Flyers lose 10 straight for 2nd time this season

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Make it 10 again — yes, straight defeats — for the Flyers.

Philadelphia has dropped 10 straight games for the second time this season, the first team to accomplish that ignominious feat in more than a decade, losing 2-1 to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night.

Oliver Bjorkstrand and Patrik Laine both scored goals and Elvis Merzlikins stopped 33 shots for Columbus.

The Flyers also lost 10 straight games from Nov. 18 to Dec. 18; the first skid cost coach Alain Vigneault his job after the first eight games in the skid. Interim coach Mike Yeo lost the final two games and, of course, all 10 in this streak that started Dec. 30 at San Jose.

"We can try to beat them down and get mad at them. I think when you’re doing that, you’re trying to motivate them. I don’t think motivation is an issue," Yeo said. "We’re being challenged. We have to rise up to the challenge and find a way to be better and we have to find a way to overcome it."

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Philadelphia Flyers' Carter Hart, left, blocks a shot by Columbus Blue Jackets' Alexandre Texier during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

The only thing plummeting faster than the Flyers in the standings is in the interest in Philly. Once packed almost every game, there were empty rows, and plenty of sections, in front of a dreary, quiet crowd inside the Wells Fargo Center.

The last team to lose 10 straight twice in one season was Colorado in 2010-11.

The Flyers lost a franchise-record 12 straight from Feb. 24, 1999 to March 16, 1999, and have lost at least 10 straight games in one season for