Having your No. 1 goaltender get hurt in a regular-season game is a bad thing. But losing him to injury in a meaningless preseason game can give a team a real headache. […]
HERSHEY – Although he had played in 19 NHL games, including 10 in the playoffs, Porter Martone had never been through the rigors of a Flyers training camp and preseason schedule before. So the right […]
The Flyers reduced their roster by 15 players today. Assigned to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms: >Brady Berard, F. >Alex Ciernik, F. >Devin Kaplan, F. >Owen McLaughlin, F. >Ilya Pautov, F. >Zayde Wisdom, F. >Jackson Edward, […]
VOORHEES, N.J. – There was a bit of a revolving door at the Flyers’ No. 6 defense spot last season but those days may be coming to an end. David Jiricek, who was picked up […]
VOORHEES, N.J. – Once a hockey player finds himself right in the middle of the world’s fastest game, it’s a tough thing to skate away from him. The Flyers’ Denver Barkey, all 5-foot-10, 170 pounds […]
VOORHEES, N.J. – Not so long ago, plus-minus statistics were a pretty big deal in hockey. They were a good way to measure if a player was good at both ends of the rink. […]
The Flyers’ power play has been bad for so long fans are having trouble remembering when it was good. One has to go back at least six years to when it was respectable. […]
VOORHEES, N.J. – The other day Flyers general manager Daniel Briere said what keeps him awake at night is worrying that last year’s unexpected strong finish might be taken for granted by his team. On […]
VOORHEES, N.J. – Slava Kuznetsov’s job as interpreter for Matvei Michkov is just about coming to an end and the Flyers couldn’t be happier. In his first two seasons in and around Philadelphia, the young […]
VOORHEES, N.J. – A number of inquiries at Tuesday’s press briefing involved Matvei Michkov, the enigmatic Russian forward who was more than a bit of a puzzle last season. After a strong rookie year in […]
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