Slap Shots: Phantoms vs Wolf Pack

The Lehigh Valley Phantoms were back at home to host the Hartford Wolf Pack on Teddy Bear Toss night. It wouldn’t take long for the teddies to rain down from the stands as Chris Bigras opened up the scoring less than two minutes into regulation. The first period was a big test for the Phantoms….

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Scott Laughton activated, ready to return

Today the Philadelphia Flyers announced that forward Scott Laughton has been activated from injured reserve, and that they have also loaned Andy Andreoff to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, and placed Nolan Patrick on long-term injured reserve. Injury update: We have activated forward Scott Laughton from Injured Reserve and have placed center Nolan Patrick on Long-Term…

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Flames 3, Flyers 2: Yawn

That’s all folks! With their shootout win yesterday, the Flames came into Philly and officially swept the season series against the Flyers. Again. So it goes. Did you guys have fun with this one? It was like… maybe ten total minutes of actual fun. The rest was, well, who knows. It was kind of a…

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Slap Shots: Flyers vs Flames

The Philadelphia Flyers were back at home for some Saturday afternoon action as they hosted the Calgary Flames at the Wells Fargo Center. Jake Voracek opened the scoring with a diving effort off a shot from Travis Sanheim to give the Orange and Black a 1-0 lead heading into the third period. Calgary would tie…

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Analyzing Joel Farabee’s season so far

It is without a doubt common knowledge that Joel Farabee has exceeded expectations, given his status as a 19 year-old rookie. Though, for various reasons, he did not make the Flyers’ roster out of training camp, Farabee was quickly called up to the NHL seven games into the season. From that point on, Farabee has…

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What’s up with JVR?

A little over a week ago Philadelphia Flyers’ head coach Alain Vigneault decided to put James van Riemsdyk, Kevin Hayes, and Jakub Voracek together on a line ahead of the team’s game against the New York Islanders. A few days later before the Flyers’ loss to the Florida Panthers Vigneault explained why he put the…

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