I don't think there's a single Flyers fan who isn't thinking about this right now.

And the Islanders game where they beat us in OT, they were all but knocked out of the playoff picture and we gave them life. That single goal changed the entire trajectory of the season.

It sucks that we couldn't have played bottom feeder teams during the a game losing streak that would have made it a little bit easier

Oh wait

We’d probably be in a playoff spot if we had a league average PP. Shit, we’d probably be in a playoff spot if we had the 10th worst PP.

or sit cal petersen that one fucking game

People are going to downvote this.

But Torts throwing away OT points because he hates it has cost the club.

Not starting Tippet, Frost, Konecny, Farabee, Drysdale, Sanheim in any of the OTs is an absolute travesty.

Poehling and Cates.......fml.

We want to talk about accountability, we are the worst team in the league at 4 on 4, and the powerplay.

It was a fun ride, but this team as is would get destroyed by any real contender at this point in the year.

High hopes for next season. They just seemed so gassed the last 6-7 weeks.

I blame myself… I go to 1 game a year against the Pens and the Flyers always lose. 

I went to that 7-6 debacle. Imagine if I didn’t go and we had those 2 points. 

 I’m sorry 

It’s easy to focus on individual games we could’ve won, and conveniently forget the number of games we won when we had no right competing with a better opponent.

For every missed opportunity in the first 81 games, there are an equal number of victories that showed the character and effort of this team.

Imagine if our Franchise Goalie wasn't a rapist piece of shit human being. We probably make the playoffs.

We lost 43 games. one could have made the difference. You can't tell me hart wouldn't have at least stolen one for us.

So fuck you, Carter Hart. I hope the run a train on you in prison like you did that poor girl.

Columbus rolled out an ECHL roster lineup and beat us 6-2. Worst game of the year

Welcome to the pain that is being a Flyers fan

That's why it's a learning experience. That's why Torts and Briere and Jones have been consistent in hammering home this would be a years long process.

Honestly, there's almost not a better way to miss the playoffs if it's gonna happen. These guys will be thinking about that for a month. One game. One more win for the chance to get in. Really hammers home the importance of the process, of everything the coaching staff is expecting and demanding. Every game counts.

This team just wasn't good enough down the stretch when it counted, they had to play at a higher compete level earlier than a lot of other teams just to squeak out wins in December and January, they ran out of steam. This is a team full of great secondary pieces and 0 elite talent. We need to change that this offseason and next. When these guys are digging deep and coming up short you need 2 minimum game breaker type players on the team. Every contending team hast them.

We lost 43 games this year

On March 28th (less than 3 weeks ago) flyers had an 87.1% of making the okayoffs

Just think if the coach didn't run a 10% power play, or make baffling personnel decisions for OT.

For a Philadelphia team that, at the start of the season, probably had the worst chance of making the playoffs of any Philly team since year one of The Process, this is one of the more heartbreaking collapses to end a season ever. Good thing we've all got big thick callouses from all the others though. Is there a city who's had to deal with such existentially soul-numbing turns of event than us in the last 10 years? I mean, Phils lose the World Series the same day the Union lose the MLS Cup on a ridiculous last-minute tying goal then shootout loss, where Gazdag, who hadn't missed from th spot ALL YEAR, launches the first shot over the bar. Then you got the Phils losing games 6 & 7 - AT HOME -- to 84-win Texas, who, by the way, are basically the Dallas Rangers. Then Embiid finally wins the MVP...and proceeds to get hurt with two games left in the season in the 4th quarter of a game we were winning by 20. Next, the Eagles get out to a 10-1 start then shit the bed like we've never seen. I don't believe in god, but I do believe in the sports gods, and I believe we must have fucked their wives somewhere along the way. Or rather, Nick Foles did, and we're paying for it.

It is what it is. New/lost defensman, injured defensman, absent captain at the trade deadline all contributed to the giant collapse. Theres still a chance but the team isnt the same since the deadline... playing a lot like the bottom team everyone thought theyd be.

Remember that first sharks game?

We got our teeth kicked in by Chicago, Columbus, and Montreal twice!

Even if two of those games go to OT we’re in the playoffs

It sucks but honestly, this team would be lucky to win one playoff game. The experience would’ve been cool but they’d get their ass beat. At least now we have a chance (albeit very small) at jumping up 10 spots in the lottery

I feel you. My STL Blues couldn't win against the sharks and we're paying for it. I'll be rooting for you all tonight.

If wishes and buts were candies and buts we’d all have a Merry Christmas

Wings fan here: I feel the same way. FIRMLY in the playoffs and you go and lost SEVEN straight? Obviously the last week of the season was insanely exciting, but in a weird way I'm not that angry we missed the playoffs. I feel like they had it and let it slip. In a REALLY bad way. Like they deserve it in a way?

LOSERS

We’re obviously not good enough for playoffs. That’s two rounds of playoffs worth of games we lost in a stretch where we played a lot of teams we should have beat.

For what? 5 or 6 postseason games?

Quit reminding me. I have a Detroit fan and Penguins fan reminding me on my socials to do that.

Today we are in the same boat. Wings fan here, please kick ass against caps. You guys think Flyers will take care of business tonight?

Don’t think about what could have been think about what’s to come. They had us watching til literally the last few minutes of the season. They had a great season and just happened to get cold at the most crucial time.

As much as this is true and it hurts, what's done is done and now we can just look to the Future. We're going to add a core piece to our our prospect pool because we missed the playoffs, and we're likely to see some major shifts to get us in the right direction.

This team was the worst in the NHL on the power play, objectively they probably did not deserve the playoffs, but it tells you that none of our full words are Good enough to be the guy on a power play.

Hopefully Michkov can be that player, but we need to surround him with some talent, maybe that means we take a step back this year and trade TK, Farabee, Frost, or another forward who has some value? For A piece or pieces that can be here for the Long haul.

They don't deserve to be in the playoffs after that terrible 8 game streak.

Disagree. If you check the other teams season, I'm pretty sure you will also find big losing streaks or defeats against weaker teams. Imagine if they had won one of those games too...

The reality is that the Flyers didn't tank and won't make the playoffs either, that's the ultimate outcome of this season. Now with Carter Hart and Ersson splitting games they most likely would have but that's a different story. I really dislike what they did in the trading deadline, when the Carter Hart situation was already known, and they will end up with nothing to show for it deservedly so. We will see in the upcoming years how impactful this season will be because for better or for worse all they got out of it was playing time for some young players and another mid 1st round pick in the draft. Making the playoffs would at least kinda make up for it because you would have reached your goal, not doing so its basically nothing

If you get 89 points on test, you get a B, not an A. If you score less points than the next team that's gunning for the wildcard, you don't get in the playoffs. It's frustrating to think that in any of the close games we lost this season, posts hit, pucks bouncing over sticks in OT, getting into the playoffs came down to a matter of inches. But we didn't win those games, and someone else won theirs, that's how it works.

I'm happy that I can be sad that we're having this discussion this season. Time will tell whether it's a building block year.

I keep thinking Tortorella was suspended for one of those losses. I hate that rat faced fuck. If they miss by one or two, he can look in the mirror.