*The Flyers won a hockey game and our long national nightmare is over. Thank the gods. RECAP!
*Alright surely everyone is tired of relitigating the Christian Dvorak contract but here’s the thing… they probably could’ve done something else. Just spitballing. [BSH]
*Related, the Flyers’ lack of center depth has lead to Sean Couturier getting a bit more minutes than is probably ideal for him at this stage of the game. [BSH]
*While we’re talking Organizational Choices™, Kurz sat down with POHO Keith Jones to get his thoughts on a whole bunch of Flyers things. [The Athletic]
*Jonesy had some stuff to say about Sam Ersson, naturally, and the vibe is that the org knows they need to improve. What if they went real nuts and took a flyer (ha!) on an insane dude who was good one time but kinda sucks now? [BSH]
*Jones also shared some thoughts about Trevor Zegras, who will almost certainly be extended sooner rather than later. We looked around at some comps to try and figure out what that extension might look like. [BSH]
*Look everyone, NHL coaches have officially ruined the 3-on-3 overtime! Something we all saw coming pretty immediately after the league started doing it. Because NHL coaches are the worst. [TSN]
*DGB’s Weekend Thoughts continue a few about the Flyers; thought you might like to see that. [The Athletic]
*We know Latvia is down one of their better players after poor Roddy Abols was injured last week, but which other Olympics teams are going to have some issues due to injury? [ESPN]
*And finally, in case you missed it, last week’s Three Stars! Not a lot of good stuff to choose from but we did our best. [BSH]
