The Philadelphia Flyers have entered must-win territory in the final month-and-a-half of the season, and if they don't defeat the rival New Jersey Devils at home on Friday night, this team must make some profound changes that impact the future of the franchise more than the present.
"Every game's the biggest game of the season and it's fair to say that tomorrow is a pretty big game, so we need to make sure we're focused and ready to go," said Flyers captain Claude Giroux on Thursday (via Flyers.com).
"Obviously we feel we can turn this around, we're a good team here and if we can find the way we can play we're going to be a team and like I said we need to go one game at a time and that starts with [Friday's game vs. New Jersey]."
At 12-15-2, Philadelphia sits at the bottom of the Atlantic Division and in 11th place in the Eastern Conference standings. The Flyers are now five games from the eighth and final playoff spot and the three teams in front of them (New York Islanders 10th, New York Rangers 9th, Winnipeg Jets 8th) all have at least one game in hand.
For the Flyers to climb up the standings and get into the postseason, they must ...
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