Steve Mason
On Thursday night, when the Flyers skated off the ice following a 3-2 overtime loss, there were many positives about the effort and how it could beat many teams. That was against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the defending Eastern Conference Champions and easily a pick to be in the Stanley Cup hunt again this season. […]
It goes down as an overtime loss for the Flyers, who fell victim to the NHL's newest form of overtime: 3-on-3. But against the defending Eastern Conference champions, the Flyers earned a small moral victory. The Flyers 3-2 overtime loss starts them with a point in the standings and a step in the right direction […]
Twice, the Flyers were given the golden opportunity for a goal. A penalty shot. It happened to Claude Giroux in the first. It happened to Scott Laughton in overtime. Both times, the Flyers failed to capitalize. In the overtime, it proved costly as moments after, Jason Garrison scored on a breakaway for his second goal […]
Yesterday, the Flyerdelphia staff made their picks and predictions for the NHL — the standings, the playoff teams from both conferences and the awards. Today, as the Flyers prepare to begin the 2015-16 season against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Flyerdelphia staff makes a few bold predictions on the Flyers season and tries their hand […]
Here is it: game No. 1 of 82. It is only the beginning for the Flyers, and for now, they start with the rest of the NHL’s 30 teams. They have a clean slate after a few forgettable seasons that saw them miss the playoffs twice and fall out in the first round in the […]
New Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol is presented with an instant challenge. The purpose behind his hiring for Ron Hextall was to be the coach that could instill a winning system and lead the Orange and Black back to the playoffs and beyond. That challenge begins on Thursday night as the Flyers open their season […]
After two weeks of camp practices and preseason games, the Flyers final roster has been set. Here are the 23 players to make the team.
Welcome once again to another edition of Between the Pipes, a look at Philadelphia Flyers hockey and the NHL through linkage. The hockey season begins in just one day and the Flyers will hit the ice in two days. So this is the final stretch without meaningful hockey for the next few months. Here are […]
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 […]
The Flyers hit the ice on Wednesday night for the first of the final two preseason games that will take place this season. In the five games so far, they have a 3-1-1 record. But Monday's game, to this point, has been the most telling, with the majority of the Flyers final roster taking on […]
