I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving to take the edge off of this one. It was Calvin Pickard’s debut with the Red Wings, and when you take a bad team with a new goalie, bad things happen. The first period went well, but then the Wings crumpled like an accordion. Here’s how it went down (and down it indeed went.)

First Period

Brenden Perlini had the first good scoring chance of the game, but before I could finish typing that Scott Laughton scored on a break-away as the Flyers turned the puck around quickly and sent him flying on Pickard.