Flyers

Sean Couturier Proclaims that the Flyers Sucked in 6-3 Home Loss to Rangers

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Jan 18th, 2026 · 11:33 AM EST

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Captain Coots with some words after the Flyers got their doors blown off by the lowly Rangers on Saturday afternoon:

“We suck, plain and simple. We can’t show up, down 3-1, five minutes in ya know, 10 minutes in, whatever it was. We gotta be better.”

There are some things that are outside of the Flyers’ control right now. The Dan Vladar injury is a total killer. Losing Tyson Foerster was a bummer while the Bobby Brink and Rasmus Ristolainen injuries have pushed guys like Nikita Grebenkin and Noah Juulsen up the depth chart. Now Rodrigo Abols is out. Some of this is natural attrition thinning out a rebuilding team that didn’t have much depth to begin with; and some of it is bad luck.

The schedule also got a lot harder. They did fine on the Western Canada and Seattle road trip, then had to face Tampa twice and a red-hot Sabres team. Then they got the Penguins on the second half of a road/road back-to-back and they now have to play both Vegas and Colorado on the road this week. It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.

This is typically when the wheat and chaff begin to separate in the NHL, after the holidays. The skilled teams start to break away from the blue collar effort teams and talent begins to take over. Case in point, the Flyers are 2-6 this January with a loser point against the Leafs. That’s after losing 9 of 15 games last January and 8 of 14 in the January before that. These Flyers teams have historically begun to dip when the calendar flips, so nobody should really be surprised. That’s why you see all of the jokes on social media right now, that’s it’s just about time for the yearly Flyers’ collapse, when they lose 10 of 11 games and fall out of playoff position, just good enough to draft 13th overall and miss out on all of the good talent.