*Here’s hoping the Flyers front office is smart enough to know that being kinda close to a wild card spot and kinda playing well isn’t a good reason to not sell some pieces this week. Here’s hoping. That said, solid win over the Leafs last night in the shootout. RECAP !
*It’s not the big shiny deadline move folks are looking forward to, but the Flyers got themselves a New Guy and lucky for you we have an in-house subject matter expert to tell you all about him. [ BSH ]
*It really is ...
about 1 month ago
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After picking up a big win over the Bruins on Saturday, the Flyers again hit the road for a quick trip up north to face off against the Maple Leafs. Coming in to face another team also well — if still a little distantly — in the fight to remain in the hunt for a playoff spot, this wasn’t going to be an easy matchup for the Flyers, but despite the depleted lineup they had to deal with in this one, they were able to gut this one out and come away with the win in the shootout, and extend their wi...
about 1 month ago
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It feels more likely than ever that the Philadelphia Flyers are going to be trading veteran defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen. The stars are aligning before the March 6 trade deadline for this team to cash in on the hulking rearguard and move on while also opening up a roster spot for a younger player. A classic rebuilding move.
But, unfortunately to make a trade you also need a second team to agree to it, and the Flyers just lost one potential option that was reportedly interested in Ristola...
about 1 month ago
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The Philadelphia Flyers are wallowing down in the mushy middle of the standings and this is the week where we care less about the games and just want to see transactions pop up before Friday’s trade deadline. Naturally, they’re visiting the Maple Leafs in Toronto so a whole lot of eyes will be on them.
Puck drop: 7:30 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP, Amazon Prime 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
Sean Couturier finally scored a goal after going almost three months withou...
about 1 month ago
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There’s still four days to go before the Philadelphia Flyers get their hands dirty in NHL trade deadline activity, and between now and then there will be plenty of speculation as to who will be going where, who will be heading back in return, and what teams will be all in for some of the bigger names available.
There’s not enough bandwidth to discuss who might and who might not be traded in the coming days, but we do know there have been some busier trade deadlines for the Flyers than oth...
about 1 month ago
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Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the greatest film directors working today. PTA has 10 films under his belt and his latest One Battle After Another has a very good chance to earn him his first Academy Award for Best Picture ( There Will Be Blood , Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza all received the nomination but lost). PTA has something special with getting the most out of his actors and showcasing his talents with unique stories. Lets hope he doesn’t stop telling these tales anytime soon.
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about 1 month ago
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The Flyers' trade for Boris Katchouk could be just the boost the Phantoms need for their stretch run.
about 1 month ago
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*It was a reasonably quiet weekend for the Flyers as far as games on the schedule goes, but it was still an exciting one. They returned to home ice on Saturday and picked up a huge win over the Bruins in their matinee. [ BSH ]
*Charlie has his own takeaways from that win herein. [ PHLY ]
*Dan Vladar came up with a huge performance for the Flyers in that win. [ NBCSP ]
*And there’s been a lot to like about what he’s been doing for his team, both on and off the ice, this season. [...
about 1 month ago
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The Philadelphia Flyers made a trade Sunday night. It didn’t move the needle much, but hey, a trade is a trade. The deal sent defenseman Roman Schmidt, who had been playing with Lehigh Valley, to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for left winger Boris Katchouk.
TRADE ALERT: We’ve acquired forward Boris Katchouk from the Minnesota Wild in exchange for defenseman Roman Schmidt. Katchouk will report to the @LVPhantoms (AHL). https://t.co/gR5The0rWn — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) March...
about 1 month ago
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Although the club hasn’t yet made it official, it appears that the Flyers are in the process of calling up defenseman Adam Ginning from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. The news was revealed by Phantoms communications director and broadcaster Bob Rotruck in a tweet earlier Sunday afternoon, ahead of their game against Hartford.
Lineup Info: Devin Kaplan upper-body injury will sit out. Sawyer Boulton remains injured. Adam Ginning recalled to Flyers. Vincent Sevigny joins from Reading and in lin...
about 1 month ago
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The Phantoms kicked off their weekend back-to-back last night with a wild one. The first of two games against the visiting Hartford Wolf Pack, the Phantoms were able to jump out to an early lead, capitalizing on a strong start, and chasing the Hartford goaltender from the game with two goals in just over five minutes.
That goaltending change, though, did spark something for the Wolf Pack, and between an extra bit of jump mustered on their side and a few key mistakes made by the Phantoms, ...
about 1 month ago
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With the Flyers up 2-1 and trying to hang on for a regulation win against the Boston Bruins on Saturday, Flyers captain Sean Couturier had the puck in the neutral zone. There was just over a minute to go, and Couturier could’ve simply taken a shot at the wide open net and, hopefully, hit the twine and finally score a goal. Fortunately for the team, the veteran skated the extra few strides, got over the red line and fired it toward the Bruins net. If he missed it was not the end of the world, i...
about 1 month ago
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The Flyers came into yesterday afternoon’s game riding high. They had closed out their road back-to-back, which marked their return from the Olympic break, with a massive overtime win over the Rangers on Thursday, and after a difficult run before the break, there was, doubtless, a feeling that their fortunes might be shifting, and this could be the win that helped springboard them into a more successful run down the stretch.
