Get The First Flight Outta Philly and Don't Wait For The Goalies, Either: Flyers 3, Hawks 1

There's little point in breaking this game down a whole lot so, instead, I'll zoom in on some larger issues that face The Hawks at the moment.
Corey Crawford will be out 2-3 weeks as he recovers from an emergency appendectomy.  Are there ever non-emergent appendectomies? Anyway, we'll get a long look at Scott Darling over the next couple of weeks.  He's done this before and he didn't make too bad of a mess. There are also no back-to-backs until Dec. 17 - 18, putting us in the early part of the window for Crow's return, so we might not even see whoever gets summoned to back up Darling.  Unless mop-up duty is required, Sweet Jeebus.
Jonathan Toews remains unlikely to play tomorrow vs. Winnipeg.  He was placed on the Disabled List yesterday or today, just to keep the lineup legal.  He won't stay there long, I hope, so....
Something's Gotta Give.  Once Toews returns the roster must shrink, so who's it gonna be?  I see three logical candidates but, let's be real, logic doesn't always enter into these decisions.
One is Jordin Tootoo, whose most noteworthy contribution in 19 games played, is having drawn a penalty, once.  For the five minutes he logs in the games he does play, no one will even notice that he's gone.  Except his linemates, I suppose.
The second is Trevor van Riemsdyk.  A casual observer might see TVR's woeful performance in today's game and point out that he'd been hurt for over a month, it's his first game back, blah blah blah.  The sad truth is that today was not so far from a pretty typical outing for TVR.  One of the two cardinal sins that defensemen are guilty of committing is, when having to choose to cover one of two opposing players, covering neither of them.  TVR does this ALL THE TIME and may as well not even be there.  Watch the replay on Schenn's goal for a fine example of this. It's anyone's guess how this slug has stuck around this long.  Do the staff find him "coachable"?  Is smiling and nodding an indication of coachability?  One game back and I'm tired of this idiot already.
The third is Vin Hinostroza, who has still cobbled together only 1½ good games.  If he was safe from demotion yesterday, today's display could well have changed that, as he was, in no particular order:
* screening Darling on The Flyers' third goal, while covering no one
* taking a thoughtless penalty while The Hawks were attempting to get some pressure going
* unable to win a face off to save his life
* tearing around with no apparent plan or purpose

                                                           Pack ya bags.

Today, ultimately, could have gone either way.  Two goals against through two-and-three-man screens and another made possible by TVR stumbling around rather than TAKING A FRIGGIN' MAN.  Kane made two pretty icky passing errors, which we can sometimes go weeks without seeing, and Keith had several shifts in which he wasn't at his best.  Finally, the non-goal that went to review could easily have been a good goal; had the ref called it a goal on the play, the task of the men "upstairs" is spun 180º, as they must then find evidence that it was without a doubt not a goal.
Bygones.
Tomorrow, Winnipeg with their single line and Hawks-Slayer Chris Thorburn.  I'll wait to eat until the game starts 'cos if TVR plays I'll never stop vomiting.

                          Better make it good or Semborski starts on Tuesday.