Phantoms welcome the Portland Pirates tonight in their last home game in two-weeks as both teams will battle to earn points towards their playoff push. Portland (31-22-3-1) dropped from eighth to ninth place in the Eastern Conference last night as the race for the eighth and final playoff spot is heating up. Worcester, Hartford and…
Earlier today, the Flyers announced that goalie coach Jeff Reese was no longer with the team, a coaching change which they so delicately described as a “mutual agreement between both parties“. While this is what it was referred to, it sure seemed like something had to be going on behind-the-scenes that we didn’t know about,…
Jeff Reese is out as Philadelphia Flyers goalie coach. The team announced the news at High Noon on Friday, and they claim it was a “mutual agreement between both parties.” Reese had been the Flyers goalie coach since 2009, joining the organization after an eight year stint as the goalie coach with the Tampa Bay…
ALLENTOWN— The Phantoms let an important two points slip through their fingers as inconsistent momentum doomed the young team in its 5-4 loss to Portland, Saturday. The Phantoms were aware of the importance of Saturday’s matchup, with less than 20 games left in the regular season, and nearly 75 percent of their remaining opponents ranked…
Coming into Saturday afternoon’s game against the Bruins the Flyers’ playoff chances stood at 3.6%. The game was a virtual “must win” being that the Bruins are the team the Flyers are desperately trying to catch. It’s hard to be hopeful given such a small chance but if the Flyers were going to pull it…
Some unfortunate news coming from the Flyers this evening, about 90 minutes before their game in New Jersey: INJURY UPDATE: #Flyers defenseman Michael Del Zotto will miss 7-10 days with an upper-body injury. → http://t.co/LRPlTORbs7 — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) March 8, 2015 Del Zotto left yesterday’s game in the first period after blocking a shot…
It’s rare that you see an NHL goalie straight up call out his teammates for a poor performance after a game, but that’s essentially what Steve Mason did after the Flyers wasted a stellar performance in a 2-1 loss to the Dallas Stars on Tuesday night. Here’s the video: Here’s the transcript: Q: The team…
On Saturday, the Philadelphia Flyers were 14 seconds away from cutting their playoff deficit to two points before failing to close the deal. Two lackluster losses later and the dream of a playoff run is all but dead. The Flyers didn’t start flat; in fact, the first ten minutes of tonight’s game against the Dallas…
There was a time in today’s game — a 5-2 loss that further submarined the Flyers‘ already-miniscule playoff chances to the point where you’d need a microscope to see them — where the Flyers, all things considered, were actually playing a decent hockey game. They trailed for much of that time thanks to a short-handed…
Braydon Coburn has been with the Tampa Bay Lightning for just about 10 days, but the bad injury luck he had all year with the Philadelphia Flyers has followed him south. The Lightning defenseman was hurt on Wednesday night and will miss four-to-six weeks … which could put him out for most of the first…