It started with a call-up to the Flyers during a bus trip from Allentown to Toronto, a tap on the shoulder from Phantoms coach Scott Gordon that Tyrell GouIbourne instinctively read as a cruel joke.
Over the next 24 hours, that’s what it felt like, too. A rush to make a plane from Toronto to Philly. A weather delay. The plane was boarded. The toilet in the rear of the plane froze, and the plane was evacuated. The flight was canceled at 1:30 a.m. The next flight, early Thursday morning, was delayed and hours later it, too, was canceled due to the storms up and down the East Coast.