PHILADELPHIA – The most dreaded word in hockey lexicon probably isn’t penalized, suspended or injured. It’s benched. In the National Hockey League, being a healthy scratch is the ultimate humiliation. It usually means a player […]
The Flyers had already won once at Carolina this year and were knocking on the door for a second victory. But the Hurricanes’ Jordan Martinook scored with 3:50 left in […]
With so much attention being paid to the week leading up to the NHL trade deadline, not a lot is being said about what teams perceived as “sellers’’ – like the Flyers — will […]
With Flyers center Scott Laughton unofficially ruled out for Saturday afternoon’s game at Carolina, the team recalled Morgan Frost from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Friday. Laughton suffered a head injury in Thursday night’s 6-3 […]
Maybe the Flyers were still groggy from their afternoon naps but whatever the reason, the team didn’t wake up until the second period of Thursday night’s game at Florida. After giving up four goals in […]
Rasmus Ristolainen has spent his first season in Philadelphia playing old-time Flyers hockey and now he gets to do it for five more years. On Thursday, the team announced it has signed the 27-year-old defenseman […]
There was really nothing wrong with defenseman Cam York’s initial trial with the Flyers. It’s just that the team believed he could use more playing time with the Phantoms. How much progress he […]
PHILADELPHIA – On a night when the Flyers gave up 48 shots to Vegas, all bets were off on a possible Philadelphia victory. Then along came goaltender Carter Hart to beat the odds.’ […]
If the Flyers’ stumbling power play really is so “broke,’’ why not fix it? The cold, bold numbers are all you need to see to realize something has to change. Over the […]
Apparently the message got through loud and clear. One day after Flyers interim head coach Mike Yeo made it known to his players their recent efforts (including a humiliating 5-4 loss to […]
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