There are a number of things you can take away from the Flyers‘ 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks tonight, which dropped them to 1-6-0 on the season to date with one game remaining before a six-day break that will surely be a long period of soul-searching for a team that cannot, for the life…
Today at practice, the Flyers focused a lot on one play in particular: the one that Vancouver’s Chris Higgins scored on in the third period. It tied the game and got the Canucks on track to steal the third period and two points from the Flyers, so it makes sense that Craig Berube wants to…
As you assuredly know by now, the Flyers’ offense displayed literally historic levels of ineptitude in the first eight games of this 2013-14 campaign, en route to 11 total goals and a 1-7-0 start. While it goes without saying that this level of offensive failure isn’t going to be sustained over a whole 82-game season,…
Craig Berube has shaken up the entire lineup Tuesday in practice, trying to rid the Flyers of their early season offensive woes. Not a bad time to try a change with another full day of practice left until their next game against the Rangers on Thursday night. Via Bill Meltzer, here’s the new look up…
That’s probably a pretty obvious headline. We don’t expect Claude Giroux, Jakub Voracek, Matt Read and Scott Hartnell to stay completely off the scoreboard all season long. Across the roster so far in the 2013-14 Flyers season — at 1-7-0, it’s the ugliest start in team history and the worst in the NHL this year…
When news broke yesterday afternoon that the Flyers had traded Wayne Simmonds to the Nashville Predators, and had in return received Ryan Hartman and a conditional fourth round pick, the immediate reaction wasn’t a positive one. With fans’ hearts set on Kevin Fiala, now a member of the Minnesota Wild, Eeli Tolvanen, or the Predators’…
The Rangers aren’t off to quite the same ugly start as the Flyers, but, well … they’re not really far off either, and things look bleak for New York heading into Thursday night’s game in Philadelphia. Henrik Lundqvist could miss the game tomorrow, according to the Bergen Record. (UPDATE: The Rangers announced that Lundqvist will…
The big news yesterday: it looks like the Flyers are switching up the lines heading into Thursday’s game, featuring Vincent Lecavalier returning on the top line. [BSH] Also from the site yesterday: the Flyers’ shooting percentages are so bad that they should make you optimistic. Numbers! [BSH] Jakub Voracek says he can be “way better”,…
Last Thursday’s win against the Rangers was, as we noted in the recap for the game, fairly imperfect and not overly inspiring. The Flyers weren’t that good offensively, spent most of the third period after their game-winning goal pinned back in their own end, and relied mostly on solid defensive zone coverage and goaltending to…
PHILADELPHIA — Sometimes you lose hockey games that you deserve to win. Lord knows the Flyers have had plenty of those so far this season. Sometimes, though, the luck evens out, and you win hockey games you were probably supposed to lose. The Flyers were yet again stagnant offensively tonight, but with help from a…