Hart, strong defense close out Flyers’ 6-1 win over Leafs
PHILADELPHIA – It might have been the closest 6-1 game in Flyers history. Don’t let the final score fool you. It was 1-1 with exactly 10 minutes to play when Claude Giroux scored to put […]
PHILADELPHIA – It might have been the closest 6-1 game in Flyers history. Don’t let the final score fool you. It was 1-1 with exactly 10 minutes to play when Claude Giroux scored to put […]
PHILADELPHIA – Nolan Patrick continues to predict he’s going to play this season but, as has been the case since training camp in mid-September, he still doesn’t know when. The Flyers’ third-year center, sidelined the […]
Even though they’re coming off perhaps their best November in franchise history and continuing their fastest overall start since 2011-12, the Flyers insist they don’t want to start thinking big picture. That’s probably code for […]
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 […]
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