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Flyers ‘very hopeful’ Dan Vladar ready for season opener, Denver Barkey nearing return
The Philadelphia Flyers are just a few days away from opening their 2026-27 season, with their first matchup against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night. The shortened preseason slate is over, but the Flyers didn’t get out of it unscathed. Roster players suffered injuries in their first two preseason games, with Helge Grans leaving the third. Nikita Grebenkin also got banged up in the Flyers’ penultimate exhibition contest and did not play on Saturday. Danny Briere gave some u...
Flyers assign goaltender Aleksei Kolosov to AHL
The Flyers have been chipping away at their remaining bits of business to allow their final roster to take shape, and after announcing a signing of veteran forward Garrett Wilson to a one-year deal on Sunday afternoon, they followed that up with the announcement that they’ve assigned goaltender Aleksei Kolosov to the AHL. Roster update: We have loaned goaltender Aleksei Kolosov to the @LVPhantoms (AHL). — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) September 27, 2026 This will give the Ph...
Flyers sign Garrett Wilson to one-year contract
The Flyers closed out their slate of preseason games Saturday evening with a matchup against Capitals, a game which ended in a lopsided loss, and left the Flyers with some areas of their game to address as they approach Wednesday’s regular season opener. There’s some on-ice work that needs to be done, to be sure, but as Flyers General Manager Danny Briere alluded to in his media availability during the game, there’s some logistical work that the front office was going to need to do to sha...
Rick Tocchet explains why the Flyers sent down Cole Knuble and Jett Luchanko
Philadelphia Flyers preseason is over and done with and training camp is entering its final few days before the actual 2026-27 season starts on Wednesday. Throughout the last couple of days, the Flyers have had to make some difficult roster decisions and now we know their thought process going through them. Ahead of Saturday night’s preseason finale (in which they lost 5-1 because Aleksei Kolosov proved to be not anything close to an NHL goaltender ), the Flyers sent down prospects Cole K...
After tough loss in preseason finale, Flyers working to embrace the process
The Flyers closed out their four-game slate of exhibition games with a rematch against the Capitals on home ice last night, looking to even the score after being delivered a tough loss by those same Capitals to open up the preseason earlier in the week. The Flyers had a good opportunity in front of them, bringing just about their closest approximation of their opening night lineup in terms of skaters to face off against the Capitals’ b-squad, but this matchup still ended up a far cry from what...
Aleksei Kolosov has played himself out of the Flyers’ plans
The NHL preseason can be a pretty fun experience. Seeing players you don’t normally see in your favorite team’s jersey, to wish on for the future, to be able to hold onto hope that what we saw in one single game is actually them and they will truly reach a potential we think about often. That’s the nice and positive part of the preseason. There’s also the kind of preseason that can end a player’s NHL career and we may have just seen that on Saturday night. The Philadelphia Flyers hos...
Takeaways: Flyers suffer bad 5-1 loss to Capitals in preseason finale
In this fourth and final preseason matchup, the Washington Capitals sent four skaters with NHL experience to wear the brunt of the full force of the untucked Philadelphia Flyers. Before we knew it, the Capitals hung five goals on Aleksei Kolosov despite being handily outplayed for big stretches of the game, and the regular season is suddenly upon us. The basics First period: No scoring Second period: 0:31- Jamie Drysdale (Travis Konecny, Tyson Foerster), 4:32- Andrew Cristall (S...
The Flyers just found a hilarious way to support Trevor Zegras’s jersey tuck
It wasn’t an out and out revolt admonishing the National Hockey League and their desire to implement rules already on the books. But in Saturday’s warmup before their final exhibition game against the visiting Washington Capitals, the Philadelphia Flyers let it be known that they have center Trevor Zegras’ back. And weren’t over the moon with the minor penalty called against him. Although we can’t provide a complete investigative piece on who was responsible for deciding to tuck their jer...
