The Flyers have had a whole lot of bad plague them in the past decade, and you can see the worst cases of how bad it really got HERE. But there were flashes of genuine good in that 10-year span ...

Well, that never happened, as the Flyers from the early days of this season proved only that they weren’t good enough to seriously compete for a top-8 Eastern Conference bragging banner.

The 6-foot-2, 200-pounder was a big-time goal scorer at the high school level. He finished 2021-22 as the Associated Press’ Minnesota Player of the Year. He’ll vie for a job with the Flyers ...