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Morning Skate: Defending the Devils

Dan Pennucci

Dan Pennucci

Dan Pennucci writes about fantasy sports for RotoWire.

Janet Eagleson

Janet Eagleson

Janet Eagleson is a four-time winner of the Hockey Writer of the Year award from the Fantasy Sports Writers Association.

From: Janet Eagleson
To: Dan Pennucci (@dpennucci)
Subject: APB For Ryan O'Reilly
Sent: Monday, February 18

Dan, I have to ask this -- how can you sit through Devils' hockey? I know they've sipped from Lord Stanley, but the style of play is akin to Chinese water torture. But I digress ...

So what do you make of the Flyers? The Jekyll and Hide act is grating. Today, they opened up a can of old-fashioned whup-arse and handed the Isles their worst-ever beating at Nassau Coliseum 7-0. Yet they barely showed up against the Leafs and Habs last week. Their talent base is strong, although I still think Paul Holmgren underestimated the challenge of replacing Mike Richards. Ilya Bryzgalov is certainly an enigma, wrapped in mystery, inside a riddle, but I don't think their current troubles are his fault

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