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Flyers Captain Frustrated
by Paul on 04/16/09 at 11:38 AM ET
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from Sam Donnellon of the Philadelphia Daily News,
And when it was over Mike Richards looked tired, damn tired, a look that has become unnervingly familiar over the last month of Flyers hockey. Throughout last night’s surprisingly one-sided 4-1, Game 1 loss to the Penguins, his usually stoic mug was a study in exhaustion, frustration, even - at this early stage of the postseason - desperation.
“It’s frustrating,” the Flyers’ captain said. “It’s frustrating when you have momentum or you’re starting to gain momentum and you’re thrown back on your heels again from a penalty you don’t need to take. Penalties where you’re playing physical in your own end or you’re trying to finish a guy or take away a scoring chance from them, OK. But it wasn’t like that tonight. We were taking penalties away from the puck, away from the scoring angles. And when you do that, it just tires you out. You’re blocking shots, pucks are hitting you, it tires you out.
“It’s a lot harder playing defense than it is playing offense.”
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