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The Philadelphia Flyers struggled for large portions in their season-opening shootout loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday.

Despite picking up a point in Thursday's 3-2 loss to the New York Islanders, the team actually lost a point in the standings with Boston knocking off Washington. That leaves the Flyers six points back with 17 games to go and with Boston having two games in hand. If Boston were to simply go one game above .500 the rest of the way, that would give them 68 points. To get to 69 points, the Flyers would need to hypothetically go 14-3 to get 28 more points — seems highly improbable. With all that said, the Flyers really have no choice but to be sellers at the deadline due to a few factors:

Buffalo ends 18-game winless streak Apr 1, 2021 BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Linus Ullmark stopped 31 shots and the Buffalo Sabres snapped an 18-game skid — the NHL’s longest in 17 years — with a 6-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night. Defenseman Rasmus Dahlin was the first off the bench as the final horn sounded and led a line of Sabres players high-fiving Ullmark in an arena without fans. It was the first win for Buffalo since a 4-1 victory at New Jersey on Feb. 23, and ended an 0-15-3 streak. The slump was tied for the league’s 14th longest, and worst since the Pittsbur...

MELTZER'S TAKE  1) Connor Bunnaman's line produced a strong opening shift of the game. At 3:38, Voracek and Claude Giroux executed a gorgeous give-and-go, finished off by Voracek on a perfect feed from the Flyers' captain. Scott Laughton got the secondary assist. The Flyers had four of the game's first five shots and the lone power play through a TV timeout at 10:44.  Overall, the Flyers demonstrated strong support and dogged puck pursuit , including a solid kill on a Michael Raff tripping penalty. At one juncture of the period, Joel Farabee and Scott Laughton blocked back-to-back shot atte...