"The emotions of two very different hockey games, mixed into one bizarre day for the Flyers, were settling in.

Coach Peter Laviolette couldn't help himself. Summing up a 6-4 loss to the New Jersey Devils, the coach focused on the 40 minutes of atrocious hockey his team had played Saturday afternoon at the Wells Fargo Center, not the last 20, in which the Flyers fell short of what would have been the greatest comeback in league history.

"We lost," Laviolette said after watching the Flyers score four unanswered goals and outshoot the Devils 24-1 in the third period. "It's hard to feel better."