Last night was a strange one for the Flyers. While they came away from last night’s matchup with the Blues with the win by a 2-1 margin, it was overall a bit of a sleepy, low event game. It wasn’t so low event, though, that we didn’t see a bit of drama — as the first period wore on, we quickly noticed something was amiss. Matvei Michkov appeared to have been benched.
Everyone exhales: here we go again.
John Tortorella’s benchings to send a message to his players have been well documented and well analyzed.