The Flyers battled back from another 2-0 hole, but couldn’t make it all the way back in a 4-3 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes in Saturday’s finale. That’s right, Game 82 is in the rearview and puts a close to the 2018-19 Philadelphia Flyers, a team that started slow enough to give up Jack Hughes…
You might remember that former Flyer Dan Carcillo was in the news a few months back, when he spoke candidly and openly about his friend Steve Montador, the former NHLer who died in February. It was a side of Carcillo that we had rarely, if ever, seen before. Carcillo spoke of Montador’s personal struggles at…
Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. #1: Flyers flipped their shot volume/quality script Yesterday, I wrote an article breaking down the Flyers’ tendency so far this season to win the shot volume battle at 5v5 but lose in overall shot quality. Their score-adjusted Corsi…
When the game went final, the Philadelphia Flyers had taken care of business and earned two points in regulation against an inferior New York Rangers squad on Thursday night at the Wells Fargo Center. But once again, Philly did not play its best game, and tension is starting to build around a team fighting for…
In addition to first round pick Cam York, and third round pick Ronnie Attard, the Flyers selected defenseman Mason Millman with their 103rd overall pick. Millman, the 6’1” 176 pound defenseman played last season with the Saginaw Spirit of the OHL and scored 25 points in 66 games, tallying three goals and 22 assists. He…
Among the Flyers’ top free agent needs is penalty kill help, speed, and adding scoring to the bottom six. And luckily for Ron Hextall, there’s one free agent on the market this year that can provide all three: Michael Grabner. Not only is Grabner one of the NHL’s fastest skaters, but he’s also scored 27…
Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes… Nik Zherdev deserves an NHL job. Travis even uses Corsi to prove it: [SBNation.com] The Flyers are playing in a charity golf outing at Pine Hill on September 13, and they are auctioning off, among other things, a trip with…
The Flyers lost a point to a team behind them in the playoff race in a shootout to the Devils on Tuesday night, and they’ll hope to avoid dropping points to another team behind them when they travel to face the Blue Jackets tonight. That loss to New Jersey was just the fifth time in…
*BIG BIG NEWS YESTERDAY FOLKS! Philadelphia will play host to the 2016 US Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremony. This will probably be fun. [BSH] *Speaking of fun, this look back at Brayden Schenn’s excellent last season is exactly that. [Sons of Penn] *Meltzer has some thoughts about the All-American prospects game as well as…
Today the Lehigh Valley Phantoms announced that Kerry Huffman has been named full time head coach and that Terry Murray will be joining the coaching staff in an assistant role. Kjell Samuelsson, who had been filling in behind the Phantoms’ bench as an assistant coach, will return to his previous role as the Flyers’ Director…