Welcome to the first weekend of regular season hockey. Tonight, the Flyers will play the third and final game of their West Coast run to start out the season. The Flyers, sitting at 1-1, are coming off a loss against the Kings, and will hope to gather up a second win against a beat up…
*Happy Boxing Day, Canadian (and British) fam! But more importantly, it’s World Juniors day! But first, the Flyers. Who lost, again. In a shootout, again. Let’s look back at Saturday’s game with 10 things. [BSH] *And just like in the Sabres game before the Columbus game, a fantastic effort by BAMFBrian Elliott was wasted by…
Flyers coach Craig Berube When you have someone like Giroux who did a lot of things in the last game away from the puck, tremendous on the back check, but is struggling to get shots off, what do you say to him? Do you tell him to just carry it more to have more of…
For virtually the entire time Chuck Fletcher was the general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers, the rest of the NHL had no desire to do a deal with them, unless it was: A. Overly beneficial to them or B. Almost totally insignificant. Looking back through the train wreck of a trade history that Fletcher left…
*So yesterday’s game was…not good. About as not-good as Game 1. But as we saw on Friday, this team can bounce back. So on to Game 3 we go. RECAP! *And now we have two days off. Which, folks, is going to be pure torture. Let’s soothe ourselves by reading about Sean Couturier becoming an…
Let’s follow up on the earlier story on forward line matchups with a look at how the defensive pairings lined up in Game 1: 5v5 minutes Parise Kovalchuk Henrique Gionta Timonen 7.1 1 2.6 0.9 Grossmann 3.4 9.4 1 0.9 Lilja 1.9 1.4 7.1 4.3 Kimmo Timonen and Matt Carle joined Sean Couturier’s line in…
*The Flyers are back tomorrow! And after several days to reflect, here’s hoping they’ve pulled some semblance of their shit together and pull out a win. In the meantime, who do you think has been the worst during this skid? [NBC Sports Philly] *Jordan Weal will be back in the lineup tomorrow, which is good….
Claude Giroux is sick of sitting around. Speaking in Ottawa today, where he’s spent the last several weeks skating and training near family and friends, the Best Player In The World™ expressed impatience with the ongoing NHL lockout, doubt that it will end any time soon and reluctance about waiting it out while other players…
Were you not able to make it to our draft party? Do you want to re-live the Flyers drafting Nolan Patrick one more time? Well you’re in luck! We’ve put together a short video re-capping the night Nolan became a Flyer. Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
19: The number of goals scored by the Adirondack Phantoms through four games this season. That’s second in the AHL only to the Manchester Monarchs, who have 20 goals scored in five games. What’s that, The Hockey News? The Phantoms are going to be the worst team in the East this year, despite the fact…