It’s a Monday morning practice and the Flyers, like most people in any line of work, are a little slow getting the old engines started. Players skate slowly in small circles, juggling pucks on the […]
When a new GM faces the challenge of maintaining his predecessor’s second-ranked, “A” (The Hockey News, 2018) development system, it helps to have a last name like Fletcher. Yet it wouldn’t matter if your first […]
Awards season is just around the corner and one honor which always captures the eye is the Pelle Lindbergh Memorial Trophy for most improved Flyer. It’s recognition that is particularly special to the players because […]
If Wayne Simmonds in fact competes in his last game as a hometown player in Philadelphia on Saturday night, what does that say about the Flyers and what they think of themselves? Here’s one opinion: […]
Since their inception in 1967, the Flyers have never won a Calder Trophy for NHL rookie of the year. But that might be changing soon. In the space of less than two weeks, we have […]
One minute he’s announcing his goaltender two, yes two, games in advance. The next, he’s cracking wise with this one-liner after a spine-tingling 1-0 win over the Rangers in which they gave up 38 shots: […]
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 […]
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