*Back at it again tonight, against the Chicago Blackhawks, in a game that matters far less than the game on Tuesday did, so they’ll almost certainly win. We got a little bit of lineup news ahead of this one. [BSH]
*Anyway that’s how the Flyers do it, right? Come up big when it doesn’t matter and choke away wins when it does. Part of the process, one supposes. [Inquirer]
*Tuesday’s game didn’t eliminate them, to be sure, but they just made it that much harder on themselves. By pissing away a game that they really could’ve won, had they just, you know… done better. [The Athletic]
*It just stinks. It stinks that they blew an opportunity, it stinks that making the playoffs is really a pipe dream at this point, and it stinks that the Flyers’ best players didn’t step up when they needed to. It all stinks! It’ll be fine, but right now, it stinks. [BSH]
*So if we aren’t talking ‘yoffs anymore then what are we talking? That’s right you guessed it, dear reader: draft picks! For example, we’ve gone through the ways in which the Flyers can take maximum advantage of their Leafs pick. [BSH]
*Related, have you been wondering how Jack Berglund has been doing? Well, great news! [BSH]
*Alright we may not be factoring in anymore but that doesn’t mean we can’t think ahead to what kind of fun we will observe (from the outside, silently, like that SpongeBob meme) when the playoffs get going. [Sportsnet]
*And finally, since this affects a few of our Most Special Boys, the money in college sports has changed the landscape, big time. College hockey is trying to figure out how to navigate this new reality. [ESPN]
