7th straight loss and Joel Farabee exits with injury
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A 7th straight loss and another injury for pressing Flyers originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Chuck Fletcher called it “a massive week” for the Flyers to get their “house in order.”
The house got messier Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden before the Flyers try to clean it up over the next three days. The Flyers suffered another injury and loss in a 4-1 decision to the Rangers, their seventh consecutive defeat.
Right as they welcomed back Kevin Hayes to their lineup, the Flyers (8-9-4) lost Joel Farabee to an upper-body injury during the first period. The hockey gods haven’t done the Flyers any favors on the health front.
Alain Vigneault’s club will cross its fingers that Farabee’s injury isn’t long term. The Flyers are having a brutal time putting the puck in the net. Since Oct. 30, they’ve scored only 1.67 goals per game.
Wednesday night was the Flyers’ first of four meetings with the Rangers (14-4-3) this season.
• The Flyers are pressing big time. They’ve had their chances but can’t bury a goal.
And that tends to happen when a team falls deep into a losing skid. That’s why these spirals can be dangerous.
“Doing this 30 years, you can see when players are frustrated and lack confidence and you can see when players don’t believe. There’s a big difference,” Fletcher said Tuesday as the general manager met the media at the quarter mark of the season. “We still believe, we’ve got a lot of work to do and that’s where our mindset is at.”
The Flyers recorded 34 shots Wednesday night but scored only one goal — a tap-in marker from Morgan Frost while they were already trailing 3-0.
The Flyers haven’t scored more than three goals in a game since Oct. 27, a span of 16 contests.
Losing Farabee for any extended period of time would be such a blow for the Flyers. They really can’t afford to lose more pieces, especially a goal-scoring one like Farabee.
Wade Allison, the 24-year-old winger with a big shot, was activated off of season-opening injured…
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