It was Hockey Fights Cancer night at Wells Fargo Center. The Philadelphia Flyers wore lavender-trimmed jerseys for warm-ups, all bearing the name and number of Oskar Lindblom, who was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma in December 2019, conquered it by July 2020, and returned to the ice for Games 6 and 7 against the New York Islanders in the second round of the bubble playoffs in September 2020.
I remember Lindblom’s return really inspiring the Flyers in Game 6, a game in which they started really hot. Perhaps Philadelphia felt a bit of the same inspiration tonight because they dominated the first forty minutes of this game.