Nick Cousins will be with the Flyers for another season. The team announced today that Cousins, who was a restricted free agent, has accepted his qualifying offer with the club. He will remain an RFA when the one-year contract expires next summer. Due to CBA rules, that qualifying offer was 105 percent of his salary…
About an hour or so after the Flyers and forward Brayden Schenn were scheduled to begin their arbitration hearing on Monday morning, the team announced that they had reached an agreement with the restricted free agent forward: Per GM Ron Hextall, the #Flyers have agreed to terms on a four-year contract with Brayden Schenn →…
With the Flyers and restricted free agent forward Brayden Schenn still not having reached an agreement on a new contract, and with Schenn’s arbitration hearing set to begin on Monday morning at 9:00 a.m., formal preparations for the hearing are now underway. Both Schenn and the Flyers have submitted their initial dollar amounts to the…
The following quotes have been transcribed by the Philadelphia Flyers public relations department. We can’t guarantee their complete accuracy because we didn’t write them ourselves, but we provide them as a post-game service. Flyers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky Q: …[inaudible] shots in the first period? “Of course. My duty is to stop the puck. The more…
Ron Hextall spoke with the media in Voorhees today, and one thing of note: he’s not making any changes to the Flyers coaching staff this offseason. Hexy says all of the Flyers’ assistants will return for next season. pic.twitter.com/JAYdFiYDI9 — Sam Carchidi (@BroadStBull) June 16, 2016 Back at the end of the playoffs, Kurt wrote…
Dale Weise, who signed with the Flyers on July 1, gave an interview to Montreal’s Hockey Inside/Out this week in which he detailed the interest NHL teams had in him during the first day of free agency. In short, Weise says that “quite a few teams” were interested in him and that “all the money…
Andrew MacDonald is out with an upper-body injury and will not play on Wednesday night against the Detroit Red Wings, the Flyers announced. They say he’s day-to-day. That likely means that defenseman Evgeny Medvedev will check back into the lineup for what will be a pivotal game in the postseason standings. Medvedev hasn’t played in…
With the Flyers and restricted free agent forward Brayden Schenn still not having reached an agreement on a new contract, and with Schenn’s arbitration hearing set to begin on Monday morning at 9:00 a.m., formal preparations for the hearing are now underway. Both Schenn and the Flyers have submitted their initial dollar amounts to the…
An escalator carrying fans at the Wells Fargo Center broke after today’s Flyers win, sending fans hurdling toward the ground. There were injuries, but it’s unclear if any were serious. Something in the escalator apparently malfunctioned, causing the speed to accelerate. A pile of bodies formed at the bottom as people scurried to get out…
Michal Neuvirth appears to be picking up where he left off during last spring’s Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Flyers goalie, competing for Team Czech Republic in the 2016 World Cup, just made his first save of the tournament in his team’s first game. It looked like this: Neuvirth robs Crosby on the breakaway #WCH2016 pic.twitter.com/dACCfVjj7v…