We’ll get right to the point on this one: the Rangers played two men short in last night’s game—11 forwards and five defensemen in the lineup for cap compliance reasons—and the Flyers still managed to lose to them.
It feels about right, doesn’t it?
Now, the reality of how this one played out isn’t quite as ugly as that might have you believe, in complete fairness. The Flyers got the better of play through much of the first two periods, and ended this one with the edge in the share of chances in this one (putting up an adjusted 51.