It is the loudest secret in the hockey world that the Philadelphia Flyers need to improve at the center position. General manager Danny Briere might as well be standing at the corner of Broad and Pattison waving around one of those massive medieval bells yelling if anyone has a skilled center available.
Sure, they technically have enough to ice a hockey team and they aren’t going out there every night with someone who barely knows how to play the position — some might say that there is a ...
On Thursday night, as the Philadelphia Flyers took on the Boston Bruins, Matvei Michkov took a high hit from David Pastrňák that left him bleeding, and the most alarming part wasn’t the contact itself – it was the Flyers’ lack of response afterward.
After the horn sounded in TD Garden last night after the Flyers’ 6-3 loss to the Bruins, one thing was for certain – the team lacks energy. This is not the same team that beat the brakes off the Anaheim Ducks on January 6, and definitely not t...
The Philadelphia Flyers limped out of the gate to face the Boston Bruins and almost immediately after they stepped onto the ice, they lost Thursday night’s matchup. This massive blunder has now caused some leaders on the team to speak out about their frustration at how the team is really sliding down the standings.
After the 6-3 loss to the Bruins, Flyers winger Travis Konecny spoke with the media and appeared extremely dejected . It’s not good practice to really dive into a player’s body...
*That’s three losses in a row and now we are bringing this party home to Philly. Maybe that’ll fix it. Recap .
*A lot of talk about the “culture” again this week. Which is great, we as a society simply do not talk about Flyers culture enough. Anyway, maybe the culture isn’t exactly what you think it is. Maybe it’s evident when guys step up and leave it all on the ice. [ BSH ]
*Speaking of the building blocks of this team, if the players are dictating how long this is all going to tak...
The Flyers went into Boston looking for redemption after heroics from Travis Konecny and Dan Vladar were wasted in last night’s loss to Columbus, and well, they didn’t find it. Rick Tocchet also shuffled the lines, finally giving Trevor Zegras a look at center, which didn’t go too well. Despite injury scares, both Konecny and Rasmus Ristolainen remained in the Flyers’ lineup, but they lost yet another player mid-game.
The basics
First period: 9:49 – Viktor Arvidsson (Casey Mittelsta...
After a tough loss to the Blue Jackets in Columbus last night, the Flyers are right back at it again tonight, wrapping up a quick road trip with a trip up to Boston to face off against the Bruins for the first time this season.
It’s looking like it will be a once again depleted squad that they’ll be icing tonight, as Rasmus Ristolainen left last night’s game after just two shifts with a lower-body injury, while Travis Konecny’s status remains uncertain after he was hobbled by a blocked sh...
The Philadelphia Flyers were looking to take a step forward this year. Offseason acquisitions of Trevor Zegras, Christian Dvorak, and Dan Vladar were meant to help the core of veterans and up-and-coming youngsters become at least a team on the playoff bubble.
And for the first half of the season, it looked like the Flyers were taking a step forward. But that’s all come crashing down in the last few weeks, highlighted by a six-game losing streak. They are now 2-7-2 in their last 11 games, ...
Philadelphia Flyers captain Sean Couturier’s last two months haven’t looked like the standard you expect from a captain. The question is whether the 33-year-old is simply snake-bitten – or if the Flyers are asking him too much of their aging captain.
The Flyers have been struggling to play a consistent 60-minute game, and apart from a select few players, everyone on the ice has struggled. Captain Sean Couturier is, without a doubt, one of those players. The 33-year-old has been a large ta...
This whole Philadelphia Flyers season has hinged on a couple things: Whether or not the goaltending can be not historically bad, whether Trevor Zegras fits in, and if Matvei Michkov can elevate his game to the next level. The first two have become a reality but unfortunately we have now experienced more than half a season of the potential cornerstone piece for this team flounder in his sophomore season.
But, that’s all changing and fast.
Over the last couple of weeks, Matvei Michkov ...
After a tough loss to the Islanders at home on Monday, the Flyers hit the road again looked to shake that off and tap into some of the truly remarkable success they’ve found on the road so far this season. Their first stop brought them to Columbus last night, where they needed pretty desperately to find a way to hit the reset button, and get themselves back in the win column in short order.
What unfolded, though, was a somewhat stale effort from the team on the complete level of their off...
*Well, Travis Konecny had himself a night. That’s nice. Good news, we go again tonight! Hopefully it’ll be better than last night! RECAP !
*Chuck had some thoughts on the loss, as he usually does. [ PHLY ]
*You may have noticed… Dan Vladar is back, baby! If anything is going to help this team suck less it is going to be the return of their only competent goaltender. [ NBC Sports Philly ]
*And as we are just a couple of weeks out from the Olympic break, getting Vladar back sets t...
Travis Konecny scored a hat trick, and Dan Vladar made some great saves to keep Philadelphia in it, but in the end the Flyers had too many passengers on this night in a 5-3 loss to host Columbus on Wednesday evening.
The basics
First period: 0:38 – Charlie Coyle (Mathieu Olivier, Zach Werenski), 9:03 – Travis Konecny (Cam York, Noah Juulsen), 19:40 – Kirill Marchenko (Zach Werenski, Adam Fantilli) Second period: 1:58 – Erik Gudbranson (Cole Sillinger, Charlie Coyle) Third period: 4:0...
