After the horror shows that have been the games the last couple weeks, culminating in Saturday’s debacle, Flyers hockey has taken a turn for the better this week. Monday night’s game in Montreal was a loss, but not the kind of loss that has me steaming out the ears, frothing at the mouth, and mad for days. The Flyers started out playing the game with an effort not seen in … ages? Danny Briere in particular has jump that the rest of the team could take notice of, and his goal was nice . Getting the first mark in the game helped enormously, I think. There was forechecking (gasp!), there were actually battles along the boards for the puck, and while the Flyers sure seemed to run out of gas toward the end of the game, for the most part I liked what I was seeing, and was encouraged that they might actually be able to play in this new system and it might reap dividends after all. That does not count, for example, the brainfart play by Braydon Coburn leading to the Canadiens’ third goal. He could not have timed that dive to block any worse, considering that his opponent wasn’t even close to making a pass or shot when he went sliding past

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