Articles by Marc Naples (74)
Embed from Getty Images The Philadelphia Flyers finished their California road trip last night with against the Los Angeles Kings. The Flyers continued to tweak their lineup, now with their full choice of players. The result was Matt Read scratched, and the team going with 11 forwards and seven defensemen. On this night, the […]
Embed from Getty Images When the Philadelphia Flyers made the Sam Gagner trade this summer, it was always more about what was going out than what was coming in. The Flyers sent Niklas Grossmann and Chris Pronger to Arizona, and taking Gagner back was the price of doing business. For a few days it […]
Embed from Getty Images The Philadelphia Flyers welcomed Mark Streit back to the lineup as the team looked to rebound from their loss to the Anaheim Ducks a few nights ago. With Streit's return, the team needed to do some lineup juggling, and sent little used Sam Gagner to the AHL. With the new […]
Embed from Getty Images Goals have been very hard to come by for the Anaheim Ducks this season, but at least for one night the Ducks found some snarl and goals. A relatively even start quickly turned into a controlling effort from the Ducks over the Philadelphia Flyers. After the Flyers tied the game […]
Embed from Getty Images Most pundits had the 2015-16 Philadelphia Flyers team outside the playoffs. They missed the playoffs last year, and returned largely the same team but headed by a rookie NHL coach. More hardcore fans were also aware of the Flyers stockpile of top young defensive prospects. Shayne Gostisbehere, Samuel Morin, Robert Hagg, […]
Things looked pretty bleak for the Philadelphia Flyers against the St. Louis Blues on their last game before the Christmas break. The Flyers were getting out-hustled a bit, and suddenly found themselves down, 3-0. Moments later, Chris VandeVelde scored a shorthanded goal and changed things completely. The Flyers seized all the momentum. They scored two more […]
Embed from Getty Images The Philadelphia Flyers have been playing pretty good hockey recently. One of their only bumps on the road was a 4-1 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets two weeks ago. This was the perfect opportunity for the Flyers to take revenge, as the Jackets were playing without Sergei Bobrovsky in net, […]
Embed from Getty Images As the season began, there might have been some difficulty identifying an order to the Philadelphia Flyers lines. Obviously the top line would feature Claude Giroux but was Sean Couturier going to be considered a Top-6 forward or headman the defensive minded third line? Was Pierre-Edouard Bellemare line the third or the fourth? The […]
Embed from Getty Images Steve Mason got back in the net Thursday night for the Philadelphia Flyers, and it was like the good old times. Mason was very sharp, particularly in a challenging second period push by the Vancouver Canucks, and made 36 saves for his second shutout of the season. It was the […]
Embed from Getty Images With the Philadelphia Flyers finally getting a few days between games, most of the talk was about the line shuffling. If the team was lost in those idle thoughts, they were quickly jerked back to reality when Jeff Skinner and the Carolina Hurricanes scored a goal in the first […]