Earlier on Saturday, in the Flyers‘ 3-1 loss to Boston, Jakub Voracek became the first player in the NHL to hit 50 points in the 2014-15 NHL season. As of this writing on early Saturday evening, he leads the NHL in scoring, while Claude Giroux sits in third in the NHL in scoring with 46…
No one can say that they saw this one coming. Sure, when news broke that the struggling Evgeni Nabokov would be in net tonight for the Tampa Bay Lightning, there was a plausible path to victory. Be opportunistic against a below-average goalie and then try to weather the storm against the league’s best offense. Dominate…
Braydon Coburn will miss four weeks after blocking a shot with his foot on Monday night, the Flyers announced. Officially it’s a lower-body injury, but we all know this happened when he blocked a shot. With the injury, and the other injury to defenseman Nicklas Grossmann, the Flyers are down to six healthy defensemen. This…
Assuming he doesn’t get called up to the Philadelphia Flyers between now and January 25, defenseman Brandon Manning will represent the Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the 2015 AHL All-Star Classic, held in Utica, N.Y. later this month. And good news: you’ll probably be able to watch both the All-Star Game and the All-Star Skills Competition…
The NHL made the most boring possible picks in naming the captains for the 2015 All-Star Game. Blackhawks forward Jonathan Toews will captain “Team Toews” at the All-Star Weekend, held in Columbus January 23 to January 25. The home team will be captained by Blue Jackets forward Nick Foligno. Assistant captains for Team Foligno will…
Ray Emery is sitting out as backup for Wednesday’s game between the Flyers and Capitals in Washington, ceding way to Rob Zepp, a guy with exactly two games of NHL experience. This probably doesn’t bode well for Emery, right? Let’s not read into it too much. Starting Zepp against Washington makes sense for a few…
WASHINGTON — 7 goals one game, none the next. Rob Zepp deserved much better, and really, the Flyers did too in this 1-0 loss at the hands of the Washington Capitals tonight. After an ugly first 10 or 15 minutes, the Flyers played a pretty strong game against the hottest team in the National Hockey…
Martin Brodeur’s career is over. He’s taken leave from the St. Louis Blues to mull over the future of his career, but let’s be real, he’s done. He’s over the hill and frankly just not very good at hockey any more. CSN Philly asked the question earlier today anyway, though: with question marks around Steve…
After the Flyers took apart the Tampa Bay Lightning, probably the East’s best team, you couldn’t blame fans for getting at least a little bit excited. Maybe the team was starting to figure things out. Maybe the secondary scoring was finally starting to show up at even strength. Maybe the removal of Nicklas Grossmann from…
After waiting patiently for news of Kimmo Timonen’s recent testing, the Flyers announced Saturday morning in Buffalo that the defenseman is not quite ready to return to action and that really, there’s no word yet on if he’ll ever be able to resume his playing career. Flyers GM Ron Hextall says the blood clot in…