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Rick Tocchet Gives a Pretty Metal Quote After Flyers’ Game 2 Loss

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: May 5th, 2026 · 9:42 AM EDT

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The Flyers lost Game 2 in overtime and then Rick Tocchet said this:

What a quote from Rick Tocchet 👀 pic.twitter.com/onY8Tbgm9X

— PHLY Sports (@PHLY_Sports) May 5, 2026

It seems to be a recent playoff theme, this idea of false burial and symbolic exhumation. The Sixers went down 3-1 and then they won Game 5 against the Celtics, so we did the Game of Thrones “What is dead may never die” meme. Sure enough, they came back to beat the Cs in seven games before getting their doors blown entirely off in Game 1 against the Knicks.

Then with the Flyers you could point to any number of things this season. They had the 3.8% chance to make the playoffs just a few months ago, and were teetering on the brink of death’s door. One more loss and they would have fallen head first into said grave. Maybe when the Penguins came back to win a couple of games in round 1 the Flyers’ bus was going back to the graveyard because it looked like they were running out of steam after jumping out to a 3-0 lead. Alas, they survived and advanced.

The Flyers and the Sixers have both been like the guy on the cart from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

“I’m not dead! I’m not dead! I don’t want to go on the cart. I feel fine.” Everybody keeps trying to kill off the Flyers and the Sixers but they’re still hanging around:

At this point, the Flyers and their fans need to really lean into this sepulchral theme. They should blast Black Sabbath’s “Children of the Grave” during Game 3 introductions. Maybe pass out “Not Dead Yet” t-shirts or towels. Gritty should come out wearing a bullet belt and a denim vest with all of the band logo patches on it. And when they do the ceremonial igniting of the orange, Kane comes down from the rafters and delivers a tombstone piledriver to each member of Seth Jarvis’s crew.