Typically in the first game after a head coach is fired, said team has a bit more jump than usual. But with the firing happening in the middle of a back-to-back, it was a bit of a mystery going in if this would apply to the Flyers lead by Mike Yeo tonight.
It started with a pretty big change to the lines. Oskar Lindblom joined Sean Couturier and Travis Konecny on the top line, Morgan Frost on line two with Claude Giroux and James van Riemsdyk.
Early on the Flyers seemed to play with a better sense of purpose, like how they did in the first few games of the season.