The Flyers picked up their second straight win tonight, beating the Florida Panthers by a score of 2-1 in a shootout. Let’s talk about it! THE IMPORTANT THINGS THAT HAPPENED: No one scored in the first period. There were a lot of power plays! And chances! Good ones! For both teams! But no goals. Then…
The Flyers are in Buffalo tonight for a hockey game in the month of may that matters. For, uhh, both teams. Kinda? Maybe? Philadelphia enters tonight’s game on the road with a three-point gap between them and the final wild card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Immediately behind them in the standings? Well, it’s…
Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. #1: Flyers win debacle of a game The unspoken hope when every hockey game begins is that the players on both sides exit the contest fully fit and healthy. Sure, everyone wants to watch their preferred team come…
Valentine’s Day: it’s a day for love. Or, if you’re a professional hockey team, a day to subject your players to goofy puns and general awkwardness. Such was the life of the Philadelphia Flyers in the lead up to Valentine’s Day, in which many of them were subjected to an adorable photoshoot in order to…
The Flyers are in Buffalo tonight for a hockey game in the month of may that matters. For, uhh, both teams. Kinda? Maybe? Philadelphia enters tonight’s game on the road with a three-point gap between them and the final wild card playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Immediately behind them in the standings? Well, it’s…
The Flyers organization and its fans are a bit sadder today, as we’ve lost another former player and current member of the organization. Ilkka Sinisalo was a core member of the Flyers’ lineup in the 1980s and has been scouting for the team since 2004. He passed away today in Finland at the age of…
So the Islanders, huh? I’ll be honest, I really don’t have any feelings about the Islanders. I kind of feel bad for them for being the Islanders, but that is probably a holdover from a few years ago when they were absolute trash. Aren’t they kind of good now? Who knows? Who cares? My only…
Morning Observations is a feature where we break down the previous night’s game with an analytical eye. #1: Players felt they just got the bounces this time Following the game, the general consensus from the Flyers’ locker room was that the team’s performance against the Avalanche was not so different from the team’s play over…
The Flyers lone acquisition at the 2017 NHL trade deadline, at least as far as actual living, breathing human beings are concerned, is forward Valtteri Filppula, acquired from the Tampa Bay Lightning. Filppula has an expensive contract, worth $5 million against the salary cap, with one more year left on it. He’s probably not worth…
Tonight’s game was mercifully removed from NBC Sports Network for most of the country (unless you live in Colorado, or the greater New York City/Washington D.C. areas, in which case that is how you can watch it). It can instead be seen on CSN Philly in the Philadelphia area and can be streamed via NBC…