Last May, the Philadelphia Flyers made the bold decision of looking outside the professional ranks for their newest head coach. Dave Hakstol, longtime coach of the University of North Dakota, was chosen by Flyers general manager Ron Hextall to replace Craig Berube, who had been let go at the end of the regular season. The…
It was nice to get a day off between these losses, not gonna lie. Tonight, the Flyers went to Calgary and lost. The score was 2-1 and they lost in overtime, so they at least got a point for the first time in a long time, which was a nice respite from unadulterated failure. Adulterous…
R.J. Umberger was the biggest pleasant surprise of the season’s first two games for the Philadelphia Flyers. Following offseason surgery, Umberger looked rejuvenated – a faster, more aggressive forward and a far cry from the slow and ineffective player of 2014-15. But after returning from an early injury, Umberger’s performance began to slip. And unfortunately,…
“If you live alone and you don’t make plans, here is what happens: you wake up, and it just gets darker.” -Simon Amstell Because I’m fancy and like pondering ponderously, I’m writing this recap near a window. Because of this window, I can report that it is dark out. Okay, it’s after 10 pm, so…
Clearly it wasn’t the absence of home cooking that caused the Philadelphia Flyers‘ poor play over the past two weeks. In their return to the Wells Fargo Center after a five-game road trip, the Flyers were yet again dominated by a poor opponent, falling to the Colorado Avalanche by a score of 4-0. Avs goalie…
It didn’t quite happen the way most were hoping or expecting it to, but with injuries at the NHL level piling up, the Flyers — for the first time this season — have called up a pair of prospects from Lehigh Valley: Roster Updates: The #Flyers have recalled LW Taylor Leier and D Shayne Gostisbehere…
Amidst an uninspiring stretch of hockey, a fragile looking Flyers squad traveled to Raleigh to take on the Carolina Hurricanes Saturday night. The unexpected call-ups of rookies Shayne Gostisbehere and Taylor Leier provided a layer of intrigue for disheartened fans. Things started off innocuously enough with a pedestrian first 15 minutes in the opening frame….
After a discouraging loss to the Colorado Avalanche last night, the hope was that the Philadelphia Flyers would be getting reinforcements back soon, with both Evgeny Medvedev and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare close to a return to action. Now, the impact of Medvedev and Bellemare’s imminent return could be counteracted by the loss of two other key…
Tonight, the theory that the Philadelphia Flyers save their best games for top competition took a serious hit. Facing the Metropolitan Division’s best team accounting for both record and underlying statistics, the Flyers were thoroughly outplayed and fell by a score of 5-2. Philadelphia was able to generate only 20 shots, while Washington peppered goalie…
Eyebrows were raised when Philadelphia Flyers goalie Michal Neuvirth missed practice this morning. And after the team announced that Neuvirth was being checked out by a doctor as well, it seemed like an extended absence was on the horizon. Right now, it looks like that was a false alarm. Neuvirth returned after practice and claimed…