The Chicago Blackhawks have a pair of weekend games upcoming, starting with Friday’s trip to eastern Pennsylvania to face the Phildelphia Flyers on Saturday afternoon.
Before we dive into any current discussion of the Flyers, the Blackhawks’ history at the Wells Fargo Center must be explained first. Chicago’s regular-season record there is 1-14-1. That one victory came during the opening season of this stadium: 1996. Yes, the Blackhawks have not won a regular-season game in Philadelphia in TWENTY-SIX years.
(Of course, they did win a postseason game there as recently as 2010.