How important are assistant coaches on National Hockey League teams as they continue to learn their profession in hopes of becoming the lead man someday? Just ask Edmonton Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch, a former […]
New Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet was a former sixth-round draft choice of the team back in 1983 and went on to NHL greatness, so he can appreciate what one of his players, Noah Cates, […]
IVYLAND – It’s sort of like being accepted into an elite fraternity or sorority. Only the best of the best need apply. That was the case on Wednesday night when 34 of Bucks County’s top […]
PHILADELPHIA – Because both Keith Jones and Daniel Briere had been teammates of Rick Tocchet and vouched for his coaching ability, Flyers governor Dan Hilfirty didn’t need much time to give his stamp of approval […]
PHILADELPHIA – Rick Tocchet was always upbeat, optimistic as a Flyer player, so why would anyone expect him to be any different as the team’s next coach? That positive approach was what seemed to come […]
It took awhile but at least the Flyers didn’t have to look far to eventually find their next head coach. On Wednesday, the team hired one of its former star players, Rick Tocchet, as the […]
One minute the Flyers were tied with two other teams for a shot at the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft. The next? Relegated to sixth place overall, which was as far as […]
VOORHEES, N.J. – Some considered Jakob Pelletier almost a throw-in when the Flyers traded Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee to Calgary for a package in which Andrei Kuzmenko was the headliner back in February. But […]
VOORHEES, N.J. – Matvei Michkov didn’t quite achieve that first NHL career hat trick in the Flyers’ last game of the season in Buffalo. But he does have a three-goal plan for this summer: […]
VOORHEES, N.J. – Travis Sanheim has had enough of this playoff-less hockey. Sanheim and Travis Konecny have been through the good times and the bad ones – namely a franchise record-tying five seasons out of […]
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