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Scroll through Kate Frese’s photos from last night’s Philadelphia Flyers game against the Washington Capitals.

It’s playoff time, everybody, and you know what that means. It’s that time again. It’s time to hit on all of our favorite old story lines. There’s a whole mess of them that folks like to revisit at about this time every year, but today we’ll be looking at just one–the tension between the youth…

The Flyers are no longer undefeated, as a 5-2 loss at Colorado on Saturday night drops the club to 1-1. Here are five observations from that loss, and a small bonus one that isn’t really all that fun at all. Hakstol’s lineup change backfires It’s almost as if changing a lineup that produced a 5-2…

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I’ve said it a numerous amount of times. Desperation wins hockey games. >> Peter Laviolette, speaking after Game 4 The Flyers are now desperate. If they lose on Sunday to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the upper hand they once had in the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal will have evaporated. They will be staring a blown three-game series…

*taps microphone* He-hello? Is anyone still out there? Is anyone still reading these things, watching this team? The Flyers have dropped their last seven games, four of which in either the shootout or overtime, in case you needed reminding. It’s been a lot of close hockey, with the Flyers losing five of these past seven…

Blueland Blog, the official blog of the Atlanta Thrashers, published a list of home openers for each team today. The full schedule comes out tomorrow, but we learn quite a bit from this list. The Flyers will open their home schedule and raise the Eastern Conference Champions banner on Monday, October 11 when they host…

The Philadelphia Flyers are currently on a six-game point streak and a lot of that is due to Claude Giroux. Over the last week the Orange and Black’s captain has produced eight points in three games to earn the honor of being named the Third Star of the NHL’s Three Stars of the week ending…

Your Flyers pre-game checklist: One day removed from a dominating win vs. the Penguins Playing the Devils in the second game of a back-to-back Facing the backup goalie Devils are reeling from a 10-game losing streak Media’s focus on Mason having never defeated the Devils in his career and starting back-to-back games/ You have the…

My name is John Saquella and some of you probably know me from my twitter rambling @jsaquella. Or perhaps I yelled at you to get off my lawn or pull up your pants. Either way, I’m excited to join BSH as a contributor. I was born at a very early age, during Bernie Parent’s sojourn…