So your favorite hockey team just went on an incredible two month run of hockey to pull themselves from the irrelevant part of the NHL standings, into the playoff race, and then into a first round playoff matchup against the best team in hockey. Now what? Oh, right. The journey isn’t over. It continues tonight…
The Philadelphia Flyers will face off against the NHL’s top team, the Washington Capitals in the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs. The league released the postseason schedule on Sunday night after the conclusion of the 2015-16 regular season. The playoffs begin Wednesday with four games, but the Flyers and Capitals will have to…
Before the season, when we were previewing the 2015-16 Flyers campaign, we wrote about the team’s best and worst-case scenarios for the season. As it turns out, we’ve seen that so-called best-case scenario play out right in front of our eyes. Anything else that might take place here is just going to be the cherry…
Just for fun, and because I’m apparently sadistic, I decided to go look at all the Stanley Cup Playoffs predictions I could find this morning. And look, I expect the Flyers to be the underdog in this series against the Washington Capitals. We’d be silly to expect otherwise. But let’s be honest here: this series…
Sean Couturier left the second period of Game 1 between the Flyers and Capitals with what appeared to be a left arm injury. The Flyers announced that he will not return to the game and that he will be reevaluated on Friday. He was hit by Alex Ovechkin along the boards, came up holding his…
In the end, it was a simple difference between the Flyers and Capitals in Game 1: one team got something to happen on the power play and the other did not. Washington took home a tight 2-0 victory and a 1-0 lead in the series as a result. And you might say that’s an OK…
It’s just two weeks, so if the Flyers are able to advance beyond the first round, Sean Couturier could be ready to come back in round two. But the Flyers announced on Friday that their best defensive forward is indeed out for the next two weeks with an upper-body injury. We know it’s likely a…
Well, it comes down to this. The Flyers have their backs against the wall tonight in Game 4 of their first round series against the President’s Trophy-winning Washington Capitals, and they’re looking to avoid what would be just the seventh sweep in franchise history. The others, for the record: 1968-69 in the quarterfinal round against…
Remember that third period from Game 4 on Wednesday, when the Washington Capitals absolutely obliterated the Philadelphia Flyers for 20 minutes, but ultimately only scored one goal allowing the orange and black to hang on for an improbable victory? Well, yeah. That was stressful and terrible and we all agreed that if it repeated itself…
Another day, another elimination game for the Philadelphia Flyers. This time, it’s on the road in the Nation’s Capital in Game 5 of this Eastern Conference First Round series against the Washington Capitals. The Flyers will need to replicate the performance we saw in the first two periods of Wednesday night’s Game 4. They controlled…