The Flyers have dealt with plenty of adversity this season, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be any end in sight on that front.
Though the Flyers will be on the ice for the next two nights in Minnesota and Winnipeg to close out a three-game road trip, their minds will almost certainly be torn between playing the game they love and thinking about one of their own.
Oskar Lindblom’s Ewing’s sarcoma diagnosis hit everyone hard a day ago, and the hockey community has rallied behind the 23-year-old in the hours since. Lindblom is undergoing treatment and is expected to miss the rest of the season as he battles the form of bone cancer.