John Tortorella decided to shock mostly everyone paying attention to the Philadelphia Flyers this season by sitting their leading scorer, Kevin Hayes, on Saturday against the New York Rangers.
After a couple grueling seasons, it appeared that Hayes has finally re-found himself and his game on a not-so-good Flyers team. But apparently, beyond the games, there has been a butting of heads between the coach and the player.
On Monday morning’s edition of the “32 Thoughts” podcast, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman unraveled the reason why Hayes was a healthy scratch and began speculating about what the Flyers might end up doing with Kevin Hayes and the three years remaining on his contract next summer.