The Philadelphia Flyers had no business leaving Canadian Tire Centre with a point Thursday night, let alone two points.
The Ottawa Senators drove play with ease and more than doubled the Flyers in shot attempts (62-29). Ottawa’s power play capitalized on two of its six chances, giving the club a stellar 29.6 conversion percentage on the man advantage through 16 games. The Flyers? They went 0-for-2 on their attempts on the power play, marking the third game out of four in which they failed to score with an extra skater on the ice. And on top of all that, the Flyers didn’t even have team captain Sean Couturier in the lineup as he tended to a minor injury.