Well, that’s one way to stop any hype dead in its tracks. The Philadelphia Flyers have returned three of their top junior prospects — defensemen Ivan Provorov and Travis Sanheim, and forward Travis Konecny — to their respective junior clubs. Provorov is headed to Brandon of the WHL, Sanheim to Calgary of the WHL, and…
The 2015 preseason begins for the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night, with two games against the New York Islanders. Each at 7 p.m., the Flyers will host the Islanders at PPL Center in Allentown and will also travel to take them on at their new Brooklyn home, Barclays Center. Only one of the games is…
So, you’ve probably heard about the Flyers‘ preseason win over the New York Islanders on Monday night in Allentown. We have pictures and quotes and highlights and two stories about it on this here website, and … hooray! Hockey’s back and the Flyers won! You may have not heard much about the other preseason game…
After two days off, the Flyers are back in game action on Friday night when they host the New York Islanders in their fourth preseason game of 2015. The game will start at 6 p.m. ET at Wells Fargo Center — not the originally-scheduled time of 7 p.m. — because the Pope is coming to…
After five long months of no Flyers hockey, even a mere preseason game was going to be enough to satiate the appetites of desperate fans. But with the outcome meaningless, the real focus shifted to whether the team’s new acquisitions and their exciting prospects would live up to expectations. Consider their first test passed. Led…
Following this morning’s decision to send Shayne Gostisbehere, Robert Hagg, and Nick Cousins to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, Ron Hextall met with the media and answered a few questions about it. You can see the video of that, courtesy of the team, above this paragraph. We’ve also transcribed the full text of Hextall’s answers below….
Cuts have been made in Flyers training camp. Here they are: Winger Nicolas Aube-Kubel, the team’s second round pick in the 2014 draft, has been returned to his junior team, Val-d’Or of the QMJHL. Defenseman Philippe Myers, the 18 year old signed to an entry-level deal by the team just a day ago, has been…
*Reminder that your Friday night hockey starts at 6PM tonight; the game is being broadcast on TCN. *The Flyers made a few more roster cuts yesterday. [BSH] *Hextall spoke with the media about the cuts once they were announced. [Flyers] *One thing is clear: Hextall remains committed to the slow development of his farm system….
We’re about a week into Dave Hakstol’s first NHL training camp right now, and OK … it’s only been a week. Hard to make too many assumptions at this point. But we can’t just ignore what we’re seeing either, and we’re starting to notice some things about the coach, particularly with how he’s using certain…
* Well, OK, not all of the excitement is gone. But the Flyers sent back (arguably) their three top prospects back to juniors yesterday: [BSH] * And then they sent 19 other guys to Lehigh Valley: [BSH] * Anywho, yesterday we also checked in on the rest of the Metropolitan Division. Turns out they’re all…