Before the NHL goes on its Olympic break, the Flyers are trying to win consecutive games for the first time in a month.

Rick Tocchet’s club hosts the Senators on Thursday (7 p.m. ET/NBCSP). Then, as the league participates in the Olympics for the first time since 2014, the Flyers will go 19 days without a game.

At the halfway mark of the season a month ago, the Flyers were in playoff position, taking over third place after dominating the Ducks, 5-2. That was the last time the Flyers won consecutive games. Prior to beating the Capitals, 4-2, Tuesday night, the Flyers had dropped 11 of their last 13 games (2-8-3).

Flyers at the Olympics:

Rick Tocchet (Team Canada assistant), Travis Sanheim (Team Canada), Dan Vladar (Team Czechia) and Rasmus Ristolainen (Team Finland).

Rodrigo Abols (Team Latvia) will miss Olympics because of injury. pic.twitter.com/S4AID5VN78

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“A little bit of a rocky patch that we’ve hit lately,” general manager Danny Briere said before the win over Washington. “I know it has upset a lot of people, but it’s just the reality of a team growing.

“Earlier in the season, when we were fighting for one of the top positions in the division, we realized that was probably a little ahead of schedule, probably getting better results that were warranted at the time. What has happened now, the way we’ve been playing lately and what’s happening, I also know that it’s not as bad as the way we’ve been playing. So we’re somewhere in between all of that.”

The Flyers are 25-20-10 entering Thursday and in sixth place of a tight Metropolitan Division. They’re seven points back of the third-place Islanders and have played two fewer games. They didn’t come into the season with a playoffs-or-bust mindset. In October, Tocchet talked about “maximizing the player” as an expectation.

The Flyers’ head coach was asked Thursday morning if he ever keeps an eye on the standings or if he’s more of a game-to-game guy.

“A little more day to day, trying to stack good days,” Tocchet said. “For our team, there’s a lot of stuff — off-ice stuff, game stuff, stacking good days together, that’s how you kind of grow as a group, so I’ve been looking at that. But, sure, you look at the standings.”

Tocchet noted how it’s not all bad for the Flyers right now. He mentioned that they’re one point back of the two-time defending champion Panthers and four back of Connor McDavid’s Oilers. He also highlighted the young Sharks, who the Flyers are ahead of by two points.

“We’re a couple of points away from Edmonton and Florida; like, everything’s not a disaster,” Tocchet said. “Everybody’s saying San Jose, how great they’re doing; I think we have the same amount of points. There are a lot of positives here that we’ve got to start to build on and I think that’s the approach we’re trying to do.”