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 […]
VOORHEES – There were several reasons why Flyers coach Alain Vigneault placed brand new rookie Morgan Frost on a line with wily “old’’ veteran Claude Giroux. Some more obvious than others. Vigneault wanted to get […]
VOORHEES – Everyone knew Morgan Frost would be a Flyer someday, it was just a matter of when. When turned out to be Monday when the 2017 first-round (27th overall) draft pick was promoted from […]
PHILADELPHIA – Even an early three-goal lead couldn’t prevent the Flyers from creating one of their nightly close-game dramas. Philadelphia took that 3-0 edge into the third period against the New York Islanders on Saturday […]
PHILADELPHIA – Perhaps overshadowed by the Flyers’ recent 5-1-2 surge was a rather severe scoring slump which has coach Alain Vigneault a bit concerned. Heading into Saturday night’s game, the Flyers had scored just 26 […]
PHILADELPHIA – When a team is leaving its goalie out to dry in the first period of a game, it’s time for the coach to take action. That’s exactly what Alain Vigneault did on Wednesday […]
PHILADELPHIA – For awhile there it looked for all the world like that Flyers’ fourth-line center spot was going to be held by a Russian, be it Mikhail Vorobyev or German Rubtsov. And somewhere down […]
VOORHEES – You say the Flyers are off to their fastest start since the 2011-12 season – hey, what’s the world coming to? It’s been that long since Philly got out of the gate this […]
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