Injuries No Excuse
Posted by TheHockeyGuy on November 30th, 2009
The Flyers aren’t using their injuries and illnesses as an alibi for their recent struggles.
Lately, they have been playing without four of their top 12 forwards.
“We can’t make excuses,” coach John Stevens said. “I think everybody goes through stretches where they lose some key personnel. There are a lot of teams in the league that have gone through it already.”
The Flyers have lost five of their last six games, including Saturday’s 1-0 defeat in Atlanta.
“I’m not disappointed with the effort, but we have to find a way to sharpen up offensively,” said Stevens, whose team outshot the Thrashers, 34-18, but was blanked by Johan Hedberg. “We have to find a way to get more pucks to the net. Sometimes there’s a fine line between scoring and not scoring – and we have to start crossing that line.”
General manager Paul Holmgren said he was “disappointed in the results. Every team has injuries, and we just haven’t handled it as well as we should have.”
In the loss to Atlanta, the Flyers were missing a trio of injured players – Simon Gagne, Blair Betts and Darroll Powe – along with the flu-ridden Danny Briere.
Click here to read the full article – By Philadelphia Inquirer
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