Chapter 5: The Final Save

The 2025 Stadium Series at Lincoln Financial Field had all the ingredients for a perfect Philadelphia sports moment: freezing rain, a malfunctioning Zamboni, and a pregame flyover that veered slightly off course and nearly clipped a SEPTA train. The Flyers were set to face the Rangers in front of 70,000 fans and roughly four CIA surveillance drones. But for Aleksei Kolosov, this wasn’t just a game.

Chapter 4: Phantom Protocol

The official story was that Aleksei Kolosov had finally agreed to report to Lehigh Valley for a conditioning stint—three games, light travel, get the legs under him, build “organizational trust.” That’s what the Flyers PR team told the media. But Aleksei knew the truth: he was going behind enemy lines.

Chapter 3: The Catwalk Conspiracy

The Flyers were tied 2–2 with the Penguins halfway through the second period, and the Wells Fargo Center was vibrating with the kind of feral energy only a Flyers-Pens game could summon. Somewhere below the raucous crowd, behind the bench, sat Carter Hart in full gear. Beside him stood Sam Ersson, chewing nervously on his mouthguard. And three rows above, dressed in a team tracksuit and allegedly "scratched due to illness," sat Aleksei Kolosov, watching the ice like a hawk surveilling a Cold War chessboard.