Charlie O'Connor

How you doing, guys?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was a, it was something special.

I will say, you know, the, this Flyers team has been through a lot.

Flyers organization has been through a lot and,

you know, for years and years, I know they've only won two Stanley Cups, but the Flyers for a long time were one of those teams that you just expected was going to be good every year.

They kind of had that place in Philadelphia, you know, especially in comparison to some of the other teams who, you know, Philadelphia Phillies have the most losses of any professional, major professional sports team in North America.

Like,

There was always a feeling like, well, the Flyers are always going to be good.

And really, for the last 15 years, they mostly haven't been.

You know, the 2010s were a little bit more like mediocrity.

They would make the playoffs one year, losing the first round, miss the playoffs, make the playoffs the next year, losing the first round.

But that was even better than what they've gotten in the 2020s.

If they had missed the playoffs this year, this would have been the longest playoff drought in franchise history.

It would have been six consecutive seasons without a playoff berth.

And for a large portion of the season, it looked like they were going to miss.

You know, they kind of fell apart in January.

They dealt with some injuries.

There were defensive issues.