The tactic results in a large gap between the forechecking forwards and backtracking defensemen, which allows opposing forwards to skate in at full speed if they are able to elude the forwards. (35-23-10) Stats Chris Bengel He didn't stand out offensively, but Laughton was one of the team's more tenacious forecheckers.
8:00 pm ET | Craig Berube recognized the weakness of his blueline last season and regularly preached to his forwards the necessity of active backchecking, but the effort was often inconsistent.
9 Myers only has three points in 11 playoff games, but remarkably all three have been goals after he scored only four tallies in 50 games during the regular season.After scoring his first goal of the postseason late in the first period to give the Flyers a 3-0 lead and chase Semyon Varlamov from the game, Couturier nearly fired home the winner in OT, but his shot from the slot went over the crossbar. Undeterred, the 27-year-old collected the puck behind the net and fed it out to Philippe Myers at the point, whose blast from the blue line got deflected by Anders Lee and found twine. Play Now
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