At times like this, ice hockey suddenly becomes nothing more than just a game. When you take into account the challenge Oskar Lindblom faces in an upcoming battle with a rare, life-threatening form of cancer, […]
All the whispers, the laughter and the funny facial expressions came to a screeching halt the day Pat Quinn walked into the Flyers’ locker room for the first time some 40 years ago. The lantern-jawed […]
Pucks bounce off his helmet. Elbows slam into his jaw. In the corners and in front of the net, it’s a war against 220-pound forwards: Hit or be hit. Yet Ivan Provorov plays on. Night […]
When a certain local pro hockey team gets around to updating its Flyers Hall of Fame, we have just the list of worthy candidates for induction. Many of you have read in a past column […]
Preseason prognostications were all over the map when it came to the Flyers. Some publications had the Flyers – who played their 20th game Saturday night — making the playoffs (barely), while others had them […]
Anyone who watches hockey knows players can’t live in fear of injury, a negative thought which might compromise performance. It’s a given: A damaged knee, shoulder or ankle can usually be repaired and […]
It seems rather timely that on the weekend when clocks change, we should be discussing a topic which keeps a lot of people up at night. Namely, sleep. Or lack of it. It’s no secret […]
In this age of advanced hockey analytics, there’s still one old-fashioned statistic that stands the test of time. That’s team goal differential. The formula is fairly easy: If you finish the season in the black […]
The news of New Jersey’s Nico Hischier signing a new seven-year, $50.7-million contract extension ($7.25-million salary cap hit) should raise a few eyebrows in Philadelphia. Hischier was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2017 […]
It’s always difficult to compare sports leaders from different eras. The game of hockey has changed so much over the past five-plus decades since the NHL first expanded, relying on things like statistics […]
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