PHILADELPHIA — Nothing went right for the Flyers Saturday night, much like too many nights over too many seasons of the recent past. Sure, it’s a might early to kick this team when it’s down again, though it might seem the appropriate response to a 3-0 home opener of a loss to the Vancouver Canucks. The visitors pretty much dominated the first couple of periods, and then went into protection mode with their lead and allowed the Flyers to almost catch back up on the scoreboard … the little ones that count shots on goal, that is. Vancouver got a goal from Nils Hoglander late in a first period in which the Canucks were constantly a step ahead of the home team. Then came two in the second period, by Brock Boeser and Kiefer Sherwood all of 70 seconds apart. That was more than enough for Vancouver’s Kevin Lankinen (26 saves) to nail down a shutout, but hey, that’s not the whole story. The Flyers can say the NHL is at fault for starting their season with a rather brutal four-game road trip through Western Canada and just south of there, before slapping this game two nights after a late-night one in Seattle. Of course, on the standings scoreboard, where everything is equal, they are still 1-3-1, last in the Metropolitan Division. Good thing it’s early. The Flyers started off the first period kind of the way they ended their 2023 season-opening road trip – sort of lost. The Canucks took 10 of the first 11 shots on goal of the game, ensuring that goalie Sam Ersson (29 saves) was well warmed up. It didn’t matter how warm he was at 16:09 of the first, as Vancouver’s Elias Pettersson, who had been allowed to camp in the slot, found Hoglander alone in front of an open side of the net for 1-0. Boeser doubled the lead 8:40 into the second, off a backhand shot from a very nice feed by defenseman Tyler Myers. Then in the blink of a defensive zone faceoff, Sherwood wildly slapped at the puck and it found a way past Ersson for a 3-0 lead. The rest of the game the Flyers played hard to try to catch up, all while their fans were all over them, offering up tried and true South Philadelphia vocal offerings appropriate for the Halloween season. • • • Flyers defender Jamie Drysdale drew his fair share of criticism for a mis-play he produced near the end of a 6-4 loss Thursday to Seattle. It came after the Flyers had scored twice to get to within a goal of the Kraken, but Drysdale pinched into the offensive zone, and Seattle’s Oliver Djorkstrand made him pay by picking up a loose puck and heading the other way. It turned into a breakaway goal that sealed the Kraken’s win. Flyers coach John Tortorella didn’t let the mistake pass, saying that since it was a 5-4 game, “I just hate to see the pinch by Jamie. “Those are things that Jamie has to understand,” Tortorella added. “We don’t need to overextend ourselves there. … We don’t need to open ourselves up.” Prior to the Flyers’ home opener Saturday night against the Canucks, Drysdale addressed the issue, admitting it was merely a mistake in judgement. “We’d had a good (offensive)-zone shift, we were pressuring a lot, and we had a lot of good chances,” Drysdale said. “I just felt like they probably had tired legs. So that was kind of my read. I just wanted to maintain the pressure.”