The Orange and the Blech

Where the %&#!@ are the Philadelphia Flyers?!?!
I certainly haven't watched them pay in the past week. Where is the forecheck? The passion? Where's Marty Biron?!?! Aparently he wasn't allowed back into the country after game 5 in Montreal.
When it comes down to it, Game 3 was lost on a bad bounce and a lack of hustle. Towards the end of the regular season, the Flyers wouldn't have put up with half of the things that they took tonight. Too many times I screamed at the television "skate!" or "get the puck!" you can't even say they're losing the battles along the boards because half of the time they aren't entering those battles. No one was skating save Randy Jones, Mike Richards, RJ Umberger and Jeff Carter. From shift to shift Sami Kapenen and Jim Dowd turned it on too. Tell me what prevented John Stevens from putting some new lines together? Please somebody tell me that. If RJ, Jeff and Mike are the only people who have jump them stick 'em together (or at least Cartsy and RJ since Richards is another center) and watch them score 4 unanswered goals to win the damn game and turn the series around.
I expect everyone to jump on top of Steve Downie as the new goat to ride out of the playoffs. Yeah he turned it over again when he shoudln't have but what about the four other guys that Malkin weaved through to make a stupid broken play goal happen? There's got to be culpability from everyone. The Flyers aren't going to blame Downie, Downie isn't even going to blame Downie, its the media and the horrible broadcasting of VS and NBC that will jump all over the guy needlessly and without fail. They're just vultures waiting, with Gary Betman and the rest of the NHL for the Flyers to screw up so that they can celebrate with a bottle of Don Perignon and a tape of highlights from Sid the Kid Sanchez-Louganis.
What's even worse than the way that the Flyers took to the ice tonight was the coverage from VS. If I wanted to hear two guys rag on the Orange and the Black for an entire night I could have just called some of my friends from collage. They're not even trying to be unbiased or present the game in a balanced fashion. Whatever the color commentator's name is, he was horrible and just stupid. Half the time, though I must admit I would tune out when he spoke, I could not tell what he was saying at all. He spoke in circles and his voice is just grating and horribly annoying no matter what team your rooting for.
I can take losing, when the other team earns it. The Penguins have not earned a dam thing. Scott Hartnell was completely correct when he said the Flyers made the "magic" happen for Pittsburg. The Flyers have beaten the Flyers in three games and hopefully in the fourth they can stop getting in their own way.