It’s a familiar lament in any sport: “If not for a few mistakes, we could have. . .’’ Isn’t that stating the obvious? Well, in the Flyers’ case on Sunday night in Game 4 against […]
When you’re the regular-season goals leader for a hockey team and then produce zero in 13 postseason games, one might think the pressure would start to mount. Yet if Travis Konecny is feeling any heat […]
The effort was better but the outcome wasn’t. Faced with a crucial situation in Game 4 of their playoff series with the New York Islanders on Sunday night, the Flyers generated more energy […]
If ever the Flyers needed some inspiration, it was for Sunday night’s Game 4 of their playoff series with the Islanders. And when a familiar face wearing a No. 23 uniform skated onto the ice […]
If there’s such a thing as giving a team a pep talk through the media, Alain Vigneault did his best early Sunday afternoon. With his Flyers down 2-1 in their best-of-seven playoff series, […]
Listing the reasons why the Flyers now find themselves trailing the New York Islanders in their best-of-seven playoff series is as easy as 1, 2, 3. A lousy first period led […]
Let’s face it, the Flyers could very well have been one bad bounce away from being down 3-0 in their playoff series with the Islanders. And while you can’t dismiss the Boston “Three Party’’ of […]
Name any of the great Flyers coaches — be it Fred Shero, Pat Quinn, Mike Keenan or Ken Hitchcock — and they all had one thing in common: Focus. For game preparation, […]
Hockey teams which win the first half of back-to-back games can’t wait to get out there and play the second, the theory being that fabled “momentum’’ is squarely on their side. So it would have […]
In the NHL’s latest chapter of the “better late than never’’ book, the league finally made a statement about the Jacob Blake shooting by calling off Thursday night’s game. Basketball, baseball and other sports had […]
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