When hockey coaches, some of the coolest customers on the planet, start to get choked up, you know it has to be a highly emotional moment. And it doesn’t get much more elevated than Sunday […]
While Flyers general manager Chuck Fletcher deserves much of the credit for getting the franchise back on track in terms of positive results, he will be the first to tell you he’s had a lot […]
Rather than have his team skate off the hangover from Friday’s 5-0 debacle-like loss to the Montreal Canadiens, Flyers coach Alain Vigneault elected to give his players a day off on Saturday. Perhaps they spent […]
O for Canada. That’s the number of goals Sean Couturier, Claude Giroux and Travis Konecny have scored in games that mattered since the Flyers arrived in Toronto for the Stanley Cup playoffs. Those are some […]
Alain Vigneault’s frown said it all. “We got our butts kicked today,’’ the Flyers coach remarked after a convincing 5-0 loss to Montreal in Game 2 of the opening round. “No doubt they outplayed us […]
At times like these, the game of hockey takes a backseat to real life. Just before Thursday’s press briefing, Flyers coach Alain Vigneault learned his good friend, Montreal Canadiens coach Claude Julien, had been hospitalized […]
Anyone who’s been watching Flyers games of recent vintage knows there are two Shayne Gostisbeheres. There’s the semi-injured one, like the fellow who’s been struggling with lower body issues which compromise his speed and agility. […]
If Carter Hart experienced any nervousness in his first “official’’ Stanley Cup playoff game Wednesday night, it certainly didn’t show. On the eve of his 22nd birthday the Flyers goaltender looked calm and composed against […]
It’s been eight long years since the Flyers won a Stanley Cup playoff series and that number alone should make some people nervous. But throw in the pressure of being the No. 1 seed in […]
It’s impossible to state how much of an inspiration it is for the Flyers to have Oskar Lindblom finally back with them in Toronto. Lindblom just returned via a flight from Sweden and will have […]
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