VOORHEES, N.J. – Do you have five minutes? Good. Because it’s going to take just about that long to review all of Wayne Simmonds’ injuries this past season. Let’s see if we have them all: […]
In a world where the salary cap remains king of hockey, every general manager has some tough decisions to make at season’s end. The Flyers’ Ron Hextall is no exception. While he appears to be […]
When the Flyers pack their bags on Tuesday and head home for the summer, no doubt they will hear about the production of their veteran star players as they head out the door. The numbers […]
PHILADELPHIA – It wasn’t just that they lost, but the way they lost, which made it so extra painful. After taking a 4-2 lead late into the second period, the Flyers surrendered five unanswered goals […]
PHILADELPHIA – First it was Sean Couturier biting the bullet to play in Game 5, despite dealing with a painful torn medial collateral ligament in his right knee. On Sunday, the baton for courage was […]
Home-ice dis-advantage? Of the 16 NHL teams to make the Stanley Cup playoffs, take a guess which one finished the regular season with the fewest home wins. That would be your Philadelphia Flyers. They managed […]
There was so much commotion about Sean Couturier’s winning goal and Michal Neuvirth’s brilliant goaltending that a collision involving Ivan Provorov late in Friday night’s Game 5 didn’t garner much attention. But maybe it should […]
PITTSBURGH – Shayne Gostisbehere could only marvel at the performances of some of his veteran teammates in Friday night’s stay-alive 4-2 win over the Penguins. Sean Couturier, of course, was the headliner. But Michal Neuvirth, […]
PITTSBURGH – Claude Giroux said the other day if the Flyers were going down, they would be going down swinging. Well, Friday night they came out swinging and they didn’t go down. […]
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