By Kevin Durso, Sports Talk Philly editor 
Well, hopefully you've had a chance to breathe and calm down a bit from the end of that one. And if you haven't, it's completely understood.
There's a wide range of emotions to go around after a game like that, and we're going to attempt to cover them all after the Flyers 6-5 loss to the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.
Here is the postgame review from Flyers-Predators.
Postgame Points
- The last two goals are really the story here, so let's start with the one that got the game tied. Taking two penalties on the same play is pretty uncommon. But with the way the NHL is trying to crack down on those, it should be expected, especially on the road, especially in a loud, raucous building, especially when the home team is down by one.
Of course, leave it to two of the more maligned players on the roster, Dale Weise and Andrew MacDonald, to be the guilty parties.
Weise's penalty was a bit of an interesting call. It's a penalty, just not one you see called down the stretch of games when officials usually make you earn the final result. MacDonald's was a bit more obvious, but it's very rare to see a second penalty called, especially at that stage, when it can easily dictate the outcome of a game. In the same sense, once you've been called for one, you've got to back off and make sure you don't take another one. MacDonald got called for the obvious penalty on the play after there was already a delayed call on Weise and the race was on. With a 5-on-3 for two minutes, and the goalie pulled to make it a 6-on-3, it was only a matter of time.
- Now let's get to what decided the game. Dave Hakstol's decision to challenge was justified in one way: the scoreboard. It's late in the game, and your team just surrendered the game-tying goal in a shootout. You want to do everything in your power to erase that.
But here's where Hakstol's decision was wrong, and just plain stupid. You have to know the situation, and look at the situation in its entirety.
Yes, this is just one game out of 82, and yes, sometimes the risk is worth it. But your team, on the road, in a loud building, battled back from a 3-0 deficit to score the next five goals in the game. Regardless of the result, the effort by the players in the game on Tuesday was nothing short of admirable, each trying to find a way to close out the win, starting with the rally. At the very least, you have to like the passion the team is playing with, because that was something lost for several seasons.
But Hakstol can't do something like challenge the call to put his team in the same situation with the game tied. Your team rallied all the way back from a 3-0 deficit to take a 5-3 lead. Even if the game was tied, you have points on the line. Valuable points in the standings. For once, this isn't one or two points left on the ice by the players. This falls square on Hakstol.
You have to go into the decision-making of challenging the play knowing that if you're wrong and the call stands, not only does the score remain, but you put a player back in the box.
I get the logic, wanting to try to erase a goal so you can still be in position to win. I don't get the risk. You had a chance to at least escape with a point in the standings. You left with nothing.
- Let's not be completely negative about this game, because aside from the last three minutes of the game and a three minute span in the second period, the Flyers played a pretty strong game in a tough building. Make no mistake about it, it feels like this team finally has some actual potential.
The Flyers did fall behind 3-0, and typically, that was a reason to write them off in years past. The fight and character the team showed is tremendous. Give them credit for that.
- Good for Nolan Patrick to finally get the payoff from some hard work and score his first NHL goal. It surely will be the first of many for the kid.
- It was good to see the Flyers power play start to capitalize on some chances. Even better, it was Valtteri Filppula who picked up two goals on the power play.
As the new addition to the top unit, you want to see him account for some of the scoring there. A two-goal performance is certainly a good way to start.
Quotable
"It's not call, it's my call, and it wasn't overturned. Absolutely it's worth it. It wasn't overturned, so it wasn't the right call." – Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol
Play of the Game
From a Flyers standpoint, the play of the game is Travis Konceny's sick goal to give the Flyers a 4-3 lead. Konecny uses his speed to go in alone on Pekka Rinne, and delivers a perfectly-placed shot to the top shelf.
But the play of the game has to be the Nashville's game-tying goal, by Scott Hartnell of all people. It's the goal that knotted the score, and the decision that soon untied the game moments later.
By the Numbers
Nashville's CF% in the third period was an astronomical 75.76 percent. Shot attempts were 25-8 in favor of the Predators. While the Flyers got two goals early, the rest of the period was dominated by the Predators.
Stat of the Game
The Nashville power play was 3-for-4 on the night. The one "kill" by the Flyers was the penalty to Dale Weise in the third, part of the pair of 5-on-3's the Predators had in the final two minutes. From a penalty kill standpoint, the Flyers were horrible.
