During Saturday’s game against the host San Jose Sharks, Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet was trying to find an answer to a simple question. The Flyers, who all season have been behind the eight ball when it came to center depth, were really in a bind. Sean Couturier was out of the lineup, and Noah Cates was in the penalty box. That left centers Christian Dvorak (who logged a ridiculous 25:32 by game’s end) and Trevor Zegras as options. The only problem Zegras had just come off the ice. He had n...
The Philadelphia Flyers are doing some business as we head into the final weeks of the regular season. Their latest transaction is signing a winger prospect that has not had a good development path, to his entry-level contract.
Announced by the team on Monday afternoon, the Flyers have signed winger Alex Ciernik to a three-year entry-level contract. This is an interesting grab for a whole lot of reasons.
OFFICIAL: We have signed forward Alex Ciernik to a three-year entry-level contra...
While the Flyers try to cling to their playoff lives, Michigan State and Porter Martone are licking their wounds. The heavily favored Spartans were upset in the semi-finals of the Big Ten Championship by a 13-20-2 Ohio State team, losing in overtime and ending their bid for a conference championship.
With 24 goals and 47 points, Martone leads his team in both categories, while also providing a leadership factor and physical play that can’t be measured. How long he’ll be tied up with ...
As the stretch run dwindles down and the playoffs approach, the Philadelphia Flyers somehow find themselves in the thick of things once again. Five points back of the final wild card spot with two games in-hand, and five points back of the Blue Jackets for the last Metropolitan division spot, and one game in-hand on them. With a crucial game at home against Columbus upcoming, that could really swing the odds in the Flyers favor if they are able to win it.
But over the past decade, the Fl...
*Your Philadelphia Flyers took a road trip to California and absolutely killed it? Against all odds? They wrapped things up on Saturday by taking it to the San Jose Sharks for a full 60; RECAP !
*Particularly good game for Travis Konecny, as evidenced by the fact that Sharks players were whining about him after the game had ended. [ BSH ]
*Going back to that win in L.A. over the Kings, Matvei Michkov absolutely rocked in that game. You love to see it. [ BSH ]
*But yeah this was ...
Philadelphia Flyers winger Travis Konecny rubs a whole lot of people the wrong way, and now it has led to some name-calling by a San Jose Sharks defenseman.
During the 4-1 win in San Jose, Konecny was just playing his game. While being one of the more offensively charged forwards in the Flyers lineup, he was also jawing at opponents, getting involved in the post-whistle scrums, and just being a general nuisance. All 5-foot-10 of him was, and has always been, committed to creating a whole ...
The Philadelphia Flyers play overtime hockey in what feels like every other game. After back-to-back shootouts in Anaheim and Los Angeles, Philadelphia has played 25 overtime games in 68 contests, with four in a row and three of them being shootouts. It’s not the sign of a bad team– the Minnesota Wild have the most in the NHL with 26– but it does make playing catch-up a lot more difficult, especially when giving other conference opponents the extra point. They’ve found themselves near the bott...
The Flyers pulled out yet another gutsy effort. With eleven forwards, Philadelphia played a tight game before scoring two empty net goals to defeat San Jose 4-1 on Saturday afternoon. Matvei Michkov got his 100th career point, Travis Konecny got his 60th of the season, and the Flyers stayed in the hunt with a perfect West Coast road trip.
The basics
First period: No scoring Second period: 2:26 – Owen Tippett (Trevor Zegras, Noah Juulsen), 13:12 – Dmitry Orlov (William Eklund, Macklin...
Thankfully, this one is not going to force us to stay up way too late. The Flyers are playing their final game of their California road trip and after taking down both the Kings and Ducks earlier this week (needing more than three periods to do so in each game), they’re up in The Bay and about to face Macklin Celebrini and his San Jose Sharks.
Can the Flyers now make it three wins in three games for their California road trip?
Puck drop: 10:30 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: ...
At the end of Thursday evening, Matvei Michkov buried a shot behind Kings netminder Darcy Kuemper that few would’ve had a chance of stopping. He did a quiet celebration resembling a vintage Danny Briere, but knew the Flyers at least could live to fight another day. The Philadelphia Flyers winger then scored the shootout-deciding goal that gave his team the required two points . Considering just how hard he got rocked by Kings defenseman Drew Doughty in the third period, it was incredible that ...
It’s no secret that the Philadelphia Flyers need help at the center position. It’s maybe the loudest thing that the entire fan base has been screaming about for this entire decade. While they have spent several high-end assets trying to address it, what if there was someone that fits the team almost too well available for absolutely free?
Vitali Pinchuk is the top KHL free agent this summer and should sign with an NHL team before next season to start his pro career in North America. On pa...
*The West Coast trip continues, and the Flyers delivered perhaps their most Flyers After Dark performance possible on the way to the shootout win over the Kings last night (or, you know, earlier today). RECAP: [ BSH ]
*The Flyers were without Sean Couturier for that one, as he’s out with an upper-body injury. No update yet as far as his timeline is concerned, but that’s something to keep an eye on. [ BSH ]
*The Flyers have gotten themselves on a nice little run here, and these are so...
The Flyers closed out their back-to-back tonight in Los Angeles, and despite having to battle through a little bit of fatigue and a whole lot of depletion in their lineup, they were able to deliver a gutsy effort on the way to a shootout win, keeping their desperate push to stay in the playoff race alive.
