As the Flyers’ second round series against the Hurricanes is set to open up, and with some time already spent digging into their four regular season meetings — which were close on the score sheet but a good bit more lopsided as far as the underlying numbers go — team and viewer alike will be looking for areas where the Flyers can gain some more solid footing against this next divisional rival.
This Hurricanes squad, it goes without saying, is a very good one, and as such it’s going to ta...
Did you have a good week off? After the grind of the hockey season and then the routine of basically every night with the playoffs, the sweep of the Ottawa Senators last Saturday afternoon has the Carolina Hurricanes out of action since. For fans, it’s been a week of figuring out how to pass time, […]
As we shift into this next round series for the Flyers, there seems no better time to check back in with all of the experts and pundits around the league on their expectations for how this series against the Hurricanes will play out.
According to ESPN , heading into Friday’s schedule, Philadelphia had 25-to-1 odds of winning the Cup, and at +800 to be the Eastern Conference representative in the finals. The site gave the Flyers long odd to win this series against the Hurricanes (+260) whi...
The Carolina Hurricanes do not have that one single star that is the Big Bad whose opponents cower in fear that they might be picked up and ripped in half, leaving just a carcass to sit there and rot. They don’t have that generational talent up top because they have built a team that is more dependent on their entire team than any one single player.
And they might just end up getting the job done, but now they stand in front of the Philadelphia Flyers, the underdog team that took out the ...
Breaking down the Flyers' regular season series with the Hurricanes, digging into some key stats and takeaways.
Evgeni Malkin made it clear Friday that he wants to play in the NHL next season, even if it’s not with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Malkin told reporters during exit interviews following Wednesday’s Game 6 elimination loss to the Philadelphia Flyers he had talked to general manager Kyle Dubas but had no updates on his pending […]
It’s all about the details throughout a playoff series. Sure, we can look at the results from the two different teams and see just how they stack up against each other based no broad, team-wide statistics or how many games they won in the regular season, but it’s really all about the little minor narratives and the individual battles we see.
The Philadelphia Flyers’ upcoming series against the Carolina Hurricanes is going to be full of them. Little collisions between players or some overa...
The Flyers got a whole two-day break between sending Pittsburgh home and getting the ball rolling again against Carolina. Game 1 is scheduled for Saturday night in prime time but, as of this post, no other dates or times have been revealed for the next three games. Of course, that should be resolved once the remaining four series in round one conclude.
However, it’s always a good time to make bold predictions, right? So, having said all that, here are three bold predictions for the Flyers...
The Philadelphia Flyers had a practice Friday morning prior to flying out to Raleigh, getting set for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semi-final commencing Saturday evening against the Carolina Hurricanes. And in preparation, head coach Rick Tocchet decided to shuffle up his lines and make some key personnel changes before the all-important first game of the series.
Now that the dust has settled after Cam York’s heroic series-winning goal and all the reflection of the Flyers overcoming t...
A whole lot has been made of the relationship between Matvei Michkov and Rick Tocchet as just about every single fan of the Philadelphia Flyers has an opinion on the prized prospect and the head coach of this team. Well now we’re getting some deeper insight from someone that knows Michkov very well and he praises Tocchet for what he has been doing in the playoffs.
Michkov’s former agent, Sergei Fedotov, appeared on one of those classic Russian sports talk shows that you see clips from dur...
The Philadelphia Flyers have slayed the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games to have their first playoff series win since 2020 and their first playoff series win when people could actually go to games since 2012. And now, all sights are set on the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round.
While most reasonable fans would be perfectly fine with the Flyers not overcoming the mountain that is this Hurricanes team and reaching the Eastern Conference Final — since, you know, this team is still exec...
*Anyone else still feeling great about the Flyers moving on to the second round? Still riding high? Sure the next round is going to be a fair bit tougher, but who cares? The Flyers for their part are ready to start fresh against a new opponent. [ NHL.com ]
*We’ve been saying “new era of orange” for what feels like forever now, but it really feels like it now, right? This feels like the start of something good. [ BSH ]
*Here’s hoping these Kids learned a few things from their overtime...
Live from Raleighwood, it’ll be Saturday Night. Ever since Philadelphia ended their series against Pittsburgh on Wednesday, fans had been waiting for when the Flyers/Canes series would get started. Informed speculation had noted that ABC had an 8 PM slot for Saturday Night, also a traditional spot for “Hockey Night in Canada.” The thinking was […]
The Philadelphia Flyers own the city right now.
