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View image | gettyimages.com Back in August, the Philadelphia Flyers made an under-the-radar staff hiring when they joined the ever-growing ranks of National Hockey League teams to hire a full-time goaltending development coach. The team hired longtime Victoria Royals (Western Hockey League) goaltending coach and Hockey Canada goaltending consultant Brady Robinson to fill the post. […]
Every hockey team experiences adversity over the course of the season. Part of what separates top clubs from the pretenders — almost as much as the collection of talent on the roster — is their ability to pull things together and avoid the snowball effect that results in prolonged losing skids. The foundation for […]
Photo: Nina Weiss/Flyerdelphia During the 1980s to mid-1990s, legendary Flyers broadcaster Gene Hart hosted several different incarnations of a radio call-in show called "Flyers Fone." One especially persistent caller used to phone the show on a weekly basis to ask "When are the Flyers going to call up that Tookey kid?" Every time, Hart […]
Only time will tell as to whether Philadelphia Flyers rookie head coach Dave Hakstol is the right man for the job of leading the personnel with which he's been to work to greater heights than his predecessor, Craig Berube. A proper evaluation is likely to require a couple of years while the organization is in […]
The NHL season kicks off tonight with four games to get the regular season going. As you may recall, last season during the playoffs, the Flyerdelphia kept up to date with the results and action in our own Bracket Challenge. To ring in the start of another NHL season, the Flyerdelphia staff has made predictions […]
Until this summer, Flyers goaltender Steve Mason spent most of his off-seasons playing as a forward in an Ontario ball hockey league and working out on the ice with a group of friends who play professionally in the National Hockey League and other circuits. Coming off a statistical career year in 2014-15 and having played […]
From the time Ron Hextall took over as general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers, he has said that the organization will not rush players to the NHL. He repeated that mantra when the team drafted Ivan Provorov and Travis Konecny with the seventh and 24th overall picks of the 2015 NHL Draft, said it again […]
Hello and welcome to another edition of Between the Pipes where we highlight some of top stories in the world of hockey. Speaking of hockey, the Flyers open training camp on September 17, a mere 23 days from now. Without further ado, let's look at some headlines.
It was not all that long ago when an National Hockey League goaltender with a save percentage above 90 percent was considered to have an above-average season. In more recent years, that has crept up beyond 91 percent and 92 percent is now increasingly used as a benchmark by NHL teams. The evolution has […]
Any time a recently hired NHL head coach steps into his new environment, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes preparation that goes on learn about the personnel on the team and ideas on how the pieces may fit together. For new Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol, the process is even more intensive than for most […]
