The Black Friday game hasn’t always been the kindest to the Flyers, but this year saw a very nice reversal, as the Red Wings came to town and the Flyers pretty neatly dispatched of them. It’s not too often that you get to see your team put up six goals in one evening, and it was … fun? Are we allowed to say that? It was fun.
All stats via Natural Stat Trick and nhl.com.
How’d they look out there?
5-on-5: 47 CF, 30 SF, 54.79 CF%, 63.77 xGF%
A phrase we heard rattle around the locker room quite a bit after this game—and which we could also pretty well confirm just by watching—was that this wasn’t the Flyers’ best game.