In a game that had massive playoff implications, Owen Tippett led the way with a hat trick and four points as the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Detroit Red Wings 5-3 on Saturday night.
The Basics
First period: 4:07 – Owen Tippett (Trevor Zegras)
Second period: 12:22 – Owen Tippett (Denver Barkey, Jamie Drysdale), 16:08 – Noah Cates (Matvei Michkov, Travis Konecny) (PPG)
Third period: 7:19 – Owen Tippett (Jamie Drysdale, Travis Konecny) (PPG), 13:43 – Mason Appleton (Just...
The Philadelphia Flyers might be getting their top prospect to join the team and provide a major boost within the next couple of days.
Porter Martone and his Michigan State Spartans faced the Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday afternoon to decide who gets to go to the Frozen Four and compete for a national championship. The Spartans were the favorites heading into the game as the No. 3 seed overall and looked the part as they came back from a 1-0 deficit to make it a 3-1 lead in the middle of ...
On Saturday, Flyers prospects Porter Martone and Shane Vansaghi and the Michigan State Spartans faced the Wisconsin Badgers with a Frozen Four appearance on the line. The teams entered the game after different experiences in their opening contests, with Michigan State holding onto a one-goal game that saw UConn pepper Trey Augustine with over 40 shots on goal, while Wisconsin completely locked down Dartmouth. Quick goals were the theme of the game that eventually needed overtime to decide a wi...
The Flyers are back in action tonight for the first game of this weekend’s back-to-back. They’ve taken this show on the road, heading to Detroit to face off against the Red Wings and looking to build on the momentum from Thursday’s huge win over the Blackhawks, and for a chance to remain right in the thick of the playoff race. It’s make-or-break time again, folks!
Puck drop: 8:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: ABC 📻: 93.3 WMMR
Pregame reading
The kids have been showin...
After a bit of a delay — a 10 day layoff between the signing of contract and his return to the ice — Flyers prospect Cole Knuble made his professional debut with the Phantoms last night, getting the ball rolling in their 5-3 loss to Springfield on home ice.
For Knuble, it was a quick turnaround, arriving late Wednesday and only getting a bit of practice time in on Thursday after he finished all of his medical evaluations, but sprint from his arrival right into game action seemed to still ...
Flyers winger Tyson Foerster wasn’t expected to return to the lineup this season but after a somewhat new development at morning skate Saturday, that might be wrong.
All the way back on December 1, Foerster wound up and attempted a big one-timer slap shot against the Penguins and went down in excruciating pain. It was a bad scene that then got worse, as he was declared out for two to three months almost immediately, and then that timeline got extended to the entire season after undergoing...
After dropping Tuesday’s game against the Blue Jackets — a critical matchup in their push to remain in the mix for a playoff spot — in pretty deflated fashion, the Flyers found themselves well and truly on the ropes, as they looked to keep their playoff hopes alive. Thursday’s next matchup, then, against the visiting Blackhawks was going to be critical to helping them get things back on track, if they could again tap into a short memory and turn the page quickly.
And what the team deliver...
Philadelphia Flyers general manager Danny Briere, like a lot of his fellow brethren, hasn’t really dealt with a lot of hard decisions when it comes to the team’s salary cap and committing to certain players, but that is all going to change this summer.
The stagnant cap over the last few seasons resulted in each team having the same ceiling and floor thanks to the global pandemic and the revenue lost as a result. After all, there were not many bums in seats for a few years. What this meant...
On the day of the trade deadline, so many people expected the Philadelphia Flyers to be at least a little busy. And they might have been behind the scenes, but the deals that were actually completed were fairly ordinary — sending Bobby Brink back home to Minnesota and getting a more long-term project in defenseman David Jiricek, was certainly the highest-profile move the Flyers made.
But one little transaction that at the time was seen as unnecessary, has been maybe the best addition the ...
As the NHL enters a new economic period and its franchises sort out the best practices, the ground feels unsteady underfoot. Across the board, a league that has largely operated in a flat or minimally growing labor market now has franchises flush with cap space. For the first time in the salary cap era, teams have significantly more leeway to maneuver.
So far, this has manifested in extensions. While players like Jack Eichel and Connor McDavid were longshots to reach unrestricted free age...
*Boy, playing bad teams is fun, huh? Would be fun to play the bad teams every night. Solid start-to-finish win from the boys last night; RECAP !
*The Flyers went out yesterday and signed an undrafted college kid to an ELC yesterday. [ BSH ]
*What do they like about this kid, you ask? Well… he big. [ NBC Sports Philly ]
*Last night we got a good long look at the state of the Chicago Blackhawks, a team that decided to do their rebuild in the full on burn-it-all-down style. The Fly...
After a disappointing loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night, the Philadelphia Flyers bounced back in dominant fashion, controlling play against the Chicago Blackhawks en route to a convincing 5-1 victory to keep their playoff hopes alive.
The Basics
First period: 0:48 – Alex Bump (Christian Dvorak), 2:33 – Sean Couturier (Luke Glendening)
Second period: 5:14 – Denver Barkey (Trevor Zegras, Owen Tippett), 11:11 – Connor Bedard (Anton Frontell, Louis Crevier), 12:41 –...
