SB Nation’s Philadelphia Flyers blog, Broad Street Hockey, previewed Sunday’s game 3, saying that in order to be successful, the Flyers need to continue to contain New Jersey’s big guns, Ilya Kovalchuk and Zach Parise.
Goal For Flyers: Contain And Frustrate Kovalchuk, Parise
But defensively speaking, the Flyers really just need to do the same things they've been doing. Especially against Kovalchuk. It was evident in Game 1 and 2 that the Flyers were getting the Russian super star off of his game. He took a few penalties in game 2, most notably mixing it up with Darroll Powe (we'll take that exchange any time, Ilya). He got things going with Mike Richards as well, eventually backing off when Richie stepped up a bit, but nonetheless.
Kovalchuk is ineffective when he tries to life the world on his shoulders. When you piss him off, he tries harder. He's like Alex Ovechkin in that regard, except the lone difference is that when you piss Kovalchuk off, he's not effective. Ovechkin gets better, Kovalchuk gets worse.
Head over to BSH to discuss Sunday’s game with Flyers fans.
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