"Perhaps Peter Laviolette's Flyers thought this was going to be easy.

Perhaps they thought they didn't have to show up given they had won 23 of the previous 24 Islander games, dating back to March 2008.

Perhaps they thought they could rely solely on goalie Sergei Bobrovsky doing the dirty work since he had a 7-0 career record with a 1.86 goals against average and .944 save percentage against this club."