With the Flyers trading away two of their best defensemen in a matter of 60 hours over the weekend, the blue line has a significantly different look to it as we enter the stretch run of the regular season. Of course Kimmo Timonen hadn’t played yet this season, but the possibility of him returning for…
We discussed earlier on Tuesday that the Flyers defense is in shambles after the NHL trade deadline deals sending Kimmo Timonen to Chicago and Braydon Coburn to Tampa Bay. After looking at each player individually, let’s figure out how the Flyers defense could best be deployed by Craig Berube and the coaching staff. With Coburn…
Brayden Schenn has recently become the focal point of fan outrage because of his exploits on the 1st unit powerplay unit. Take a quick glance at social and comments on our own website and you will spot a noticeable theme. Michael Raffl with the deflection in the spot where Brayden Schenn is on the 1st…
After making a late push to force the game to overtime, the Flyers just couldn’t grab the win, allowing the Calgary Flames to leave Philadelphia with two points. Coming into tonight’s game, the main narrative was focused on how the Flyers would perform after being sellers at the deadline for the first time in what…
Ron Hextall’s work before the 2015 NHL trade deadline has received almost universally positive reviews, both on a local and national scale. Trades of Braydon Coburn and Kimmo Timonen for a total of four draft picks, including three in the first three rounds of this year’s draft, were moves that were seen as crucial to…
I understand that the NHL doesn’t want to postpone games unless it absolutely has to, but … If you don’t have to be at Wells Fargo Center tonight, do yourself favor and watch from home. This is I-95. Unplowed. pic.twitter.com/ts3IRRvMMg — Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) March 5, 2015 If you are coming to the game tonight…
The captain of the Philadelphia Flyers, who was once deemed the “best player in the world” by his coach, is having one of the worst shooting seasons in the past decade. His personal shooting percentage at even strength is the fourth worst this season of all forwards with 750 minutes played. Beyond that, his current…
You can make the case that tonight’s game shouldn’t have even happened, what with the rough conditions out there in the greater Delaware Valley area. And you could tell that it was a struggle to get there for the fans who made it out there, with an announced attendance of 12,531 and an actual attendance…
The Philadelphia Flyers pulled off a huge, huge come-from-behind win against the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night, and in a lot of ways it summed up what’s so damn frustrating about this team. In recent weeks, they’ve played stellar hockey against teams like St. Louis, Washington and Nashville — all legitimate Stanley Cup contenders…
On Thursday night, Lehigh Valley Phantoms head coach Terry Murray announced some surprising news: that defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere, a key piece in the Flyers‘ “big four” prospects on defense, would be shut down for the season after consulting with doctors on his ACL injury. Ghost has been out since November after he tore his ACL,…