There are a ton of reasons why the Flyers haven’t had more success over the past few years, but one at the very top has been just how darn good their division has been. From the days of the Atlantic to the Metropolitan to date, the Flyers have consistently dealt with elite teams in their own division that they haven’t been able to keep up with.
Case in point being that four of the last 10 Stanley Cup champions have been teams in the Flyers’ own division. Granted the Penguins took care of three themselves, but the Capitals captured their first Cup after years at or near the top of the Eastern Conference.