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The lowly Sabres are in town tonight to take on Ray Emery and the Flyers.

The Flyers have not won nine straight games since April 1995, but with a win tonight at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, they’ll have done that. Just for fun, take a minute to look at the box score from that ninth-straight win 21 and a half years ago. Dominic Roussel picked up the win for…

Yesterday, ESPN’s Corey Pronman released his annual ranking of each farm system in the NHL, and his rankings had the Flyers’ system as the sixth-best in the NHL — a slight jump up from 10th last year and further proof of the good work that Ron Hextall and (the recently-promoted) Chris Pryor have done in…

*So after a break between games that felt like forever, the Flyers came out and crapped all over the ice in back-to-back games this weekend. Friday night’s 4-3 loss to the Blue Jackets was bad, but Saturday night’s loss to Montreal was even worse. *Biggest problem in these two games? The penalty kill. It was…

Sorry it took so long for us to get an initial story up on the Ilya Bryzgalov trade tonight. Here I am thinking I can take a nice summer night off and enjoy the Phillies game, but then Paul Holmgren had to go and do this… anyway, thanks to Ben for taking care of business,…

Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers-related news and notes… The top 10 prospects in the Flyers’ 30th ranked system: [Hockey Prospectus] Chris Pronger is going to undergo some more tests next week: [NHL.com] NHL lockout as Prisoner’s Dilemma: [Defending Big D] Frank Seravalli does a good job explaining what…

*So obviously the first home playoff game of the series didn’t go the way we wanted. But there were some good things. It’s easy to lose sight of those, so let’s look back at the good (and also the bad, there was a lot of bad) with the 10 things we learned. [BSH] *One thing…

* Horrible news, but Kelly Hinkle has quit writing the Fly By here at Broad Street Hockey. We’re pretty bummed about it, but we understand and will miss her. We’re looking for her replacement. * The Flyers are in Pittsburgh tonight to take on the Penguins. 8 pm, NBCSN, #RivalryNight, etc. The Flyers have won…

Today’s open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes… Last night’s NHL scores… Flyers 2 – Rangers 1 (SO); BOS 4 – WAS 3 (SO); DET 3 – CHI 2 (OT); LA 2 – COL 1 (OT); PIT 6 – NYI 5 (OT); TB 3 – FLA 1; NJ…

*WE GOT OUR FIRST BIG TRADE OF THE SUMMER LET’S GOOOOOOO! [Habs: EOTP] *Yesterday we learned that we have exactly Jakub Voracek days until preseason begins. Let the countdown begin. [BSH] *Danny Briere has a new job and the Flyers are welcoming a new hockey team to the fam as Comcast has decided to go…