After eliminating the Pittsburgh Penguins at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Wednesday night, Cam York returned to the scene of the crime for another big playoff game less than 24 hours later. He and Trevor Zegras rang the bell before the Philadelphia 76ers hosted the Boston Celtics for Game 6 of their first-round series in the NBA Playoffs.
ring us in, @NHLFlyers 🏒 @camyork2 x @tzegras11 | @cryptocom pic.twitter.com/KkqqkmGAaR — Philadel...
As the Flyers figure out when their second round series against the Carolina Hurricanes begins, Philadelphia head coach Rick Tocchet said Thursday to the media that the youth were vital to the team’s success.
The four of Porter Martone, Matvei Michkov, Denver Barkey, and Alex Bump had seven points combined (four goals, three assists) over the six-game battle of Pennsylvania. Michkov earned a primary assist on the game-winning goal by Cam York in overtime, and had a few quality chances to ...
The Pittsburgh Penguins trio of Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby, and Kris Letang have been together for 20 years, but could be split up after losing their series to the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday. The Pens dropped Game 6 by a score of 1-0 in overtime to the Flyers, after crawling back from being down 3-0…
Since the Flyers went up 3-0 against the Penguins last week, one of the prevailing narratives around the team was a reminder of how difficult it is to put away a series completely, particularly against a veteran team like that Penguins squad. When the Flyers delivered a flat showing in Game 4, and when they failed to complete their comeback in Game 5 to come away with the win, that fact was driven home as clearly as could be. Their fate was still in their own hands, but this task would be as d...
It was a white-knuckle Game 6, but in the end the Philadelphia Flyers prevailed in their first-round battle against the Pittsburgh Penguins. And before we look ahead to the Carolina Hurricanes, it’s grading day for all of the Flyers who participated in the six-game series. Here they are according to position, but in no particular order.
Goaltenders
Dan Vladar
Vladar stopped 148 of 158 shots in six games and change, including a stellar 42-save performance in Game 6. A ridiculousl...
Before the Philadelphia Flyers took on the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round of the playoffs, a whole bunch of writers here at Broad Street Hockey huddled around a document and decided to jot down some thoughts and some predictions for what is going to happen.
And now, after the Flyers knocked the Penguins out of the playoffs in six games, we get to sit back and look at all of our predictions and just how right (or terribly wrong) they are.
Well, hopefully we don’t look like a b...
The Pittsburgh Penguins playoff run and 2025-26 season came to an end on Wednesday night with a 1-0 overtime loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. It is a frustrating loss, mostly because the Penguins were the better team for most of the game, including the third period and overtime. It was the third consecutive game in […]
Throughout the Flyers first round series against the Penguins, a common talking point that was brought up either on the broadcast, or in other media circles, was the gap in playoff experience.
Pittsburgh’s roster had nearly four times the postseason games played compared to the youthful Flyers, whose total was even boosted disproportionally by their grizzled fourth line. The majority of the important pieces that they were relying on had never been here before, and in the case of nam...
It won’t show up on the scoresheet, and it wasn’t directed at anyone in particular. But at one point in overtime, Dan Vladar sounded like he had enough. And he let his teammates know it.
With just under six minutes to go in Game 6, and the game still looking for its first goal, Flyers defenseman Cam York cleared the puck. But once again — as was the case for nearly all of the overtime — the Penguins gobbled the puck up in the neutral zone and drove back in. York again played the puck behi...
Up until the very end, the Pittsburgh Penguins battled and fought to force a Game 7 against the Philadelphia Flyers in their first round series, but Dan Vladar was a brick wall in net and Cam York found a just enough daylight behind Arturs Silovs to score an overtime winner that gave the Flyers a […]
*There’s no sense burying the lede here: the Flyers are moving on to the second round! It took a weird and wild overtime game to get there, but they pulled it off. [ BSH ]
*Defenseman Cam York was the overtime hero, and he celebrated it in probably the funniest way possible. [ BSH ]
*Of course, there’s a whole lot to dig into after a win as big as that one. [ NBCSP ]
*In fact, we’ve got takeaways from both sides of the matchup. [ The Athletic ]
*One of the bigger bits of ne...
With the weight of the city of Philadelphia on his shoulders, Flyers defenseman Cam York was able to finish off the Pittsburgh Penguins in dramatic fashion. Potentially ending that entire era of Penguins hockey with one quick flick of his wrist from the point in an improbable overtime period. And of course, he celebrated like a mad man.
The Flyers and Penguins were butting heads for the entire 60 minutes through regulation — trading off brief glimpses of high-event hockey as both teams ha...