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Flyers seen as buyers but trade bargains look scarce
TAMPA – Here we are, just nine days from the NHL trade deadline, and no one is quite sure what the Flyers are about to do to improve their roster. They entered […]
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Playoffs? Five things Flyers need to do to get there
With only about two months left in the season, the Flyers are once again put in a position where they have to up their play to get into postseason action. Here, in our opinion, are […]
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Out of a few thousand hockey games, here’s our perfect 10
Waiting to receive the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association’s coveted Stan Hochman Award the other night, it dawned on me that I’ve covered a few hockey games in my time. Maybe a few thousand. […]
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Flyers’ kids are alright but progress still a bit slow
Hardly anyone was expecting this year’s freshman class to produce a Travis Konecny or an Ivan Provorov, two players who made an instant impact at age 19 four seasons back. That said, the Flyers were […]
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Will Flyers make trade to fill Lindblom-Patrick void?
With the NHL trade deadline coming up on Feb. 24, there’s speculation around every team which moves they might or might not make. The Flyers are no exception. More than a half-season of work has […]
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Flyers’ glass half-full at halfway point
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) […]
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Picking our Flyers’ All-Decade Team required some tough decisions
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: […]
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In the game of life, hockey no longer a high priority for Lindblom
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, […]
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Respect for Vigneault big part of Flyers’ fast start
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 […]
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Provorov’s last missed game? Age 10, chicken pox
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 […]