*The boys are out in Columbus tonight being presented with the perfect opportunity to halt this skid and get things headed in the right direction. Columbus, of course, the team that just completed a trade for David Jiricek. Here’s why it is good that the Flyers didn’t do that. [BSH]
*This will be the first game of the Not A Teenager portion of the Matvei Michkov Era, and our boy is already in some very fine company. [Inquirer]
*So about that skid… if the Flyers are on the outside looking in again this season, playoffs-wise, this past weekend might be the point we look back to and wonder about what could have been if they didn’t totally bork a couple of winnable games.