Young defenseman Cam York sat on the bench for the entirety of the Flyers’ game against the Canadiens Thursday night. Now, we know why.
The Philadelphia Flyers fired John Tortorella Thursday morning but it has some competition for the most peculiar thing surrounding this hockey team that happened that day.
In the first game in almost three years without the veteran coach behind the bench, the Flyers hosted the Montreal Canadiens — a team vying for some playoff certainty — and ended up beating them 6-4 in a fairly decisive win that got some good feelings back in Philadelphia.