Christian Dvorak, Nikita Grebenkin seems ready while the pre-season calendar of the flyers ends

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Christian Dvorak, Nikita Grebenkin seems ready while the pre-season calendar of the flyers ends

In the penultimate match of the pre-season, the Flyers dressed a program that seems to be close to the planned opening evening list.

Although the result was a 4-3 defeat against the New York Islanders at the Xfinity Mobile Arena, there were some good times and some who would like to be forgotten.

Here are three key dishes to remember.

Dvorak contributions

The killing of the flyers went 2 for 3, with a single goal against a clever deviation by Maxim Shabanov when he cut on the net of a central pass from Maxim Tsyplakov.

But is the power of the flyers killed? There are two seasons, orange and black led the NHL in goals in disagreement (16), Travis Konecny exceeding the league with six, and penalty No. 4 dies at 83.4% efficiency. Last season, the whole team had four with an efficiency of 77.6%.

Flyers coach Rick Tocchet wants his penalty killers to be aggressive and have good sticks. Christian Dvorak did this on Thursday.

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Just a minute, 46 seconds after the match, with the flyers on the penalty, Garnet Hathaway put pressure on 2025 n ° 1 Matthew Schaefer to the point, allowing Dvorak to intercept his pass to Anders Lee. Dvorak then won the washer in front of Schaefer, outraced Emil Heineman, and sent a perfect drop of drop between the legs to Travis Sanheim for the goal.

“When I got to the blue line, I heard him screaming,” said Dvorak about Sanheim. “I felt the D just on my back, and it was either a backhander or drop it, and fortunately, it worked.”

Sanheim added: “He had a guy who was pursuing him quite well and I just wanted to let him know that I was there if he needed me. I did not expect him to do this game, but I will take it and, obviously, to attribute to him.”

During the night, Tocchet – who was also Dvorak’s coach in Arizona – said he had to find Dvorak for more minutes in matches with him focusing the fourth line between Nic Deslauriers and Hathaway.

Penalty is a way of doing so. During the second period, he was again twinned with Hathaway, who pressure and turned Anthony Duclair. Dvorak obtained the washer and run on the ice on a breakaway, made a leg pump, but was arrested by Ilya Sorokin.

Dvorak finished with a decisive pass, two shots on goal, two strokes and won 42% of his players over 13 minutes, 49 seconds of ice.

“I think he is a very good player,” said Sanheim. “It is a guy who can play at both ends of the ice, wins prints, and is quite creative and can make games. So, I think he will integrate well.”

Low danger plans

Tocchet is a great supporter of the defensive strategy of Box-Plus one, with the intention of keeping fire outside because, as he said, “keeping people outside is ok, it’s ok, who cares about the washer.”

The flyers did a good job to keep fire outside when the Icelanders had established themselves in the defensive zone.

Overall, Sam Ersson made 23 stops on 27 shots. According to Natural Stat Trick, Ersson saved the 12 shots at low danger – flashing the leather on a few, as Tocchet noted, which were happening through double screens – but granted three goals on 10 shots with high danger. The three goals came with a deviation, a short circuit, two on zero, and after a break that allowed Duclair to sauce a pass to a Heineman Strik.

“Obviously, I think we have to stop abandoning some of these easys; this is something that we have to clean for the regular season,” said Sanheim. “But I think that some of the stuff of the system, we resume definitively, and the guys become a little more used to what is expected.”

Adding Tocchet, who made sure to say that Arson was not the reason why the flyers lost the match: “The grade A, both to two, the break after the power game, these are just gifts. You can give about three gifts per month.

Ersson knows that errors will occur, and he will surely want the only danger goal he authorized, out of a snapshot of the circle of the right game, at the back. But there is no doubt that the goalkeeper who likes to get shots is happy in the new system.

“I think it’s a bit like the plan, and to talk about it, in a way, to work to allow us to see the rings as much as possible, and in a way for us what to expect; will make us easier the room,” he said. “So, yes, that’s a good thing we are trying to work on, and we are just going to get better and better.”

‘A force there’

Although he is known for his great personality, Nikita Grebenkin plays just as big game.

The 6 -foot 2 inch and 209 pound winger continues to impress and surely solidified his place on the opening list of the evening. Although he may have only seven NHL games to his credit, skating on the upper line with the veterans Sean Couturier and Konecny, it was he who stood out on Thursday.

During the first period, he used his legs to divide the defense of the Icelanders before putting a hard blow on Sorokin. During the night, Russian showed how he could put pressure on the opposition, create reversals and go to the net.

And although he did not get any help on Konecny’s goal, Grebenkin was a key cog when he helped keep the pressure before heading to the net to adjust the screen for the Konecny Rip at the top of the circles.

“”[The] The team wants [me] To play inside, and I understand that, “said Grebenkin.” I speak to the coach, and I understand my game, and what the coach wants for me, to see for my game. “

According to Natural Stat Trick, when the Couturier line, Konecny and Grebenkin was on ice at five against five, the flyers had 75% of shooting attempts (12 to 4), 70% of the chances and score fire, and 60% of the high danger.

“He could play in front of the net; he did this goal,” said Tocchet de Grebenkin. “And he is a sticky guy. He offers cowardly rings in the area; you always need these local guys who can go out with rings. If we can continue to teach him to play in this way, I think he could be a force there.”

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Escaped

When John Tortorella was the head coach, he criticized defender Egor Zamula for his game of play. Tocchet said that he also wanted him to play a faster style. On Thursday, Zamula was credited with three gifts at 4:17 pm, and when Tocchet was invited to the post-match if there are concerns about Zamula, he said: “Yes, he must recover it.” Yes. ” … Like Grebenkin, Bobby Brink also created a net front, distracting Sorokin while Tyson Foerster sent a cross pass to Noah Cates for an electric game goal. … The striker Deslauriers launched two checks of monsters which have repercussions in the arena in the second period and finished on an equal at the top with five. Brink finished second on the flyers with four. … Matvei Michkov’s line, Trevor Zegras and Owen Tippett had more than less than 2. They were on the ice for the short -term goal via a two on nothing and the winner of the match. … Dan Vladař will take care of the string on Saturday during the pre-season final. … The attackers Rodrigo ābols and Jett Luchanko, and the defenders Noah Juulsen and Dennis Gilbert were healthy stripes. … The Flyers will hold the seventh Gratingy 5K annual Saturday.