Rick Tocchet stacked the Flyers' top power-play unit ahead of Wednesday night's game.

He said after the morning skate that he held off on doing it earlier because the power play personnel on the whole had been giving up too many shorthanded 2-on-1 chances, and they needed to cut down on those.

But the situation can change.

Time and maturity for a still relatively young team under a still relatively new head coach can factor into that, and Tyson Foerster's upper-body injury setting him down for the next 2-3 months definitely played a part, too.

Though there was one other big component...

"Listen, we gotta get middle shots," Tocchet said. "We need to start hammering the puck from the middle of the ice. We're not getting that, obviously. We gotta get more down low plays and bumper play

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