The Flyers are hosting the Capitals tonight in an 8 p.m. puck drop on NBCSN’s Wednesday Night Rivalry night. Live stream is available here. Philadelphia lineup Forwards Brayden Schenn – Claude Giroux – Wayne Simmonds Dale Weise – Sean Couturier – Jake Voracek Michael Raffl – Nick Cousins – Matt Read Chris VandeVelde – P-E…
Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. #1: Players felt they just got the bounces this time Following the game, the general consensus from the Flyers’ locker room was that the team’s performance against the Avalanche was not so different from the team’s play over…
The Flyers are in Buffalo tonight for a hockey game in the month of may that matters. For, uhh, both teams. Kinda? Maybe? Philadelphia enters tonight’s game on the road with a three-point gap between them and the final wild card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Immediately behind them in the standings? Well, it’s…
The Flyers organization and its fans are a bit sadder today, as we’ve lost another former player and current member of the organization. Ilkka Sinisalo was a core member of the Flyers’ lineup in the 1980s and has been scouting for the team since 2004. He passed away today in Finland at the age of…
Valentine’s Day: it’s a day for love. Or, if you’re a professional hockey team, a day to subject your players to goofy puns and general awkwardness. Such was the life of the Philadelphia Flyers in the lead up to Valentine’s Day, in which many of them were subjected to an adorable photoshoot in order to…
So the Islanders, huh? I’ll be honest, I really don’t have any feelings about the Islanders. I kind of feel bad for them for being the Islanders, but that is probably a holdover from a few years ago when they were absolute trash. Aren’t they kind of good now? Who knows? Who cares? My only…
There aren’t that many French players in the NHL. Sure, you’ll often see Team France at the World Championships, but that’s generally about it. Only 11 French-born players have ever played in the NHL. Only six of them have ever played over 100 games. Only two of them are still active: Antoine Roussel and Pierre-Edouard…
The Flyers are not playoff bound, but there has been no trickle-effect down to the area’s other hockey teams. As we discussed earlier today, the Phantoms are likely headed to the AHL postseason for the first time since 2009 barring something unforeseen happening in their final regular season games. The Reading Royals are playoff-bound, too,…
Valentine’s Day: it’s a day for love. Or, if you’re a professional hockey team, a day to subject your players to goofy puns and general awkwardness. Such was the life of the Philadelphia Flyers in the lead up to Valentine’s Day, in which many of them were subjected to an adorable photoshoot in order to…
Tonight’s game was mercifully removed from NBC Sports Network for most of the country (unless you live in Colorado, or the greater New York City/Washington D.C. areas, in which case that is how you can watch it). It can instead be seen on CSN Philly in the Philadelphia area and can be streamed via NBC…