Okay, well the Philadelphia Flyers didn’t start the second round all that well. After a brutal 3-0 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes for Game 1, the Flyers are searching their first goal of the series and even still looking for their first stretch of solid offense.
Maybe it will come Monday night, but it’s going to take a fairly large change.
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Pregame reading
Rick Tocchet said exactly what he’s looki...
As most of you are aware, the general manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, Eric Tulsky, used to go here. He started out his incredibly hockey journey that has now led him to running a team that is one of the rare perennial and true contenders in the NHL, at this little hockey blog looking at a bunch of numbers and asking and answering a bunch of questions.
So now with the Hurricanes facing off against the Philadelphia Flyers, the team he extensively wrote about and grew up a fan off, in th...
The Ottawa Senators were swept by the Carolina Hurricanes in the first round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and GM Steve Staios enters the offseason with a clear and specific list of things he wants to address.
Near the top of that list, per Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun , is a reliable backup goaltender.
Staios intends to go shopping for one this summer.
James Reimer, who signed with Ottawa midway through the season after clearing a professional tryout with the Toronto Maple Leafs...
Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet might not be envious of the Phillies current won/loss record so far this season. But he used a baseball analogy on Sunday after practice to describe how Philadelphia needs to start Game 2 Monday night against the host Hurricanes.
“I just said we just got to hit singles every shift, you can’t try to hit home runs,” the coach said. “I just felt a lot of guys were all in on a home run or not skating. So we’ve learned from it, we’re moving on from it.”
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While he didn’t name anyone in particular, it appears that Philadelphia Flyers head coach isn’t a huge fan of scrums after the whistles. And even less so when it comes to slashing.
“I don’t like slashing and stupid flicking sticks,” Tocchet said after the Flyers uninspiring 3-0 loss to Carolina in Game 1 Saturday night. “That’s not me. If you’re going to go in a scrum, drop your gloves and fight a guy. Both guys, if not, just play. You want to hold the net and be tough in front of the net...
Logan Stankoven scored twice to extend his postseason goal streak to five games in the Carolina Hurricanes 3-0 victory over Philadelphia Flyers in Game 1 at Lenovo Center on Saturday. Frederik Andersen made 19 saves to post his second shutout of the playoffs, and Jackson Blake also tallied for the Hurricanes, who are unbeaten. Sean Couturier matched Stankoven with a game-high five shots, and Dan Vladar stopped 20 shots for the Flyers.
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The Flyers opened up their second round series against the Hurricanes on Saturday night, and while their last series against the Penguins may have ended with a bang, this one began with more of a fizzle.
Struggling to get their offense going under the weight of the Canes’ forecheck, the Flyers delivered a showing that, while spirited by the end, was ultimately somewhat anemic, and left them with plenty of areas in need of working on ahead of these teams’ next meeting on Monday night.
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And we’re off!
It was a quick turnaround after their series clinching win over the Penguins on Wednesday, and the Flyers are right back at it again tonight for the first meeting of their next series against the Hurricanes. There’s a real rest advantage at work here for the Hurricanes, who punched their ticket to the second round in completing their sweep of the Senators all the way back last Saturday, and they’ve been resting and practicing in the meantime. At the same time, though, the F...
With puck drop rapidly approaching on Game 1 against the Carolina Hurricanes, it’s looking like the Flyers might begin their second round series down a significant player: 27-year-old winger Owen Tippett.
At the optional morning skate in Raleigh, Owen Tippett stayed on the ice late with the other presumed scratches. Typically, that indicates a player is likely to sit for the night. Combined with the fact that during Friday’s practice, Tippett sat out and Alex Bump skated with Trevor...
As the Flyers’ second round series against the Hurricanes is set to open up, and with some time already spent digging into their four regular season meetings — which were close on the score sheet but a good bit more lopsided as far as the underlying numbers go — team and viewer alike will be looking for areas where the Flyers can gain some more solid footing against this next divisional rival.
This Hurricanes squad, it goes without saying, is a very good one, and as such it’s going to ta...
Did you have a good week off? After the grind of the hockey season and then the routine of basically every night with the playoffs, the sweep of the Ottawa Senators last Saturday afternoon has the Carolina Hurricanes out of action since. For fans, it’s been a week of figuring out how to pass time, […]
As we shift into this next round series for the Flyers, there seems no better time to check back in with all of the experts and pundits around the league on their expectations for how this series against the Hurricanes will play out.
