Brandon Manning
Bruins thwart Flyers comeback Embed from Getty Images Game Story The Philadelphia Flyers had a few days off thanks to Winter Storm Jonas cancelling their Saturday night game, but they didn't come out with much jump in their legs against the Boston Bruins. Things started to go wrong after a relatively soft penalty on […]
Flyers return to host Bruins; Manning, Weal in, Gagner out Embed from Getty Images Monday night marks the return to the ice for the Flyers after a three-day hiatus that came unscheduled. Winter Storm Jonas erased the Flyers meeting with the Islanders on Saturday, giving them a three-day break in game action. While the break […]
The first half of the season has come and gone for the Flyers and they are both in a good spot and still in some trouble. On the positive side, the Flyers do not have a steep climb to the final playoff spot, sitting just two points back of the Boston Bruins after Wednesday's win […]
Embed from Getty Images Mark Streit, in just his sixth game back from an injury that sidelined him for six weeks, scored his first goal since the return with 8:28 remaining in the third. The race was on for the Flyers from there. In a third period that had a playoff feel to it, […]
For so much of the previous two seasons, so many of the Flyers players have talked about the things that need to get better, the things they need to do to be the playoff team they believe they are. On Saturday, they let their play do the talking. It was total domination for the Flyers […]
On Wednesday, the Flyers traded impending unrestricted free agent defenseman Luke Schenn and seldom-used veteran forward Vincent Lecavalier to the Los Angeles Kings for a 2016 third-round draft pick and 23-year-old center Jordan Weal. The Flyers agreed to retain 50 percent of both Lecavalier's ($4.5 million cap hit) and Schenn's ($3.6 million) contracts. The arrangement of this […]
Embed from Getty Images Coming off of a rough return from the holiday break in Anaheim on Sunday night, the Flyers return to the ice in San Jose to continue a West coast trip against the Sharks. The Flyers will get veteran defenseman Mark Streit back in the lineup after missing six weeks. The […]
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, […]
10 days ago, the Flyers had played two of their better games only to watch both end in losses following regulation before going into Ottawa and getting blown right out of the building. A 4-0 loss seemed to snap all momentum. In the past week, the Flyers have rebounded with three wins in four games, […]
View image | gettyimages.com It's been five games for Shayne Gostisbehere, but I've seen enough. The Flyers should not return the 22-year-old rookie defenseman to the minors after Mark Streit returns from injury, or for any other reason for that matter. It's not just because he happens to have more goals scored than the […]
