Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the Flyers started out looking pretty brutal, dropped the first goal, and then had to rally back and play a more dominant third period in order to force overtime. And then couldn’t convert in overtime. So they went to the shootout. Where they lost this one. What’s…
Ah, the mysterious DJ MDZ. Who could he be? Michael Del Zotto has brought him up a fair number of times, particularly when interviewing his teammates in Stall Talk. Opinions on him have been mixed: Wayne Simmonds is confused by him, Claude Giroux finds him funny, Michael Raffl thinks he’s a bit full of himself,…
The Penguins waltzed into the Wachovia Center Tuesday night and took the Flyers eight game home winning streak, not to mention a bit of their pride, by winning 4-2. B&P’s Take: The Flyers came out in the first period and didn’t necesarily look good, but there were no indications that Pittsburgh was going to play…
If you live anywhere along the northeastern corridor and have looked outside your window in the last 12 hours, the following news regarding the Flyers-Islanders game that was supposed to take place tonight in Brooklyn will likely come as little surprise to you: Today’s @NHLFlyers/@NYIslanders game has been postponed due to severe snowstorm impacting the…
I was having a conversation over a beer last night with a life long Washington Capitals fan. He was talking about the season their team is having and about just how it’s been watching the best team in the NHL for 60-plus games this season. There’s no doubt about it — that team has been…
Tonight’s game begins at 7:00 p.m. ET and can be: Seen on TV nationally via NBC Sports Network (or via stream on the NBC Sports App) Heard on radio locally via 97.5 The Fanatic Heard elsewhere via Sirius XM/ Projected Flyers lineup: Forwards Giroux – Couturier – Voracek Lindblom – Patrick – Konecny Weal –…
Welcome to Part One of a two-part look at what the Flyers can learn from a few recent rebuilds executed by teams around the league. Well, it finally happened: the Flyers fired Chuck Fletcher. In a press release, Dave Scott said a number of things about the state of the franchise and where things are…
We begin this one with a story from September of 2017, told courtesy of the Everett Herald’s Jesse Geleynse: On the eve of the 2016-17 Western Hockey League season, Philadelphia Flyers general manager and former NHL goaltender Ron Hextall sent Carter Hart back to the Everett Silvertips with the charge to once again be “the…
Ahh, the Rangers. We’re supposed to hate them a lot, right? Hard to muster the energy really, what with the food hangover and whatnot. We spoke with Vinny Milani of the Powerplay 904 podcast to get a handle on what to expect from today’s matinee. We cover: The recent Spooner for Strome trade Rebuilding on…
(SB Nation) — 15 days before the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement, talks have broken off between the NHL and NHLPA while optimism has been thrown out the window. “At this point, talks are off,” NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr said at NHL headquarters in Manhattan Friday after a meeting that lasted approximately 90…