The Flyers left Winnipeg on Sunday breathing Jet fumes after an embarrassing 7-1 loss at Bell MTS Place.
The Jets blew the game open with five unanswered goals and the Flyers now haven't won in Winnipeg since 2015.
With Chuck Fletcher in attendance, which line impressed the GM and how did Michal Neuvirth perform in his first action since Oct. 27?
• The Flyers came out strong with a refusal to be outworked in the first 25 minutes. They had good puck pursuit, outracing the Jets to loose pucks and outworking Winnipeg along the boards. At one stretch early in the second period, the Flyers outshot the Jets 24-8, although they still trailed 2-1.
• The best line at even strength was the Michael Raffl-Scott Laughton-Dale Weise combination. Through two periods, that trio was generating chances and simply outworking the Jets' third line. Once the Flyers were forced to kill Robert Hagg’s major for checking from behind, Raffl and Laughton were forced to kill some major PP time and the entire team had the wind ripped out of its sails.
• Neuvirth looked like a goaltender that hadn’t played since Oct. 27 as all three goals he allowed were stoppable shots. Kyle Connor’s shot from the slot wasn’t deflected and Neuvirth couldn’t corral it. Josh Morrisey’s power-play goal from just inside the blue line was a shot in which Neuvirth may have been slightly screened but not enough to where he couldn’t have tracked it. Finally, on Brandon Tanev’s rebound goal, Neuvirth couldn’t squeeze his glove as the puck trickled to the ice.
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• Perhaps the outcome could have been a little different had the Flyers opened the scoring with a power-play goal. They had the Jets' PK chasing the puck and had some tremendous grade-A opportunities with Wayne Simmonds denied on the doorstep by Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck, who was tremendous in the first period. Those were the types of saves the Flyers needed out of Neuvirth. The Flyers' power play generated eight shots on their two opportunities.
• I agree with Hagg’s checking from behind penalty, but I’m not sure it deserved to be a major. Connor appeared to turn his shoulder and his back at the last minute.
• With that said, the Jets have one of the deadliest power-play units in the league and they had not gone two straight games this season without a power-play goal. Overall, with the aid of a five-minute power play, the Jets finished 3 for 5 even with Patrik Laine failing to score.
• Phil Varone made his Flyers debut, but playing alongside Jori Lehtera, it’s hard for that fourth line to generate any scoring chances or even maintain a territorial edge. Varone played over eight minutes, mostly in third-period mop-up duty.
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