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 […]
If you’re going to seek counsel on an issue as complex as how racial diversity relates to professional sports, it never hurts to consult with someone you know who’s in the know. That’s why it […]
Doing its best at some damage control, the National Hockey League finally got involved with the protest movement against the Jacob Blake shooting by postponing Thursday’s two scheduled playoff games, including the Flyers-Islanders match. Also […]
When Pennsbury High School graduate Troy Vincent roamed the defensive backfield for the Eagles in the 1990s, no one played the position any tougher. But when Vincent, now the NFL’s executive vice president of football […]
For high school cross country, it’s going to feel just the way it has for the past hundred years. The actual running part, that is. The rest? Who knows? People in authority are setting policy […]
If someone from the Flyers organization is going to comment about the NHL’s reaction to the Jakob Blake shooting protests, it’s not going to be Flyers coach Alain Vigneault. Understandably, Vigneault had his eyes stuck […]
Some teams might have packed it up and called it a day after coughing up a three-goal lead, the last of those with only 2:09 to play. But not the Flyers. After […]
The Flyers knew they weren’t going far without their team MVP player, Sean Couturier, playing at his best. And through the first 10 games of these playoffs, he certainly wasn’t his regular talented […]
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