In the handful of waking hours since the close of last night’s game, the little voice in my head has just been looping a pair of lines from You, Me, And Everyone We Know’s song “There Was A Thump, Then Another” (a deep cut for some, perhaps): “it isn’t pretty but it woooorks, no it’s not sharp but it still hurts.”
Such was the story of the Flyers’ 3-1 win over the Islanders to finally snap their losing skid. It started off on a weird note, with it taking exactly eight seconds for the first fight to break out (Zack MacEwen and Matt Martin), and then one literal second later, on the next faceoff, a second erupted (Nic DesLauriers and Ross Johnston).