The Philadelphia Flyers are one of the few basement-dwelling teams stuck in neutral as fire sales continue around them. There has been a whirlwind of activity around the NHL with Chuck Fletcher only getting in on the action to trade failed prospect Isaac Ratcliffe for future considerations. On Tuesday, Fletcher addressed the media and basically…
Welp, he’s back. Michael Leighton’s two-year contract, signed with the Flyers back in 2010, expired at 12 p.m. on Sunday. He wasn’t out of a job for long. According to multiple reports, first noted by Josh Rimer of SiriusXM, Michael Leighton has signed a one-year, $900,000 deal with the Flyers. The team later confirmed the…
Fred Shero is perhaps the most innovative head coach to stand behind an NHL bench. As we’ve written in the past… He was the first North American coach to actually study and learn from the Soviets, which certainly helped when his Flyers beat them in 1976. He was one of the first coaches to use…
*The boys will be looking at the Arizona Coyotes tonight and we’ll have a new face in the lineup with Michael Raffl sidelined for at least a month. [Inquirer] *Before tonight’s game, as always, here’s what we learned from the world’s closest 6-1 victory. [BSH] *Charlie’s got ten things, including how the Flyers became one…
It would appear that this is the first deal of any sort that the Flyers have reached since the season ended, so welcome to the 2013 offseason, folks. Two days before the deadline to sign any remaining picks from the 2011 NHL Draft, the Flyers appear to have hit the undrafted free agency market again….
*Monday is the big day, fam. You have a couple of more days to pray to all of the gods, old and new, for a favorable draw of the balls. And we’ll have a story on how to react if we win later on this morning so look out for that. In the meantime… *Nick…
Last month when the Phantoms played a game in Atlantic City against the Albany Devils, I had a chance to see the team first-hand for the first time this season. It was, um, not pretty. It was so ugly, in fact, that I decided to look up the stats on the Phantoms to see how…
The Flyers entered today’s game on a three-game losing streak, while just getting into what might be the toughest strech of their schedule this season. For them to win today’s game, they were going to have to do a much better job in multiple areas — namely, displaying proper coverage in their own zone, connecting…
The Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook released their over/under odds for NHL team point totals for the 2018-19 season on Tuesday and were the first sportsbook to do so for the upcoming season. After a 98-point campaign last season, the over/under for the Flyers heading into the 2018-19 campaign is 98.5 points. Here are the odds…
One repeating theme in the Flyers’ roster management is that often their moves appear to be focused on the short term. From giving older players long, front-loaded contracts to adding players before they have cap/contract room for them; from acquisitions that put the team over the cap and result in a bonus penalty to trading…