PSUEagle wrote:That was fun: seemed like they dominated them first two periods before holding on in the third before that late goal.

Interested in seeing how the rest of this season plays out.

702 wrote:

PSUEagle wrote:That was fun: seemed like they dominated them first two periods before holding on in the third before that late goal.

Interested in seeing how the rest of this season plays out.

Shots were heavily slanted towards Chicago in the third.

Bill McNeal wrote:Mike Milbury is NOT happy that Hakstol has not paid his dues in the pro game to be a coach. He is like legit upset about this!

ReadingPhilly wrote:Lol, pissed I missed that.

PSUEagle wrote:So we have the NHL version of CH!P basically?

heyeaglefn wrote:I guess you keep riding Neuvirth until he has a bad game?

GrizzledVeteran wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:I guess you keep riding Neuvirth until he has a bad game?

Goalie controversy anyone? Whenever Mason comes back.

On Friday — Day 2 of the break — head coach Dave Hakstol tried a drill he used at North Dakota. And judging from the Flyers' reaction, it was a drill the players seemed to enjoy.

Assistant coach Gord Murphy spray-painted a black line down the center of the ice, from the blue line to the goal line between both circles.

That was the Hakstol “Line of Demarcation.”

Hakstol then put two groups of five players on each side in separate 3-on-2 drills with goalies Steve Mason and Michal Neuvirth in separate nets for the gray and green team.

The object was for the two defensemen on each side of the line to get the puck from the forwards and send it over the black line to their offensive counterparts to shoot on the goalie.

It was highly competitive.

When Jakub Voracek scored the game-ending winning goal, you would have thought the Flyers had won an overtime game, as players mobbed him in celebration.

Haven’t seen that in a practice in ages.

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Voracheck: “I imagine [Hakstol] did it at UND. I thought it was real fun. Guys were starting to cheat over the line and things like that when we got down to the end of it where last goal wins. Guys were doing whatever it took to get that last goal.”

One lament.

“We didn’t have time to form side bets,” Simmonds said. “Guys were yapping at each other. You come back to the line and guys are talking trash and slashing each other … it gets pretty heated out there.”