Philadelphia Flyers

The 2019-20 season is over. The Flyers are not going to reach the promised land this year.

There was no sugarcoating this one after it was over. The scoreboard said it all. “We got our butts kicked today in all facets of the game,” head coach Alain Vigneault said.

Montreal got off to a hot start by taking just 62 seconds to get on the board. Brendan Gallagher fired from an angle and Tomas Tatar buried the rebound to give the Canadiens the 1-0 lead.

Calm, cool and collected, Hart made 27 saves to help the Flyers claim a 2-1 win in Game 1 of their first-round series against the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night.

622 days ago, the Flyers were a team in complete disarray. Now, they have claimed the top seed in the Eastern Conference for the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

On Thursday, the Flyers had another scrimmage scheduled and again, Carter Hart was not on the playing roster, the second straight day he missed practice after leaving early on Tuesday.

For the first five days of Flyers Phase 3 training camp, everything was relatively normal -- but Saturday brought on something new.

For Phase 3 workouts leading up to the travel to hub cities for Phase 4, teams are allowed to have 30 skaters on the roster and an unlimited number of goalies.

The NHL Board of Governors and the NHLPA voted in approval to ratify a Memorandum of Understanding to the Collective Bargaining Agreement and the Return to Play protocols.

Oskar Lindblom, who exited the Flyers' line-up after his diagnosis with Ewing’s sarcoma in December, was on the ice Tuesday in Voorhees during phase two workouts.