'WE'RE A confident bunch right now," Shayne Gostisbehere was saying after practice Wednesday. "And it's showing."
It's a strange and bittersweet way to wind down a strange and bittersweet season. Just when they have all but run out of games to make any of it matter, the Flyers have won three of their last four, finding some of the answers that have eluded them for most of this underwhelming and unsatisfying season.
Jordan Weal, seasoning in the minors for most of the year, is providing desperately needed secondary scoring. Claude Giroux, finally acknowledging that his offseason hip and groin surgery affected his play, has created late-season hope that his better days are not all behind him.