The Philadelphia Flyers aren't playing for lottery odds. They're playing for each other, for pride, and for every single point they can scrape together down the stretch.

Bobby Brink scored the only goal of the shootout, beating Marcus Hogberg to the glove side on the fifth try to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-3 victory over the New York Islanders on Saturday. The loss eliminated New York from the Eastern Conference playoff race.

There’s a faction of Flyers fans out there who want the team to lose games down the stretch, and look, it’s not entirely misguided. But when the team’s young players start putting it together the way the Flyers did on Saturday,