Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. Observation #1: Washington with the edge at 5-on-5 Over the final two months of the regular season, the Philadelphia Flyers undeniably played fantastic hockey. Part of that was due to the transformation of the team’s third and fourth…
Today’s Morning Observations will instead be an introductory look at none other than the Washington Capitals, who of course the Flyers will be playing between four and seven times over the next two weeks. We’ll break much of this down in further detail over the next few days, but consider this your intro to the…
Some exciting news for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms and for the Flyers’ prospect group today as a whole, as Swedish forward Oskar Lindblom has signed an amateur try-out contract with the Phantoms for the remainder of this season. Lindblom, a forward who was seen by some as a potential second-round pick in the 2014 draft…
With the entry draft and the rush of free agency now in the books, the dog days of the offseason are nearly ready to begin. But before the hockey-less summer officially kicks off, there is one last scheduled Philadelphia Flyers event — prospect development camp. Used primarily as a teaching tool by the Flyers organization,…
Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. #1: A tale of two games Last night’s Game 4 bout between the Flyers and Capitals really could be broken up into two segments: an opening two periods that saw the direction of play largely controlled by Philadelphia,…
Though the Flyers season has now come to an unfortunate end, we here at Broad Street Hockey believe now is a time for celebration. It was a fun year! We saw lots of cool stuff, like Shayne Gostisbehere being a goddamn hero and Radko Gudas being helpful and even some playoffs! It hasn’t been perfect…
Coming off of a .936 save percentage in his junior season at Yale – and that was following a .939 save percentage in his sophomore year – former Bulldog Alex Lyon decided it was time to turn professional. And with numbers like that, no doubt there was a bidding war for his services. A bidding…
The Philadelphia Flyers, at this point in time, look like they’ll be full up on net for the 2016-17 season. Steve Mason and Michal Neuvirth combined to tie for the fifth best team save percentage in the NHL this past season, and with both still under contract for a year, there’s no reason to change…
Much has been made of the depth of prospects the Flyers have put together defensively in the past few years. Shayne Gostisbehere has already taken the NHL by storm, and as many as five other young blueliners (Ivan Provorov, Travis Sanheim, Samuel Morin, Robert Hagg, and Phil Myers) who could reasonably be considered somewhere between…
When the Flyers traded down in the first round of the 2016 draft, passing up on the chance to get one of the draft’s two most coveted pure goal scorers in Kieffer Bellows and Julien Gauthier at No. 18 before watching both of them get taken and ultimately selecting German Rubtsov at the 22nd pick,…