Without Jamie Drysdale, the Flyers have adjusted, and now there are worries about Travis Konecny’s health.
PHILADELPHIA: The Philadelphia Flyers are in the midst of a playoff run, so it’s unfortunate that Jamie Drysdale’s injury happened at this time. In addition, the 21-year-old defender was still getting used to John Tortorella’s system. He faced some difficulties when he switched from playing man-to-man defense with the Anaheim Ducks to zone defense in Philadelphia, but the only way he could have overcome them was to play a lot of minutes and grow from his mistakes.
Drysdale took the initiative in that procedure. There were times during games when he would tell himself to go over things with assistant coach Brad Shaw later.
“I enjoy viewing videos. As said last week by Drysdale, “I enjoy seeing things over.” “It has gone well. plenty and plenty of video
However, that procedure is currently on hold. Despite avoiding a “worst-case scenario,” as his friend Cam York put it, Drysdale will be out of the lineup for some time after suffering a serious blow to his left shoulder on Sunday from Jansen Harkins of the Pittsburgh Penguins. With an upper-body ailment, Drysdale is listed as week to week on the Flyers’ official roster. He will undergo another evaluation in two weeks.
The extent to which Drysdale’s absence will impact the team will, naturally, be determined. They played the Tampa Bay Lightning at home on Tuesday, and they performed admirably, winning 6-2 to end a short two-game losing run. Tortorella returned to a conventional 12-6 lineup after ice seven defensemen and eleven forwards for the most of the previous two months.
The player who scored his sixth goal on Tuesday, Walker, said of Drysdale, “He’s been a great addition to our back end.” “I believe we’ve been thinking about the next man up the entire year. Naturally, we played with six defenseman tonight, which makes playing with the same player all night a bit simpler.
For the Flyers, Drysdale wasn’t exactly putting on a show. He only managed two goals and two assists for a total of 4 points in 17 games. The only player on the club has a worse expected-goals share than him is Nic Deslauriers, at 42.5%. The Flyers have lost 12-4 in five-on-five when Drysdale has been in the ice.
However, if Drysdale had been able to adapt, he may have helped a Flyers attack that has struggled.
Even though top scorer Travis Konecny has missed the last three games, the offense hasn’t been a problem lately. The Flyers had scored six goals in each of their last two games, and even though they were only able to muster one in a 2-1 defeat to the New York Rangers on Saturday, Igor Shesterkin’s 40 saves—many of which were spectacular—were mostly to blame.
It may be necessary to continue managing without Konecny. When it comes to Konecny, who seemed to pull something in his right midriff during Friday’s practice, the Flyers haven’t made many formal comments, but Tortorella hinted that the team doesn’t know when the goal-scoring, soul-searching winger will be back.
“T.K. is missed. He is a vital component of our energy. It will be challenging if he
