The Detroit Red Wings were struggling as well entering Thursday night’s game. But they’re off to a normal bad start to the 2026-27 season. The Philadelphia Flyers, on the other hand, are off to a historically bad start.
Historic beats normal any day.
Despite jumping out to an early 1-0 first period lead, the Flyers proved totally unable to build upon that edge and fell 2-1 to the Red Wings, as Andrew Copp broke the tie with 4:22 left in the third period. The Flyers, who are still winless on the season, fell to 0-6-3.
Matvei Michkov — who now leads the team in goals with three — scored the Flyers’ only tally, batting a loose puck out of the air and past Daniil Tarasov (17 saves) to give his club a rare lead. Joseph Woll took the loss in net, making 24 saves on 26 shots.
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2 Comments
Matthew
The longer they go without making a change behind the bench the harder it will be for them to justify a change in the future. If letting this team start the season with the nine worst games I have ever seen since I started watching this team in 2003 doesn’t do it, I don’t know what will.
Michael Perez
The only start i remember being as close to this awful was 13-14 and that time we good coach after 3 games.