Sleeping Flyers lose to Minnesota, 2-1

Two mistakes by Michael Leighton, sleeping offense, and a stunning performance by Anton Khudobin. That’s the story of tonight’s game. And that’s really all I’m going to talk about here.

In his first NHL start, the rookie Anton Khudobin made 38 saves on 39 shots. A lot of those shots were put right into his chest, though. The Flyers made Khudobin look better than he probably is. Or maybe he’s good. Who knows. I don’t.

As I said, there were a lot of shots put into the chest of Khudobin. The Flyers need to acquire someone who can put the puck into the net. And they need to do it fast before they’re too far down in the standings for it to matter.

Michael Leighton was at fault for both goals tonight, but those weren’t the reason for the loss tonight. The Flyers can’t score. You must score goals to win hockey games. Michael Leighton kept the Flyers in the game tonight. Easily making up for his mistakes.

I don’t have much else to say. I’m sorry. I don’t want to go off on a tangent about how I think the Flyers need to rebuild their team and stop relying on free agency, because that’s just stupid right now. But, fuuuuuck.

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