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The Philadelphia Flyers Can't Score

11/22/2015 at 8:29am EST

from Sam Carchidi of Broad Street Bull,

The numbers are stupefying.

The Flyers, who dropped a 4-0 decision to Ottawa on Saturday, have scored just 34 goals, their lowest 20-game start in franchise history.

Blanked in their last two outings, they are averaging an NHL-worst 1.7 goals per game, and only two teams have a worse success rate than the Flyers on the power play (13.3 percent).

Jake Voracek, Michael Raffl and Sean Couturier each have one goal; they are on a four-goal place. Matt Read and Wayne Simmonds, wingers being conservatively counted on for 20 to 25 goals, have three goals and are on a 12-goal pace.

While Ottawa has six players in double-digits in points, Claude Giroux (13 points) is the only Flyer who has reached that not-too-lofty plateau, demonstrating just how low things have gotten for a team that started the season so impressively _ 4-2-1, including wins over heavyweights Chicago and the Rangers.

Since then, the Flyers have won just two of 13 games (2-7-4).

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