Led by the top line of Jaromir Jagr, Claude Giroux, and Scott Hartnell, the Flyers claimed the 5th seed in the Eastern Conference, and defeated the higher ranked Pittsburgh Penguins in one of the craziest playoff series perhaps ever. As Bill Matz has said, that series was barely hockey. Though the Flyers were bounced out of the second round by the New Jersey Devils (ugh), then-youngster Claude Giroux was blossoming into a premier player, and with the main core of Jakub Voracek, Wayne Simmonds, and Sean Couturier having been assembled and improving, it felt at the time as if the Flyers were on the up and up.
What if Nashville hadn’t matched the Shea Weber offer sheet?
