*Well the Flyers once again had victory snatched by the hands of defeat or whatever that saying is, dropping last night’s game in overtime after the game-tying goal was disallowed because Owen Tippett doesn’t understand how lines work. RECAP .
*Perhaps you noticed The Big Thing: Tyson Foerster is back with the boys! Carl Grundstrom, thank you for your service. [ BSH ]
*Apparently, before the game, Leon Draisaitl gave Matvei Michkov some sage advice. That’s nice! [ Inquirer ]
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After what would have been a game-winning goal from Travis Konecny was called back for offsides with 23 seconds remaining, the Oilers stole an overtime win in Philadelphia by a score of 2-1. While the Oilers dominated for large stretches of the game, the Flyers nearly came away with an impressive win over the back-to-back Western Conference champs, but had to settle for a point on Wednesday night.
The basics
First period: 19:05 – Evan Bouchard (Connor McDavid, Matthew Savoie)
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Earlier this afternoon, Philadelphia Flyers activated winger Tyson Foerster from the Injured Reserve while placing winger Carl Grundstrom back down to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
Transaction: We've activated forward @tfoerster8 off injured reserve. In a corresponding roster move, we have loaned forward Carl Grundstrom to the @LVPhantoms (AHL). pic.twitter.com/PJ5nTIFIOx — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) November 12, 2025
Although earlier in the day during a post-practice press...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are hosting Connor McDavid and his band of Edmonton Oilers tonight. The visitors are experiencing a miserable start to their season, like every single year, but it feels different. McDavid and Draisaitl are carrying a bag full of bodies to some wins, but their recent thrashing in a 9-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche has still left a mark.
Can the Flyers take advantage of a weakened Oilers team missing a couple key forwards? Or, will Edmonton keep trying to prove do...
29 days ago
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The Flyers got the best showing of the season from their fourth line on Saturday, all without scoring a single goal. So, what's working for them, and can they be the long-term answer?
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The Philadelphia Flyers return to action on Wednesday night with a matchup against the Edmonton Oilers. The Oilers suffered a 9-1 home loss to the Avalanche on Saturday night and had to come from behind to beat the Blue Jackets on Monday night.
To put it simply, the team that has lost in the Stanley Cup Final in the last two years is struggling mightily right now. They’re without Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, leaving Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl to carry even more of the load than they usuall...
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It’s still early on in Rick Tocchet’s first season as Philadelphia Flyers head coach, and while there are still some particulars of his system that still need to be ironed out and perfected. But the one thing that seems entirely clear, even this early, is that his team will be playing in a lot of close games.
Through their first 15 games of the season, the Flyers have already played in nine one-goal games, with a 4-3-2 record in those contests. It’s been unbelievably tight, whether the F...
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*You may or may not have been off from work yesterday, but in either case we sincerely hope everyone has settled down about all of the sturm und drang about nothing that we all experienced the last few days. We’ve all more important things to focus on, like the fact that Porter Martone rules and he loves us. [ BSH ]
*Speaking of dudes that rule that love it here, if you’re a subscriber over at Charlie’s website you can check out his in-depth thoughts on the idea of the Flyers locking up T...
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Owen Tippett started the season like a man possessed, scoring five goals in his first six games of the season. All the questions about his streakiness was at the time in the rearview mirror. Now, it’s been nine games since Tippett has scored a goal, with only one assist in that time. It’s been a dry spell of sorts for the winger who sometimes looks like he’s got speed to burn.
But Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet following Tuesday’s practice said Tippett has to clean up parts of his game in...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are having an up-and-down start to the month of November and with mixed results, sometimes some creativity in the lineup is needed. Head coach Rick Tocchet unveiled a new forward line that certainly raised a whole lot of eyebrows amongst the Flyers fan base on practice Tuesday morning.
Matvei Michkov has been at the center of attention for not the right reasons through the start of this season — it’s been the focus of a whole lot of people to try and find a way to ...
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When the Philadelphia Flyers selected Porter Martone at sixth overall of the 2025 NHL Draft several months ago, there was excitement in the air. Dreams of the next great power forward calling Philadelphia home felt like a match made in heaven. While fans feel the palpable electricity at the thought of Martone being a Flyer, it also goes the other way.
Martone appeared on the most recent episode of the Empty Netters podcast to go over his journey from being traded as a 16-year-old in the O...
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*We have another week of hockey in the books for the Flyers, and it’s been a reasonably productive one for them. While we’re waiting for them to get back to game action, we’re going to recap some of their top performances of this past week. [ BSH ]
*What is not covered in our breakdown on the top performances of the week, of course, is the… shall we say… active weekend that unfolded over on Flyers twitter, and which spilled into today’s off day as well. Everybody’s talking about it! Bill ...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are 15 games in and have a record of 8-5-2. This time last season after the same amount of games they were 5-8-2. But that hasn’t been the only change that’s been rather apparent this season. A few players are starting to do a lot of good things, the special teams are coming to life, and the goaltenders are stopping shots more than last season. Here then in no particular order are five of the biggest surprises so far in this rather young 2025-26 season.
Vladar The ...
