After a morning skate in Detroit the other day, Flyers coach Dave Hakstol was going deep about what goes into his decisions on shuffling his lines, about minutes played and how and why he decides to meet with players individually.
In the back, Flyers video editor Ryan McDonald was doing his usual bang-up job, keeping his hands steady, his back erect, lest the coach’s exacting words be accompanied by a blurred image. That task, on this day, was made exponentially more difficult because of what was going on behind him. As carefully as the coach chose his words, so too did Travis Konecny choose how he linked hangers from the back of McDonagh’s shirt to the floor.