Happy Valentine’s Day, pals! The Flyers got you another blown lead and shootout loss, and we got you ten observations about this. I’m sure it’s exactly what you wanted. Let’s dig in.
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1. Moving on up
A new personnel arrangement swings back around: the third pairing of Brandon Manning and Radko Gudas got the start with the Nolan Patrick line last night. Which is somewhat curious, in a way, but it points to an arrangement we’ve been seeing, and continue to see: this pairing has been spending quite a bit of time with the top two lines, being sheltered by lines that figure to spend more time in the offensive zone generating chances than defending.