*The Flyers closed out their road trip during the week with a big win over the Predators on Thursday, meaning that they were able to pull off a sweep and come home with a nice bit of momentum in the back pocket. Charlie has his big takeaways from that one here. [PHLY]
*The game was also, for Ryan O’Reilly and the Preds, a bit of a doozy. [BSH]
*Lest we forget, they also saw a bit of shuffling of their roster ahead of this weekend’s game, as they sent Aleksei Kolosov back down to the Phantoms, and recalled Carl Grundstrom to give them a bit of a boost up front. [BSH]
*Speaking of the Phantoms, they’ve been having a bit of a rough go of it recently, with all of the players they’ve had missing from their lineup, but they’ve still managed to string together some really positive results. [BSH]
*That momentum that the Flyers carried into the weekend, though, fizzled out for the start of their game against the Senators. They rallied back to steal a point in overtime, which isn’t nothing, but another slow start nearly sunk them again. [BSH]
*A few more takeaways from that one here, if we want to continue to get into it. [PHLY]
*Despite the suboptimal result in that game, it did see Matvei Michkov put together potentially his best game of the season, leaving him with a lot that he can continue to build on. [The Athletic]
*With that good showing, though, came an admission of the reasoning for the slow start he’s been working through. [BSH]
*It’s been a bit of a process to get Michkov back up to speed as the season goes on, but the Flyers are committed to sticking with him through it. [NBCSP]
*Vibes at practice today were a little goofy, but certainly not low. [BSH]
*Things have been going pretty well for the Flyers’ blueliners recently. Nick Seeler, despite changing demands of the team’s new system, is continuing to deliver solid results. [BSH]
*Along with that, Emil Andrae has been impressing in these recent games, and he might well be playing himself into a more consistent role on this team. [Inquirer]
*And finally, we’ve got a little bit of prospect talk. Our weekly prospect report is here, for a nice little overview of the big happenings. [BSH]
*And to close things out, we’ve got a deep dive from our intrepid Michigan State correspondent on Porter Martone’s big weekend against Penn State. [BSH]
