The Philadelphia Flyers are 2-7-1 in their last ten games, and four of those have been lopsided blowouts—including the most recent two: a 5-2 loss to the Canadiens and a 7-0 shellacking by the New Jersey Devils. The Flyers are going to be without leading goal scorer Travis Konecny for the foreseeable future due to…
Prior to Thursday’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes, the Flyers will give out their yearly end-of-season awards. These prizes are voted on by various people and groups (with the exception of the Toyota Cup, awarded to the player who earns the most recognition in game-end “Three Star” selections), and they’re a way to reward guys…
It’s that time of year again. NBC Sports has released its 2017-18 broadcast schedule, and that means that fans of NHL teams that have eight fans will complain about how their team is never on national television. Meanwhile, as fans of a team that lots of people do like, we get to complain about how…
Mikko Rantanen scored twice and Semyon Varlamov made 37 saves as the Avalanche beat the Flyers, 4-1, on Monday night at the Wells Fargo Center to sweep the season series between the two teams. Nolan Patrick scored the lone Flyers goal, who fell to 4-5 with the loss. Brian Elliott made 29 saves in the…
* Wrapping up Sunday night’s OT triumph with 10 observations: [BSH] * Paul Holmgren talks about how his brother helped him make his hockey dream come true: [BSH] * Ron Hextall talked about what he thinks might be ailing Claude Giroux of late: [CSN Philly] * He also gave some general thoughts on where the…
With the Flyers‘ win streak at four games, they’ll get maybe their toughest test yet this Saturday afternoon when they face the team currently sitting atop the entire NHL in the St. Louis Blues — the only team left in the league that the Flyers haven’t faced yet once this season. The teams haven’t played…
After months of anticipation regarding the NHL’s 31st team joining the fold and speculation on how teams will try and prepare themselves for an expansion draft, the NHL formally released its 30 team protection lists this morning, and with that came the Flyers’ list of 11 players that will be off-limits for Vegas to choose…
The Flyers look to continue their climb up from the basement of the Eastern Conference in search of a sixth-straight win when they travel to Boston to take on the Bruins this evening. After losing nine of 10 games from Late December through early January, the Flyers have rebounded by winning six of their last…
This is part four of a four-part series by Charlie O’Connor describing and evaluating the penalty kill of the Philadelphia Flyers in 2015-16. In Part One, we outlined and defined the different formations that the Flyers’ penalty kill used in their forechecking and defensive zone strategies. Part Two delved into the manually-tracked forechecking metrics. Part…
Philadelphia Flyers fans know the story by now. Chris Pronger, despite likely never playing again, will count against the Flyers’ salary cap during the offseason. The only relief the Flyers can get from his $4.941 million cap hit is by placing him on long-term injured reserve (LTIR). It’s at this point, though, that many fans…