Flyers’ worst loss of season — their 8th straight — brings more questi…

Flyers’ worst loss of season — their 8th straight — brings more questions originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

The season’s longest losing streak met the season’s most embarrassing loss Tuesday night for the Flyers.

They were demolished by the Canadiens, 9-3, at Bell Centre in Montreal.

The nine goals were the most allowed by the Flyers this season and the most allowed in the John Tortorella era.

The blowout ballooned the club’s season-worst skid to eight games.

It felt like all but the final nail in the Flyers’ dwindling playoff hopes.

The Flyers (36-32-11) have been outscored an unsightly 42-18 in this spiral. They’ve fallen behind 2-0 in five of the eight losses. Half of the losses have come against teams in the bottom six of the NHL standings.

They’ve dropped 18 of their last 25 games (7-13-5).

The Canadiens (30-36-12) led 1:05 minutes into the game. They put up seven goals over the final 29:14 minutes of the game. All nine of their goals came at even strength.

Tortorella’s club went 1-2-0 against Montreal this season. The two losses came in the last 13 days.

• For most of this season, the rebuilding Flyers steered away from the theme of the previous three seasons.

There were more positives than negatives. They avoided mind-boggling losses that made everyone question everything. They had played so well for such a large sample size that there was actual talk of the playoffs and the rebuild being expedited.

But right now, this is a collapse that resembles all too much of the Flyers that bottomed out at 81-107-32 over the last three years and created this new era of orange.

In under two and a half years, the Flyers have had the following losing streaks:

13 games — 0-10-3 from Dec. 30, 2021-Jan. 25, 2022
10 games — 0-8-2 from Nov. 18-Dec. 8, 2021
10 games — 0-7-3 from Nov. 10-26, 2022
8 games — 0-6-2 from March 24-April 9, 2024 (current)
6 games — 0-4-2 from Feb. 9-22, 2022
6 games — 0-6-0 from April 9-19, 2022

• Samuel Ersson was pulled for the fourth…