Morning Skate: Will History Be Made?

still dealing with concussion symptoms. No updates.

I don’t think they stream NBCSN games. super frustrating that it’s so damn hard to watch NHL games legally. I dropped $$$ on NHL gamecenter, but any game that’s on NBC, NBCSN, or NHL-N is blacked out. The last 2 games were blackouts. I’m trying to do the right thing and pay them, but they keep adding blackouts.

It very well may be apples and oranges, but the tone from Travis wasn’t that, it was that apples taste better than oranges.

I disagree with that idea.

and am looking forward to a good game tonight.

is, you’re the only troll who is spewing venom about the DIFFERENCES between the two streaks. we Wings fans do not care if the streaks are similar or not. WE KNOW there are different rules in place between the two eras and are content with things for how they are. apparently justin f. you are not. which is fine. live and let live. we Wings fans don’t care so long as the Wings continue to win at home regardless of how the Wings get the two points so long as they get the two points. so justin just relax a little, have a beer, watch your team battle ours tonight and have fun…life is too short to be so anal about things.

First of all, if we weren’t playing you tonight I’d say good luck in tying it.

J.J. brought up travel. The Flyers had 12 road trips during their streak, though two of them were single-game excursions to New York, so really only 10. The Red Wings have had 11. The Flyers had two five-game trips, one to the West Coast (four of the five games). The Wings have had three trips to the West Coast. So the Red Wings travel was greater, but I think it’s a weak argument that this balances out the fact that games ended in ties then.

Also, 16 of the games were won by Wayne Stephenson or his backup. Bernie Parent spent most of the year injured. During the streak we also lost All-Star Rick MacLeish, our 50-goal scorer and probably the third best center in Flyers history. I know Howard’s been hurt, but if you want to use two extra West Coast trips to try to make the oranges taste better I’ll trade you those for losing two of your four best players.

The All-Star break was much shorter then. The Flyers played on Sunday. Six of their 18 skaters played in the All-Star game on Tuesday. Then they played again on Thursday.

As for strength of opponents, the Flyers won 5 of their 20 against the four other premier teams in the league and 12 against teams with above .500 records (when that actually meant something Before Bettman). They won one game each against the dregs, Washington and Kansas City. Their road schedule during that stretch was about as difficult as their home games.
My quick count shows 11 of the 19 Red Wings wins against teams that are not in the playoffs, as of today. That’s a considerable difference in strength of schedule.

The only reason the Flyers streak ended was because the season was over. They won their first four playoff games at home, in regulation. So the streak really was 24.

Oh. 25. We beat the Soviets in perhaps the game of the year for hockey.

if the hawks missed the playoffs. last season was no fluke for them. they had less horses then the previous season, and this season they have even less horses then they did last season. let’s not forget the power struggle between bowman and quenville about what sort of team the hawks should be and then figure into all of that the injury situations they’re encountering. just because dale tallon modeled the hawks after the wings doesn’t mean the people after him have the same game plan. we’ll see how it shakes out for sure, but chicago is going to need some help to get into the playoffs again. only this time, I’m thinking the other teams aren’t going to help them out.

they’re getting close to meltdown in Chicago. It would still be shocking but there are leaks in net, special teams, and team defense.