After a quick trip back home on Monday — which ended in a rough shutout loss to the Islanders — the Flyers will be hoping that they can tap into a bit more of the success they found on their last road trip, as they head out for a mid-week back-to-back. The first stop will take them to Columbus tonight, where they’ll face off against a close divisional rival in the Blue Jackets, who are gaining ground on the Flyers in the standing, and doing it fast.
Puck drop: 7:30 p.m. How to watch/list...
Our long regional nightmare is over: Dan Vladar is back.
The Philadelphia Flyers will have their starting goaltender back for Wednesday night’s game in Columbus, Rick Tocchet confirmed this morning. Vladar had been practicing with the team over the past week, and he’s finally ready to get back between the pipes.
#Flyers have an optional morning skate. Lineup news per coach Rick Tocchet. – Dan Vladar starts – Juulsen in – no other lineup changes pic.twitter.com/fin16LaEod — Jack...
The Philadelphia Flyers are floundering and the reality of them finishing out of the playoffs but not being bad enough to get a top 10 draft pick is starting to creep into the mind of every fan. Naturally, that then comes with thoughts about what they can do to either rescue the season or look towards the future with some trades before the deadline in March.
Enter Shane Wright as the hottest topic of conversation as a potential fix for the Flyers’ problem of not having enough good centers...
*Another day, another opportunity for the Flyers to get it together and put together 60 minutes of cromulent hockey. This time, it’s the Columbus Blue Jackets. Let’s hope we see more of that Avs game and less of that Islanders game. Rick Tocchet shared his thoughts on the loss and what he thinks it means for his team. [ BSH ]
*He also let everyone know that he’s not very happy with Trevor Zegras at the moment. [ BSH ]
*Related, Zegras has been carrying the offense for most of the sea...
With Flyers coach Rick Tocchet critcizing him last night, and in a bit of a funk offensively, has winger Trevor Zegras hit the wall this season? And if so, why?
The Philadelphia Flyers are coming off one of their most disappointing efforts of the season. After a big 7-3 win in Colorado against the best team in the league, they were shut out and failed to generate many scoring chances as they returned home against the Islanders on Monday night.
Not many Flyers players stuck out in a positive way, but Matvei Michkov did look like himself again and was moved up to the top line in the third period. That was just a temporary measure, though, based on ...
After the Philadelphia Flyers dropped a crucial game against the New York Islanders Monday night, head coach Rick Tocchet was not trying to be careful or gentle with his words. He was asked how Trevor Zegras has been performing as of late and he let it rip.
The Flyers came into Monday night’s game as a high-pressure situation. If the were able to secure a win in regulation, they would suddenly find themselves back in the tightly contested playoff race with some solid footing as we head in...
The Flyers are on the downswing again.
So much of this first half and change of the season has been made up of pretty dramatic peaks and valleys, a whiplashing that the team is still working at figuring out how to tamp down.
The Flyers entered last night’s game on a high — just about as much of a high as possible, after delivering handily the league’s best team their sixth regulation loss of the season (and just their second on home ice) — and they had a chance to prove that they are...
*Back from a nice little extended road trip, the Flyers were hoping to capitalize on the momentum from a big win over the Avalanche to close out that trip. [ Inquirer ]
*The Flyers were also set to get a bit of a boost for that game, as Rasmus Ristolainen got back into the lineup. [ BSH ]
*But instead of a statement game building on a strong ending to the road trip, the Flyers instead delivered a real stinker. [ BSH ]
*There really wasn’t a whole lot to come away from that one f...
The Flyers were back in action tonight on home ice, facing off against the Islanders and looking to build on the momentum from a largely successful road trip. The Flyers certainly came into this one with some momentum, but failed to keep that rolling, and found themselves struggling to get their offense going on the way to a 4-0 shutout at the hands of a tough divisional opponent.
The Basics
First period: 14:29- Jean-Gabriel Pageau (Cizikas, Pelech)SHG Second period: 5:41- Mathew Bar...
The Philadelphia Flyers are back home and just in time for snow to cover a whole portion of the continent, creating some international chaos and misery. Well, that is also about having to face the New York Islanders — a matchup that we have come to know and despise as two mediocre teams bonking each other on the head.
Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 93.3 WMMR
Pregame reading
There’s a whole lot of trade talk lately, so we decided to get in on t...
It appears that some reinforcements are finally on the way for the Flyers. After missing just under two weeks and six games for them with an upper-body injury, all signs are pointing to defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen returning to the lineup tonight for the Flyers’ matchup with the visiting Islanders. The change isn’t wholly locked in just yet, as Rick Tocchet told media after the pregame skate that the decision will be made to slide him back into the lineup in place of Noah Juulsen, so long as ...
There were more than a few positives which came from the three-game road trip last week. The power play showed signs of life. Denver Barkey had a great game against Colorado — so did Matvei Michkov. Aside from a horrid miscue, they would’ve walked away with all six possible points. But perhaps nothing was more revealing in Vegas, Utah, and Colorado than the play of Sam Ersson.
In the two games which bookended the trek, Ersson had a save percentage over .900. It marked the first time he ha...