Gaining self-assurance takes time. The Flyers, who have won three straight since the All-Star break, don’t mind, though, as they prepare to play the Arizona Coyotes on Monday night at Wells Fargo Center.
It could be argued that the Flyers’ two victories at the Center this month—a 4-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets and a 3-2 victory over the Seattle Kraken—were among their best of the season.
“I think for us it’s just kind of been our starts at home,” veteran Joel Farabee said Monday. “The games we’ve lost at home, it’s because we’ve had a bad start, we’ve given up the first goal. The last two we’ve scored pretty early in the game. It gives us a lot of momentum and gets the crowd into it, too. I think we’ve had some great crowds the last few games here at the Wells Fargo Center. It’s a lot of fun when the Flyers fans are going nuts.”
Farabee has had some good shifts lately with Morgan Frost and Cam Atkinson. With 17 goals and 41 points, Farabee trails only Travis Konecny (24-22-46) on the Flyers. Atkinson has 15-13-28, and Frost 8-17-25.”I would say that Frosty, Cam, and I are all similar players,” Farabee remarked. “All we do is attempt to move the puck, get open, and make room for each other. I think it really helps with the offensive when you do that and you stick close to each other. Even though we were not on the scoreboard in the last game, I thought we had a lot of momentum and were starting to get things moving.
This Sunday at MetLife Stadium, the Flyers take on the Devils in the first game of the Navy Federal Credit Union Stadium Series (8 p.m., ABC, ESPN+).
In the Metropolitan Division, the Flyers were in third place going into the third week, while the Devils, in the Eastern Conference, were six points shy of a postseason spot.
The tale of Flyers forward Sean Couturier and his father Sylvain is one of several. Once upon a time, in a 1991 preseason game played on an ice rink constructed over the parking lot of Ceasar’s Palace, Couturier’s pop scored to hoist the Los Angeles Kings, during the Wayne Gretzky era, over the New York Rangers. That was the first outdoor NHL game between two teams, and it set the stage for Sylvain’s eventual 33-game NHL career, in which he finished with five assists and four goals.
