Postgame Perspective: Flyers team play sets up late-game heroics

A late power play presented an opportunity for the Flyers in a stalemate of a game. The third period saw the Flyers and Washington Capitals trade goals. The Flyers had to survive a penalty kill with seven minutes left in regulation before the opportunity was presented to them. When a second chance came up in […]

Kevin Durso  •  08 Jan 2015
Quotable: Hextall, Berube sound off on Flyers struggles

Photo courtesy of Amy Irvin/38Photography After closing out a road trip with five straight losses, a near severe injury to their captain and making headlines for a CBA travel violation, the Flyers returned to practice on Monday and spoke about the road trip as a whole. The common theme: no one is happy with the […]

Kevin Durso  •  05 Jan 2015
Post-game Perspective: ‘Unacceptable’ way to end a road trip

  View image | gettyimages.com It looked like the Flyers were going to turn a corner after starting their season-long eight-game road trip with three-consecutive wins. Between a season-high seven goals to open the trip against Toronto, a comeback win over a resurgent Winnipeg team and a resounding win over a middling Minnesota Wild squad, […]

Rob Riches  •  03 Jan 2015
Postgame Perspective: Giroux injury aside, Flyers slide continues

  View image | gettyimages.com The story of Friday night's game was Claude Giroux. His injury in the third period seemed to put an end to the Flyers season as he was helped off the ice with what appeared to be a serious injury. The Flyers went on to finish the game without the captain, […]

Kevin Durso  •  02 Jan 2015
Mailbag: Rob Zepp, Peter White, Michael Del Zotto

  View image | gettyimages.com To our loyal Flyerdelphia readers, Happy New Year! There are plenty of big things in store for the site coming in 2015, so stay tuned! Now, for the first of many times this year, let's dig into the Flyerdelphia mailbag. Any shot that [Rob] Zepp gets another start? – Pat […]

Rob Riches  •  01 Jan 2015
Durso: Berube’s ‘attack mentality’ getting tiring

Getting rid of a coach often times is a scapegoat move. Ask the coach who faced the Flyers on Saturday. It was the reason I was so against the Flyers making a coaching change as things got bad during late November. That was on the players, not the coach. But Monday's loss was the final […]

Kevin Durso  •  31 Dec 2014
Postgame Perspective: 2nd-period struggles continue for Flyers

  View image | gettyimages.com When the Flyers lost to Nashville on Saturday night, it was difficult to tell if the Flyers were experiencing the pitfalls of a break or just struggling to get going against a tough defensive team. The Arizona Coyotes entered Monday's game allowing 111 goals this season, fourth-most in the NHL. […]

Kevin Durso  •  29 Dec 2014
Closing the book on 2014

  View image | gettyimages.com Like it or not, the Flyers are set to close out the 2014 portion of their schedule, as just two games remain — tonight at Arizona, and Wednesday at Colorado. There are plenty of adjectives that the Flyers and their fans could use to describe calendar-year 2014. "Boring," however, isn't […]

Rob Riches  •  29 Dec 2014
Postgame Perspective: Special teams, Predators shut-down defense halt Flyers

  View image | gettyimages.com The Flyers opened the second period with a chance to attack: a 5-on-3 for 58 seconds and two full minutes of power-play time. It went by the wayside. Trailing 1-0 at the time, the game did eventually get knotted at one. But the lead was short-lived after a 5-on-3 for […]

Kevin Durso  •  27 Dec 2014