It’s natural to look externally for solutions to your problems. To try and stretch your hand beyond what you have some more control of, in hope to stick it into something that has all the right goo for you to grab, make your own, and then bring new life and hopefully success for you.
I really don’t know where I’m going with this, but it feels like a very broad summary of what might happen if the Philadelphia Flyers just keep on losing. We are now 13 games into the season and this collection of 23 guys is feeling like an extremely hapless team. No numbers are going their way besides a couple of the players at the top of the lineup — the young skaters have not showed any improvement whatsoever, the team’s underlying numbers which were good last season are now some of the worst in the NHL, and they just keep on losing games with zero offense to make it remotely enjoyable. It’s a miserable experience.
And for some people, we have already moved our minds a few months down the road to this team still being one of the worst in the league and thinking about trades. Maybe sooner rather than later, some transactions are going to happen. Whether it is adding a current and young NHLer to this roster, or just shipping out guys for pure future assets with hopes that the new young core can be established around Matvei Michkov’s timeline instead of the current crop of guys in their mid-20s. Something should happen this season, whether it really is getting younger or deciding that one of these young guys just cannot cut it and is not in consideration for the roster when the Flyers want to be good again.
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