Martin Brodeur
After allowing the first two goals of the game to put themselves in another hole, the Flyers gave up another goal in the first two minutes of the second period. The game was essentially over right then and there, because the 18 minutes that followed were not just the worst the Flyers have played this season, they were historically bad.
On Dec. 8, 1987, Ron Hextall was in the middle of his second season in the NHL and the opportunity presented itself in a game against the Boston Bruins at the Spectrum. To that point, no goaltender had actually fired a shot on an empty net and scored a goal.
In the end, the Flyers 2000 Eastern Conference Final appearance against the Devils marked the turning of a page and end of an era and another crushing defeat in the Flyers pursuit to end a Stanley Cup drought that has spanned another 20 years since this series.
If the Flyers did everything they could to eliminate chances in front of Carter Hart in the first two games of his career, they didn’t do him any favors in his third game. Hart was left in difficult position, needing to recover from the shortcomings the Flyers had early in the season, in a 4-3 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets.
In this week’s Around the NHL, an NHL rookie takes a mauling, two join the 1,000-games club and looking at the Toronto Maple Leafs red-hot start.
No Philadelphia Flyers rookie has ever won the Calder Trophy. It is not that they have not had their share of viable candidates over the years. They've had a few top-end finishers in the balloting and their fair share who've earned NHL All-Rookie Team selection honors after the season but never an NHL rookie of […]
March 8, 2000: Rick Tocchet returns to Flyers It was goodbye for the second time for one Flyers fan favorite and hello for the second time for another Flyers fan favorite – in the same trade. On March 8, 2000, the Flyers moved Mikael Renberg to the Phoenix Coyotes and brought back rugged winger Rick Tocchet for […]
January 8, 2002 The Flyers had acquired the much talked about "best player not in the NHL" in the summer of 2001. The trade with the Florida Panthers, who held his rights, was for a 2001 second-round pick. His name was Jiri Dopita, a 33-year-old center from the Czech Republic. A star in the Czech […]
Love him or hate him, Dan Carcillo was one of the members of the most memorable Flyers team in the last decade. On Thursday, Carcillo became the fourth member of the 2010 Flyers to announce his retirement this offseason, joining Kimmo Timonen, Danny Briere and Simon Gagne. But Carcillo did it in the most interesting […]
View image | gettyimages.com The current state of the Flyers, trying to develop young talent, is a far cry from where the Flyers were on July 1, 2007, when they signed free agent Danny Briere to an eight-year deal. That was an era where the Flyers were hungry for superstars and playoff […]