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Another week for the Flyers has come and gone, and it was a pretty good week for the Orange and Black. Across three games this week, the Flyers went 2-0-1, collecting 5 of 6 possible points.
On Tuesday and Thursday, the Flyers went into Montreal and Nashville and came away with two gutsy road victories. On Saturday, the Flyers couldn’t recover from a lackluster start in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Ottawa Senators.
So, without further ado, let’s dive into the three standout...
about 1 month ago
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The Phantoms wrapped up their first month’s worth of action over the weekend, and with a huge win over the visiting Toronto Marlies, they were able to stretch their winning streak to a season high of four games, put some separation in between them and the trailing Checkers for that third position in the standings, and continue to make some marked progress in fine tuning their team-level process.
It wasn’t a perfect showing, as the team struggled a bit in the first period to get their offe...
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When head coach John Tortorella left at the end of last season, Cam York’s play left a lot of questions for the Philadelphia Flyers. Since he was drafted 14th overall in 2019, there has been a lot of pressure placed upon his shoulders to become a key piece of an improved Flyers defense. Between being selected around marquee names like Cole Caufield, Matt Boldy, his new teammate Trevor Zegras, and being frozen out by his old coach John Tortorella, York’s future in Philadelphia seemed like it ma...
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*The Flyers closed out their road trip during the week with a big win over the Predators on Thursday, meaning that they were able to pull off a sweep and come home with a nice bit of momentum in the back pocket. Charlie has his big takeaways from that one here. [ PHLY ]
*The game was also, for Ryan O’Reilly and the Preds, a bit of a doozy. [ BSH ]
*Lest we forget, they also saw a bit of shuffling of their roster ahead of this weekend’s game, as they sent Aleksei Kolosov back down to ...
about 1 month ago
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As the Flyers keep their head above water in the tightly-packed Metropolitan Division, a lot of the defensive play has centered on a new concept. Namely, not blocking every shot every shift which former coach John Tortorella preached ad nauseam.
Rick Tocchet still wants players to block shots, but it’s not the end all and be all of the team’s success in their own end. It looks more like a Plan C or D option to prevent the other team from scoring. Tocchet is relying on lanes being cleared ...
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Philadelphia Flyers star youngster Matvei Michkov is finally looking like himself on the ice. After a rough start to his season caused by a setback in his offseason training and just not being up to full speed, the 20-year-old has now scored two goals in his last two games. And that includes a beautiful tally that he netted against the Ottawa Senators on Saturday afternoon.
But it isn’t always sunshine and rainbows as he returns to looking like the dominant force that he was for the major...
about 1 month ago
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The Philadelphia Flyers are relying heavily on Matvei Michkov panning out to be a very good player that could even flirt with stardom and be the best player on their team going forward. But unfortunately to start this season, he has played extremely poorly. Concerns about a sophomore slump has only been accented as the season has gone on and we’ve been trying to look for signs of last year’s rookie sensation still on the ice.
Michkov looked slow and not just in his skating but thinking th...
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The top-ranked Michigan State Spartans got their first taste of Big Ten play this season, hosting the No. 3 ranked Penn State Nittany Lions over the weekend. The main storyline in this matchup was Porter Martone facing off against Gavin McKenna, and the Flyers’ 2025 sixth overall pick came out on top over the course of the series.
Series recap
In their first home in about a month, the Spartans delivered a thrilling overtime victory to open up the series. What began as a defensive bat...
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The Philadelphia Flyers have an uncanny ability to make every single game a roller coaster ride. That remained true Saturday afternoon in their matinee tilt against the Ottawa Senators at Xfinity Mobile Arena.
After a rough start, the Flyers battled back to force overtime, but ultimately fell to the Senators by a score of 3-2 in OT.
The Basics
First period: 5:14 — Tim Stützle (David Perron, Ridly Greig), 6:19 — Michael Amadio (Claude Giroux, Shane Pinto) Second period: 11:23 —...
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After a quick two-game road trip during the week, the Flyers are back on home ice for a matinee matchup against the Senators. It’s a good chance for them to keep the momentum rolling after pulling off a sweep of the road trip, but sustaining momentum has been a bit of a trouble spot for this team so far this season, so we’ll see how this one goes.
Puck drop: 1:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
The Flyers pulled off a big win t...
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The Philadelphia Flyers announced they’ve recalled forward Carl Grundstrom from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
Transaction: We have recalled forward Carl Grundstrom from the @LVPhantoms (AHL). pic.twitter.com/STpv07GmVL — Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) November 7, 2025
Grundstrom, 27, was acquired by the Flyers in the deal that sent Ryan Ellis and his contract off to San Jose. Grundstrom has yet to see any action with Philadelphia, but he’ll at least be an option to get into the...
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As the calendar’s turned to November, Flyers prospects near and far have their seasons well and truly rolling. Roles are beginning to emerge, and momentum is beginning to get going, and we’re back to recap all of the week’s biggest happenings. Let’s get into it.
The News of the Week
Things were beginning to feel a little bit to quiet around here, but the Flyers gave us a little bit of movement to keep our need for news sated — yesterday, Sam Ersson was activated from IR, and Jacob Ga...
about 1 month ago
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