"Flyers players were filtering in and out of a dressing room that had that fresh-loss feel.

There was no music and little talking beyond a few guys taking turns putting their spin on their latest loss to the New York Rangers, the fourth one in a row this season, by a 5-2 score.

The one player already showered and decked out in a suit was the one who'd earned his way to an early dismissal.

Rookie winger Tom Sestito, the biggest of the Flyers at 6-feet-5, 230 pounds, didn't look the part. There were no cuts on his face, no black eye, no sign at all that he'd tried to do his part toward getting the Flyers a first win this season over the Rangers by fighting not once, not twice, but three times."