Devils

What's the best way to mitigate the pain of an LA Kings Stanley Cup win? The angst of knowing it was championed by Mike Richards and Jeff Carter?

So... Remember that time I told you to hold the Flyer hate after the team's 3-1 loss in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Semis that effectively ended the Orange and Black's postseason push?

Don’t get caught up in the why. Concern yourself with what is. Because, really, you don’t know the cause behind the Flyers totally troubling second-round out to the Devils. You never trolled the locker room. You never sat in on the Peter Laviolette pump-ups...

Did you miss the Sports Bash or do you just want to listen to it again? The Sports Bash ON DEMAND gives you the chance to go back and hear what you missed.  Its the Sports Bash with Mike Gill and Todd Ranck.     Here is today’s show: Monday May 7th, 2012.       ...

As expected. Straight from the source:

Maybe you figured the Flyers were poached before Game 4. Maybe you didn’t. But whether you leaned “Cold, Hard Realist” or “Unabated Optimist” coming in, you also tilted toward getting something reputable, conciliatory, acceptable in the closing act -- whatever way that went...

Dainius Zubrus scored two goals and the New Jersey Devils rallied from an early two-goal deficit and pushed the Philadelphia Flyers to the brink of elimination with a 4-2 victory Sunday in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal.

And you can’t kill the guy for playing Mr. Brightside. Especially not if he’s Mr. Playoffs. Still, maybe Danny Briere shouldn’t have been feeding the team a through-a-rosy-lens look at how this series was going to shake out and why, taking a patient and encouraging and understanding tone … “I think the power plays cost us the game tonight, all around...

Claude Giroux knew the Flyers had to be better in Game 3 after a sluggish performance in Game 2 resulted in a 4-1 loss versus New Jersey. It didn't happen, not he knows he needs to be the guy to step up if the Flyers want to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. ...

The Flyers looked spent. Gassed. Beat. Physically, emotionally, in every sense and stretch of the term. Dudes was drained. To that end, Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Semis showcased the same, irksome discrepancy in team energy and top-to-bottom efficacy that did the one before...