The ritual began as it always has. The practice shirt first, then the stockings, each rolled into a ball for an indifferent launch toward the laundry basket in the middle of the Flyers Skate Zone dressing room.
Swish. Another swish. And then a third.
“Do you usually hit everything like that?’’ Travis Konecny was asked.
“No,’’ said the Flyers’ second-year wing.
Right now, the 20-year-old could hit that laundry basket from the blue line. He has five goals and six assists since joining the dynamic first-line duo of Sean Couturier and Claude Giroux in late December.