Phantoms Expectations: Jett Luchanko reshapes his game
Sent down by the Flyers in their most recent round of cuts on Friday, Jett Luchanko is officially off on his way to begin his proper first professional season with the Phantoms. It’s been a winding road for Luchanko up to this point, and a development process that has at times struck as a little stilted, but with a long runway still left ahead of him, the real work is only just now set to begin, as he’s more directly in the hands of the Flyers’ organizational staff. How did his 2025-26 se...
Porter Martone has serious competition for the Calder Trophy
The Philadelphia Flyers have never had a Calder Trophy winner, but that could change this season. Porter Martone is a menace and the big phenom is a real contender to walk away with the rookie of the year award. Unfortunately, this will not be an easy task as this season’s rookie crop is an insane group who are going to give him some elite competition for the Calder. No matter where you look, basically every single one of the many hockey betting sites out there has Martone as the favorite...
Flyers vs. Capitals: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
And just like that, we’ve made it to the end of the preseason! The Flyers have one more game on deck tonight as they look to get things back on track and get a little bit of revenge on the Capitals, after taking a tough loss to them to start out this run of exhibition games. It’s another less loaded lineup on deck for the Flyers, which certainly helps their chances, so we’ll see what they’re able to do, after putting a bit more wind in their sails with Thursday’s win in the back pocket. P...
Player Preview: David Jiricek looks to find role with Flyers
As the Flyers are hoping to see another season of their younger core of defensemen continuing to deliver stable results for them at the top of the lineup, the door sits open for the next wave of even younger defenders to make their mark and find their roles. Though the road through his professional career up to this point has been winding and arduous, for the newly acquired David Jiricek, a fresh start lies ahead of him, and a chance to begin carving out a true full time NHL role for himself, ...
Trevor Zegras had the perfect response to his ridiculous jersey-tuck penalty
Trevor Zegras made his preseason debut in the Philadelphia Flyers’ 2-0 win over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night. Zegras didn’t find his way onto the scoresheet with a goal or assist, but he did take an unusual two-minute penalty midway through the second period. Just before the halfway mark of regulation, Zegras was issued a two-minute delay of game penalty for improper wearing of equipment. We’ve seen these penalties at times in the past when a player loses his helmet and doesn’...
Flyers send Cole Knuble, Oliver Bonk to Phantoms in next round of cuts
After putting together a strong showing with most of their projected opening night roster assembled against the Bruins on Thursday night, the Flyers are keeping the pace up through this very abbreviated preseason run towards opening night. With just one more exhibition game on the schedule, the Flyers announced Friday afternoon that they’ve made what will presumably be effectively their final, more formal, round of cuts, and have assigned forwards Cole Knuble, Jacob Gaucher, and Jett Luchanko,...
Flyers prospect Max Westergard is off to a perfect start
While we are so focused on the Philadelphia Flyers’ preseason and the remaining roster battles taking place for the next few days or so, prospects around the globe are starting their seasons. One in particular, is having a monster start to what should be a very important season for his development. Max Westergard has peaked a lot of attention ever since being selected in the fifth round of the 2025 NHL Draft by the Flyers. The 6-foot Finnish winger has seen his stock steadily rise with ev...
‘He’s definitely pushing some people’: Cole Knuble making his case for a job with the Flyers
The Flyers brought it home for their penultimate game of the preseason last night, and with something much closer to their projected opening night lineup in tow, they finally delivered a more complete game and picked up their first win of the preseason as a result. This matchup saw no shortage of standouts on the Flyers’ side, between Matvei Michkov’s immediate and consistent pop and Joseph Woll’s sound play on the way to the shutout (not to mention all of the theater around Trevor Zegras...
Player Preview: Travis Sanheim, Flyers’ load-bearing defenseman
Travis Sanheim is arguably the most important player on the Philadelphia Flyers. That isn’t taking away from the importance long-term of players like Porter Martone and Matvei Michkov, who could prove to be better than Sanheim in the years to come, but it does speak to the role Sanheim plays on this team in the present. It’s difficult to imagine a more catastrophic ripple effect on the lineup if Sanheim were to miss significant time. Dan Vladar is the other major glue holding the roster t...
