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Flyers’ goalie-go-round impedes team from taking next step in growth

Cal Pickard has an opportunity with the Flyers’ top two goalies sidelined.

Matt Slocum / AP

The Flyers have played 20 games and employed four goaltenders this season, a little fact sometimes overlooked when tracing the roots of their maddening inconsistencies. Like the team, the goaltending has been up and down, but there was a beam of light there earlier this month when the team grabbed nine of a possible 10 points on a West Coast swing and Brian Elliott looked like the same guy who had triggered their resurrection of a year ago.

You remember last year, right?