What You Missed After Lights Out

You didn't stay up to watch the Flyers last night and you find yourself skimming the first line of every paragraph on Philly.com because you might have ADD. Here's what I'm going to do for you. I'm going to give you a recap the way you want it:

1st
Gagne gets hit and hurt 15 seconds in and Richards fights the dude - not very well as he doesn't even get off a punch.
Carter scores a nice goal on a nice plays from Carle and Giroux. It's Giroux's first point in the NHL.
Powe takes a stupid hooking penalty and one of the Sedins scores on the powerplay.
Hartnell comes right back and rips a clapper into the back of the net.

2nd
Jon Kalinski scores his first NHL goal on a misdirected pass from Josh Gratton. Gratton goes to the net and scoops up the puck for him.
Hartnell misses on a clear breakaway.
Ryan Kessler scores on a saveable shot - but Marty will more than make up for it in the 3rd.
Ossi Vaananen makes an awesome save on Pavel Demitra.

3rd
Marty Biron plays amazing and has a number of glove saves.
Scott Hartnell misses another breakaway.
Flyers hold on.

Was that that difficult? Now you know everything that happened. Let's move on.

If Simon Gagne is seriously injured we are fucked. I'm not sure how we even won last night. These are the dudes who were not playing on offense: Danny Briere, Simon Gagne, Scotty Upshall, and Arron Asham. That's no joke. We're a Carter or Richards away from not even being able to compete. I'm already tired of talking about injuries but it's pouring on us right now. You can't win consistently with one powerful line and a really good center on another line.

I'm putting in a call to the Dean at UNH this afternoon and letting him know that when JVR returns from Ottawa he will be dropping out of college and coming to play on the Flyers first line. The Flyers own his ass. Patrick Kane, the phenom selected before him in the 2007 draft, has 42 points for the Blackhawks. Kyle Turris, the guy selected after him, has 12 points for the Coyotes. JVR has 7 points for the US Junior Team but unfortunately the goals he contributes to don't show up the Flyers scoresheet. Why are they letting him dick around in college when he should be wearing number 21 for the Flyers?