The 2020-21 Philadelphia Flyers season was one that most fans would like to forget, despite the team being memorably awful. They finished with a record of 25-23-8 (58 points), and there was a tie between the two top scorers on the team—Claude Giroux and James Van Riemsdyk—with 43 points. Before that season, the talk of the town was stud goaltender Carter Hart, the supposed savior in the net for a franchise that hadn’t had an elite goaltender for many years.
Hart’s first two seasons between the pipes in 2018-19 and 2019-20 were incredible. In 74 games played and 70 games started, he held a record of 40-26-4 with a .