We thought it was fixed. The Philadelphia Flyers started their season with not much changed compared to last year, and we thought that maybe the addition of Matvei Michkov could solve one of the most glaring areas of failure: The power play. It was a new, fresh, and clean slate for this special teams unit to have their way with and try to overcome what has been a historically terrible power play the last few years for Philadelphia.
And it started out so well. Michkov was doing so many things and gelling with the four other players so well that in the first four games of the season, they scored five power-play goals.