Kevin Durso

The Flyers return to the ice to start a new season with many fresh faces in the lineup. They face the San Jose Sharks to open the season. The opening face-off is set for 10:30 p.m.

It’s prediction time. The Flyerdelphia staff made several predictions on the Flyers season and the NHL. Check out the staff’s predictions for the Flyers and NHL season.

The Flyers 2017-18 season gets underway on Wednesday night, so we’re getting you ready with a new episode of the Flyerdelphia Podcast. The guys look at the final roster decisions, how the Flyers stack up against the Metropolitan Division, the team’s strengths and weaknesses and finally make some season predictions.

The Flyers named both Valtteri Filppula and Andrew MacDonald as alternate captains of the team, after a players vote in a meeting held on Tuesday. Both players will split duties between home and road games.

The Flyers sent Matt Read to the Phantoms after he cleared waivers on Tuesday, Shayne Gostisbehere says he’s “good to go” for Wednesday’s opener, and the Flyers rookies got new numbers ahead of the season opener.

After looking at some expectations for Nolan Patrick, here’s a few projections on the Flyers core players, including Claude Giroux, Jake Voracek, Wayne Simmonds and Ivan Provorov.

Nolan Patrick passed the test to make the Flyers roster in the preseason, despite having surgery to repair a sports hernia just days before the draft. So with Patrick on the team as a 19-year-old, what are reasonable expectations for him?

The Flyers made their roster official on Monday by making the final move necessary to get the roster down to 23 players. Veteran forward Matt Read was placed on waivers. If Read clears, he can be sent to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms, but whether or not that happens remains to be seen.

The Flyers have basically narrowed things down, but 24 players still remain on the roster after two weeks of preparation, experimentation and deliberation with the goal of making the playoffs in mind. Here is an analysis of the Flyers (almost) final roster and how it came to be.

As of Sunday night, only one cut had officially been made, with forward Oskar Lindblom heading to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. All other players are still on the Flyers roster at the moment, bringing the roster to 24 players.

The build-up to Wednesday’s season opener came to an unceremonious end with a 5-2 loss to the New York Islanders on Sunday night at Wells Fargo Center.

The Flyers close out the preseason on Sunday evening with a game against a team they have certainly become familiar with over the last couple of weeks, the New York Islanders. Game time is set for 5 p.m.

The Flyers really don’t have many cuts left, with 25 healthy players on the roster. From a fan’s perspective, it may be fairly simple to narrow down the two players not making the final roster of 23. But with so many prospects still up at camp, will the Flyers carry upwards of six rookies on the team, or will some of them head back to the minors for extra seasoning in the AHL with the Phantoms?

The Flyers returned forward Mikhail Vorobyev to the Phantoms after he was loaned to the team on Tuesday to play in the Flyers 4-3 overtime win over the Rangers. They also sent Mike Vecchione to the Phantoms, bringing the roster to 25.

Monday night’s 3-2 overtime loss for the Flyers continued to be a strong showcase for the youth on the team as the final roster decision draws slightly closer. Here are 10 Postgame Points from Flyers-Rangers, Part 1.

Flyers captain Claude Giroux will play at left wing in Monday’s preseason game against the Rangers as roster battles heat up ahead of the final week of the preseason.

It came down to the wire, but Jake Elliott’s walk-off 61-yard field goal gave the Eagles their second win of the season, improving them to 2-1, and sent the Giants to 0-3 on the season. Here are this week’s grades for the Eagles in their dramatic and exciting win over the Giants.

GM Ron Hextall announced the following roster moves on Saturday as the Flyers training camp roster continued to shrink in size, now down to 26 healthy players in camp.

With four preseason games in the books and a week of training camp down for the Flyers, Kevin Durso, Rob Riches and Dan Heaning analyze the team so far, check in on some of the position battles and look ahead to things to come in the final week of the preseason.

Six more players were placed on waivers, designated for the AHL. Forwards Greg Carey, Corban Knight and Phil Varone as well as defensemen Mark Alt, T.J. Brennan and Will O’Neil are all headed back to the Phantoms as part of the next round of cuts.

The Flyers announced a total of 18 cuts on Thursday, headlined by defenseman Phil Myers, who heads to the Phantoms, German Rubtsov and Carter Hart, who head back to juniors, bringing the camp roster to 36.

Claude Giroux, Jake Voracek, Wayne Simmonds, Sean Couturier and Brian Elliott will all make their preseason debuts as the Flyers take on the Boston Bruins on Thursday night from TD Garden at 7 p.m. on Thursday.

The Flyers split their split-squad games against the Islanders on Wednesday, getting an overtime win in Allentown and falling in Brooklyn.

Among the 53 players left on the camp roster, the Flyers will split them into two teams for Wednesday night’s split-squad games against the New York Islanders. Both games, from Allentown and Brooklyn, start at 7 p.m.

It’s still early in camp, with just three days of practice and one preseason game in the books, but Oskar Lindblom and Nolan Patrick are getting every opportunity to be part of the Flyers roster. And so far, they are sticking with the veterans at camp.

The groups remained heavily the same at Tuesday’s practice for the Flyers, but the lines were not. Claude Giroux and Sean Couturier skated on the same line with Giroux playing the wing. The line of Oskar Lindblom, Nolan Patrick and Travis Konecny also skated together, just as they did for the team’s first preseason game on Sunday.

The Flyers announced that they have sent forward Anthony Salinitri to juniors and defenseman Frank Hora to the Phantoms, putting the training camp roster at 55 and had new groups for practice that shed some light on the potential final roster.

Doug Pederson’s Eagles managed to hang tough with the Chiefs for three quarters. But in the fourth quarter, a valiant effort fell apart and showed just how much work the Eagles have to do. Here are this week’s grades for the Eagles in their loss to the Chiefs.

The Islanders veteran-heavy lineup was able to rally from a 2-0 Flyers lead with John Tavares scoring two goals in a 3-2 overtime win for the Islanders on Sunday.