Yes, we know defense in the NHL involves all six players on the ice. But when you continuously have more pucks in your own net than the other guys’, people start pointing at the two […]
One day after trading for veteran defenseman Matt Niskanen, Flyers general manager Chuck Fletcher didn’t surprise anybody by buying out the last year of Andrew MacDonald’s contract. Even if the trade for Niskanen hadn’t taken […]
They have shooters who can put the puck in the net. They have defensemen who can stymie that process by an opponent. And they have a goaltender who figures to be among the best for […]
No doubt there are more than a few Flyers fans watching these Stanley Cup playoffs and wondering about St. Louis Blues coach Craig Berube. Maybe Berube doesn’t quite qualify for membership in the […]
This is a column which could have – and should have – been written a long time ago. To be exact, right around the time we were one of the first to start beating the […]
Now that the Flyers have hired their first coaching staff with proven NHL experience in nearly a decade, we can make one close-to-surefire prediction: The responsibility for getting back to serious contention now lies squarely […]
There may not be a lot of “favorites’’ still left standing in the Stanley Cup playoffs, but that certainly hasn’t detracted from the level of excitement on a nightly basis. Game 7s all over the […]
One man made history with his vision of how the sport of hockey should be played. The other possessed the ability to tell the world of that unique genius. Both have now left us with […]
It certainly was the Flyers’ winter of discontent but there might be a silver lining to the once cloudy outlook. When the season ended, the Flyers appeared to be a long way from any sort […]
Well, don’t say we didn’t warn you it was going to be difficult to predict winners in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. If you had all four division winners going out for […]
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