Friday Morning Fly By: On the up and up
*The Flyers came home for their penultimate game of the preseason last night, and would you believe it, with closer to their full NHL lineup against a less stacked Bruins squad, they picked up their first exhibition win of the year! [ BSH ] *It was quite a good game across the board, but there’s no doubt that Matvei Michkov was the biggest star of the show. [ NBCSP ] *The second biggest star was… Trevor Zegras’s jersey? Which was tucked twice? Which is… well has long been a ...
Takeaways: Joseph Woll shuts out Bruins as Matvei Michkov shines in Flyers’ 2-0 win
The Philadelphia Flyers earned their first win of the four-game exhibition season Thursday night at home, defeating the Boston Bruins 2-0 thanks to a 28-save effort by Joseph Woll. Oh, and Matvei Michkov was great too. The basics First period: 4:02- Matvei Michkov (Porter Martone, Helge Grans) Second period: No scoring Third period: 2:57- Cole Knuble (Jacob Gaucher, Jett Luchanko) SOG: 28 (PHI) – 28 (BOS) Some takeaways First proper dress rehearsal Although the entire ...
David Jiricek has the inside track in Flyers’ blue line battle
The Philadelphia Flyers are largely returning most of last year’s roster that made the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but there are roster battles on the fringes here in the shortened training camp. Not only are there a handful of young forwards fighting for a spot or two in the bottom six, but there’s a battle on the blue line at the bottom of the depth chart as well. Jamie Drysdale, Travis Sanheim, Cam York, Rasmus Ristolainen, and Nick Seeler are going to be five of the...
Flyers vs. Bruins: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
The Philadelphia Flyers are back in action once again to play in their penultimate preseason game. It’s going to feel so much real. They have gone ahead and made a whole lot of roster cuts and we’ll actually see a lineup tonight that looks closer to what they’re going to start the season with. Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP+ 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic Pregame reading As mentioned, the Flyers did a whole lot of cuts. That includes waiving a total of six ...
Flyers officially announce their EBUG for next season
The Philadelphia Flyers announced additional personnel to the organization , including naming Daniel Spencer the team’s Emergency Backup Goaltender (EBUG). Under the new CBA, every single NHL team has to name an EBUG to travel with the team. Prior to this, each arena just had one goalie to serve as both team’s emergency backups in case a scenario would ever come up. The Flyers had until Sept. 28 to make the announcement official (or 48 hours before dropping the puck against Pittsburg...
Thursday Morning Fly By: Cuts, cuts, and more cuts
*The Philadelphia Flyers got busy on Wednesday as they did their second round of cuts at training camp. Players that were unlikely to make the final roster to begin with were sent down to the AHL, or sent back to their junior teams. Now, everyone remaining at Flyers camp has a real shot of making the team if things go in their favor. This is where we can have fun conversations. [BSH] *It’s the first prospect report of the season! It’s all about Cole Knuble’s rapid ascent up the Flyers dep...
Rick Tocchet is overhauling the Flyers’ power play with youth — and a new approach
The last few days, aside from avoiding a catastrophe with goaltender Dan Vladar , the Philadelphia Flyers have been focused on primarily one thing: making the power play look like a power play. It’s something that’s been discussed in detail earlier this week , with the different combinations for the different units seemingly showing some semblance of chemistry, however early it might be. And ideally, hoping to get the team in a position where a power play isn’t essentially stifling any momentu...
Flyers waive 6 players, assign 6 to AHL as training camp cuts continue
The Philadelphia Flyers are trimming down their roster and reportedly have waived several players to send down to the AHL. According to PuckPedia, the Flyers have waived a total of six players as part of their next round of cuts at training camp. Forwards Zach Aston-Reese, Nolan Foote, Danila Klimovich, and Carl Grundstrom, and defenseman Cam Dineen have all been placed on the waiver wire. 34 players placed on waivers today. @PuckPedia https://t.co/SEwCuzihn1 pic.twitter.com/xSIFvi...
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