The top line of Sean Couturier, Claude Giroux and Jake Voracek has yet to score in the Eastern Conference round-robin tournament and yet the Flyers are 2-0. What does that tll you about their depth […]
The Flyers find themselves in position to win the Eastern Conference round robin tournament and they have Kevin Hayes to thank for it. Hayes made exceptional plays on all three Flyers goals on Thursday, leading […]
Alain Vigneault’s decision to start Brian Elliott in goal for the Flyers against Washington on Thursday hardly came as a surprise. The head coach not only has complete faith in the 35-year-old netminder, he also […]
Getting Oskar Lindblom back into a Flyers uniform for practice would be inspiration enough. But what if he actually competed in a playoff game? That would be something they would be talking about a hundred […]
It won’t take long for Flyers rookie Joel Farabee to prove whether he belongs in a playoff game lineup. Head coach Alain Vigneault made it known Farabee will replace the injured Michael Raffl when Philadelphia […]
Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin one night, David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand another. Those superstars can make any power play look intimidating, be it home, away or at a “neutral’’ site like the playoff bubble […]
Slew-footing in hockey is about as dirty as it gets, so when Flyers coach Alain Vigneault even implied Boston’s Jeremy Lauzon may have committed such an act against the Flyers’ Michael Raffl on Sunday, eyebrows […]
Four-line depth can fuel a successful playoff run and the Flyers demonstrated why in Sunday’s successful round-robin opener. Unexpected goals by fourth-liners Michael Raffl and Nate Thompson helped power the Flyers to a 4-1 win […]
It will be 143 days since the Flyers played a meaningful hockey game, so do you think they’re a little excited? When the Flyers take on the Boston Bruins at 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon at […]
No doubt there were some hard roster decisions for the Flyers to make heading into the first round-robin game but the final lineup came down to the eye tests from training camp. In the end, […]
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