LOS ANGELES – If just making the playoffs was the Flyers’ bottom-line objective this season, they are in pretty good shape as the schedule begins the second half. Due to an outstanding home record (13-2-4) […]
Having only a few days to compile a Flyers’ All-Decade Team that included hundreds of players and games certainly keeps the holiday week from getting dull. Especially when it comes down to those tough decisions: […]
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 […]
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