I knew I hated the shoot out in the NHL and tonight's Flyers/Rangers game reinforced my thoughts. Two teams fight it out for 65 minutes and then a skills competition is used to determine a winner. To me, it's the equivalent of using a free throw, dunk or 3 point shooting competition to determine the winner of a tied basketball game.
As ridiculous as the shoot out is, these are the rules of the new NHL. Are you telling me that we don't have a single guy on the team that can beat a goalie one on one? The Flyers were pretty bad at it last year, so call me crazy, but it would have made sense in the offseason to find a guy or two that is pretty decent at this skill. As usual, Clarkie over looked this inadequacy from last year and it appears as though we are going to have a problem with it again this year.
Oh well, at least the Orange and Black played a helluva a lot better tonight. Plus, it appears Rathje is out for the foreseeable future with a herniated disk. If the Flyers play their cards right, maybe they can put him on the long term injury list and use his money to pick up a guy that will help them on the blue line.
In any event, if the Fly Guys don't improve in this one single skill, they are going to leave a lot of points on the ice. With their limited talent level, they shouldn't be so frivolous with throwing an extra point here and there.
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