The Basics
First period: 19:31- Quinton Byfield (Moore, Laferriere) Second period: :26- Travis Konecny (Ristolainen, Bump), :47- Anze Kopitar (Clarke, Panarin), 4:12- Noah Cates (Mi...
A season of struggle only gets worse for Sean Couturier, as he’ll miss tonight’s game against the Kings with an undisclosed upper-body injury, according to Rick Tocchet.
The Flyers captain has looked a step slower this season, only producing seven goals and 22 points throughout his 66 games, and being relegated to fourth line duties at five-on-five as of late. However, nothing about his performance against Anaheim on the first night of the Flyers’ west coast back-to-back suggested t...
The Flyers are back in action tonight, looking to close out the back-to-back well and head into the final game of the roadtrip on Saturday on a high note. They’re riding high after a huge win over that budding rival Ducks team, but the next challenge will be to avoid any hangover from that win, as they head to Los Angeles to face off against the Kings.
Puck drop: 10:30 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
Owen Tippett’s been on a t...
The major talking point through this entire Philadelphia Flyers season is about which wingers will eventually make way and be moved from this team. It almost feels like a good problem to have, but the Flyers have way too many quality top-nine wingers as of right now and will need to find new homes for them. But one player that has been consistently seen as potentially the odd man out, is becoming someone the Flyers just can absolutely not part ways with.
It’s a picture that has already be...
The Philadelphia Flyers were not one of the busiest teams at the trade deadline this year, but they reportedly were calling the Montreal Canadiens about a goal-scoring winger that they probably could’ve had for very cheap.
Instead of adding a whole lot, the Flyers paid more attention to addressing some problems at the trade deadline. They moved from their winger surplus and got a very high-potential defenseman in the Bobby Brink-David Jiricek deal with the Minnesota Wild. They were able t...
It’s been well-documented that newly-acquired defenseman David Jircek’s first game with the Phantoms was, at the very least, an exciting one — the clip of him tripping over his own feet, falling down, and leaving the Charlotte player uncovered to walk in and score got a lot of play, but after that challenging start to his Phantoms tenure, Jircek has really settled in quite nicely, and showcased some of the most exciting elements of his game as he’s continued to get comfortable and ramp up.
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*The Flyers kicked off their road trip in Anaheim last night, and that return was a really meaningful one for Trevor Zegras. [ The Athletic ]
*Heading into it, we also got a chance to check in with Former Flyer Ryan Poehling. [ Inquirer ]
*Anyway, that game in Anaheim was a wild one, but the Flyers came away with the win in the end. RECAP: [ BSH ]
*We also got a bit of news elsewhere in the organization, as forward prospect Owen McLaughlin was signed to an AHL contract, so he’ll...
The Flyers blew a regulation win late in the third, but they battled back in an old-fashioned ramshackle overtime to defeat Anaheim 3-2. It marked the return of Trevor Zegras to Anaheim, and opened up the important West Coast trip with an almost must win.
The Basics
First period: 2:51- Luke Glendening (Cam York, Garnet Hathaway) Second period: 7:53- Owen Tippett (Travis Sanheim), 19:22- William Gauthier (Pavel Mintyukov) (PPG) Third period: 18:06- Leo Carlsson (Troy Terry, William Ga...
It’s here. The Philadelphia Flyers are in Anaheim facing the Ducks and it’s yet another reunion of sorts. The headline will of course be Cutter Gauthier as we wonder just how fans will react to him facing the team he rejected, but Trevor Zegras is back in Southern California for the first time since his trade to the Flyers.
Puck drop: 10:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
The Flyers are going to be making some changes this summer and the...
The Philadelphia Flyers are giving one of their center prospects an audition down the minor leagues instead of an NHL contract right now.
Owen McLaughlin, a seventh-round draft pick (206th overall) of the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2021 NHL Draft, will join the Lehigh Valley Phantoms for the remainder of the 2025-26 season. McLaughlin signed an American Hockey League deal following completing his first season with Boston University in Hockey East. The Flyers didn’t make the news official,...
As we head into the final month of a regular season that will end with likely no playoffs in Philadelphia, the look over to next season and what that team can look like has started. But before there can be any additions or upgrades on certain positions in the lineup, there has to be subtractions. There could be a whole lot this summer.
The Flyers are still keen on ultimately improving for next season — maybe the most obvious statement of just about every single sports team ever — so there...
*Two days off means two days off for people who write about the Flyers too, it seems, because it’s a thin links day, folks! There was a bit of news yesterday, though: the Flyers signed nepo baby (joking!) Cole Knuble to his entry-level contract. [ BSH ]
*Speaking of prospects, we have a brand new prospect report, hot off the press. [ BSH ]
*If you are a Flyers fan of a particular persuasion — the kind of persuasion that would like Matvei Michkov to play the position he’s played his w...
Another week, another prospect report. Stick with us as we dig into a productive little weekend for the Phantoms, wrap up the semifinals of the NCAA conference tournaments, and more!
The News of the Week
While this past weekend saw one newly signed prospect making his AHL debut, with Noah Powell jumping right into the fire with the Phantoms for their three-in-three, another debut won’t be far away. The Flyers announced this afternoon that they’ve signed center Cole Knuble to his entr...