According to ESPN , heading into Friday’s schedule, Philadelphia had 25-to-1 odds of winning the Cup, and at +800 to be the Eastern Conference representative in the finals. The site gave the Flyers long odd to win this series against the Hurricanes (+260) whi...
The Carolina Hurricanes do not have that one single star that is the Big Bad whose opponents cower in fear that they might be picked up and ripped in half, leaving just a carcass to sit there and rot. They don’t have that generational talent up top because they have built a team that is more dependent on their entire team than any one single player.
And they might just end up getting the job done, but now they stand in front of the Philadelphia Flyers, the underdog team that took out the ...
Breaking down the Flyers' regular season series with the Hurricanes, digging into some key stats and takeaways.
It’s all about the details throughout a playoff series. Sure, we can look at the results from the two different teams and see just how they stack up against each other based no broad, team-wide statistics or how many games they won in the regular season, but it’s really all about the little minor narratives and the individual battles we see.
The Philadelphia Flyers’ upcoming series against the Carolina Hurricanes is going to be full of them. Little collisions between players or some overa...
The Flyers got a whole two-day break between sending Pittsburgh home and getting the ball rolling again against Carolina. Game 1 is scheduled for Saturday night in prime time but, as of this post, no other dates or times have been revealed for the next three games. Of course, that should be resolved once the remaining four series in round one conclude.
However, it’s always a good time to make bold predictions, right? So, having said all that, here are three bold predictions for the Flyers...
The Philadelphia Flyers had a practice Friday morning prior to flying out to Raleigh, getting set for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semi-final commencing Saturday evening against the Carolina Hurricanes. And in preparation, head coach Rick Tocchet decided to shuffle up his lines and make some key personnel changes before the all-important first game of the series.
Now that the dust has settled after Cam York’s heroic series-winning goal and all the reflection of the Flyers overcoming t...
The Philadelphia Flyers have slayed the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games to have their first playoff series win since 2020 and their first playoff series win when people could actually go to games since 2012. And now, all sights are set on the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round.
While most reasonable fans would be perfectly fine with the Flyers not overcoming the mountain that is this Hurricanes team and reaching the Eastern Conference Final — since, you know, this team is still exec...
As the Flyers figure out when their second round series against the Carolina Hurricanes begins, Philadelphia head coach Rick Tocchet said Thursday to the media that the youth were vital to the team’s success.
The four of Porter Martone, Matvei Michkov, Denver Barkey, and Alex Bump had seven points combined (four goals, three assists) over the six-game battle of Pennsylvania. Michkov earned a primary assist on the game-winning goal by Cam York in overtime, and had a few quality chances to ...
With the month of April about to be in the books, we’re nearing the end of the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Six of the eight series have been incredibly hard fought with either high levels of quality hockey, entertaining hockey, or burning hatred between the two sides. The Carolina Hurricanes have been […]
The Carolina Hurricanes made quick work of the Ottawa Senators in the first round of the playoffs, dispatching of them in four straight games. They're now waiting on the winner of the Philadelphia Flyers-Pittsburgh Penguins series. The Flyers are clinging to a 3-2 lead. The bad news for the winner of the Battle of Pennsylvania is that not only will they be facing a rested Hurricanes squad, it sounds like the Metropolitan Division champs will also be getting a couple of key players back f...
FREDDIE!!………FREDDIE!!………FREDDIE!! This is the chant you heard at the Lenovo Center during games one and two of the recent Senators/Hurricanes series. And for good reason. After earning a shutout in game one he was able to hold off the Sens through two overtimes until his team scored to win game two. Andersen went on to […]
Brady Tkachuk’s future in Ottawa has become a looming question mark for the Senators after he was a no-show for the team who got swept by the Carolina Hurricanes. This offseason may be as good a time as any for the Sens to move their captain, Daily Faceoff’s Matt Larkin argued Monday. A heavy-set power…
With the Ottawa Senators ' quick elimination from the playoffs at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes, the expected wringing of hands has begun. The prime target of everyone's ire thus far has been captain Brady Tkachuk, who was held pointless in their four-game sweep. He was even referred to as looking "checked out" by insider Frank Seravalli. David Pagnotta said , " ...
Tkachuk’s attempt to set the tone failed as Carolina’s experience outmatched the Senators spark in the form of a series sweep.