The Lehigh Valley Phantoms are celebrating another “20 Years of Phantoms Hockey” this Friday night. As part of their celebration, the first 3,000 fans in attendance will receive this poster, which is, um, kind of strange: Some things make sense, like the inclusions of the mascots, the new PPL Center (which is gorgeous), and some…
Cooper Marody, the Flyers’ sixth round pick in the 2015 NHL Draft, is having a solid freshman season at the University of Michigan. His 16 points in 22 games are good numbers for a first-year forward in college hockey. He ranked 23rd in our Flyers Top 25 Under 25 ranking back in January as a…
Valentine’s Day accosts each and every one of us every single year. Red, white, and pink hearts start sprouting up almost immediately after New Year’s, glittered and shiny, letting you know that your life is headed in either one of two directions: complete and utter despair from your never-ending, self-hating loneliness or complete and utter…
When Claude Giroux scored his 15th of the season to put the Philadelphia Flyers up 4-1 over the Nashville Predators, he was really excited. Of course he was excited – everyone loves to score goals! – and so, he wanted to share the love with his teammates. And the opposition. He also wanted to share…
Some things don’t need to exist. Weird colored ketchup, Jay-Z’s verse in Monster, almost any novelty product involving bacon … the list extends into eternity. I add to that list today. An essential, but not oft-analyzed piece of the human condition is the rapid expansion into the unnecessary. If something doesn’t exist, it should, whispers…
The Flyers have always been a team that makes noise in the NCAA free agent pool, and they did just that on Tuesday night by signing local kid Steven Swavely to an amateur tryout contract. He’ll join the Lehigh Valley Phantoms for the remainder of their regular season but doesn’t have a full contract with…
As a hockey writer, my favorite activity is obviously stirring up controversy. It’s my calling. It’s what I do best. Drama, chaos … I crave it. But sometimes, there’s no rivalry or enmity at all. That is, however, exactly why hockey writers exist: to create it, baselessly and shamelessly. Narrative is birthed from thin air….
Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. #1: Why did the Flyers lose the series? After a hard-fought, six-game battle, the Flyers’ season finally came to a close. Philadelphia lost the first three games of the series, and even though they put together a complete…
Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. Observation #1: Washington with the edge at 5-on-5 Over the final two months of the regular season, the Philadelphia Flyers undeniably played fantastic hockey. Part of that was due to the transformation of the team’s third and fourth…
Today’s Morning Observations will instead be an introductory look at none other than the Washington Capitals, who of course the Flyers will be playing between four and seven times over the next two weeks. We’ll break much of this down in further detail over the next few days, but consider this your intro to the…