{"id":83981,"date":"2025-08-21T03:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83981\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T03:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T03:21:10","slug":"3-questions-facing-philadelphia-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/83981\/","title":{"rendered":"3 questions facing Philadelphia Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. How does the power play get better?<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers have ranked in the bottom three in the NHL on the power play four straight seasons. Their 30th-place finish last season (15.0 percent) came after three consecutive seasons in last.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know it&#8217;s a big eyesore,&#8221; coach Rick Tocchet said.<\/p>\n<p>But Tocchet feels the talent is in place and is confident the coaching staff will be able to put the players in position to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are some concepts that we believe that can help this power play,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We believe there&#8217;s certain situations we can put a guy like (Matvei) Michkov or a guy like (Trevor) Zegras. &#8230; It&#8217;s just not one or two guys. (Travis) Konecny, he&#8217;s a guy that can play different positions; he can score goals, he&#8217;s got a great one-timer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, there&#8217;s a lot of guys in there, (Tyson) Foerster, great hands around the net, so there&#8217;s a lot of good attributes and characteristics of a good power play. It&#8217;s just a matter of being a unit together.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. How does the power play get better? The Flyers have ranked in the bottom three in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-83981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}