This looked like the year where the Philadelphia Flyers were going to make a real run during the playoffs. Before the season paused, they won nine of their last ten games. They had catapulted up to second in the division.
It didn’t seem like that was going to be a possibility a few months ago. Especially during the West Coast road trip where the team just couldn’t seem to get things right. Some of the obvious players like Travis Konecny, Sean Couturier, and Claude Giroux have played a big role.
Those players were expected to have such a role.