Flyers Fans React To Jeff Carter’s Injury

Clearly, the Flyers are losing a lot. Carter leads the team in goals, points, and faceoff percentage. Simply put, the team cannot replace him. What the team will have to do, however, is adjust. One good thing about the Flyers depth at center is that when one goes down, another could easily shift over. The problem, though, is that the Flyers don't have one guy who does what Carter does.

To make up for Carter's goals, either Danny Briere or Claude Giroux could take more of a shoot-first attitude. Briere already takes a ton of shots (third most on the team), so maybe Giroux can shoot more. But even with this adjustment, neither Briere nor Giroux have Carter's shooting ability.

Moving to faceoffs, Carter not only led the team in percentage but he also led the team in faceoffs taken. Giroux has taken less than half as many draws as Carter, and he is only at 49.5% for the year. While that's not bad, the team is suddenly lacking their best faceoff man. While Briere is decent at faceoffs, the last time he had more than 200 draws in a year was 2007-2008, where he won 50.5% of his 1250 taken.

While the team will likely have to rely on Danny Briere and Claude Giroux to pick up Carter's production, it's quite difficult to pick just one guy who can step in. No matter who it is (Briere, Giroux, Richards, Gagne, van Riemsdyk, or someone else), someone on this team suddenly needs to start putting the puck in the net more.