While last weekend saw the Phantoms kicking off their first season and facing their first few challenges right off the bat — a tight schedule, with an evening opener going right into a 3:00 matinee, while losing another defenseman when Emil Andrae was called up — this weekend brought another one for them to work with, as they hit the road for their first trip of the season, heading to Cleveland for a pair of games against the Monsters.
If there were any questions about how the Phantoms wo...
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According to the broadcast, the last time that Michigan State beat Boston University in Boston was all the way back in 1958. At least that was the case until last night. After splitting their season-opening series with the University of New Hampshire Wildcats, the Spartans faced a much tougher opponent in the top-ranked Terriers. It also meant that Porter Martone and Shane Vansaghi would face fellow Flyers prospects Carter Amico, Jack Murtagh, and Owen McLaughlin.
Vansaghi was one of the ...
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The Philadelphia Flyers might be making a trade sometime soon and there’s already a team poking around depth defenseman Egor Zamula.
According to Daily Faceoff’s Anthony Di Marco, the Calgary Flames are looking to make an addition on their blue line and specifically on the left side. And even more specifically, someone who is young and also has some size to him. Someone who checks all of those boxes is Zamula and he has been already linked to the Flames.
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The Philadelphia Flyers have just one win in their first four games, and they’ve been struggling to score. They’ve been held to three goals or fewer against manned nets thus far, and barely got a second goal on the board while taking just 17 shots against the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night.
Sean Couturier, Bobby Brink, and Owen Tippett are the only players with multiple goals so far this season, while Travis Sanheim, Tyson Foerster, Noah Cates, Christian Dvorak, and Matvei Michkov all ha...
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The Philadelphia Flyers had nearly three full seasons of John Tortorella behind the bench, and for a good portion of that time, the Flyers were a hockey team surrounded by an ongoing soap opera. What was the fiery Tortorella going to do next? Who would he put in the doghouse? Who would he scratch? Who would find themselves benched? What would he do with his goaltenders not just from game-to-game, but period-to-period? All kinds of questions that didn’t deter Flyers general manager Danny Briere...
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The Philadelphia Flyers might have played one of the most visually off-putting games of hockey as they lost 5-2 against the Winnipeg Jets Thursday night, but there was a small glimmer of hope for some excitement in the future.
For a brief 58 seconds, Rick Tocchet threw out a forward line combination that could be seen as putting all his eggs in one basket but it went beyond that. The trio was dominating possession — doing everything that Tocchet has preached all preseason long about what ...
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