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 […]
It’s a familiar lament in any sport: “If not for a few mistakes, we could have. . .’’ Isn’t that stating the obvious? Well, in the Flyers’ case on Sunday night in Game 4 against […]
When you’re the regular-season goals leader for a hockey team and then produce zero in 13 postseason games, one might think the pressure would start to mount. Yet if Travis Konecny is feeling any heat […]
The effort was better but the outcome wasn’t. Faced with a crucial situation in Game 4 of their playoff series with the New York Islanders on Sunday night, the Flyers generated more energy […]
If ever the Flyers needed some inspiration, it was for Sunday night’s Game 4 of their playoff series with the Islanders. And when a familiar face wearing a No. 23 uniform skated onto the ice […]
If there’s such a thing as giving a team a pep talk through the media, Alain Vigneault did his best early Sunday afternoon. With his Flyers down 2-1 in their best-of-seven playoff series, […]
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