Now that that’s over, we just have to get through the actual season.
The Flyers lost an overtime game to the New York Islanders in tonight’s game, the final of the preseason for Philadelphia.
It’s preseason, so you know what that means! The rules are made up and the points don’t matter; teams are still testing out their rosters; and I watched Jeopardy! in between periods instead of doing any kind of research.
But it was also the final game of this preseason, meaning that the actual make up of the roster is looking a lot more like what we can expect on opening night in nine days, especially if a few minor injuries don’t clear themselves up in that time; John Tortorella is behind the bench calling the shots as dress rehearsal for the real thing; and I fast-forwarded over the parts where each Jeopardy!