Jaromir Jagr is ready for the new challenge that waits for him in Philadelphia, but admits there will be a lot of new things waiting for him that he needs to get used to. He even compares the current situation to the beginning of his career in Pittsburgh. “I’m going to an unfamiliar environment. It…
It’s a Wednesday in September and the band is breaking up. In what will be their third and fourth games against the Islanders during camp, the Flyers will split their squad tonight, sending half up to the Barclays Center, with the other making their annual appearance in the Lehigh Valley. The Flyers have been relatively…
Thanks to a dominant night from the team’s top line and a two-goal night from an unexpected source, the Philadelphia Flyers steamrolled the Washington Capitals for an 8-2 win. Sean Couturier, Scott Laughton, and Claude Giroux each had two-goal games, while Wayne Simmonds and Valtteri Filppula added goals in the tilt. Giroux had a four-point…
Kimmo Timonen says he’s worried about the injuries the Flyers are facing right now and that the injuries are starting to show in the games. We’ve had a lot of injuries. We need everybody to be healthy if we want to go far this year. Some guys are playing a lot right now and it’s…
[Box Score] – [Wire Recap] – [SBN Game Page] – [Minnesota Reaction] [Corsi and Fenwick] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [EV Faceoffs] – [Shift Charts] The Flyers blew 3-1 third period lead on Thursday night before losing 4-3 in overtime to the Minnesota Wild. In the midst of this playoff race with less than 10 games…
The annual Flyers split-squad preseason games: what a time to be alive. Shayne Gostisbehere scored the game-winner in overtime and the Flyers of Lehigh Valley beat the Islanders 3-2 to avoid a sweep in the split-squad games featuring the two Metro rivals on Wednesday night. More on the Flyers in Brooklyn later, but first to…
[Box Score] – [Wire Recap] – [SBN Game Page] – [Detroit Reaction] [Corsi and Fenwick] – [Head-to-Head TOI] – [EV Faceoffs] – [Shift Charts] It was tense. It was stressful. It was… playoff hockey, basically. Needing a win desperately, the Flyers flew out of the gate and Dan Carcillo, fresh off of his two game…
There’s a glass-half-full way to look at last night’s 3-0 loss from the Flyers’ perspective, even though a lot of us really don’t want to hear it. Given the difficult circumstances — the Flyers entered the night minus a pair of top-4 defensemen, as well as their top designated replacement for those defensemen — to…
The story all summer has been how Mike Testwuide is going to make the Flyers out of camp. With rookies reporting to Voorhees this morning (actually, Testwuide has been in town all summer, but nevertheless), that story is popping up yet again. Paul Holmgren has said several times this summer that he really likes Testwuide,…
It’s a second consecutive night of Flyers After Dark, unfortunately the results of Thursday night’s game in Los Angeles did not match the previous night’s effort in San Jose. Bill Matz returned to the Broad Street Hockey Facebook page for a post-game live video chat with fans and friends following the 2-0 loss to Jonathan…