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Six takeaways from the Flyers preseason finale

That’s a wrap on the preseason, folks! The Flyers closed things out with an overtime loss to the Islanders last night, and now it’s time to shift gears to thinking about the season opener. We’re putting a bow on the preseason, and we’re here to work through some loose ends and lingering thoughts after last night’s game. Let’s get into it.

The curse lives on

Shoutout to Matt who mentioned this in the BSH Slack channel, it’s at once a great and distressing point—it’s really something that Chuck Fletcher’s biggest plan for the offseason was just to run it back with most of last year’s team and hope that they can stay healthier, and already they are not healthy enough to ice a complete NHL lineup for their final preseason game, even if they wanted to.