Jet Lag Finally Catching up to Flyers
Flyers began the year on fire with a 2-0 start. Special teams units were looking good, Hart was playing amazing and the team seemed to have a confidence about them while on the ice. That is of course until this most recent trip out to western Canada.
Over the three-game stretch, they only managed to steal one point and outside of that seemed to be dominated. The trip was capped off with a 6-3 loss to the Oilers where the Flyers did not look good until the last 3 or so minutes where they were able to apply some pressure and put in a few late meaningless goals.
Flyers have had the worst travel schedule to begin the season and fans hope this is the reason for the sluggish play.
As part of the NHL global series, the team began play in Europe. Despite technically being a home regular-season game for the Flyers the game was played in Prague, the Czech Republic over 4,000 miles from the Wells Fargo Center. After the Global series Flyers played one game in Philly against the Devils, then off to Western Canada, they went. All said and done the team covered over 14,000 miles and 9 different time zones in the matter of a few weeks.
Coming up the Flyers have 3 of the next 4 games at home and the schedule begins to become more normal from there. This will be a very important stretch and allow fans to see what kind of a team we really have here. With a more typical schedule coming up the excuse of travel causing sluggish play will no longer be acceptable.
Will the Flyers finally be a consistent dependable hockey team or will they continue the inconsistent roller coaster they have been on for the last several years. Fans will have their answer very shortly.
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