Maybe a lot of this is our fault. After all, we lifted Matvei Michkov to be the savior of the Philadelphia Flyers even before he hit the ice in North America. He had great draft grades, performed well in the KHL, and kept saying he couldn't wait to come over here to the US to play in the NHL.
For a team that hadn't had a legit star since Claude Giroux was traded (sorry Travis Konecny), he seemed to be the hoped-for redeemer of the franchise that we had waited so long for. The team management had told us to temper our expectations, but we didn't want to listen.