Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. #1: First period struggles have looked different each game In all three games of the Flyers’ season-opening road trip, their performance in the first period has been lacking. Against the Kings, they were torched in terms of puck…
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare has been named to the roster for Team Europe at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. He’s the only Frenchmen named to the team and he joins fellow Flyer Mark Streit on the European team. Here’s the full roster, which was finalized today: Goalies G Frederik Andersen, Anaheim Ducks (Denmark) G Thomas Greiss,…
The 2016 NHL Draft is in nine days, and with the conclusion of the 2015-16 season on Sunday, the official draft order is set as we prepare for the Friday night in Buffalo. The Toronto Maple Leafs have the first pick, awarded to them after the Draft Lottery back in April. Auston Matthews is expected…
Flyers president Paul Holmgren met with the assembled media in Voorhees on and gave an answer to a question that’s been lingering in the back of all our minds since the death of Ed Snider two weeks ago: who calls the shots around here now? As it turns out, hockey operations will still mostly be…
It was worthy of mild outrage when Flyers defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere was not named to the 2016 World Cup of Hockey roster for the under-23 Team North America club back in March. But that’s been rectified now. Ghost was named to the final roster for the team on Friday evening, and he will indeed be…
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…
With the Flyers season fast approaching, fans have a lot to be excited about. The addition of two star rookies in Ivan Provorov and Travis Konecny have justifiably lit a spark in the fanbase that hopes to see their team make a deep playoff run. And while the product on the ice alone is worth…
The Philadelphia Flyers are now fully owned by the Comcast Corporation. On Thursday, the largest cable provider in America and the largest company in the City of Philadelphia officially announced that they are buying out the 24 percent stake that was owned by late team founder Ed Snider — and, since his death in April,…
Our friends at Philly.com have the day’s most important news: SHAKE SHACK COMIN’ TO THE WELLS FARGO CENTER. It’s going to be located behind Section 115 near the Cure Insurance Club. (Why is it still the Cingular Pavilion in my brain? How old am I? Jeez.) Here’s the rundown of menu items, via Philly.com: ShackBurger,…
It’s a little depressing to think about how the end of the 2015-16 Philadelphia Flyers season may have played out of Michael Del Zotto didn’t injure his wrist in February. Until that point, MDZ had been arguably the Flyers’ most important defenseman, playing significant minutes with Shayne Gostisbehere on the team’s de facto top pairing….