Every year (that there actually is an NHL season) I write pretty much near Ground Hog Day that it’s time for the Flyers to slip into the middle of the pack in the Eastern conference. Like that furry creep in western PA (the groundhog), the Flyers piss away the lead they built up before Xmas every, every, every, every, every year.

So they look to be holding true to form. What a surprise?

Flyers are league champs every year ….. ah, in December. Then it’s down hill and it’s usually ugly as they play down to whatever team they are against and then finally hustle with 3 minutes left… and then can’t figure out how they lost. If they played a high school team, the Flyers would seal it 2 minutes left.

What a treat. The team’s annual slide coincides with the arrival of the bill to season ticket holders for playoff seats. One day we might expect to see a sports journalist write about this annual trek to nowhere but they are too busy writing exactly the same story that they did last season about “What’s Wrong With The Flyers,” without even knowing that they are regurgitating the same stories over and over again. Hell, just change the names and dates and print the older stories. It’s all the same slop.

$85 a seat to watch these fruitcakes slide into the playoffs … what a racket.

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