I have been calmly sitting here watching the Rangers-Flyers game and didn’t plan on writing anything on the blog today.  But after watching Mike Richards (2003 NHL draft anyone?) fly up the center of the ice and score on a SHORTHANDED, 5-ON-3 BREAKAWAY, I JUST CAN’T CONTAIN MYSELF ANY LONGER.  Absolutely no excuse to let a penalty killer get behind the blue-liners (Roszival and Drury being the culprits), and split them no less and go down unchallenged on the goaltender.

To follow things up, Gagne had ANOTHER SHORTHANDED BREAKAWAY CHANCE, only to be taken down on a play that should’ve resulted in a power-play for the Flyers.  How this bum Pelino still has his friggin job after the listlessness that this power-play has endured over 3+ seasons is beyond my comprehension.  And its not like nobody knows who is running this power-play.  It has been well-publicized that Mike Pelino is in control of the power-play unit.  That makes matters worse to me.

And since I’ve started writing this, which has probably only been about 3-4 minutes of gametime, the Flyers have scored twice and Lundqvist has gotten pulled, and Valiquette just let up another one (wasn’t his fault: five Rangers standing still).  They have scored 3 goals on 3 shots.  And I can hear chants that sound like “Fire Renney”.  The NBC commentators are ripping the Rangers apart at every possible opportunity.  As Pierre McGuire has stated, there seems to be quicksand on the ice and its games like these that get your coach fired.  They are completely this year’s version of the Ottawa Senators.  I have been a huge “Sean Avery for this team” advocate since day 1, but they are so screwed up beyond repair that Avery may just not be worth it.

This is what the lineup should look like and these lines should just be rotated and no one else should see playing time.  They would probably never win a game, but at least this team would have no absence of heart:

Sjostrom-Betts-Orr and Zherdev-Callahan-Prucha for the offense.  Girardi-Staal and Mara-Reitz on defense.  Those are the guys that play the hardest out of everyone, and at this point, that’s all I want to see

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