With the league postponing several of tonight’s scheduled games, and the looming specter of a league-wide stoppage hanging over everything, tonight’s match-up between the Ottawa Senators and the Philadelphia Flyers had the feeling of a certain finality to it. Sure, there is a chance that the NHL will forge ahead with games where the teams involved don’t have half their rosters in COVID protocols, but it seems increasingly likely that a pause will be necessary over the Christmas break at the very least. Certainly when the league drew up the schedule, they didn’t anticipate that Sens-Flyers would be the primetime match-up on Hockey Night in Canada.
Ottawa Senators Fall in Overtime to Philadelphia Flyers
