One of the oldest and most revered maxims in the NHL – a league that doesn’t invent new ones very often – is that a team with two goaltenders has no goaltenders. It doesn’t always work that way in the regular season these days, not with the schedule and travel demands of the modern game, but in the playoffs a team needs a horse it can reliably ride into the depths of May and June.
As the Flyers continue to build slowly toward contention, not to mention merely making the postseason, general manager Ron Hextall admitted by his actions during free agency that his team isn’t close to solving its goalie conundrum.