During the early stages of the pandemic, some players spent their time competing in video games or watching Netflix. A few, like Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov, found some private ice, in his case near Wilkes-Barre […]
Bernie Parent endured the blast furnace pressure of playoff hockey at an early age, as did Pelle Lindbergh and Ron Hextall. History tells us all three would go on to greatness, albeit shorter […]
Just call them the Overtime Kids. For the third time in their playoff series with the Islanders, the Flyers scored in sudden-death on Thursday night, grabbing a 5-4 victory in double overtime. The victory ties […]
Just having him in the lineup would have supplied enough inspiration for a weekful of games. But Oskar Lindblom didn’t just play a token role in his return to National Hockey League action on Thursday […]
Think these Flyers are worried that the New York Islanders have never lost a series after leading 3-1 (10-0) and Philadelphia’s hockey franchise is just 1-17 when facing such a significant deficit? They’re […]
No need to wonder if Scott Laughton can handle that first-line assignment for the Flyers should Sean Couturier be unable to play in Thursday’s Game 6. Laughton already proved in admirable fashion how he’s capable […]
It’s one thing to build some momentum, it’s quite another to sustain it. Flyers coach Alain Vigneault calls his team’s last two efforts the best they’ve performed in the postseason. Yet trying to maintain that […]
It was a night of redemption for not one, not two but three Flyers. Scott Laughton, who had been scratched from a game and then pushed to lower-line duty recently, came up with […]
One thing, among many, the Flyers like about their coach is he doesn’t have a long-term doghouse. A player can be scratched one night and a few games later find himself on the […]
When a coach announces into a National Hockey League microphone that his best players need to start wearing their “big-boy pants,’’ it’s a good bet there’s a lot on the line. And there is. The […]
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