Pucks bounce off his helmet. Elbows slam into his jaw. In the corners and in front of the net, it’s a war against 220-pound forwards: Hit or be hit. Yet Ivan Provorov plays on. Night […]
PHILADELPHIA – They don’t call them trap games for nothing. Faced with the prospect of playing a wounded Canadiens team (five straight losses) at Montreal on Saturday afternoon, the Flyers might have been excused for […]
PHILADELPHIA – Kevin Hayes knows exactly what Shayne Gostisbehere and James van Riemsdyk had been going through. Hayes wrestled with a 12-game goal drought recently, but has scored three in his last five games, including […]
PHILADELPHIA – It’s no real mystery why Jake Voracek has suddenly caught fire these past two games after wandering 12 games in the wilderness. It’s because he’s been put on a line with “Mr. […]
PHILADELPHIA – Shayne Gostisbehere has been down this road before, so he doesn’t need a map to find his way out of his current predicament. In his second season with the Flyers, the talented defenseman […]
PHILADELPHIA – It might be early in the season but a lot of these points the Flyers are giving away could come back to bite them later in the year. The Flyers surrendered a tying […]
When a certain local pro hockey team gets around to updating its Flyers Hall of Fame, we have just the list of worthy candidates for induction. Many of you have read in a past column […]
VOORHEES – There were several reasons why Flyers coach Alain Vigneault placed brand new rookie Morgan Frost on a line with wily “old’’ veteran Claude Giroux. Some more obvious than others. Vigneault wanted to get […]
It might not be food but it could be food for thought. We all know edibles like cheesesteaks and pretzels are synonymous with Philadelphia. But can a race like a marathon capture the imagination of […]
VOORHEES – Everyone knew Morgan Frost would be a Flyer someday, it was just a matter of when. When turned out to be Monday when the 2017 first-round (27th overall) draft pick was promoted from […]
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