If you live anywhere along the northeastern corridor and have looked outside your window in the last 12 hours, the following news regarding the Flyers-Islanders game that was supposed to take place tonight in Brooklyn will likely come as little surprise to you: Today’s @NHLFlyers/@NYIslanders game has been postponed due to severe snowstorm impacting the…
The Flyers are in dire need of points and there are a whole ton of teams they’d rather see than the one they’ll get tonight. It’s the defending Stanley Cup champion Capitals, and they’re red hot, too. Winners of seven of their last 10, the Capitals find themselves atop the Metropolitan Division and seem to…
Microstat Tracking is a new feature that attempts to quantify the performance of the Philadelphia Flyers in the offensive, neutral and defensive zones. All statistics are manually tracked by Charlie O’Connor. The last round of metrics can be found here. Zone Entries – Forwards Player Total Entries Controlled Entry Percentage Entries Per 60 Jakub Voracek…
NASHVILLE — The NHL has descended upon Tennessee for the 2016 All-Star Weekend, and the events on the ice officially kick off Saturday night with the NHL Skills Competition. While the All-Star Game itself has changed formats this year, the Skills Competition remains the same. It’ll be the Eastern Conference All-Stars against the Western Conference…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Eastern Conference All-Stars absolutely crushed the Western Costnference All-Stars (and John Scott) by a score of 29-12 at the 2016 NHL Skills Competition on Saturday night. Flyers captain Claude Giroux participated in three events. He earned two points in the NHL Shootout at the end of the night, he lost his…
Jeremy Roenick apologized to John Scott on the NBCSN broadcast of the All-Star Game. And then John just owned him. “Well it’s not the first time you’ve been wrong.” Cold blooded, John. Here’s the full convo. John Scott is just a good dude and this has been an awesome All-Star Game because of him. This…
At the top of Hockeybuzz’s Bill Meltzer’s Flyers observations from this morning was the following note: The Flyers have removed the day-to-day description of Sean Couturier’s lower-body injury and have placed him on the injured reserve list. While they can back-date it to the time of the injury (he last played on Jan. 19), the…
The second half of the season kicks off tonight when the Flyers host the Montreal Canadiens, a team that’s in absolutely dire straits right now. Just look at this from the game preview over at Habs Eyes On The Prize: Back in action after a week’s vacation, has Montreal’s All Star break been a welcome…
The Flyers entered tonight’s game fresh on a three-game losing streak, in which they had played pretty poor hockey for most of it, and their opponent was none other than the best team in hockey this season in the Washington Capitals. There was, frankly, not a lot of reason for optimism coming into this contest…
Hits don’t happen in the NHL All-Star Game. They just don’t. But John Scott has never been an All-Star before tonight. Last night we caught him laughing hysterically at Patrick Kane while the Blackhawks forward was being booed by the rival Nashville crowd, and in the Central vs. Pacific game Sunday, he leveled Kane with…