Because of an Andrew Copp objective late within the third interval, the Detroit Red Wings had been 2-1 winners over the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday evening. Whereas any win for the Purple Wings is a trigger for celebration at this level given their tumultuous begin to the season that has been attributable to possession and front-office incompetence, the large story in that is the Flyers.
Particularly the actual fact they’ve now performed 9 video games to begin the 2026-27 season and have received zero of them.
Thursday’s sport drops them to a league-worst 0-6-3 to begin the season, whereas they’ve scored simply 11 targets over that stretch. They’ve additionally not scored greater than two targets in anyone sport.
It’s not only a unhealthy begin. It’s bordering on historic. Not the nice type of historical past, both.
Flyers near becoming a member of notorious membership
In keeping with the Hockey-Reference StatHead database, solely 10 groups within the historical past of the NHL have ever began a season with zero wins of their first 10 video games.
It has occurred simply 3 times within the wage cap period, with the Arizona Coyotes doing it twice (2017-18 and 2021-22) and the San Jose Sharks doing it as soon as (2023-24).
What actually stands out about that checklist is that if the Flyers find yourself becoming a member of it, it could be head coach Rick Tocchet’s second time on it having additionally coached the 2017-18 Coyotes.
Whereas the Flyers had been by no means anticipated to be a critical contender this season, they had been nonetheless a playoff workforce a yr in the past and made it to the second spherical. There was at the least some expectation that they’d be aggressive, particularly with some good younger expertise and a powerful defensive construction.
The defensive construction has fully disappeared.
The younger gamers are quiet.
The pinnacle coach appears to don’t know the best way to repair any of it.
Of the ten groups that began a season with zero wins in 10 video games, solely two of them made the playoffs — the Calgary Flames did it in 1995, and the 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates (a now-defunct franchise) did it.
The Flyers’ tenth sport is on Saturday at dwelling towards the Ottawa Senators. In the event that they lose, that crowd will in all probability get ugly.
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