As I’m sure you all know by now, yesterday’s game was cancelled due to the snow, which was probably the best move. It was nice to see the NHL value safety over profits (for once), and hey, the game only got delayed by 23 hours, so quit whining. What follows is largely the same preview…
The Flyers lost a rough one last night against Carolina, one in which they didn’t even really show up for most of the game. It was two valuable points they flushed down the drain, and it’s even more bothersome when you look at the upcoming schedule. First up, the surging Blue Jackets. Yes, the surging…
I have some jokes to make: Why isn’t Luke Schenn on here, given that he skates like a zombie and all? Why isn’t Nicklas Grossmann on here, given that he skates like a zombie and all? Why isn’t Hal Gill on here, given that he skates like a zombie and all? Why isn’t– ok, you…
So let’s see here. The Flyers are on a three-game losing streak, with all three losses coming to division opponents and none of them looking particularly pretty in any way. They’re getting run over territorially/in terms of possession, their defensive zone coverage is brutal, they’re committing a terrible penalty every seven minutes or so, the…
The Flyers entered today’s game on a three-game losing streak, while just getting into what might be the toughest strech of their schedule this season. For them to win today’s game, they were going to have to do a much better job in multiple areas — namely, displaying proper coverage in their own zone, connecting…
Note: Please welcome Kevin Christmann to BSH, joining us from Flyers Faithful. Follow him on Twitter. As the Philadelphia Flyers enter their toughest stretch of games of the season, things are looking a bit bleak. They’ve lost four in a row and seven of their last nine. It’s not going to get any easier with…
With the Philadelphia Flyers blueline struggling oh-so-mightily, it can be hard to find a silver lining. However, our Charlie O’Connor found one a couple weeks ago with Braydon Coburn’s rebound season. I couldn’t help but notice some banter among the depths of the hockey social media community in which plenty of people disagreed with the…
Steve Downie’s appearance probably would have changed very little in the grand scheme of things on Saturday afternoon at the Wells Fargo Center. The Flyers looked like a good old fashioned trainwreck, way beyond what any one guy could fix. But poor performance from everyone else in the lineup doesn’t excuse poor coaching decisions. Downie’s…
For a couple years now, Flyers fans have feared the summer of 2014: Claude Giroux, Sean Couturier, Matt Read, and Brayden Schenn would all hit free agency in the same summer, and that’s a nightmare. But that’s not a fear any longer. The new CBA allowed the Flyers to ship off Daniel Briere, Ilya Bryzgalov,…
Last week, Charlie O’Connor published an article explaining how Braydon Coburn has been able to turn his play around after a pretty bad disastrous 2013 lockout-shortened season. It’s time to switch gears and acknowledge the second half of Philadelphia’s best defensive pairing this season: Kimmo Timonen. Note: All stats were gathered from Extra Skater and…