Hockey

       PHILADELPHIA — It certainly was only a fitting gesture for the Flyers to win a game on a night when they celebrated the 1,000th game of Claude Giroux’s storied career.     In a season filled […]

It’s happened only one other time in team history, so why wouldn’t the Flyers want to make a big deal out of Thursday night’s celebration to commemorate Claude Giroux’s 1,000th NHL game? From special pre-game […]

Perhaps referencing a line or two from the old “Win one for the Gipper” speech of sports movie lore, Flyers head coach Mike Yeo suggested his team take a “Win one for Giroux” approach for […]

Sean Couturier has developed into one of the best Flyers of this generation and a lot of the credit for that has to go to Claude Giroux. According to Couturier, it was Giroux who played […]

Scott Hartnell remembers the time Claude Giroux was sitting in a Nashville bar when Flyer tough guy Craig Berube walked in. Giroux, competitive-to-a-fault at everything from poker to ping-pong, decided to challenge Berube – at […]

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 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 […]