*The Flyers kissed any chance at the second seed goodbye with last night’s loss to the Bolts. Boo. Recap. *Shayne Gostisbehere and his Union comrades have made it to the NCAA Final; they beat BC 5-4 and will face Minnesota on Saturday. These two games were INCREDIBLE. [SB Nation College Hockey] *Check out the way…
*Bolts tonight. Winning would be like a big cherry on top of a delicious playoffs sundae. Or something. Check back for a preview! *The Flyers might have to face Latvian brick wall Kristers Gudlevskis tonight; Ben Bishop is hurt. Uh oh. [Syracuse.com] *Kurt looks at who the frontrunner for the Barry Ashbee Trophy might be….
*The Flyers won yesterday! In typical come-from-behind fashion and it was glorious. Rothencap of the game here, ASF’s post-game thoughts, and a look at the game from the other side from our friends at Blueshirt Banter. Series picks up tomorrow night at home. *Sarah Baicker had some post-game thoughts, including the hilarious unlikelihood of a…
*The Flyers lost, duh. It sucked. Please to enjoy this Rothencap. *Claude Giroux vs. Ryan McDonagh is going to be a key matchup for the length of this series. [BSH] *Berube changed up his game plan to account for McDonagh’s defensive prowess. [Daily News] *Dr. T looks at what the Flyers have done all year…
*EVERYTHING happened yesterday. First, Homer gave all of the money to Andrew MacDonald. For some reason. [BSH] *About 20 minutes before that news broke, Kevin wrote a great piece on MacDonald after doing some pretty extensive video research on the defenseman. [BSH] *AndyMac spoke with the media about his deal after practice. [Flyers] *Steve Mason…
*Steve Mason is not yet a 100% certainty for game one & Ghost is making cryptic comments about picking a different team. Commence the sacrifices to the hockey gods. [Inquirer] *BSHer Andrew D. revists the Andrew MacDonald trade. [BSH] *Recapping the Flyers‘ season series with the Rangers. [CSN Philly] *Hey speaking of recapping did you…
*It’s hard to imagine how last night’s game could’ve been worse. Here’s a reaction thread if you feel like torturing yourself and a Rothencap because you also deserve nice things. *Claude Giroux needs to shoot more. [BSH] *Another player who would do well to put more pucks on net is Mark Streit, as we saw…
*Game three tonight. Big game. Huuuuuge game. Ray Emery will be in net again; check back later today for some questions with Blueshirt Banter and a preview of the game. *Steve Mason says that Emery’s competent play is giving him time to fully recover. [Flyers] *We always knew that goaltending would be a big story…
*Bit of an up and down weekend for us, eh Flyers fans? Friday’s game was great; Mason was awesome. Yesterday there was something that resembled a hockey game but it was terrible and sucked and the Flyers need to turn it around. *Probably the only good thing to come out of yesterday’s game was Claude…
*Travis talks a city down off of its bridges by calmly pointing out that the Flyers actually played a good game of hockey on Tuesday. [BSH] *Of course, it wouldn’t be Philly without someone calling Claude Giroux a bad captain. These guys… [Daily News] *Ginger Jesus says the Flyers will even the series on Friday….