FFH1112 FLY notes/Patrick, etc. – 11/12 By Wayne Fish PHILADELPHIA – The good news is the Flyers’ top line of Sean Couturier, Claude Giroux and Jake Voracek had 60 points heading into Saturday night’s game […]
PHILADELPHIA – It must have taken more than a little fortitude for coach Dave Hakstol to move Claude Giroux away from center after some 656 NHL games. But that he did, sliding Sean Couturier into […]
In baseball, they call them utility players. In hockey, the word “valuable’’ might seem more apropos. For example, just look at the Flyers new center, uh, left wing, uh, right wing Jori Lehtera. The fact […]
Most NHL players never get to log 30 minutes of ice time in a regulation-time game for their entire career. Then you have Ivan Provorov, who might AVERAGE 30 minutes a game for a season […]
News of any professional athlete’s death hits hard in the sports community. But word of the passing of popular former Phillies pitcher Roy “Doc’’ Halladay had an especially big emotional impact on Philadelphia, including the […]
First Andrew MacDonald went down with a knee injury. Then Radko Gudas took an elbow to the head at Chicago last week and suddenly the Flyers’ defense almost didn’t look old enough to drink or […]
When the Flyers have a chance to give back to our nation’s service men and women, they come skating faster than a last-minute breakaway. That was the case once again on Monday as Wayne Simmonds […]
Today I talked to this guy.
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