The date is June 23rd, 2011. The Philadelphia Flyers were a day away from the 2011 NHL Draft after a disappointing end to a promising season. After winning the Atlantic Division for the first time since 2003-2004, the Flyers managed to squeak out a seven game series win vs. the Buffalo Sabres, before being swept…
Kelly is joined by Trevor Kraus of the St. Louis Game Time publication to have a nice little chat about the upcoming meeting between the St. Louis Blues and our Philadelphia Flyers. Topics include: How to switch Jori Lehtera into “hockey mode” The magic of Vladimir Tarasenko How much we all love Brian Elliott The…
Earlier today, we took a long look at the 2017-18 seasons that Ivan Provorov and Shayne Gostisbehere have had. In this space, we’ll do the same for the team’s two rookie defensemen, Robert Hagg and Travis Sanheim. (Stats below are from hockey-reference.com, NHL.com, corsica.hockey, and hockeyviz.com. Any statistics regarding ranks relative to the NHL are…
Did he think, would he ever have thought, given the way things ended for him in Philly, that he would be back here like this, to such a warm welcome and massive spectacle, to have his jersey retired? “No. Did you?” But here we are. Last night was the night, finally, when the Flyers retired…
Our week-long look at how the Flyers are faring at the season’s unofficial half-way point continues today with a look at the team’s seven most common defensemen this season. (You can find links to the first four parts at the bottom of this post.) Like we did on Tuesday with the team’s nine wingers, we’ll…
Is anyone still awake? Did we make it through the end of that game? I’m still alive, but barely. The Flyers closed out their back to back and swing through Florida tonight, and after falling flat against the Panthers last night, things tonight went, well, just about as far from expected as possible. The Flyers…
Is anyone still awake? Did we make it through the end of that game? I’m still alive, but barely. The Flyers closed out their back to back and swing through Florida tonight, and after falling flat against the Panthers last night, things tonight went, well, just about as far from expected as possible. The Flyers…
1st Period For a game featuring one of the most exciting teams in the NHL, this one started about as slow as possible. The Flyers would then go to the power play as … Andrei Vasilevskiy trips up Taylor Leier? Well that’s an interesting way to get the game’s first power play and NOLAN PATRICK…
The Flyers got back on track with a 5-3 win over the Lightning on Friday night, here’s what we learned from the Flyers’ final offering of 2017…in no particular order. Flyers’ top guns keep gunning Sean Couturier had a goal and two assists, Claude Giroux had three helpers, and Jake Voracek was perhaps the best…
On the day after Travis Sanheim was most recently called back up to the Flyers, Robert Hagg was announced to be out for two weeks with an injury. He would miss the team’s next four games, before a surprisingly aggressive timeline to return saw him playing again this past Sunday in Washington, just eight days…