There weren’t many bright spots in the Philadelphia Flyers’ 4-3 loss to the Montreal Canadiens last Sunday night. It was perhaps the club’s most demoralizing loss of the season, even in spite of their furious push in the game’s dying minutes to make the final score appear less lopsided than it should’ve been.
By all accounts, their performance bordered on lifeless and mind-numbing for 58 minutes. The team lacked energy and urgency, and it resulted in a loss against one of the weaker teams in the Eastern Conference. Almost every Flyer in the lineup appeared out of sorts against Montreal.