Islanders 4, Flyers 3: Two more to go

To start the final week of the preseason, the Flyers sent their B-squad to Long Island to play against a lineup close to the Islanders best, sans Ilya Sorokin. The Flyers lineup consisted of a top line of Lycksell-Laughton-Richard, and a second line of Cates-Poehling-Farabee, so there wasn’t a whole lot of entertaining things happening in this one on the Flyers end in terms of young players. Meanwhile, on the Islanders end, all of Mat Barzal, Anders Lee, Bo Harvat, Kyle Palmieri, and Noah Dobson slotted in for the home team. This wasn’t a game the Flyers should have ever been close in on paper, so it’s a good sign (particularly for Kolosov) that the Flyers stayed right in it until the final minute.