Another massive win for the Orange and Black last night, beating the league’s best team, the Washington Capitals, 2-1, in a shootout(!!!).

I’m writing that again just to confirm my fingers didn’t type it by mistake: The Flyers beat the Captials in a shootout.

WOW. It is real!

Let me try something else: They scored on their first two shots and stopped the Capitals on their first two.

HOLY SMOKES– that appears to be accurate as well.

Let’s keep going: Steve Mason stoned T.J. Oshie and made this ridiculous glove save Kutznetsov:

https://twitter.com/myregularface/status/715373084207931392

OH MY OH MY OH MY. What bizarro world is this?!?!?! The Flyers, dominating the league’s best team in a shootout? Yes, I am dizzy.

Their playoff chances have increased to 88%, using HockeyViz.com:

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SportsClubStats.com has the same mathematicals– 88%. Eric Lindros. The Flyers have Eric Lindros chance of making the playoffs.

They’re also a near-lock to play the Capitals if they do make it, which means that you should add the following two players to your shit lists:

Jason Chimera

https://twitter.com/myregularface/status/715366116453969920

Here he is butt-ending, sans penalty, Shayne Gostisbehere in one of the dirtiest plays I’ve seen since watching Zac Rinaldo highlights.

Matt Niskanen

https://twitter.com/myregularface/status/715361888545148928

You can, apparently, remove the player from the Penguins, but you can never remove the Penguin from the player. Niskanen is a piece of shit, and we look forward to hating him in the playoffs.

Now would be a good time to mention that the Capitals, who have already clinched the Presidents’ Trophy for having the most points in the league – they’re selling t-shirts for it just to solidify the mush – will have been playing meaningless hockey for nearly three weeks by the time the playoffs start, and essentially meaningless hockey for several months. Just look at their playoff chances chart:

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Meanwhile, here’s the Flyers’ chart:

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The Capitals keeping up their intensity was already a narrative last night. It will continue and they will be tired of hearing about it by the time the pucks drop on what is likely a first-round matchup with the Flyers. The OB, meanwhile, will have been playing playoff hockey for essentially two months. Their intensity level is already through the roof. They’re 12-3-2 in their last 17 games. The Capitals will have to somehow keep Alex Ovechkin interested for the next two weeks. This is the perfect storm for knocking off a top seed. I mean, when you combine these two charts, it looks like a freight train coming at a docile doe, a deer, a female deer standing on the tracks of disaster:

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Meanwhile, Ray Emery is a drop of golden sun. His presence in the building last night – I choose to believe the Flyers signed him not as an emergency backup to Steve Mason but to play mind games with his former assault victim, Braden Holtby, and you can’t convince me otherwise – may have been enough to rattle Holtby, who took a dumb roughing penalty in overtime:

What– trying to show someone how tough you are, Braden?

Yes, folks, that sound you hear is the Caps’ season tumbling down the mountainside into the awaiting clutches of the ascending Flyers, who have come very far, and have a long, long way to run.