Philadelphia Flyers head coach John Tortorella had some choice words when one of his best players made an extremely poor decision on the ice for the Colorado Avalanche to open the scoring in Monday night’s game.
Nine and a half minutes into the first period with the Flyers hosting the Avalanche, Cale Makar made it 1-0 for the visitors by firing an absolute laser past rookie netminder Aleksei Kolosov. It was a weird goal. Felt like something you would see during the yearly All-Star Game, where defensive coverage is the last thing on players’ minds. Makar was handed acres of ice on a silver platter, and it was glaringly due to Flyers winger Travis Konecny just leaving his coverage.