Eastern Conference Semifinals, Game 2 — Boston leads series, 2-0[Box Score] – [Full Series Coverage] – [Game Page] – [Boston Reaction][Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Corsi and Fenwick] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] PHILADELPHIA — I’m not going to sit here and bitch and moan about a lost hockey game tonight. Truth is, the Flyers couldn’t…
After a promising rookie season on the Phantoms, Erik Gustafsson is ready to set his goal higher for his second season. “My goal is to get a spot on the Flyers. We’ll see if it is as the sixth, seventh or eighth defenseman, but my goal is to be up there with the team when…
Earlier today, Stephen Whyno posted a story on how the Flyers are expected to sit Andreas Nodl and Nikolay Zherdev as healthy scratches for tonight’s game. Part of this is a result of the Flyers finally having everybody “healthy”, or at least healthy enough to play. Presumably, this means Coach Laviolette will roll with these…
UPDATE, 1:00 PM ET: The Flyers have sent James van Riemsdyk to the AHL to make room on the roster for Boynton. Before you flip out, it’s only necessary because Erik Gustafsson is with the NHL club right now. After tonight’s game in Ottawa, JvR will come back up and Gustafsson will go back down….
As anyone who reads the Fly Bys on a regular basis knows, we here at Broad Street Hockey are big fans of The Copper & Blue, SB Nation’s Edmonton Oilers colossus. The fearless leader at C&B is none other than Derek Zona, who has proven that even if you build it in Edmonton, they will…
Let’s go back to December 14. The Pittsburgh Penguins were in town to face off against the Flyers, and with a win that night, the Flyers ended the Pens’ 12-game winning streak and jumped into the Atlantic Division lead. Now, three months later, they have yet to relinquish that position. Some weak play in the…
Kimmo Timonen says the Flyers need to improve their game a lot going into the playoffs, and the biggest need is to add more speed in the game. “We should find our skating again; that’s our strength. We have to get our game back in the right track during these last regular season games. We…
[Box Score] – [Game Page] – [Atlanta Reaction][Shift Charts] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [Corsi and Fenwick] – [5-on-5 Faceoffs] PHILADELPHIA — Let’s go over some numbers, briefly. Sergei Bobrovsky made 21 saves tonight. An errant skate aside, he played well enough to win a hockey game and he even played well enough to earn a…
Nick Boynton will make his Flyers debut tonight, but it’s not the way we wanted this to go down. Chris Pronger will be out of the lineup tonight with what the team is calling an upper-body injury. He’s listed as day-to-day, and that’s all the information we have available to us at the moment. Of…