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Flyers 5: Takeaways from Friday’s Flyers-Rangers Game
| Leave a CommentNow with nine games to go, the countdown is on until the end of the season. The Flyers sit 11 points out of the final playoff spot. Their tragic number is down to seven. It’s not a matter of if, it’s when. Friday’s game was just another example of all of the problems this team had over the course of this grueling schedule and this prolonged stretch of games without stringing together wins.
Read more »Flyers Fall to Rangers to Finish Season Series
| Leave a CommentThe Rangers scored two goals in the first period, then added two more in the third to claim a 4-1 result from the Flyers on Friday night at Madison Square Garden.
Read more »Flyers-Rangers: Game 47 Preview
| Leave a CommentThe Flyers return to MSG on Friday night for one final meeting against the Rangers this season. Game time is at 7 p.m.
Read more »Flyers 5: Takeaways from Thursday’s Flyers-Rangers Game
| Leave a CommentFrom James van Riemsdyk’s well-timed goals to Brian Elliott’s sharp performance, the Flyers got back in the win column, holding off the Rangers in the late stages of the third to secure the result.
Read more »Flyers Get Pair of Goals from JVR in Win Over Rangers
| Leave a CommentJames van Riemsdyk scored a pair of goals, including one off his face in the second period, helping the Flyers grab a 3-2 win over the Rangers on Thursday night.
Read more »Flyers-Rangers: Game 46 Preview
| Leave a CommentAfter a pair of embarrassing losses to the New York Rangers in the span of eight days, the Flyers managed to rebound with a 2-1 win back on March 27. They will close out the season series against the Rangers with a pair of games leading into the weekend, starting with Thursday night’s matchup.
Read more »Flyers 5: Takeaways from Saturday’s Flyers-Rangers Game
| Leave a CommentSam Morin’s first NHL goal was the difference in this game, one the Flyers absolutely needed to have. It doesn’t solve all their problems and it remains to be seen what effect this has on the team moving forward. But this could be their last chance to take a positive moment, a moment that can bond a team, and turn the season around.
Read more »Morin’s 1st NHL Goal Becomes Game-Winner for Flyers
| Leave a CommentAn unlikely hero emerged late in the third, as Sam Morin scored his first NHL goal with 4:27 to play in the game. That goal held up as the game-winner, in a much-needed, 2-1 victory for the Flyers over the Rangers on Saturday afternoon at Wells Fargo Center.
Read more »Flyers-Rangers: Game 33 Preview
| Leave a CommentThe Rangers are back at Wells Fargo Center again on Saturday afternoon to take on the Flyers again, with the Flyers desperately needing to do something to turn their season around or face some significant consequences of a lost season.
Read more »Flyers 5: Takeaways from Thursday’s Flyers-Rangers Game
| Leave a CommentAfter another lopsided defeat to the Rangers that eerily resembled last week’s 9-0 embarrassment, this time an 8-3 margin, the statements made this week mean very little. This team is fractured beyond repair. It likely requires some sort of significant change. And the worst part is that in a year where there is so much uncertainty and hesitancy to take action, the Flyers might be stuck.
Read more »Deja Vu for Flyers in Another Rout by Rangers
| Leave a CommentThe Flyers took the ice against the Rangers at Wells Fargo Center and should have had revenge on their minds. Instead, the Rangers scored three in the first and three early in the second to pile on. Carter Hart was chased from the game. Mika Zibanejad had another hat trick and six-point game. And the Flyers were shelled by the Rangers again, this time by a score of 8-3.
Read more »Flyers-Rangers: Game 32 Preview
| Leave a CommentIf there is going to be the turnaround so many within the organization think is still possible, it’s going to have to start on Thursday night. And guess who comes to town? The Flyers and Rangers face off for the first time since last Wednesday’s embarrassing performance.
Read more »Flyers 5: Takeaways from Wednesday’s Flyers-Rangers Game
| Leave a CommentAfter 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.
Read more »Rangers Pound Flyers in Blowout for the Ages
| Leave a CommentWednesday’s game was rock bottom, one of the most embarrassing efforts in Flyers history. After falling behind 2-0 in the first, the Flyers allowed seven goals to the Rangers in the second. You read that right: seven. A touchdown. That’s how things got to the final score in a 9-0 shellacking.
Read more »Flyers-Rangers: Game 27 Preview
| Leave a CommentThe Flyers return to the ice on Wednesday night to face the New York Rangers again in the second game of a four-game road trip.
