The last time Jake Voracek took the ice for his first shift in a playoff series against the Pittsburgh Penguins, it was 2012, and he was in his first season with the Flyers, just 22 years old, and he hadn’t played in a postseason game in three years, and he had forgotten just how frenzied it all was. “I was late everywhere,” he said, and late is the last thing you want to be while skating a shift in the NHL playoffs, because a shift in the NHL playoffs is just about the most dangerous thing in sports. Every skater is a wide receiver going over the middle, exposed and vulnerable, except all the free safeties carry switchblades and crowbars.
Jake Voracek is a different player now, and against the Penguins, the Flyers will need him | Mike Sielski
