The chemistry is brewing in south Philly for the Flyers. The Boston Bruins (1-1-0) came to Philadelphia and the Wells Fargo Center to challenge the Orange and Black.
HOW DID THE NEW GUYS DO?
Cam Atkison netted a pair of goals. Derick Brassard added two helpers with Keith Yandle also collecting a pair. “I am obviously very comfortable playing with Brass,” Atkinson said. “When I was a rookie and then for a couple of years, he was my centerman and we are obviously best buddies, so we are always talking and always staying positive. You add a guy like Beezer (Farabee) who is obviously very skilled and can make plays and shoot the puck… I had a feeling we were going to click.”
NO CARTER HART?
Nope, Martin Jones made his Flyers debut and was under pressure all game long. Boston attempted 70 shots with 40 making it to Jones who stopped 37.
TO THE ACTION
Atkinson put Philadelphia in front 1-0 then his second made it 3-1. Taylor Hall scored on a breakaway started by a beautiful long-range out pass from Charlie McAvoy. Public Enemy Number 1, Brad Marchand leveled the score at 3-3. Scott Laughton (1g), Travis Konecny (1g), Joel Farabee (1g, 1a), and an empty-net goal from Sean Couturier (1g) provided the Flyers offense. Philadelphia took advantage of the worst outing that Jeremy Swayman has had in his short career.
Putting just 25 shots on net. Swayman made even easy saves an adventure and made 19 stops. “He’s not gonna be perfect every night,” Cassidy said of Swayman in his postgame press conference. “Clearly, he wasn’t tonight. Not his best. We needed some saves there when we broke down. That’s it. Just didn’t give us when we needed them. Our breakdowns were bad in front of him. Wasn’t a lot of quantity, but high quality.”
MORE SCHTUFF
Atkinson is the first Flyer to notch a goal in his first three games as a Flyer since 2016-17 when Travis Konecny pulled off the feat. The FAB line (Farabee, Atkinson, and Brassard) are white-hot with a combined 15 points in 3 games. The chemistry is brewing in south Philly, hopefully, it can continue.
Kevin has followed and promoted the game of lacrosse since May 19, 1974.
The same day the Philadelphia Flyers won the Cup, the Philadelphia Wings were introduced to Neibauer and Philadelphia.
Kevin has covered many sports, including baseball, football, basketball, and.. lacrosse. A former licensed football referee and baseball umpire, Kevin brings a unique insight to his game coverage.
A published writer in JustHockey Magazine, Kevin covered the American Hockey League as well as a monthly story on a pugilist where Kevin used the pen name, The Rink Rat. Neibauer turned his attentions to lacrosse for a few years and does his part, whether podcasting or writing to grow the game. Kevin branched out to his roots and currently provides insight for all Philadelphia teams for Edge of Philly as well as his full-time duties with LaxPhilly.
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