It’s a home-and-home, back-to-back with a division rival! It’s 1980s style! It’s a four-point, no, an eight-point swing, maybe!
Except the New York Islanders and Philadelphia Flyers are both in an ugly place, mopping up the bottom of the Metro Division. If one of them is swept (in regulation) in this two-game set, they’ll be able to put another nail in their own coffin.
The Flyers, in some respects, are already there, with a .446 points percentage through 37 games, 13 points out of the wild card, riding an eight-game winless streak.