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PHILADELPHIA – For Joel Farabee, it will be his first NHL playoff stretch drive experience. For James van Riemsdyk, it will be one of many. But the two figure to share one common denominator: The […]

PHILADELPHIA – A win over the Pittsburgh Penguins is uncommon enough, but when a team crafts a shutout the way the Flyers did on Tuesday night, well, that’s rare artwork. While goaltender Brian Elliott did […]

Justin Braun is back in business. The Flyers’ defenseman missed six games with a groin strain but was scheduled to return to the line-up for Saturday night’s game against the Los Angeles Kings. “He’s been […]

PHILADELPHIA – You could see the letdown coming a mile away. After knocking off three of the four best teams in the NHL – including the Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues in a white-knuckle […]

PHILADELPHIA – Alain Vigneault wasn’t taking any chances with veteran goaltender Brian Elliott’s health. Rather than start him in back-to-back games, the Flyers coach decided to have backup goaltender Alex Lyon start against the Montreal […]

Last season the Flyers needed a team record eight goaltenders to make it through the 82-game schedule. This season they had got through the minimum of two for the first 46 games. But that streak […]

PHILADELPHIA – While the season is down to its last 36 games, the Flyers are still hopeful of getting Nolan Patrick back at some point. The 21-year-old center has missed the entire campaign due to […]

VOORHEES – There’s plenty of room for improvement with this season’s Flyers team but from an overall viewpoint, president/general manager Chuck Fletcher sounds satisfied with the product. As he pointed out at Tuesday’s press briefing […]

PHILADELPHIA – When the Flyers staggered home from their holiday road trip at 1-4-1 and saw on the schedule they were about to play three of the best teams in the NHL, they could have […]