With their 3-1 win over the Washington Capitals, the Philadelphia Flyers joined the Lightning at the top of the Eastern Conference Round Robin standings with four points. That means Sunday’s match-up between the two teams will determine the number one seeding for the first round of the playoffs. Nothing like a little extra pressure for what should have been a tune-up game.
It will be interesting to see if this changes the way Coach Jon Cooper handle his line-up. Prior to the round robin games he had mentioned that while he wanted to start Andrei Vasilevskiy every game in this round, he also wanted to get Curtis McElhinney a little work.