While the world may seem like it’s on fire after the Flyers’ 7-1 loss in Pittsburgh on Tuesday night, it’s really not —just yet.
The Flyers find themselves at 5-5-1, earning 11 points in as many games and sitting 12th out of 16 teams in the Eastern Conference. But they are in the midst of a pack of four teams around the 11-12 points range, within striking distance of the teams ahead of them, and it took a 7-1 loss to finally drop the Flyers into the negative goal differential (-2).
That said, things are certainly far from perfect and while they’ve done some nice things so far this season (53.