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Given the Flyers 10-game surge and following struggles, should Ron Hextall consider dealing Michal Neuvirth after he gets a few games under his belt? Or do Steve Mason’s inconsistencies make a veteran backup necessary?

Over the course of the last eight games the Flyers offense has struggled mightily. During their win streak they averaged 3.5 goals per game. Since then, they are scoring at a rate of 1.5 goals per game. The Flyers have scored a total of 13 goals in the eight game stretch.

Troy Terry, the hero from Wednesday’s shootout win over Russia in the semi-finals, scored the lone goal on Carter Hart while Tyler Parsons stopped all five shots from Canada to help Team USA claim the gold medal with a 5-4 win over Canada on Thursday night in Montreal.

It wasn’t meant to be a battle of the Flyers goalie prospects, but that’s what the semi-final match between Canada and Sweden turned into. Carter Hart was stellar, making 28 saves in relief and holding Sweden off the board the rest of the way in a 5-2 win for Canada that advanced them to Thursday’s Gold Medal game against USA.

A 5-2 loss to the Rangers was a flat-out embarrassment for a team that has opened the new year as bad as they ended the old one. As a result, the Flyers are now 1-5-2 since their 10-game winning streak ended with just one point gained in the standings in their last five games. Here are 10 Postgame Points from Flyers-Rangers.

It took three games before the Flyers started to play with the compete level they had demonstrated on the winning streak. Despite taking 55 shots on Anaheim’s net on Sunday, it wasn’t enough in a shootout loss. The Flyers, who are 1-4-2 since the winning streak ended and 0-3-1 in their last four games, desperately need results.

The World Junior Championships continued Monday with the quarterfinals. Of the Flyers nine prospects in the tournament, seven of them and their respective nations are moving on to the semi-finals.

After ending 2016 on a truly flat note, the Flyers turned in their best game since returning from the holiday break only to come away with little to show for it in a 4-3 shootout loss. Here are 10 Postgame Points from Flyers-Ducks.

The most anticipated match of the World Junior Championships so far was on Saturday afternoon with undefeated Team USA facing also unbeaten Canada. For one Flyers prospect, the game, and possibly the tournament, ended early.

Another year is just about in the books and the Flyers certainly had a year of ups and downs and their share of exciting and memorable moments and sad moments as well. We compiled 10 of those moments into a list of signature, standout moments from the year 2016, some of which will stand out in Flyers history for years to come.

Some fans may want general manager Ron Hextall to bypass his patient process, trade for a quality player who would aid a playoff run now, in order to go for it this season, but such a decision would be a grave mistake.

December has now come to a disappointing end with losses in five of six games and three straight after the Flyers 2-0 loss to the San Jose Sharks on Friday night. And when that happens, the negatives can be just as easy to identify. Here are 10 Postgame Points from the loss.

For the third straight game, a lack of energy and overall lifeless hockey did the Flyers in. From the start, the Flyers were handed their third straight loss and fifth in the last six games, their worst six-game stretch of the season. This loss was very much like the first one, right before the holiday break. The Flyers couldn’t solve Aaron Dell and the Sharks in a 2-0 loss on Friday night.

The Flyers Alumni Association has released the full list of participants for Alumni Weekend, to be held on Jan. 13 and 14, including the playing roster for the alumni game against the Penguins alumni.

For Flyers fans, the World Junior Championships this year is especially gratifying as Philadelphia has a total of nine players competing at the games. No other team has more than five players participating.

Days 3 and 4 of the World Junior Championships featured two games for some Flyers prospects. Most importantly, all nine prospects saw action in some form on Wednesday or Thursday. Here’s the rundown.

The post-Christmas blues caught up with the Flyers again in St. Louis. If last Thursday’s result in New Jersey wasn’t frustrating enough, this certainly brought out a lot of frustration. The Flyers made a disappointing and downright pathetic return in a 6-3 loss to the Blues on Wednesday night.

As the Flyers embark on a three-game road trip, starting Wednesday in St. Louis, getting back to the level of play they had to start December is a focus for GM Ron Hextall.

Four Flyers prospects were in action during the four games on Tuesday. One of the Flyers Russian prospects was the standout this time around, and it wasn’t their 2016 first-round pick.

The 2017 World Junior Championships got underway on Monday with four games, and there were Flyers prospects in all of them. Eight of the Flyers nine prospects participating played on Monday and a few started off the tournament on a strong note.

The rosters are in and the World Junior Championships, beginning on Monday with four games. Nine Flyers prospects will be participating in the tournament for their respective countries.

As the Flyers win streak came to an end, some weak spots have begun to appear. Could a grueling schedule and injuries be starting to take their toll on the Flyers?

Two goals in a first period full of extra-curriculars and another in the second and one more for good measure in the third was more than enough for the Devils in a 4-0 win over the Flyers on Thursday night at Prudential Center.

A holiday break isn’t here just yet for the Orange and Black, as they have one more game on Thursday night before taking their first real extended break of the season, five days off between games. The Flyers make their first trip to New Jersey this season to see the Devils for the first time.

With just one game left before heading into a holiday break that keeps them off for five days, the Flyers determined effort against one of the Eastern Conference’s hottest teams was a good test, and they passed. Here are 10 Postgame Points from the Flyers win over the Capitals.

The Flyers rallied back in the final two rounds of a shootout to defeat the Capitals, 3-2, on Wednesday night at Wells Fargo Center.

The Flyers and Capitals meet again for the first time in the 2016-17 season on Wednesday night, with the Flyers looking to return to the win column after back-to-back losses. The opening face-off is set for 8 p.m.

At the time the NHL takes its annual break for the holidays on Saturday, it will have been six weeks since Michal Neuvirth suffered a lower-body injury that has sidelined him since. Prior to the Flyers game following the Nov. 12 injury, three goalies suddenly received an opportunity and they all had to run with it. So far, each one has.

In one of the more intense 1-1 games in team history, the Philadelphia Flyers would come back to tie the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Spectrum. The Flyers would salvage the tie and extend their streak of 28 games without a loss. That would tie the existing record, held by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1977-78 season.