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Michkov, Zegras connect for must-see goal in Flyers preseason
Source: https://www.broadstreethockey.com/post/michkov-zegras-connect-for-must-see-goal-in-flyers-preseason/
As soon as Trevor Zegras was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers we all patiently waited to get extremely hyped and extremely excited at the thought of him linking up with Matvei Michkov. As we asked the big and massive question regarding whether or not the former Anaheim Duck would return to his previous form, we dreamt of Michkov finally having someone on the Flyers that can come even close to his individual skill level.
Well, the two of them have been partnered up for periods in the preseason and on Saturday evening, as the Boston Bruins visited Philadelphia for some exhibition action, Zegras and Michkov connected on a goal that is easy to describe as “Oh my God, that was so sick. Oh my God.”
ANOTHER PPG!
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Zegras enters the zone cleanly on this power-play opportunity and as he draws three of the four Boston defenders to him, swiftly lays it off to Michkov just on the edge of the blue line along the boards. The 20-year-old Russian sees a gap open up as two of those Bruins keep follow Zegras into their own zone and drives to the slot. The Bruins defenders (those silly ones who decided to go skate with Zegras to the boards), quickly realize their mistake and both try to cover the net for Michkov, sprawling out to block his shooting lane. But, oh silly them. That leaves Zegras as open as anyone has ever been on a Flyers power play in the last five years and Michkov is able to make a crisp pass right to tape and Zegras was able to rocket it for his first ever (preseason) goal as a member of the Philadelphia Flyers.
It’s just beautiful. Something that we all thought of happening as soon as the Flyers acquired the 24-year-old center. Even if they wouldn’t be playing together on the same line at 5-on-5, at the very least they would eat up a whole lot of minutes on the man advantage and devour penalty-kill units like they were nothing.
While it is preseason and the goal doesn’t truly matter, we can still enjoy some evidence that they do, in fact, work well together and think on the same level. Or, Michkov is just so talented that just about anyone can score a pretty sick power-play goal off of his stick and as he progresses more to an even greater scoring threat, he’ll neatly be handing out primary assists for years to come.
The preseason matchup against the Bruins overall, did not go the Flyers way. After Travis Sanheim opened the scoring in the first period on his own power-play goal (when was the last time the Flyers had two power-play goals in the same game?), the Bruins came charging back and ended up leading 2-1 early in the second period.
A goal from Nikita Grebekin, which was assisted by both Michkov and Zegras too, would be followed by this lovely goal we spilled some ink on. The Flyers would lead the game 3-2 for just a couple more minutes until someone named Dalton Bancroft would score his second goal of the game to tie it and Jeffrey Viel would score the game-winning tally in the third period as the Flyers were unable to get on the board in the final frame.
Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet is still in search for the left winger to complement the Zegras and Michkov pairing — and tried multiple Saturday night — but so far, this connection is working just as perfectly as we could have dreamed of.
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Source: https://www.broadstreethockey.com/post/michkov-zegras-connect-for-must-see-goal-in-flyers-preseason/