Jake Voracek and Claude Giroux, obviously. Claude Giroux’s chirping. (And microphones.) Whatever Jake Voracek is doing here. Wayne Simmonds on the power play. Everybody on the Flyers’ top power play unit. Kimmo Timonen, even if he never plays again. Kimmo Timonen, simply for being alive. The Phantoms, back in Pennsylvania where they belong. The Flyers’…
Last week, the Flyers came into New York City, face the very same Rangers team that they faced today. They looked bad, in the sense that the Rangers basically walked in and skated around them the entire game en route to a 2-0 win. Today’s game — a 3-0 loss to those same Rangers, though…
When the best thing you can say about a game is “it wasn’t as bad as yesterday,” you know it’s a rough time to be a Flyers fan. Yesterday was maybe the low point of the Flyers season – a terrible performance on national television at home against one of the team’s biggest rivals. They…
ALLENTOWN—Thanks to a Gordie Howe Hat Trick and an offensive explosion by Blair Jones, the Phantoms squeezed past the Norfolk Admirals in a 4-3 victory, crushing their two-game losing streak. Opposing goaltender Yann Danis won his 20th shutout of his career Friday, but was unable to shutout the Phantoms top-line tonight. The Phantoms’ (9-8-2) starters,…
Last night the Flyers played a hockey game in San Jose. And it … wasn’t all bad! Some genuinely good developments came from that outing, even considering the fact that San Jose is slumping a little bit this year. The Flyers got out to a really strong start, playing their best period of hockey in…
The Lehigh Valley Phantoms beat the Utica Comets 3-1 Saturday night. Greg Carey scored the first two goals in the opening period. In the third Justin Bailey, who had an assist from Mike Mckenna, scored on an empty net to make it 3-1. On Friday night the Phantoms fell to the Syracuse Crunch 4-0. They…
We knew tonight had the potential to be a bit weird given that about 15 minutes before this game started, the Flyers‘ co-tenants in the Wells Fargo Center, the Philadelphia 76ers, actually won a basketball game. This is not something that happens frequently, so after that I was ready for pretty much anything to come…
Let’s just go ahead and face it — the Flyers‘ trip to California has been pretty disappointing. Hopefully they’re able to turn things around tonight and pull out a win against the L.A. Kings. Now, when I say disappointing, I should note that I’m not implying that they’ve been a total disaster. In San Jose,…
The Flyers‘ penalty kill has been a struggle all season and it’s resulted in what was the worst-ranked unit in hockey until Saturday’s 5-for 5 effort. Braydon Coburn plays the most minutes on that unit and was getting his fair share of the blame. It even had some asking if he should be the next…
We’ve been saying it since the summer: Ron Hextall has a plan, and he’s not diverting from that plan, no matter how good or bad the Flyers look for the rest of the season. And of course, we keep saying that because Hextall himself keeps saying it, and his boss Ed Snider keeps saying it,…