Read more »Flyers 5: Takeaways from Monday’s Flyers-Rangers Game
| 1 Comment on Flyers 5: Takeaways from Monday’s Flyers-Rangers GameIn the end, the Flyers probably got the deserved result for the chances they had in the third period and the strong start they had in the first. It’s two points they desperately needed and will take any way they can get at this point. The process on the ice may still have a lot of flaws and they were on full display again, but it’s a game the team can put back in the win column, another game where they took care of business against a team behind them in the standings.
Read more »Voracek’s OT Goal Lifts Flyers Over Rangers
| Leave a CommentThe Flyers stayed the course, and this time, pulled off the comeback to claim the two points. Jake Voracek got the deciding goal in overtime with 1:13 remaining to give the Flyers a 5-4 win.
Read more »Flyers-Rangers: Game 26 Preview
| Leave a CommentPerhaps the start of this week can provide the spark for the Flyers. They are playing the New York Rangers, another team not in the playoff picture. These are games the Flyers need to have in order to keep up in the race and make the head-to-head matchups against the top teams in the division more meaningful as the season progresses.
Read more »Flyers 5: Takeaways from Wednesday’s Flyers-Rangers Game
| Leave a CommentIt wasn’t a pretty win, and it wasn’t going to be pretty with the Flyers still plenty shorthanded from their COVID situation. But Claude Giroux marked the first player to return on a list that will only be increasing with each passing day, and he showed just how motivated he was to come back strong.
Read more »Flyers Rebound with Win Over Rangers
| Leave a CommentClaude Giroux had three assists as the Flyers struck for two goals in the first and second periods, holding off the Rangers in a 4-3 win on Wednesday night at Wells Fargo Center.
Read more »Flyers-Rangers: Game 16 Preview
| Leave a CommentThe Flyers are also getting some reinforcements back in the lineup. Claude Giroux returned to practice on Tuesday and was the first of the players on the COVID list to return. More will follow in the coming days. For now, Giroux and the rest of the team continue their season, facing the New York Rangers on Wednesday night.
Read more »Flyers 5: Takeaways from Thursday’s Flyers-Rangers Game
| Leave a CommentWhile the Rangers snapped a four-game losing streak and earned just their fifth win of the season against the Flyers on Thursday night, the circumstances the Flyers were in made this an uphill battle from the start. The Flyers got off to a good one at that, but ultimately had to overcome too much to secure that second point.
Read more »Flyers Force OT Late, Fall in Shootout to Rangers
| Leave a CommentWhen it came down to the wire, a late goal managed to get them a point in the standings and force overtime, but in a shootout, the Rangers would prevail over the Flyers with a pair of goals in a 3-2 final at Wells Fargo Center on Thursday night.
Read more »Flyers-Rangers: Game 14 Preview
| Leave a CommentThe Flyers face the New York Rangers in their first game since last Sunday. The Rangers enter this game on a four-game losing streak, fresh off a loss to the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday in the Devils’ first game back since their own COVID situation.
Read more »Sunday’s Flyers-Rangers Game Postponed
| Leave a CommentThe NHL has announced that the Flyers game on Sunday against the New York Rangers has also been postponed. The league is expected to be able to re-open training facilities on Monday. Their next game would come against the Rangers on Thursday, Feb. 18.
Read more »Flyers Have 4 Rescheduled Games in NHL’s Most Recent Update
| Leave a CommentBoth the New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres had to postpone multiple games as they deal with outbreaks, and that has forced four adjustments to the Flyers schedule.
Read more »2020-21 Season Schedule Could Restore Rivalries with Flyers Divisional Foes
| Leave a CommentTake the emotion of playoff hockey and bottle it up into a 56-game schedule where you play the same seven teams all season and it’s a recipe for rivalry. The 2020-21 season schedule will be the strangest we’ve seen so far, but it has a chance to restore some divisional rivalries for the Flyers.
Read more »Flyers 2020-21 Season Schedule Released
| Leave a CommentThe Flyers are set to open the 2020-21 season on Wednesday, Jan. 13, at home against the Pittsburgh Penguins. View the full Flyers schedule here. The start time for all games is TBA.
Read more »Question Facing Flyers: Are 24-Team Playoff Games Away Games for Carter Hart?
| 1 Comment on Question Facing Flyers: Are 24-Team Playoff Games Away Games for Carter Hart?Over at ESPN.com, Greg Wyshynski posed the biggest question for each of the 24 teams in the playoffs. The Flyers one is quite intriguing. Are these games following the pause, to be played in neutral hub cities, away games for Carter Hart?
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