The Philadelphia Flyers had won two games in a row going into their Tuesday night matchup with the Anaheim Ducks, but nobody expected them to be four games below .500 after 10 games.
They also failed to score more than two goals in a game until that 10th contest, when they had four goals plus an empty-netter against the New York Islanders.
The numbers do not look pretty. Jakub Voracek and Wayne Simmonds each have just one goal. Claude Giroux, Scott Hartnell and Sean Couturier have none.
New head coach Craig Berube replaced Peter Laviolette after just three games, and the optimist would say that their consecutive victories are a result of the players adjusting to a new system.
But that kind of terminology is vague, and without Vincent Lecavalier's fantastic effort and hat trick against the Islanders, the Flyers would likely still be scraping to score three goals in a game.
There are a few different major issues at play for the Flyers, and they are complex in that the different issues require contradicting types of fixes.
First things first, Steve Mason has been excellent in goal and ...
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