NEW YORK – One promising subtext to the Flyers’ unexpected five-game winning streak has been the resurging play of their youth corps. Second-year guys like Travis Sanheim and Oskar Lindblom jump out at you. Sanheim […]
NEW YORK – And to think that only a week ago goaltender Anthony Stolarz was playing for the Phantoms, trying to get his legs back after a month-long injury absence. Tuesday night, the […]
NEW YORK – At 6 p.m., Christian Folin was enjoying his dinner at home, knowing he wasn’t scheduled to play in Monday night’s game vs. Winnipeg. At precisely 6:34, the phone rang. A voice said: […]
PHILADELPHIA – There’s nothing better to get a hockey team playing loosey-goosey than to tell it the playoffs are simply a dream. Just look at how the Flyers performed against the Central Division-leading Winnipeg Jets […]
VOORHEES – When a general manager uses words like “atrocious’’ to describe his team’s play, you know he’s clearly unhappy with the franchise’s current state of affairs. So when Flyers GM Chuck Fletcher rolled that […]
VOORHEES – Either Mikhail Vorobyev impressed the Flyers with an improved work ethic in his 32-game return to the Phantoms or the Flyers’ season is beyond hope and it’s time to take […]
VOORHEES – There’s more than just pride at stake as the Flyers embark on the final 35 games after the bye week. You might say there are jobs involved, starting with […]
In the past couple years, it looked like forward Taylor Leier might figure into the Flyers’ future plans. That speculation ended late Thursday when the Flyers traded him to Buffalo in exchange for Justin Bailey. […]
PHILADELPHIA — Yes, Sean Couturier had a natural hat trick, Carter Hart stood on his head in goal and Claude Giroux recorded his 500th career assist. But the real heroes of Wednesday night’s nationally televised […]
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