After a dismal month of March that saw the Flyers lose 10 of their 17 games played, it felt like nothing could stop the bleeding. They sat fifth in the Mass Mutual Eastern Division standings and after a quiet trade deadline passed them by, Alain Vigneault was left to shuffle his deck over and over in the hopes that he might finally land a good hand and find whatever ingredients have been missing. While the overall picture doesn’t look drastically different, April has been a different story.
The Flyers are now 3-5-3 in their last 11 games and have slipped to sixth in the Eastern Division, with playoffs slowly becoming a pipedream.