But even in that simmering optimism was a knowledge that yesterd...
about 1 month ago
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A lot has been made of how this current Philadelphia Flyers team might be lacking some conditioning. Youngster Matvei Michkov has been at the center of all of it, of course, but with the likes of Sean Couturier slowing down and more veterans taking a step back, it’s become an underdiscussed and underlying theme to this season.
Well, the team seems to be addressing that issue.
According to New Orleans Pelicans reporter Shamit Dua, the NBA team’s director of performance and sports scie...
about 1 month ago
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Jamie Drysdale, Travis Konecny, and Christian Dvorak were all in on the Flyers first two goals. But they were only there thanks to the sensational start Dan Vladar had in a 3-1 Philadelphia win. The win was capped off by an empty net goal from Sean Couturier, ending a lengthy slump.
The basics
First period: No scoring Second period: No scoring Third period: 3:40- Travis Konecny (Christian Dvorak, Jamie Drysdale), 11:55- Jamie Drysdale (Travis Konecny, Christian Dvorak), 13:03- Charli...
about 1 month ago
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And for the first time since returning from the break, the Flyers are back at home for a bit of matinee action. Coming off of a huge overtime win over the Rangers on the road on Thursday, the Flyers will be looking to keep that positive momentum rolling in this matchup against a much tougher Bruins squad.
Puck drop: 3:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: ABC 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
With the deadline about a week away now, there’s no shortage of trade talk to ...
about 1 month ago
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The NHL trade deadline is coming hot and fast and by Friday afternoon, every single team will need to have wrapped up all their mid-season business as they get ready to move onto the offseason. For the Philadelphia Flyers, this means taking advantage of some teams eyeing up their players as they are set to miss the playoffs for the sixth year in a row, and others are pushing towards the Stanley Cup.
One player that could certainly be on the move, is veteran defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen. ...
about 1 month ago
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For the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, the whiplashing they’ve been delivering over these last few weeks continues. The Phantoms kicked off their slate of action for this week on Wednesday with a matchup against the best in the Atlantic Providence Bruins, and despite the difficulty of the task in front of them, the Phantoms were coming into it with a good bit of momentum. The previous weekend had seen them pull off a pair of quite convincing wins over another tough divisional opponent in Hershey, and...
about 1 month ago
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With the trade deadline looming, and all the rampant speculation that emerges in the days leading up to it, may we present another little interesting tidbit. Perhaps it’s nothing more than a coach and a player he coached last season catching up on life and family, but according to Vancouver Canucks insider and sports radio host Rick Dhaliwal, Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet and Canucks center Elias Pettersson had a rather lengthy discussion during the Olympics.
Tocchet, who was one of Team...
about 2 months ago
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Looking at the numbers and what they say about the potential offense for the Philadelphia Flyers. Are they bad or is the process just not there?
about 2 months ago
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The Philadelphia Flyers aren’t projected to be a team that will be very busy before the trade deadline next Friday — aside from potentially trading veteran defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen — but according to a recent report, there are teams sniffing around some players as long-term fits for their problems.
One of the main talking points surrounding absolute any trade rumor or trade chatter involving the Flyers is that this team just has so many wingers — too many wingers to even put on the t...
about 2 months ago
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The Flyers ended last season with an .879 team save percentage. This was nearly 10 points below the San Jose Sharks — a team who was openly tanking — for the worst team save percentage in the NHL. It’s comfortably the worst mark since the turn of the century, though this year’s Ottawa Senators (.873) are giving it a real run. The front office then came to the logical conclusion that the roster simply can’t be evaluated correctly if they’re spending their time fishing the puck out of their own ...
about 2 months ago
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The Philadelphia Flyers are approaching this trade deadline from a unique angle. While most other teams who are several points out of a playoff spot, are gearing up to sell off their pending free agents or possibly move on from some core pieces, the Flyers don’t really have much of that. No bounty of veterans who they can get a heaping pile of draft picks for to help their rebuild, it’s just going to largely be status quo.
That is except one specific player.
Rasmus Ristolainen is the...
about 2 months ago
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Flyers general manager Danny Briere finds himself somewhat in no man's land heading into the trade deadline. The club isn't good enough to make the playoffs, but not quite bad enough to bottom out.
about 2 months ago
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*Oooooh baby, we love a big Michkov game around here, and the Flyers marched up to the train station and delivered one. RECAP !
*Travis Konecny, who has seemed to be having a real bad time, emotionally, this season, had accurately diagnosed the Flyers’ problems. It’s good that they can see it from the inside, too. [ BSH ]
*The fine folks over at the Inky had a sit down with defense prospect Oliver Bonk about a whole mess of things, and it’s a solid read. Would be cool if we got to se...
about 2 months ago
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