Joel Farabee has been electric since returning from healthy scratch

© Eric Hartline-Imagn ImagesJoel Farabee could not be this forever. The 24-year-old winger was not the same player we have come to know and carve out high aspirations in our collective mind for, through the first half of this Philadelphia Flyers season. Just last year, we were gifted a first-line-winger-esque start to his campaign and then it just slowly faded into a 50-point season, which was still a career high.

It was natural to think that he could maybe linearly progress into being someone who scored even more goals and earned more points, but shrunk into a shell of what we have seen. And that shrinking earned him a three-game stint as a healthy scratch by the hands of head coach John…