Who Gets Healthy Scratched Next For The Philadelphia Flyers?!

If Hayes is being held responsible for making questionable plays with the puck and a perceived lack of effort, who is next? Morgan Frost? James Van Reimsdyk? Tony DeAngelo? Scott Laughton? If you dissect the first three goals the Flyers surrendered against the Rangers and you are going to hold players equally accountable, take your pick.

Goal number 1. On the first goal against, Morgan Frost picked up Mika Zibanejad on the curl, but dropped him to fall into zone coverage. Zibanejad picked up an easy pass through the middle and entered the zone untouched. Frost, the center, had a ten foot gap on Panarin heading towards the Flyers zone, but lacked the urgency to negate his man, Panarin, on the rush. Frost got beat down the middle on his coverage and Panarin was left with an easy look for a goal.

Goal number 2. James Van Reimsdyk made what Tortorella would likely classify as a Hayes-esque turnover, when he telegraphed a blind, backhand pass up the wall without being aware of the lurking K'Andre Miller. Miller beat Travis Sanheim on a fifty/fifty puck, but the reaction of Tony DeAngelo on the turnover and his subsequent effort on the back check were less than desirable.

DeAngelo had the middle lane and a step on Miller after the turnover, who had to come off of the wall to the middle of the ice, but DeAngelo left the pursuit for Sanheim and took his last lacklustre stride at the blue line. A blind pass and a lack of effort contributed to the Miller breakaway goal.

Goal number 3. Once again the Flyers had five men back and were in good position, but once again failed to pickup the trailer and match speed through the neutral zone. Scott Laughton had a ten foot gap on Barclay Goodrow on the transition and Kieffer Bellows was positioned at the red line.

Neither player (mainly Laughton's responsibility) picked up Goodrow, who simply won the foot race starting from his own zone into the Flyers zone and caught the Flyers napping.

Three goals, three Rangers who out hustled Flyers players. Video evidence below!

If Kevin Hayes' effort level and decision making is being called into question, who feels John Tortorella's wrath next?

In completely unrelated news, the Rangers leading scorer Artemi Panarin (37 points in 32 games with a -7 rating), served up this Hot �N Ready pizza for Scott Laughton, ironically in the same game Hayes was scratched.

Panarin is in the Rangers lineup tonight against the Blackhawks and has already lit the lamp and added an assist midway through the second period