New York - All they needed was two points. All they need on Sunday is ... still, two points.
The best team $60 million can buy, the one some people tabbed to win the Stanley Cup, now must wait 48 hours and go into the final game of the season to see if they make the playoffs.
Regardless, this is a Flyer club that will have to be re-arranged, in parts, this summer because it is maddeningly dysfunctional as Friday's 4-3 loss to the Rangers at MSG proved again.
How do you score early then get stage fright at the task at hand? That's what happened according to Danny Briere.
Peter Laviolette was more blunt. He said his players had the look of a deer in headlights in that first period.
The Flyer sounded confident coming in but they didn't show it. They got stronger as the game went on, but Henrik Lundqvist was better than Brian Boucher.
Yeah, Chris Pronger picked a baaaaad time to turn a bouncing puck over, but I'll still take his offense over the occasional bad goals he sets up any day.
The Flyers say they are "confident" coming home, but I wonder about that. Yeah, it will show if they get off to a great start on Sunday.
What if they don't? What if we have a repeat from the Isles a few weeks ago with a couple of fluke goals? Will they wilt?
Something is fundamentally wrong when you get up on a team on the road in the biggest game of the year and instead of gaining confidence, you lose it, then have to fight back to regain it.
This is no easy club to figure out.
Here's the question. Does anyone out there still think the Flyers are 88% sure of making the playoffs or whatever that number was a few days ago?
Here's my story on CSNPhilly.com:
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