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Meszaros: 22nd healthy scratch ‘tough on your confidence’

Andrej Meszaros

Flyers defenseman Andrej Meszaros will be a healthy scratch tonight against Detroit, marking the 22nd time he’s been in such a position this season.

Needless to say, it’s taking its toll.

“It’s tough on your confidence, tough on your game, it’s tough on everything,” Meszaros said, per the Courier-Post. “But, nothing I can do about it.”

The scratch will be Meszaros’ second in a row -- he was parked for Philly’s 6-1 loss to Boston on Saturday as well -- and it comes after a stretch in which he dressed in 16 straight games, scoring three goals and 10 points.

So obviously, offense wasn’t the problem.

Defense sure was, though, especially on this goal in a 5-2 loss to Columbus last week:

That was Mezsaros getting walked by Nathan Horton for the Jackets’ fifth and final goal of the evening. It was after that game Flyers head coach Craig Berube decided to park the 28-year-old Slovak, who will be representing his country at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

“Mez’s defensive play has fallen and I didn’t like his game in Columbus, so I went with [Erik Gustafsson],” Berube explained. “It’s just what I did.”