronger and more dominant with each game. The trend will continue. Unfortunately, the Pens can't rely on Giveaway Downie tonight.

    If there is any lesson to be learned from this, it will be to drop the tough guy act and wear a visor.
  2. Montgomery C. Burns from Springfield, Canada writes: Not surprise to see that Clownie is still running around doing stupid things. The Pens will close it out tonight.
  3. bob smith from Canada writes: Careful Pat Billings....that bitterness will eat you alive.
  4. Gogh Forit from Canada writes: Dallas had life in their legs last night against Detroit while the Red Wings looked like they had the game in the bag and played as if strolling through the park.
    Philadelphia will have to have the same energy but look for Pittsburgh to not be asleep at the switch like Detroit was on Wednesday night. I don't think the Flyers can stay away from the cheap shots because some of their players are only good for the goon tactics and are left in the dust when it comes to pure hockey talents such as skating and clean bodychecks. What this means is that Pittsburgh will have an extra day of rest against Detroit. Dallas on the other hand could wake up and push their series beyond five games.
  5. Phoenix Thorpe from Canada writes: The flyers used up their quota of good fortune in the first two series.
  6. steve allan from Canada writes: The eason has come full circle. It started with this idiot Downie trying to kill another player and it ends for the Flyers with the same idiot costing his team the game and the series.

    It looks good on Stevens for putting a guy like Downie in there. The guy doesn't belong in the NHL and certainly doesn't belong in its showcase event - the Stanley Cup playoffs.
  7. Proud Canadian from Canada writes: steve allan from Canada writes: 'It looks good on Stevens for putting a guy like Downie in there. The guy doesn't belong in the NHL and certainly doesn't belong in its showcase event - the Stanley Cup playoffs'. Downie belongs in one of 2 places. Jail or an insane asylum. He is a loose cannon, he is going to cost some guy his livelyhood some day, he is going to put a family in distress, he is going to cripple some kids dad. The sooner the NHL recognizes that and gets him, Boulderdice and any other players with nothing but a block of cement between their ears off the ice. I hate to say it that way but the facts are the facts, he was nuts in Junior, he is even more nuts now. Prove me otherwise.
  8. Noble Savage from Canada writes: Downie needs a life, all he's concern with doing is taking off heads and keeping his on. Downie's always looking over his shoulder (wondering if someones going to get some 'payback') this time its cost his team DEARLY! Give him Downie 6-7 years to mature and he could be a real contributing team player, but right now hes a loose cannon a REAL CANCER, who can seriously disrupt his own team. Send the kid to the MMA he needs to get smacked around aLOT!
  9. Lyn Alg from Canada writes: I said it when this series started - 'Pittsburgh in four'. I'll say it again, '..Pittsburgh in four '.
  10. Sissy Schuss from Canada writes: Lyn Alg from Canada writes: I said it when this series started - 'Pittsburgh in four'. I'll say it again, '..Pittsburgh in four '. It only means something if you put your money where your mouth is.
  11. Sissy Schuss from Canada writes: Lyn Alg from Canada writes: I said it when this series started - 'Pittsburgh in four'. I'll say it again, '..Pittsburgh in four '. It only means something if you put your money where your mouth is.
  12. greg panke from Canada writes: The Flyers put the first two tonight in themselves, but on the third one the refs deserve at least an assist. With all the cpra the Flyers get away with after the whistle and sometimes before they should be short handed a lot more often than the Pens. I suppose the refs will even up the penalties at the end of the game if it isn't close.

    Are the refs as consistently bad/biased in other sports as they are in the NHL (aside from soccer, where they are incredibly bad at times).

    I know the league likes to extend these series, but a team as dirty as the Flyers does not deserve it.

    As for Downie, with his reputation, he should have been suspended for a few games, which is possibly why he is out for at least this game. Is it possible that the NHL gave the Flyers the option, take Downie off the ice or the league would? On the other hand his assists on the Pens goals will be missed.

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