Vincent Lecavalier

Embed from Getty Images   In the opening minutes of Sunday night's game between the Flyers and Red Wings, Ryan White laid a high hit on Tomas Jurco. White was given a five-minute major for targeting the head and ejected from the game. The Flyers went on to kill the penalty and win the game, […]

The first half of the season has come and gone for the Flyers and they are both in a good spot and still in some trouble. On the positive side, the Flyers do not have a steep climb to the final playoff spot, sitting just two points back of the Boston Bruins after Wednesday's win […]

Embed from Getty Images   It's been a week since Ron Hextall completed his fifth trade on the path to freeing up cap space and starting to help the Flyers turn the corner from building the future to watching it progress to the NHL and form what is hoped to become a contender. But in […]

On Wednesday, the Flyers traded impending unrestricted free agent defenseman Luke Schenn and seldom-used veteran forward Vincent Lecavalier to the Los Angeles Kings for a 2016 third-round draft pick and 23-year-old center Jordan Weal. The Flyers agreed to retain 50 percent of both Lecavalier's ($4.5 million cap hit) and Schenn's ($3.6 million) contracts. The arrangement of this […]

Embed from Getty Images   Wednesday was Ed Snider’s 83rd birthday. GM Ron Hextall gave him a pretty good gift: cap relief. Hextall pulled off another trade, sending Vincent Lecavalier and Luke Schenn to the Los Angeles Kings acquiring 23-year-old forward Jordan Weal and a 2016 third-round draft pick. That marked Hextall’s fifth trade involving a […]

Embed from Getty Images   Starting sometime this week, the Flyers will have a new piece to lineup. Jordan Weal, acquired in the trade that sent Vincent Lecavalier and Luke Schenn to Los Angeles on Wednesday, is the newest member of the Flyers. Ron Hextall confirmed following the trade that Weal will stay with the […]

It has been no secret that Ron Hextall has been looking to unload salary and sizable contracts. On Wednesday, he did both. The Flyers traded Vincent Lecavalier and Luke Schenn to the Los Angeles Kings for forward Jordan Weal and a 2016 third-round pick.

Embed from Getty Images   When the Philadelphia Flyers made the Sam Gagner trade this summer, it was always more about what was going out than what was coming in. The Flyers sent Niklas Grossmann and Chris Pronger to Arizona, and taking Gagner back was the price of doing business. For a few days it […]

  View image | gettyimages.com It's time for our second of three editions of Fan Files, a take on the Flyers from the fan's perspective. This week's contribution comes from Robert Wilson, better known as FlyerRob.