Postgame Live: Flyers played well but ‘close doesn't cut it'
Ashlyn Sullivan, Scott Hartnell and Al Morganti discussed the Flyers' 4-2 loss Thursday night to the Red Wings.
Postgame Live: Flyers played well but 'close doesn't cut it' originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
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And guys just, just overall, it, it goes back to what the message has been all season long.
While there's little details of this, it's not enough of a shooter's mentality.
It's not enough goals, and that's gotta be the conversation despite all the other nonsense.
Yeah, close, but close doesn't cut, cut it- Yeah when, when you need these points.
you gotta be desperate.
they have been playing some good hockey obviously the last, you know, few weeks since the, the Olympic break.
But, you know, you can point fingers at this turnover or that turnover or, you know, some bad calls in the first period.
They score a power play goal.
the power play couldn't cash in on their one, one opportunity.
So, you could put the point, the blame anywhere else, but, the guys know that they need to do a little bit better.
Yeah, and I think when you've got a guy with nine shots on goal, and good ones- Mm-hmm Marton to come in, and then Fors to come in, it's like if they ever manage to squeak in, it's like you're looking at, look at this team as a playoff team.
It's like all, you know, all of a sudden it's like- Dangerous got some goal Dangerous.
They've got some scorers here.
So I mean, s- i- if this was, just a little bit earlier, you'd say, "Wow, they've got some runway here to get, get into this.
Marton gets better."
But the runway is so short to make up for any sort of mistake.
