It’s playoff time, everybody, and you know what that means. It’s that time again. It’s time to hit on all of our favorite old story lines. There’s a whole mess of them that folks like to revisit at about this time every year, but today we’ll be looking at just one–the tension between the youth…
The Flyers could have clinched a playoff spot with a win and a loss from the Panthers on Tuesday night, but thanks to a third period rally that fell just short they’d have to wait for another night. New York scored three second period goals to take a commanding 4-1 lead into the third before…
What’s up, pals? How are we doing? Last night was a real bummer, right? A point is still nice, but the Flyers deserved the two, right? On the bright side, we don’t have a lot of time to be sad about that, as they’re right back at tonight against the Avalanche, and we’ll have something…
What a weird season. The excitement in the pre-season about the youth that was going to be lineup, and some of the frustration about the chances that those young guys were (or weren’t) getting. The incredible season by the team’s best players, and the forgettable efforts by some of the guys behind them. The 10-game…
Earlier today, we began our yearly look at the Flyers’ end-of-year awards by sizing up the race for the Barry Ashbee Trophy, given to the team’s best defenseman. In this post, we’ll take a look at the best choices for the Pelle Lindbergh Memorial Trophy, which goes to the most improved player on the Flyers’…
Sometimes in hockey you can overcome bad play by getting a few bounces, but you definitely can’t overcome bad play and bad luck all the while playing one of the better teams in hockey at their place. There was plenty of bad in the Flyers’ 7-0 loss to the Penguins in game one of their…
1st Period: The Flyers started the all-important game three trading high quality chances with the Penguins. Brian Elliott stopped a point blank chance from Justin Schultz, and then Matt Murray made a fantastic stop on Nolan Patrick who had burned the Pens defense for a partial breakaway. Then Travis Konecny laid a big hit and…
It’s still never going to be that easy. Still. The visiting Boston Bruins tied today’s game with three seconds left in regulation after an icing and multiple failed clearing attempts, but Claude Giroux would end things in overtime with a game-winning goal (his second goal of the game) on a breakaway to give the Flyers…
Wow, didn’t think I’d be doing another one of these this season. Alright, let’s regroup. The Flyers staved off elimination with a game five win over the Pittsburgh Penguins to force a game six back in Philadelphia. Now, they look to force a game seven in this wild season. The first two home games of…
Come on. They were always going to win this game. Not because anything in particular in the matchup dictated that the Flyers were due for a win against Pittsburgh, if the two teams’ first five games played against one another this season were enough of a clue. Not because it was a given that they…