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The Philadelphia Flyers Are Playing For The Playoffs

03/27/2016 at 1:55pm EDT

from Jay Greenberg of PhiladelphiaFlyers.com,

The Flyers should be tired, but don’t look it, instead appear to be tired of too many years of not giving themselves the best possible chance to win. They have taken fewer dumb penalties at the worst possible times and are better at killing the ones they can’t help.

No longer does this team take whole periods off. When the Flyers get beat it’s because the Penguins – you saw what they did the next day in Washington – played a near-perfect road game or because an opposition goalie shines.

With Michal Neuvirth out, there is no net below them but the Flyers aren’t playing like a team looking down in fear. The Flighty Flyers of the last few years are gone. They are 13-5-4 since last losing consecutive games 22 contests ago and have been, for a sample size two months long, as good as anybody in the conference outside of Washington.

They are playing like they have earned each other’s trust, and yours, too, headed into the final 14 days. For all intents and purposes, the Flyers have been in the playoffs since they started to crawl back into contention and, essentially, have made it to their finals.

No matter how it comes out, you would have signed up for this fun, too.

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