To celebrate the new look and feel of our SB Nation communities, we’re sharing stories of how and why we became fans of our favorite teams. If you’d like to do the same, head over to the FanPosts to begin. Each FanPost will be entered into a drawing to win a $500 Fanatics gift card…
Nashville Predators (33-28-4, 70 points) #4 Philadelphia Flyers (34-19-10, 78 pts) Wachovia Center – 7:00 PM EST – Philadelphia, PA TV: CSN HD Radio: 94.1 WYSP, XM 206This is the open game thread. Behind Enemy Lines: On The Forecheck The Flyers had possibly their worst game of their season on Thursday night against Calgary, and…
The Flyers have officially released their preseason schedule for this fall, and it features eight games — six full-roster games, as well as a split-squad contest against the Islanders on September 20. They’ll be seeing a lot of the Islanders this preseason, in fact, as four of those eight games will be against the Brooklyn-based…
Update: Travis Hamonic has been named the winner of the 2017 NHL Foundation Player Award. Congrats to both Hamonic and Simmonds nonetheless on their excellent work in the community. No Flyers will be nominated for NHL on-ice awards after this season, but the team’s 2016-17 MVP has now been named an NHL award finalist for…
Fans apparently voted on a list of the Top 20 Greatest NHL Teams Of All-Time. I had no idea this was happening and I read every email that the NHL’s public relations department sends out, but apparently other people knew and we’re two rounds into voting and …. uh, here’s the list. It’s in reverse…
We ran a poll on the site yesterday listing all of the playoff bandwagon options for Flyers fans in these 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and over 1,000 of you responded. Thanks for that! Very nice of you to do so. We, of course, left the Washington Capitals, New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins out of…
We’ve been hypothesizing all summer about which Flyers players will be protected in the league’s expansion draft. On Monday night, we learned exactly when we’ll know. “We’ve reached an agreement with the Players’ Association to broaden the window in which the Expansion Draft will take place,” NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said. “[Vegas] will get…
Tonight, the Flyers will play their first game since their playoff hopes were officially dashed for the year. It’s a game against the New Jersey Devils, historically among the most dull of matchups. It will be played at the Prudential Center, a building with an excitement level roughly equal to an office park in the…
Tonight’s game can be seen via TV on NBC Sports Network and via streaming on nbcsports.com or the NBC Sports App. (Note that NHL.tv and NHL Center Ice will be blacked out.) On radio, you can listen via 93.3 WMMR. So! Not that the Flyers haven’t, for all intents and purposes, been out of playoff…
* Even with Provorov, Patrick, Hagg, Sanheim, Leier and co on the team the Flyers still have a pretty darn loaded prospect pool. Let’s see how those guys are doing in the AHL, Canadian Juniors or in Europe with our prospect report. [BSH] * Jori Lehtera will go down as a player fans were not…