The Flyers are tied for the sixth-worst goal differential and have one win on the second night of a back-to-back this season in nine tries. They currently sit three points back of a wild-card spot.
But maybe the Flyers should ask that after suffering their 22nd loss of the season, the sixth-most in the NHL.Time is ticking. They cannot ask for favors with just 32 games left. And they certainly cannot wait for answers. They need to take their chances. After all, 13 regulation wins won’t cut it for a team three points back of a wild-card spot, entering Saturday.
It’s a startling trend for the Orange and Black. Across the season, the Flyers have buried 147 pucks while allowing 168. But when they lose, it’s an eye-opening 50 goals for and 106 against.Tortorella told the media there were no line changes before Friday’s game, that was not what happened once the team went out for warmups. Egor Zamula is out day-to-day with an upper-body ailment and Erik Johnson was slotted in.
Johnson stressed that the shifting of pairings wasn’t an issue as they practiced together. The pairing of York and Ristolainen? When they were on the ice together at five-on-five, the Flyers had 62.07% of the shot attempts. And they played together for more than 11 minutes.York had one of his strongest games generating offense, with eight shot attempts, four scoring chances, and four high-danger shot attempts. Five of his shots did miss the net but two hit the net.
Last season the Flyers were 5-5-2 on the second night after going 6-6-0 the first night. One of those losses started the eight-game swoon and another came during it. This season they are 5-3-1 to start and then 1-7-1.
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