Kenny Albert
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Couturier, Hathaway, Glenn Denning.
Last night, Forster was on that line.
So it was really โ nobody scored more than two goals for the Flyers in the series.
So it was really more of an all-around team effort.
Marton, the rookie, did score the game-winner in each of the first two games.
They had five goals from defensemen in the series, so it was collective.
And Rick Tockett and his staff have done an excellent job.
I know President Keith Jones very well.
For a long time, former partner of mine on television, Danny Breer, the general manager, they've all done a really good job over the last three seasons putting the team together.
It was a gradual build.
And like you said, at one point it was 3.8% the chance of them making the playoffs.
first team ever nine points out or more at the sixty game mark to actually make it to the stanley cup playoffs so it's just remarkable when you look at where they were
in mid-March and where they are now in the second round getting to face Carolina.
Right, they were, and I think not a lot of people expected the Penguins to make the playoffs either, so you have to give them a lot of credit when you look at missing the playoffs the last three years and their core players another year older, but they managed to get there and finished in second place in the Metropolitan Division.
They had a whole nice advantage in this series, but they did fall behind 3-0 and had a big hill to climb.
They did win games four and five, but it just wasn't enough.
They probably had more
Well, first of all, you start with the head coaches, and they were teammates in Philadelphia, right?
Bryndamore and Rick Tockett, they're both members of the Flyers Hall of Fame, so there's a lot of familiarity.
Keith Jones was a member of that team back in 2000.