DENVER—It is not a swagger in which members of the Philadelphia Flyers walk these days. But neither is it a stagger, like it was just a couple months ago. It’s more like a respectable gait, which is something Flyers fans will take for the time being, after being an NHL punchline earlier this season.
The question is: Have the Flyers righted themselves enough to make the playoffs? Can they still become actual Eastern Conference title contenders?
Signs are encouraging on the former, still very questionable on the latter. Again, this is progress. From those terrible early days that saw their coach fired and more darts tossed the team’s way by the Philly media than at the ratty board on 50-cent beer night at a country saloon.
“No, it wasn’t too fun around here at the start of the season,” Flyers veteran Scott Hartnell told Bleacher Report, prior to a game Thursday night against Colorado. “But we found a way to stick together and things are coming along a lot better. We feel like we’re coming together as a team more and I think the results have shown it lately.”
Despite a tough 2-1 loss ...
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