Torts after his guys got hammered 6-2 at home by the Bruins:

We don’t need to relitigate the whole Kevin Hayes/Cutter Gauthier thing, since that’s old news. 99.9% of people don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to that story, so it doesn’t matter what they think. They already took sides and made up their minds and nothing is going to change how they feel.

What’s important is that the Flyers look like they’re toast. That’s five losses in a row and they haven’t been competitive in the last few. Carter Hart is on an indefinite leave of absence while we wait for news on the Hockey Canada scandal. Every team in the Metro that’s chasing the Flyers has multiple games in hand. So while this squad has totally overperformed in a rebuilding year, they’re falling back to Earth pretty quickly. If Torts wants to channel his frustration into turning Anthony into some (non-participatory) Larry Brooks 2.0, so be it, but he’s got bigger things to worry about. Plus, he already took his shot at Anthony, so each consecutive tongue lashing is less effective than the last one. We’re talking diminishing returns here.