When an athlete goes to a doctor with a medical issue, he wants to consult with someone who speaks the same sports language. Ideally, the expert has already run “in the patient’s shoes,’’ […]
No need to wonder if Scott Laughton can handle that first-line assignment for the Flyers should Sean Couturier be unable to play in Thursday’s Game 6. Laughton already proved in admirable fashion how he’s capable […]
It’s one thing to build some momentum, it’s quite another to sustain it. Flyers coach Alain Vigneault calls his team’s last two efforts the best they’ve performed in the postseason. Yet trying to maintain that […]
It was a night of redemption for not one, not two but three Flyers. Scott Laughton, who had been scratched from a game and then pushed to lower-line duty recently, came up with […]
One thing, among many, the Flyers like about their coach is he doesn’t have a long-term doghouse. A player can be scratched one night and a few games later find himself on the […]
When a coach announces into a National Hockey League microphone that his best players need to start wearing their “big-boy pants,’’ it’s a good bet there’s a lot on the line. And there is. The […]
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