This isn't a new story for Philly. Last year also they juggled through 7 different goalies in the regular season and then it took a conjoined effort of Brian Boucher and Michael Leighton in the playoffs to make it to the finals. This year they thought they found their man in Sergei Bobrovsky. But he got injured and then he didn't play much by the beginning of the playoffs. They finally settled on what they called "a safe bet" with Leighton and Boucher as their 2 goalies for the playoffs. But Boucher struggled against Buffalo and then Leighton almost blew game 7 but then Boucher bailed them out to win that series.
Now in the second round, playing a tougher team than Buffalo, Boucher goes out and gives up 5 goals (and then the newly brought up Bobrovsky gives up 2 more) and they got skunked by the Bruins 7-3.
People kid that the Stanley Cup Playoffs is just a tournament where the team with the best, and most durable goalie wins. It's obvious that in order to win games, you need to surrender less goals. But out of all the teams remaining in the playoffs, the Flyers have given up the most goals (25 in 8 games). They desperately need good goaltending out of ANY of their 3 guys. They've been juggling goalies all post season long. It will be a quick post season if they don't figure this out soon.
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