*Folks… things are not going great around here. The Flyers got effectively walloped by the Rangers, who more or less threw in the towel on their season last week, and the losing streak has stretched to six games. Do you want to relive that game? No? We have a recap anyway. [BSH]
*Charlie also has his own takeaways from that one. [PHLY]
*It was truly a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad game. [The Athletic]
*Sean Couturier was upfront about it: “we sucked,” says he. [BSH]
*And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the Flyers were not just bad in that game, but also unlucky — the took another injury as Rodrigo Abols went down with a lower-body injury. [BSH]
*Speaking of injuries, Rasmus Ristolainen’s return does not seem to be overly imminent. Officially he’s day-to-day, but he’s been moved to IR in the meantime. [BSH]
*On the same topic though, it looks like Dan Vladar is getting close to returning. [NBCSP]
*To fill in for these most recent injuries, the Flyers made a couple of recalls from the Phantoms. Hunter McDonald was called up on Saturday to offer a little more support on the back end. [BSH]
*And Lane Pederson was brought up yesterday to fill in on the fourth line. [BSH]
*We talked before Saturday’s game about how the Flyers really needed to find a way to pull off a win in that one to avoid a real panic mode setting in, and… well! [BSH]
*Their list of troubles is growing, but there are some fixes within reach. [Inquirer]
*How about some good news around here? Denver Barkey was able to get back into the lineup on Thursday night in Pittsburgh after being a healthy scratch in Buffalo, and he put together a really nice response game. [BSH]
*Down the farm, the Phantoms didn’t have the best weekend, but heading into it, things really did look like they were trending in the right direction for them. [PHLY]
*We can’t help but feel that the Flyers rushed into extending Christian Dvorak, and that could end up spelling disaster for them. [BSH]
*Let’s pivot though, let’s dig into some burning questions as the back half of the season really gets going. [BSH]
*And finally, a super definitely very real letter released by Flyers management. [BSH]
