*The Flyers, as is their way, did well to tamp down any excitement that may have been building in the fan base by playing a start-to-finish stinker against the Ducks Saturday afternoon. Recap!
*A terrible game, honestly. If you missed it you did yourself a favor. [NBC Sports Philly]
*It was a particularly tough game for Sam Ersson, but this is a nice reminder of what the point of all of this is: developing these guys into solid NHL players. Ersson is new. He’s going to have some clunkers, and they have to let him figure it out.