NEW YORK – One promising subtext to the Flyers’ unexpected five-game winning streak has been the resurging play of their youth corps. Second-year guys like Travis Sanheim and Oskar Lindblom jump out at you. Sanheim […]
He was just 12 days away from having his life changed for the better forever when some not-so-divine intervention altered the plan. Adam Hyman had been waiting for more than a year to find someone […]
NEW YORK – And to think that only a week ago goaltender Anthony Stolarz was playing for the Phantoms, trying to get his legs back after a month-long injury absence. Tuesday night, the […]
NEW YORK – At 6 p.m., Christian Folin was enjoying his dinner at home, knowing he wasn’t scheduled to play in Monday night’s game vs. Winnipeg. At precisely 6:34, the phone rang. A voice said: […]
PHILADELPHIA – There’s nothing better to get a hockey team playing loosey-goosey than to tell it the playoffs are simply a dream. Just look at how the Flyers performed against the Central Division-leading Winnipeg Jets […]
VOORHEES – When a general manager uses words like “atrocious’’ to describe his team’s play, you know he’s clearly unhappy with the franchise’s current state of affairs. So when Flyers GM Chuck Fletcher rolled that […]
VOORHEES – Either Mikhail Vorobyev impressed the Flyers with an improved work ethic in his 32-game return to the Phantoms or the Flyers’ season is beyond hope and it’s time to take […]
VOORHEES – There’s more than just pride at stake as the Flyers embark on the final 35 games after the bye week. You might say there are jobs involved, starting with […]
We interrupt our regularly scheduled less-than-compelling Flyers season for this special announcement: Simon Gagne belongs in the Flyers Hall of Fame. Then again, so do Rick Tocchet, Mark Recchi and Paul Holmgren. Those gentlemen have […]
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