Flyers prospect Jett Luchanko is making his presence felt after being dealt to a team where he can finally contend. After joining the Bulldogs from Guelph in exchange for forward Layne Gallacher and four draft picks, it seemed like an opportunity for Luchanko to finally play for a dominant junior program with championship intentions.
Luchanko made his debut for Brantford on the 28th of November, joining a team that up until that point, had gone 24 games without a regulation loss and...
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The Flyers are settling into the month of December and still find themselves bogged down by injuries. With a couple of key absences on the back end persisting — Cam York remains out with an upper-body injury, and Rasmus Ristolainen is still likely a couple of weeks away from being ready to make his return to the lineup — the Flyers are still looking for answers on their best mix, their best chance to keep this thing rolling without them. Sunday’s game saw them pulling Egor Zamula into the line...
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For the uninitiated, Black Mirror is a TV series akin to a modern Twilight Zone . Each episode (with some exceptions) are stand-alone tales often dealing with the horrors of fictional technology on society. Sometimes it can delve into horror, thriller, and mystery. The good thing about Black Mirror that has been consistently good since it debuted in 2011. There is not set release schedule for the show, and it comes out as creator Charlie Booker comes out with these fantastical ideas. The last ...
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*Sharks tonight! How exciting! Guessing we’ll see a lot of the 4th line because SOMEONE heard you complaining about overuse of the 4th line and turned into the “…and I took that personally” meme. [ BSH ]
*Yeah so Ricky Tacos was big mad about having to answer questions about how he deploys his lines. Using bad words and everything! [ NBC Sports Philly ]
*What you clearly don’t understand, dear reader, is that trotting out a line with one single point on the season when your team is d...
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The Philadelphia Flyers capped off their Monday night by making a trade with the Tampa Bay Lightning and it featured two young AHL defensemen moving around the Eastern Conference.
Announced by the team, the Flyers have traded 22-year-old defenseman Ethan Samson to the Lightning for also 22-year-old defenseman Roman Schmidt. Both defensemen are right handed but bring a whole lot of different energy to the ice.
TRADE ALERT: We have acquired defenseman Roman Schmidt from Tampa Bay in ex...
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Philadelphia Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet wants to let a certain group of fans who were heavily critical of him running out a certain forward line up against the NHL’s best team over the weekend, are actually dead wrong.
While the Flyers were hosting the Colorado Avalanche over the weekend, with just five minutes remaining and the visitors just hanging on to an improbable 3-2 lead, Tocchet decided to run out his fourth line of Nic Deslauriers, Garnet Hathaway, and Rodrigo Abols. It was ...
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Despite a fervent push for an equalizer, the Flyers fell to the 21-2-6 Colorado Avalanche by a score of 3-2 on Sunday afternoon. The Flyers were a Trevor Zegras penalty shot away from drawing level with the league leading Avalanche, but ultimately it wasn’t enough, and they fell in regulation like so many other teams have this year when coming up against Nathan MacKinnon and company.
But the overall performance that they put out against the Avalanche was still one that reinforced a ...
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The Flyers did not have the greatest start to December, going 1-2-0 in their three games on the week. Things didn’t start well in a lopsided 5-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins that saw the Flyers not only lose the game, but also one of their best players; Tyson Foerster injured himself taking a slap shot, and will miss the next two or three months as a result .
The good news was that the Flyers took that loss to the Penguins in stride, soundly beating the struggling Buffalo Sabres 5-2. S...
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*The Flyers finally got back to action yesterday against the Avalanche, and even though they were able to stick with them for much of the game, the finish eluded them in the end. [ BSH ]
*The Flyers had a pair of players in Sean Couturier and Nick Seeler hit pretty significant career milestones in that game as well. [ Inquirer ]
*Speaking of Couturier, Rick Tocchet has been leaning pretty heavily on him, but hopefully the day comes before long when he won’t have to ask quite as much ...
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After a three-day break, the Philadelphia Flyers got back into action Sunday at Xfinity Mobile Arena with a matinee tilt against the NHL’s unquestioned juggernaut — the Colorado Avalanche. But despite being completely outmatched on paper, the Flyers put up an admirable fight. They ended up falling by a score of 3-2, but their gutsy effort gave them something to hang their hat on.
The Basics
First period: 2:09 — Sean Couturier (Noah Juulsen, Owen Tippett), 8:28 — Brent Burns (Martin ...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are down a couple of their most important players just in time to welcome in a team who is on top of the world and is on pace to barely lose any games in regulation this season. The Colorado Avalanche have been almost perfect this season — the pessimists will be wanting the Flyers to just not get embarrassed, and the optimists will look for some weird shutdown game where the Avalanche appear mortal.
Puck drop: 1:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fa...
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Sean Couturier has played all but approximately five periods of hockey this far. He took a shot off his upper body early in a game against the Predators on Oct. 30 and missed the next game against Toronto on Nov. 1. He’s been quite good so far in his various roles, with four goals and 12 assists thus far in 25 games. And, as it has been well established, Couturier and Flyers coach Rick Tocchet are far more on the same page than Couturier and former coach John Tortorella was in the nearly three...
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It’s December now which means one massive thing in the hockey calendar: It’s the season for the World Juniors and we get to ignore a whole lot of our families and watch teenagers play hockey instead of singing carols, or something.
