Through six games, believe it or not, there’s room for both a glass-half-empty and glass-half-full look at what the Flyers have done so far in the 2021 NHL season. The pessimist’s view is that the team’s vaunted forward depth is more or less absent, the defense as a unit has been as bad as anyone could realistically have expected, the franchise goaltender has got out to a rough start, they’ve already had three fairly important injuries, their team-level metrics at 5-on-5 are so bad that they’d have been the worst in the NHL last season, and their makeshift division looks every bit as competitive as we all thought it would be, meaning that they don’t have as much time as they usually would to turn all of this around.
Did we overrate the Flyers’ forward depth?
