After an injury and suspension-ravaged training camp, the Philadelphia Flyers were able to avoid any major issues during their season-opening back-to-back this past weekend. Unfortunately, they could not make it through Game #3 unscathed. Forward Michael Raffl, who has primarily played on the top line with Claude Giroux and Wayne Simmonds in the absence of…
Remember when the Philadelphia Flyers signed Shea Weber to a 14-year, $110 million offer sheet before the Nashville Predators matched it? That was fun, wasn’t it? Not entirely, because it did signal a time the Flyers were desperate to improve their defense. And goaltending, for that matter; the year before, they signed Ilya Bryzgalov to…
Sean Couturier’s most common linemates last season were Matt Read and Wayne Simmonds. There’s certainly some offensive capability in there, specifically with the 30-goal scorer in Simmonds. But Wayne brings a different type of offensive skill — one that pairs better with a Claude Giroux or Brayden Schenn, and that’s why they’re the top line…
VOORHEES — Excitement surrounding a preseason game may never reach the level it will tonight after the unveiling of lines during the Flyers morning skate. From top to bottom, the lineup against the Boston Bruins for a 7 p.m. affair at the Wells Fargo Center is littered with talented prospects and the majority of key…
Get the Carolina perspective on tonight’s game at Canes Country. Remember this time last week, when the Flyers were undefeated* and everything was sunshine and roses? Things change quickly in sports, don’t they? (*Undefeated, in this case, meaning 1-0-0. Still counts.) This past week was a bit tumultuous, as the Flyers lost two games in…
Last year, before the season started, we here at Broad Street Hockey set up a series of over/under prop bets regarding the 2015-16 Flyers season (at the individual and team level), and we all took a guess on each one. We did very poorly at this guessing! But that’s not going to stop us from…
Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. #1: Not a great advanced stat night for Flyers, but goalie play matters One of the best-kept secrets in the NHL is that the Carolina Hurricanes are actually a pretty darn solid hockey team at 5-on-5. Whether you…
We have a gift ready for Saturday for one of the FLYest Canadians we know #PurposeTourPhilly pic.twitter.com/yzDdLzRSXf — Wells Fargo Center (@WellsFargoCtr) May 6, 2016 Justin Bieber has this thing. See, he’s Canadian, and Canadians like hockey. So when he goes to an NHL city on his current tour, he tends to get on stage…
There’s only so much you can take away from a small sample size, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun looking at the comparison from last year’s Flyers team to this year’s squad through the first 10 games. It’s early, but there’s certainly some impressions to be made as we approach the one-eighth mark…
So we wrote our game preview earlier with the knowledge that Roman Lyubimov would likely make his NHL debut in Chicago tonight, and … OK, cool. You can argue it’s good, even. Lyubimov was one of the better forwards in training camp among the bottom-six, and he certainly earned his spot on the team to…