Broad Street Hockey · Mar 20, 2021
Flyers vs. Islanders preview: Prepare for suffering, perhaps also accompanied by a win
Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty ImagesAs the Flyers reached the halfway point of the 2021 regular season and celebrated a 4-3 win on Thursday night, one which featured one of their best periods of their season (a middle frame that saw the Flyers totally control the run of play en route to a 3-0 win) followed immediately by what was nearly the most demoralizing moment of their season (which is saying something, given what had happened literally one night earlier), something dawned on me that was both objectively, obviously true and yet just feels so thoroughly untrue that I almost refused to process it:
“Holy crap, this team is 3-0 against the Islanders this season.”