Turns out that when you lose your best player, your best pure defensive defenseman, and one of your only actual NHL centers, you get worse. Who knew?
The Flyers kicked off a five-game road swing with a 6-3 loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night, completing a season sweep at their hands in the head-to-head series. They fell behind 3-0 and then nearly clawed all the way back twice, but were never able to knot it up from there.
Gameflow:
- Bit of a slow start to the game here.