Shayne Gostisbehere will not make the Flyers out of training camp. Nor will Scott Laughton. The two borderline NHL-AHL rookie players will at least begin the season with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, the Flyers announced today. They cut the two, along with enforcer Zack Stortini. Because of his age, Stortini must clear waivers before being…
The Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia Phantoms closed the Spectrum in 2009 with a preseason farewell game. Five years later, with the Phantoms moving back from their upstate New York outpost back into our vicinity, the teams will open a new arena. A Lehigh Valley Phantoms spokesman confirmed to BSH this morning reports that the Flyers…
Date Opponent Location Time (ET) Mon, Sep 22* vs. Toronto Maple Leafs Budweiser Gardens, London, Ont. 7 p.m. Mon, Sep 22* vs. Washington Capitals Wells Fargo Center 7 p.m. Tue, Sep 23 at Toronto Maple Leafs Air Canada Centre, Toronto 7 p.m. Thu, Sep 25 vs. New Jersey Devils Wells Fargo Center 7 p.m. Sun,…
The Flyers have a number of high profile, high ceiling defensive prospects in the pipeline for the first time in a very long time, and the conversation has quickly changed from acquiring prospects to developing them. The Flyers have struggled with when and if to give a young blueliner an opportunity in the NHL in…
A weekend split After five consecutive weeks of playing more than two games, the Phantoms got a bit of a rest as they hosted Binghamton on Saturday night. Anthony Stolarz got the start between the pipes as Rob Zepp was still up with the Flyers due to the injury to Ray Emery. The Phantoms came…
Phantoms falter Lehigh Valley was a three game point streak into this past weekend’s two home games. After extra time victories in Wilkes-Barre and Springfield the previous weekend, the Phantoms fell in a back and forth contest to Binghamton to bring them into last weekend. The Phantoms hosted Providence on Friday, but everything went the…
This week’s Prospect Fly-By Everything you missed from around the minors this week. Laughton sent to Lehigh Valley. Sam Morin suspended two games for checking from behind. Hextall: “We’re not giving up a kid.” Murray: Mark Alt should be considered a top prospect. Rob Zepp returns to Flyers. Frank ‘The Animal’ Bialowas arrested for shoplifting….
The Phantoms have hired former New York Islanders head coach Scott Gordon as their next head coach, the team announced on Monday morning. The hiring comes after former head coach Terry Murray left for an assistant job with the Buffalo Sabres earlier this offseason. There was talk that Phantoms assistant coach and former Flyers enforcer…
Lehigh Valley’s phantom hopes The Phantoms headed into last weekend knowing it would make or break their season. They had three games on the schedule that would be crucial to determine if they were contenders or pretenders. Unfortunately for Philadelphia hockey fans, they turned out to be pretenders. The Phantoms lost a respectable game at…
Phantoms go streaking The Phantoms headed into Providence on Friday night coming off a win in Toronto just two nights earlier. They hoped to use the momentum created north of the border to push them into the playoffs. This tilt against the Bruins saw the Phantoms lose the shot battle, but ultimately win on the…