John Tortorella Comments on His Decision Behind Benching a Forward For Tonights Game
The Philadelphia Flyers injury woo's continued when forward James Van Riemsdyk broke his thumb while blocking a shot a week or so ago, since, no other injuries have been suffered (knock on wood), but JVR was added to the list of many others that are injured.
Sean Couturier, Patrick Brown and Cam Atkinson are amongst the three full-time Flyers forwards who are currently injured, and will not be back anytime soon sadly. James Van Riemsdyk, who broke his finger, is expected to be back before the other three, but still left a open slot in the Flyers' lineup.
That spot was filled by the signing of Kiefer Bellows, son of Brian Bellows, who was a former first round-19th overall draft pick, but failed in the New York Islanders organization, where he was drafted.
Chuck Fletcher signing Bellows was a low risk/high reward situation, the reward? The Flyers find a forward who has grit (Bellows) and he earns a full-time spot within the Flyers lineup until the teams injured forwards return. The risk? A wasted contract spot filled up, and he remains benched.
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Well, John Tortorella has decided to keep Bellows out of tonights game against the St.Louis Blues, and commented on his reasoning behind it, check it out below:
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8 NOVEMBRE | 56 ANSWERS John Tortorella Comments on His Decision Behind Benching a Forward For Tonights Game What is Chuck Fletchers worst off-season move? | ||
| Signing Deslauriers | 11 | 19.6 % |
| Missing out on Johnny Gaudreau | 26 | 46.4 % |
| Bringing Justin Braun back | 6 | 10.7 % |
| Other | 13 | 23.2 % |
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