It’s a tradition that’s almost as old as hockey itself. Your favorite team gets eliminated from the playoffs, so now what? Well, you look around at the remaining teams to find ex-players from your team […]
What were they looking at? I’m talking about my fellow Professional Hockey Writers Association brethren who somehow managed to leave the Flyers’ Claude Giroux off their top three finalists for the NHL’s Hart Trophy (most […]
PHILADELPHIA – Considering what the Flyers achieved after bottoming out in early December (following a 10-game winless streak), the season as a whole must be viewed as a positive one. Whether that translates into greater […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The Flyers haven’t had a goalie capable of winning a Stanley Cup since…. (fill in the blank with “before the new millennium”, “a young Ron Hextall,” “Pelle […]
PHILADELPHIA – And just like that, Claude Giroux must be considered a favorite to win the Hart Trophy for the NHL’s most valuable player. Oh, a case can be made for Tampa’s Nikita Kucherov, Colorado’s […]
Back in September, very few hockey publications had the Flyers projected to make the playoffs. The reasons? Many. No one was sure if Claude Giroux, coming off two sub-par seasons due to injury, could make […]
If the Flyers thought injuries to both of their regular goaltenders was a significant hurdle to overcome, or just the advent of the type of late-season adversity any and every good team has to overcome […]
Claude Giroux recently passed John LeClair and Tim Kerr to move into sixth place on the Flyers’ alltime scoring list. Eric Lindros, fifth on that chart (six points ahead at 659 points), figures to be […]
Amid the chaos, Danny Briere was as cool as a cucumber. He sat at his stall inside Boston’s TD Garden, quietly removing his gear. He couldn’t really move because the throng of reporters […]
It was a 16-year journey taking me around the world but when the 2018 Winter Olympics get underway this weekend, they’re going to start without me. And that leaves me with a lot […]
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