The Flyers would give us a moment tonight where we were justified to feel some hope that the current losing streak would end with a win over the New York Rangers, but being the 2021-22 Flyers, 37 seconds was all they could afford. A back-and-forth affair with some legitimate strong play from the Flyers against a team that is technically in first place in the NHL’s best division (and one whose rebuild has frustratingly lapped the Flyers’ own attempts) would ultimately end exactly how we thought it would two-and-a-half hours prior.
Victory tonight—snatched from the Flyers and replaced with defeat like a golden idol replaced with a bag of sand—would have put a stop to their current losing streak at six.