The 2026 NCAA men’s hockey tournament got underway Thursday afternoon with Flyers prospects Porter Martone and Shane Vansaghi and the Michigan State Spartans taking on the UConn Huskies. UConn controlled much of the play and finished with a 42-22 edge in shots, but goals from 2025 first-round NHL draft picks Ryker Lee and Porter Martone, combined with a 41-save performance from Trey Augustine, were enough to lift Michigan State to a 2-1 win.
With the victory, the Spartans advance to the r...
The Philadelphia Flyers are looking to bounce back from missing out on the big opportunity earlier this week, and need to get the two points Thursday night against the Chicago Blackhawks if they even want to be able to think of the possibility of the playoffs.
Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
We might not get to see Nikita Grebenkin against the Blackhawks but it’s not because Rick Tocchet has decided to scratch the young f...
Postseasons are ramping up or close to ramping up all over the place, and the Flyers have a whole bunch of prospects getting rolling with their most meaningful games of the season, to date.
The News of the Week
We have quite a few seasons winding down around here, but there’s been no shortage of news happenings unfolding. The first item of business is that the Flyers have made another signing, getting Alex Ciernik signed to a three-year entry level deal, which kicks in next season. H...
The majority of this article was written on March 22.
Although the club hasn’t made it official, it appears the Philadelphia Flyers have signed Riley Thompson, a 23-year-old center, to a one-year entry-level contract that begins in the 2026-27 season. (Note: we doubt the tweet below from PuckPedia includes a signing bonus of $102.5 million, but more likely $102,500.)
The #Flyers signed undrafted 23 y/o F Riley Thompson to 1 year entry level deal starting next season NHL salary 922.5K...
*Back at it again tonight, against the Chicago Blackhawks, in a game that matters far less than the game on Tuesday did, so they’ll almost certainly win. We got a little bit of lineup news ahead of this one. [ BSH ]
*Anyway that’s how the Flyers do it, right? Come up big when it doesn’t matter and choke away wins when it does. Part of the process, one supposes. [ Inquirer ]
*Tuesday’s game didn’t eliminate them, to be sure, but they just made it that much harder on themselves. By pis...
While the team hasn’t made an official announcement, Philadelphia Flyers winger Nikita Grebenkin is out with an injury and will likely not be in the lineup Thursday against the Chicago Blackhawks.
“Yeah he’s been dealing with things the last couple of games,” head coach Rick Tocchet said after Wednesday’s practice . “He went to see a doctor today to get some more tests done on him.”
When asked the nature of the injury, Tocchet revealed it was upper body and that it was more than like...
He still has some time before he’s a full-time member of the Philadelphia Flyers, but for the time being, 2024 second-round draft pick Jack Berglund’s development is heading in the right direction according to his current head coach in the SHL.
Cam Abbott, who became Farjestads BK’s head coach in January after the team fired the previous coach, briefly discussed the center’s progress in the relatively short time he’s been coaching the 19-year-old native of Karlstad, Sweden. In an intervie...
A lot has been made about the misery that the Philadelphia Flyers season has been, but it doesn’t take long to realize that it could be a lot worse. Such as, not having your next two first-round draft picks and potentially sinking your entire organization into a state of mediocrity despite having some of the best players in the world on your hockey team.
Famously, the Flyers do own the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 2027 first-round draft pick after somehow convincing them that forward Scott Laught...
For a second there, it seemed like everything was breaking their way.
When the Flyers headed into the locker room at the end of the first period, with a 1-0 lead over the Blue Jackets and a host of their competition for playoff spots in the Eastern Conference losing their games at the same time, it seemed like they had all the momentum.
Sean Couturier scored his eighth goal of the year while looking like his old self, and the Flyers largely dominated a period that could h...
*Wasn’t a “must-win” by technical definition, but it was a game the Flyers needed to win to make a statement. The statement being, “hey, we’d really like to make the playoffs. That would be fun.” Instead they, once again, shit the bed against the Blue Jackets. Recap .
*Noah Cates had himself a penalty shot last night — didn’t score, sure, but still fun — and that was just a continuation of the very good play we’ve seen from him over the last several games. [ Inquirer ]
*Also great la...
While not mathematically eliminated, the Philadelphia Flyers took a huge step backwards in their playoff hunt, losing to Columbus 3-2 on Tuesday night. It was particularly painful considering how many teams ahead of them (minus the Blue Jackets) lost as well, missing a chance to gain ground on all of them.
The basics
First period: 17:07- Sean Couturier (Luke Glendening, Rasmus Ristolainen) Second period: 0:44- Mathieu Olivier (Zack Werenski, Damon Severson) 2:28- Zack Werenski (Damon...
At long last, the Flyers are back from their roadtrip and looking to begin to make some progress in climbing up the standings towards a playoff spot. A successful trip out West had certainly given them a meaningful boost in momentum, but this next matchup against a tough divisional opponent in the Blue Jackets will be a real test for them, as they look to keep that momentum going.
Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: ESPN+/Hulu 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
The ...
If this year’s Flyers team has shown us anything, it’s low-event hockey. The team under the stead of Rick Tocchet has prioritized the prevention of shots against above everything else, and the numbers reflect that reality.
The Flyers have allowed the fourth least shots in the league to this point, less than contenders like the Avalanche, the Stars, and the Lightning. They play a very tight, perimeter game that makes it hard for most teams to truly set up and find open shooting lanes...