Tag: Flyers

The minor-league season for the Flyers organization is almost in the books already. Unfortunately, as it goes in the playoffs sometimes, a series can go a certain way that leaves you on the losing end. One team learned that on Monday night. Another will have to wait until Wednesday to see if they can salvage their season another day or if it all comes to a sudden end.

The Flyers have signed 2016 fourth-round pick Connor Bunnaman to an entry-level deal, according to GM Ron Hextall.

The Flyers will be getting a significant infusion of new talent this summer. At both the NHL and AHL, new players will be striving to earn spots at the professional level or coming to North America to continue their professional careers.

Four Flyers will be participating for Team Canada in the upcoming World Championships: Claude Giroux, Wayne Simmonds, Sean Couturier and Travis Konecny.

Jake Voracek put to words what seems to be logic at this point. Another year under the belts of rookies and young prospects can only help the Flyers get better. But if their current core doesn’t start to make something happen when it matters most, they won’t be the ones helping the Flyers return to contention.

In examining the Flyers roster from top to bottom, we analyze the core players as well as secondary players needed to fill in the gaps on the roster, look at current restricted and unrestricted free agents to determine who may be re-signed and how that fits into the cap and also detail players who might not be returning.

The Phantoms locked up home ice in the first round of the Calder Cup Playoffs with Friday’s comeback win. But with the victory brought some bad news regarding their goaltending tandem for the playoffs. Help is on the way however, in the form of another top prospect goalie.

Following Sunday’s game, the Flyers were beginning an early offseason, having missed the playoffs for the third time in five seasons. In those five seasons there has been one constant: Claude Giroux has been the team’s captain. It looks like it’s time for that to change.

The most important player to the Flyers future may actually be the longest-tenured Flyer, captain Claude Giroux. Giroux is facing some scrutiny, as pundits wonder if the Flyers need to move on from the current captain, who will enter his 10th season in 2017-18. It’s not the most absurd idea in the world.

For many of the Flyers junior prospects, the playoffs are either over or hanging by a thread. But for the two top minor leagues of hockey, the playoffs are just around the corner.

It was one year ago today, April 11, that many awoke to the news that Flyers founder and chairman Ed Snider had passed away at age 83. That day will live forever in Flyers history.

Positives and negatives are always a part of the game, but a season that ends like the Flyers did with the conclusion of the regular season on Sunday makes the negatives outweigh the positives. Here are six areas where the Flyers season went wrong.

The Flyers feverishly looked for the winning goal in the final minutes of regulation and overtime, but ultimately could not find it as they fell to the Carolina Hurricanes in the final game of the 2016-17 season, 4-3, in a shootout on Sunday night at Wells Fargo Center.

And then there was one. The Flyers take the ice for one final time in the 2016-17 season on Sunday night. They will face the Carolina Hurricanes, a team they have managed to beat three times already this season.

As the Philadelphia Flyers close their 50th season in the NHL, it is obviously disappointing without a coveted playoff spot. However, we take a look back and celebrate the entire body of work over five decades and have a little fun with some of the faces and names who have made up 50 seasons of everything that is Flyers hockey.

The upcoming offseason and subsequent 2017-18 season are a crucial one for both GM Ron Hextall and head coach Dave Hakstol, who have to move the Flyers ahead in their progression to contention.

The Flyers scored two goals in the first and two more in the second to take a 4-2 win over the Blue Jackets in their penultimate game of the 2016-17 season on Saturday afternoon at Wells Fargo Center.

As is tradition on the final weekend of the regular season, the Flyers presented their annual team awards prior to Saturday’s game against Columbus.

Two games remain on the Flyers season as the final weekend begins. It will start for the Orange and Black on Saturday afternoon against the Columbus Blue Jackets, who have locked up their playoff spot in third place in the Metropolitan Division.

This was not the ending most Flyers fans hoped for after rookie sensations Travis Konecny and Ivan Provorov made the roster out of training camp. Expectations were raised further when the Flyers went on a 10-game winning streak in November and December.

Flyers GM Ron Hextall emphasized developing players and not relying on free agency or trading young assets to contend for the Stanley Cup. Now, that plan appears to be on the cusp of culminating over the next season or two. As The Who famously sang, “The kids are alright.”

The Flyers have sadly announced that former forward and long-time scout of the organization Ilkka Sinisalo passed away on Wednesday morning at the age of 58.

In the 2006-07 season, the Flyers were in rare territory, flirting with the worst record in the NHL. When the Flyers did finish with the worst record, the thought of having the first overall pick and landed a bonafide superstar left Flyers fans drooling. In Part 2 of this series looking back at the 2006-07 season, we look at the draft held that offseason and what might have been.

John Moore scored the lone goal of the game 59 seconds into overtime on a 2-on-1 to give the Devils a 1-0 win over the Flyers on Tuesday night.

Road woes heavily defined the season, and the Flyers face off one last time this season as the visiting team against the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night, after a spirited meeting on Saturday night in Philadelphia. Tuesday’s game also brings some new faces to the lineup. Mike Vecchione makes his NHL debut after sitting out the weekend, and so does defenseman Sam Morin, who was called up on Tuesday.

The Flyers have called up defenseman Sam Morin from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms ahead of Tuesday night’s game against the New Jersey Devils, GM Ron Hextall announced.

It’s April and playoff time is in full swing for some of the Flyers prospects. For several players in juniors and college, it’s been a successful postseason so far with only more to come. Here is the latest Minor League Report.

There are just three games remaining in the Flyers season. The Flyers 50th anniversary season, which featured numerous reasons to celebrate the history of the franchise, will come to a close in six days. Just like 10 years ago, when the Flyers celebrated their 40th anniversary season, the Flyers will not be in the playoffs.

Flyers GM Ron Hextall has been named the general manager of Team Canada for the 2017 IIHF World Championship.