12/15/11 WSJ CALLS IT "THE WORST HOCKEY GAME EVER" ..." When the Philadelphia Flyers travel to Tampa later this month to play the Lightning they'll revisit the scene of what has become widely regarded as the strangest NHL game played this season—and

12/15/11 WSJ CALLS IT "THE WORST HOCKEY GAME EVER" ..." When the Philadelphia Flyers travel to Tampa later this month to play the Lightning they'll revisit the scene of what has become widely regarded as the strangest NHL game played this season—and one of the strangest hockey games of all time mean "good." On the evening of Nov. 9 in Tampa, during their first regular-season game against Tampa Bay, the Flyers, led by coach Peter Laviolette, deployed an unusual strategy: They sat on the puck. For long stretches of the game, especially in the first period, instead of advancing forward from their own end into the maw of Tampa's defense, the Flyers did nothing. Tampa Bay's players, bewildered by this behavior, sat quietly at their end, too. The result: the nearly 20,000 people who came to the game had essentially bought tickets to watch 12 elite athletes stand about on the ice like a copse of elms. their end, too. The result: the nearly 20,000 people who came to the game had essentially bought tickets to watch 12 elite athletes stand about on the ice like a copse of elms. If there was such a thing as a hockey statistic that measures ...."
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