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 […]
While this season doesn’t look like it will turn out quite as badly as the franchise’s worst in 2006-07, there are some similarities. In both campaigns, the general manager and coaching positions changed hands. Both […]
If you walked into your favorite deli and saw a sign that said you had an 18.5 percent chance of winning a hundred gazillion dollars with a lottery ticket, you would quickly plunk down a […]
So much went haywire in the second quarter of the Flyers’ season, it’s difficult to give anyone a flattering grade on the mid-term/mid-season report card. Things went so badly, the Flyers parted ways with […]
SUNRISE, Fla. – The thought of trading Wayne Simmonds at the Feb. 25 NHL deadline brings to mind those television insurance ads involving belt buckles. The two cowboys in the commercial are discussing the merits […]
There’s no getting around one simple fact regarding NHL coaches and their players. If they don’t have relationships — that is, a good open line of communication — they have nothing. That’s what makes the […]
If the Great Dave Hakstol Experiment eventually fails, the guilty party will be identified by one word: Inconsistency. In his three-plus years at the Flyers’ helm, the head coach has been unable to […]
New GM Chuck Fletcher has already been portrayed as more on the same page with Flyers’ upper management than Ron Hextall was, but it’s important that he comes off as more than just a “yes […]
Paul Holmgren’s phone should be ringing off the hook (does that line still work in the age of cell phones?) with calls about the Flyers’ open GM position. The team president is aware that not […]
VOORHEES, N.J. – It sounded like a case of “my way or the highway’’ and in this particular instance, the highway finally prevailed. After four-plus years in charge of the Flyers, general manager Ron Hextall […]
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