[Boxscore] – [Wire Recap] – [SBN Game Page] – [Post-Game Quotes] – [Toronto Reaction] [Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Corsi and Fenwick] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] PHILADELPHIA — For our sanity and likely his own, Mike Richards needed a game like tonight. The Captain came out on Hockey Night in Canada and showed everything he…
The Flyers have played four hockey games this season. In these games, offseason pickup Jody Shelley has played 17:06 of total ice time. 17 divided by 4, carry the six… that comes out to an average time on ice of 4:16 per game thus far. The biggest crticism of Shelley’s signing this summer was his…
News that goaltender Michael Leighton worked out with the team yesterday in Raleigh is obviously good . Any time a player that just signed a two-year contract with your club over the summer returns from an unexpected injury, it’s a good thing. But not every Flyers fan is going to agree with that. Not with…
At 3 PM Eastern today, rosters have to be set at 23 players. The Flyers, with Ian Laperriere and Michael Leighton still on the roster, sit with 25 players. The reports from camp today say that Lappy has been placed on the normal injured reserve, which leaves his cap hit in play but takes him…
A lot of things happened to Sergei Bobrovsky in the past year. The Flyers found the Metallurg Novokuznetsk goaltender because of scout Ken Khudyakov, who was actually working for another KHL team, Sibir Novosibirsk. The Flyers representatives met with Bobrovsky and his agent Vyacheslav Mahrenski in the spring, and soon after in early May, Bobrovsky…
Whoa. Sergei Bobrovsky will get the start in his first regular season NHL game tonight in Pittsburgh, Peter Laviolette told the team’s website this morning. Bobrovsky was understood to have moved to #2 on the Flyers’ depth chart with the injury to Michael Leighton, so to see him leapfrog veteran Brian Boucher is a huge…
Brian Boucher has been hearing his nickname for 10 years now. It rains down upon him from the rafters of the Wells Fargo Center… or the Wachovia Center… or the First Union Center… or the Spectrum. Or any of the other Flyers home arenas, like the Prudential Center, for example. While we can all agree…
A new feature where we round up the Power Rankings from around the hockey media and see where your Philadelphia Flyers stand… Outlet This Week Last Week What They’re Saying 4 6 The truth about Bob. Sergei Bobrovsky might be Philly’s answer in goal. 4 This is just so Flyers. The goaltending duties rest in…
If this website is any evidence, hockey is my favorite sport. Has been that way since I was but a wee lad. But if there’s one thing in this world that challenges my love for the Flyers, it would be an almost-equal love for the historically terrible baseball team that lives on the other side…