Faced with a game down in a close series, it’s pretty clear what the Flyers must do – double down. As Travis noted yesterday, lots of people on Twitter were clucking nonsense about the Flyers’ performance in game 3. Sure, the end result was a little underdone, but not because the Flyers didn’t turn up…
The Flyers won’t give away orange tshirts at a playoff game when they take on the Rangers in Game 4 on Friday night. This is very rare. Instead, there will be rally towels. They have the dumb #ClutchTime hashtag on them. But no shirts. A closer look at the rally towels all fans will receive…
After dropping their first home playoff game in over a year, the Flyers look to even the score against the New York Rangers. If they don’t, we’re in a bit of trouble. Heading into Game 3, we were all hoping that home ice would put a little spark in the Flyers. That kind of happened,…
Scott Laughton is coming back to Philadelphia. The Flyers have recalled their top prospect from the Ontario Hockey League, where he just completed his fourth and final season with the Oshawa Generals. The Generals were swept out of the postseason on Wednesday night by the Brampton Battalion. Laughton’s turning pro now, and he’s already played…
Dear Flyers, We need to talk. I seriously love you guys, and it’s great to see that you’re all amped up for the playoffs, but you’ve taken things a tad too far. It all started when the Flyers entered the final stretch of the regular season. The Flyers faced a really tough schedule, and needed…
As you hopefully know, after every game in this series we’ve looked at the head-to-head matchups between the Flyers and the Rangers based on ice time and shot differential for each team’s four forward lines and three defense pairings. You can see the posts for games one, two, and three at those links. Now let’s…
PHILADELPHIA — Before this series with the New York Rangers, we hoped that goaltending wouldn’t be the difference. You know, because Henrik Lundqvist is one of the best in the world, and Steve Mason and Ray Emery are … well, not Lundqvist. So if this series was to come down to the goalies, it probably…
What can you do to get the pucks down low to guys like Wayne Simmonds? I mean everybody was talking about blocked shots from the perimeter. Is that an avenue that you try to take, if they’re getting blocked from the outside, try to get down low somehow? “On the power play?” In general. “So…
Early on in the second period of Friday night’s 2-1 win, Flyers defenseman Nicklas Grossmann slid into the wall with Rangers forward Derick Brassard right on his heels. He crashed there and his legs folded beneath him rather awkwardly (.GIF here via @myregularface). Grossmann stayed down for a while and didn’t play another shift, and…
So before this Eastern Conference First Round best-of-series contest thing began, I read a thing or two about it, and everybody was talking about what a good goalie Henrik Lundqvist is, and how he’s so good, and how he was totally going to be the difference, and how his handsomeness would be disorienting for the…