The Flyers will travel to Long Island to face a surprise last-place New York Islanders team in the first match-up of the season between the two teams.
Flyers @ New York Islanders
When: 7:30 p.m. ET
Where: UBS Arena, Elmont, NY
In 2012, Adam Gold, a PhD candidate at the University of Missouri, presented a system for determining draft order in professional sports leagues that would attempt to remove any form of tanking from the games. Basically, teams would “declare” themselves ineligible for the playoffs and all the points they begin accumulating from that point on would begin counting towards their draft position.