Kings 6, Flyers 3: New year, same Flyers

Photo by Juan Ocampo/NHLI via Getty ImagesThe Philadelphia Flyers head to face off the Los Angeles Kings at the newly renamed Crypto dot com Arena after a 1-0-1 start to the west coast road trip. Despite a calendar flip, the on-ice product was the same as 2021’s.

First Period

Well, that didn’t take long. The Flyers came into this game hoping to get a clean slate with the turn of the calendar year, and Viktor Arvidsson had other ideas. Just 12 seconds in, he scored on a wraparound chance, and the Flyers went down 1-0. Ivan Provorov was just a second too late with his stick, which cost them.

It wasn’t a great start, but the Flyers began to settle in as the first period slowly ticked away. They…