GAME DAY:Ottawa Senators @ Philadelphia Flyers - 7:00pm ET - THU. Jan. 20 2011

I loved that aggression at the end of the game. It's about time they started showing some kind of life and passion and anger. A little late, but still fun to watch.

Michalek is looking better and better, it's very refreshing. I hope he's 100% ready to go and fully healthy by next season, maybe he could actually score 25+ goals.

Smith & Winchester were monsters last night too. I'm so happy we have those guys on our team, they never take a shift off and they've been creating as many opportunities as they can with the time they've been given.

That play by Gonchar on the 5-on-3 was terrible! Who was he passing the puck to? That 5-on-3 was very embarrassing, we should be ashamed.

Number Twenty Nine wrote:
no so much winning, but the Flyers chickening out. Their own fans were booing them.

Really? I didn't notice that.

How did Butler look? I saw he was a team low -3, but that could be misleading.

CockRoche wrote:How did Butler look? I saw he was a team low -3, but that could be misleading.

I thought he was pretty good, I'm surprised to hear he was a -3. Fisher must have been close to that too because I didn't see them apart very often.

Call me crazy, but I'm starting to see Zack Smith as not just a 4th line grinder, but rather a guy who might have a little offensive upside to his game. I've been watching him closely and he always seems to get himself into great offensive positions. I guess he already has 4 goals this year in limited action, I wouldn't be surprised to see him turn into a 3rd liner with 15-20 goal potential.

SDH89 wrote:Call me crazy, but I'm starting to see Zack Smith as not just a 4th line grinder, but rather a guy who might have a little offensive upside to his game. I've been watching him closely and he always seems to get himself into great offensive positions. I guess he already has 4 goals this year in limited action, I wouldn't be surprised to see him turn into a 3rd liner with 15-20 goal potential.

Ha, that's funny, I was thinking the exact same thing.

SpezDispenser wrote:

Number Twenty Nine wrote:
no so much winning, but the Flyers chickening out. Their own fans were booing them.

Really? I didn't notice that.

for whatever reason, on the Ottawa feed on NHL CI (USA), there were no commercials, so you could hear/see what was going on between commercials - kinda like actually being at the game. The Philly fans were booing their chicken and beaten players.

Number Twenty Nine wrote:
for whatever reason, on the Ottawa feed on NHL CI (USA), there were no commercials, so you could hear/see what was going on between commercials - kinda like actually being at the game. The Philly fans were booing their chicken and beaten players.

Are you sure they weren't booing the Sens for beating on their players?

SDH89 wrote:Call me crazy, but I'm starting to see Zack Smith as not just a 4th line grinder, but rather a guy who might have a little offensive upside to his game. I've been watching him closely and he always seems to get himself into great offensive positions. I guess he already has 4 goals this year in limited action, I wouldn't be surprised to see him turn into a 3rd liner with 15-20 goal potential.

Nope. I won't. I think he definitely has a shot at developing into that player.