The Philadelphia Flyers are back at the Wells Fargo Center tonight after a three-game road trip through the American south that saw them go 1-1-1. Considering the level of competition they faced (and the fact that Matvei Michkov was a healthy scratch for two games), that’s a decent record: the Flyers were in it to the end with the Carolina Hurricanes, pulled off a gutsy 2-1 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning, and took the reigning Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers to a shootout. Not bad!
There were other positives to take from the trip, too: Ivan Fedotov got his first NHL win and looked all right doing it (and we got an EBUG for a game!