Here’s the good news from Flyers practice this morning: Sean Couturier is on the ice practicing with his teammates. Whether or not he will be ready to play on Tuesday night in a very big game against Carolina is still a question, but that he’s back on the ice is a good sign. The Flyers…
News broke on Monday that the Philadelphia Flyers have indeed been asked about the availability of defenseman Mark Streit, according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. So would a deal of Streit make sense for the Flyers, and what could they expect to get in return? Is it even all that possible? Should the Flyers try to…
Remember HBO’s 24/7 series, the Road to the Winter Classic? Probably – the Philadelphia Flyers got the chance to be featured on it before it died, and it gave us the gift that is off-ice Ilya Bryzgalov. Well, the Pittsburgh Penguins kind of have something similar going on with their own mini series, In the…
Canadiens defenseman P.K. Subban has been in the news quite a bit over the last seven days. There was his benching after a bad turnover last week against Colorado, then there was the hit to the head against Flyers captain Claude Giroux on Friday night, and then there were the incessant trade rumors that never…
Signed to a one-year, $3 million contract last offseason that brought him over from the KHL in Russia, 33-year old Evgeny Medvedev was expected to be a key piece of the Philadelphia Flyers defense during the 2015-16 season. Unfortunately, Medvedev’s season hasn’t quite worked out the way the team had hoped it would. Now, there…
Shayne Gostisbehere is the darling of Philadelphia right now; the apple of our eye; in not so inconsequential terms, somebody that many of us see as a savior. And it’s true: this guy is already and will continue to be a very good NHL player. It’s going to be incredibly fun not only watching the…
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If there was a “high-water mark” of the Philadelphia Flyers‘ 2015-16 season, it occurred following the team’s 2-1 shootout victory over the Detroit Red Wings on January 17th. The Flyers were on a 5-0-1 stretch, two points out of a playoff spot, and only five points away from third place in the Metropolitan Division. The…
Now five points out of a wild card spot in the Eastern Conference, the Philadelphia Flyers are looking like they’ll be sellers on Monday at the trade deadline. As a result, any pending unrestricted free agents on the roster become possible rental players for contenders. Michael Raffl was one such option. But it looks like…
Claude Giroux will miss a third game tomorrow night at home against the Minnesota Wild as he battles what the team calls an upper-body injury, but what we all know is most likely a concussion. Ron Hextall announced the news that the captain would miss tomorrow’s game, and he’s still considered day-to-day. Giroux is out…