The Philadelphia Flyers should be fairly well-represented and could even have the more prospects than any other NHL team up there in Minnesota, but that would take us looking at 31 other prospect pools and that’s annoying. It’s a mix of depth players on very go...
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Philadelphia Flyers winger Owen Tippett has become something of a regular in trade rumors, and his recent run of strong play certainly hasn’t quelled the buzz.
On the contrary, he’s become hot enough a name in the rumor mill that the Flyers are apparently attempting to throw cold water on any possibility of an imminent move.
On the latest episode of 32 Thoughts: The Podcast , NHL insider Elliotte Friedman revealed that Tippett’s name has been floating in trade chatter and inferred th...
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*The Flyers’ win over the Sabres on Wednesday was a big one, and we’re not quite done reliving it just yet. Charlie dives deep on the game herein. [ PHLY ]
*It was, if nothing else, another resilient effort, and a good indication that
*The one big negative of the game, though, was the loss of Cam York with an injury. Immediately we went a bit panic mode around here and fell down the rabbit hole of who might replace him if he’s set to miss time. [ BSH ]
*It looks like the Flyers ...
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Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet said after Thursday’s morning practice that he’s been impressed with winger Matvei Michkov’s play the last few weeks. Part of that might be due to the forward shaking off some of the rust that an ankle injury and subpar training regimen resulted in. And part of it might be due to Tocchet and the coaching staff easing up on the gas pedal when it comes to providing Michkov with information and lessons during games.
When asked about how Michkov and he have comm...
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The Flyers have recently been hit with a streak of injuries and it has us thinking: Who are the players that would be the most detrimental to this team’s potential playoff berth if they were to miss a substantial amount of time?
We are 26 games into the season, and the Flyers are still sticking around regarding playoff positioning. They are now the third seed in the Metropolitan Division. There’s 56 tilts left, and a lot of time for the Flyers to remain as consistent as they’ve been so fa...
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The Philadelphia Flyers were close to really being bit hard by the injury bug but have escaped potential torment.
Defenseman Cam York left Wednesday night’s game against the Buffalo Sabres early with an upper-body injury and the worst-case scenarios flooded the mind of just about every single Flyers fan. Just a day after it was announced that winger Tyson Foerster is out for at least two months and could possibly not even return until March next year, another key young player to this team...
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The Philadelphia Flyers were dealt a heavy blow the moment it was confirmed that top-end two-way winger Tyson Foerster is going to miss at least the next two months and could possibly not be back on the ice until after the Olympic break in February. But, in the first game since the 23-year-old winger’s freak injury, there were some signs that the Flyers could live with his temporary replacement in the top nine.
It was almost automatic. The rugged and young Russian winger Nikita Grebenkin,...
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The Flyers seemed to suffer another blow in the injury department last night in their win over the Sabres, as they lost Cam York to what was clarified post-game as an upper body injury in the second period. York got hit up high towards the middle of the frame and stayed in the game long enough to get involved in the scrum which ensued after Trevor Zegras got pasted into the board by Rasmus Dahlin with about three minutes to go, but this would be his final shift.
The Flyers weren’t able to...
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*We’ll kick this thing off with a little bit of trade talk. As we mentioned earlier in the week, the rumor mill is turning and the word on the street is that the Flyers might be looking to pull from the Canucks to add a bit of veteran support to their lineup. This we knew already, but who might they have their eyes on? [ BSH ]
*Another word on the street is that the Canucks, on their side, may be interested in one Owen Tippett. [ BSH ]
*It looks like the Flyers are going to be withou...
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After losing the game and one of their most important players against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Philadelphia Flyers were able to bounce back in a big way. Goals from five different players and strong special teams play resulted in a 5-2 win over the Buffalo Sabres.
The basics
First period: 4:08 – Jason Zucker (Josh Doan, Josh Norris) (PPG), 8:26 – Travis Konecny (Matvei Michkov, Travis Sanheim) (PPG), 9:04 – Trevor Zegras (Travis Sanheim, Travis Konecny), 9:25 – Bobby Brink (Noah...
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Just a day after learning that Tyson Foerster will be out for at least two months following a non-contact injury he suffered against the Penguins, the Flyers may have suffered another blow.
Cam York did not return for the third period of the Flyers’ game against the Sabres, exiting after jumping into a scrum following a dangerous hit from behind by Rasmus Dahlin on Flyers star Trevor Zegras.
Rasmus Dahlin LAYS OUT Trevor Zegras, and Cam York, Travis Konecny, and Travis...
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The Flyers are back in action tonight, settling in to their home stand in progress, and looking to rebound in a big way after their tough loss to the Penguins on Monday night. It won’t be an easy task for them, as a reasonably productive Sabres team will be coming to town looking to extend their winning streak to three games, but we’ll see how they do in their next test of their often-touted resilience.
Puck drop: 7:30 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: TNT 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
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The Philadelphia Flyers are getting named a whole lot in recent trade rumors and the latest is that the Vancouver Canucks are looking over to the east coast to try and snag a winger from the Orange and Black.
While the Flyers are still trying to figure out their way around the devastating injury to Tyson Foerster and how that affects the outlook of their season, trade rumors are still taking place and it is surrounding another winger who has been given a whole lot of opportunity to produc...
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