It had nothing to do with the Flyers being exhausted from their home opener against San Jose earlier that night.
"It was maybe the quietest since I've been here," winger Dale Weise said of the flight from Philadelphia. "We've got a pretty talkative group and we're good at putting things behind us, but we were ticked off, and even the next morning, guys were still pretty ticked off."
And it says a lot about Weise's character that, in his first appearance of the young season, he was able to play such a key role. He drew a penalty, set up a pair of goals — including a Scott Laughton rebound that gave the Flyers the lead for good at 4-3 — and provided physicality against the inexperienced Senators.