Despite leading 1-0 after the first period, and holding two-goal leads twice after the midway point of the second, the Philadelphia Flyers dropped a crucial game on Tuesday night at the Wells Fargo Center to the New Jersey Devils. With the victory, the Devils moved within two points of the Flyers, with a game in…
Corsi Report: Flyers CF% leaders vs. Arizona Player Position TOI CF CA CF% CF% Rel Brandon.Manning D 14:22 15 8 65.22 13.22 Radko.Gudas D 10:22 11 6 64.71 11.62 Nolan.Patrick C 15:10 21 13 61.76 10.2 Andrew.MacDonald D 19:57 23 15 60.53 8.86 Michael.Raffl L 11:40 12 8 60 6.15 Wayne.Simmonds R 15:48 23 16…
A wise man once said that when the goin’ gets tough, the tough get goin’! OK, so it was a fictional character in an all-time great movie (Animal House), but I can’t help but think of that quote when I think about Sean Couturier taking a shot to the groin and then potting the game-winner…
The Flyers have followed up a six-game winning streak from Feb. 16 through Feb. 26 by losing four straight after a convincing 5-2 loss at the hands of the Penguins on Wednesday night. After taking a 2-1 at the six-minute mark of the second period, the Flyers saw the Penguins score four unanswered goals to…
Minus-11 — the Flyers’ goal differential at 5-on-5 since December 23 (the day on which Dave Hakstol first put Shayne Gostisbehere and Ivan Provorov on the top pairing together) in the 836:39 of ice time in which at least one of Gostisbehere or Provorov has been off the ice. Courtesy of Natural Stat Trick’s excellent…
Elliotte Friedman first reported that the Philadelphia Flyers have claimed Johnny Oduya off of waivers, and that the Colorado Avalanche have claimed Mark Alt. The Flyers then confirmed both moves themselves. Per GM Ron Hextall, the #Flyers claimed D Johnny Oduya from Ottawa on Waivers and D Mark Alt was claimed by Colorado. — Philadelphia…
Corsi Report: Flyers CF% leaders vs. MTL Player TOI CF CA CF% CF% Rel Sean.Couturier 16:16 21 6 77.78 35.99 Claude.Giroux 16:16 20 7 74.07 30.79 Travis.Konecny 15:28 16 7 69.57 23.09 Ivan.Provorov 18:31 20 13 60.61 13.07 Radko.Gudas 16:40 15 11 57.69 7.69 Shayne.Gostisbehere 18:13 19 15 55.88 5.88 Brandon.Manning 15:49 16 13 55.17…
From Nov. 11 through Dec. 2 the Flyers lost 10-straight hockey games and were dead last in the Metropolitan Division. Fast forward two months and the Flyers have won six-straight and are riding a 9-0-1 stretch to vault into second in the division, just one point behind Washington with a game in hand. To say…
The title says it all, doesn’t it? This one really stings. I’m not going to linger too long on it, recapping. Let’s just get right into what we learned. All stats and graphics via Corsica.Hockey, Natural Stat Trick, and NHL.com 1. Starting strong So the Flyers were back at it after a pretty dejecting loss…
[Ed. note: if you’re reading this now, you likely already know that the Flyers traded for Petr Mrazek on Monday night. How fun! This renders most of the below piece irrelevant, but it will remain here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy.] At some point between now and February 26, the Flyers are going to add…