Folks, I’m not going to soften it up for you — I hate the Buffalo Sabres. Now, there’s no real reason to hate the current day Sabres, what with them being a terrible hockey team and all. No, this hatred goes much much deeper. To understand this, let me take you back to the last…
Philadelphia lineup Forwards Michael Raffl – Claude Giroux – Jakub Voracek Travis Konecny – Brayden Schenn – Wayne Simmonds Meat Read – Pierre-Edouard Bellemare – Dale Weise Chris VandeVelde – Nick Cousins – Roman Lyubimov Defense Ivan Provorov – Radko Gudas Brandon Manning Andrew MacDonald – Shayne Gostisbehere Michael Del Zotto – Mark Streit Goalies…
Tonight’s game thread is a little bare bones because I locked myself out of the house while taking out the trash, and nobody else is home for a while, so I am writing this while walking to the bar to watch the game. You can do the same from the comfort of your couch, assuming…
I wasn’t really expecting this, but hey, cool: Stars defenseman Jamie Oleksiak has been suspended two games for picking the head on a hit against Chris VandeVelde on Saturday afternoon. Here’s the explanation from the NHL Dept. of Player Safety: The basic argument is that yeah, VandeVelde had the puck and was eligible to be…
Tonight’s game can be seen on CSN Philly locally, or live streaming on CSNPhilly.com and the NBC Sports app. The local radio feed is on 97.5 The Fanatic in Philly and 104.1 FM at the Jersey Shore. The Nashville broadcast is on FS Tennessee. NHL.tv and NHL Center Ice have you covered everywhere else, and…
Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. #1: Flyers had a game like this coming A 3-5-2 month of January certainly doesn’t inspire much optimism regarding the Philadelphia Flyers at first glance. Once solidly in a playoff spot following a 10-game winning streak, the Flyers’…
Last year’s schedule was — and I cannot actually confirm this, but it feels like it in my head — a bit of a rarity for the Flyers, as none of their three games against the Boston Bruins were Saturday afternoon outings that inevitably ended in Flyers losses. Those seem to have been a staple…
Hey, remember Michal Neuvirth? He’s a goaltender for the Philadelphia Flyers, and he’s back from injury. Neuvirth will be back on the bench, backing up Steve Mason on Wednesday night when the Flyers host the New York Rangers at the Wells Fargo Center. Neuvirth went down with a knee injury on November 13 and was…
What a difference a month can make. And, also, another month. You know the roller coaster that this season has been. You remember on Black Friday, when the Flyers fell under .500 and sat at 14th in the East in points percentage, staring a lost season dead in the face. But you also remember mid-December,…
It’s been a stressful past couple of weeks in the wide world of the Philadelphia Flyers. The team is losing games it should be winning. The coach is making lineup decisions that the fan base hates. The goalies can’t string consecutive good games together. The top guys aren’t producing the way they probably should be….