It’s a dull and drizzly day here in South Philadelphia, but the Flyers are looking to give the evening a bit of life. Game 4 against the Penguins is on deck, and the Flyers are preparing to go in for the kill — to continue building on all of their positive momentum and pull off a much-coveted sweep of this first round series.
Puck drop: 8:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP/TBS/ESPN+ 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
It’s been a busy last few days of Dan Vladar related up...
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The Philadelphia Flyers have given their entire fan base great news ahead of Game 4 against the Pittsburgh Penguins and we no longer have to be worried.
Dan Vladar will be in the crease for his fourth consecutive start despite suffering a minor injury in the middle of Game 3 and sticking it out to finish the game and give the Flyers a 3-0 series lead. Now, they have a big opportunity to complete the S-word that we don’t really want to say just in case anyone believes in jinxes.
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Porter Martone is experiencing his first playoff games just weeks after making his NHL debut and the Philadelphia Flyers youngster is becoming a star.
There’s always a slight chance it’s a doctored image, but a social media post this afternoon might fan some flames leading to tomorrow night’s Game 4 against the Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins.
A 14-second clip was posted this afternoon, showing a woman wearing a Travis Sanheim jersey approaching a vehicle with Flyers winger Owen Tippett in the driver’s seat. It apparently took place after Game 3 at Xfinity Mobile Arena, with the player leaving in his vehicle to head home. Th...
One year ago, the Philadelphia Flyers were sitting on their couches, hoping the ping pong balls might fall their way at the 2025 NHL Draft Lottery.
The rebuild was still very much a rebuild. Matvei Michkov had a strong rookie season, Jamie Drysdale found his way, and there were a few other improvements you could point to, but the Flyers were still searching for another X-factor or two to really get them to the next level.
Well, it didn’t take too long for Danny Briere to find the nex...
No road in the Stanley Cup is smooth sailing. There are bumps along the way. Nobody comes out unscathed. And, despite holding a rather commanding 3-0 lead in the series against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Philadelphia Flyers might have hit their first road bump heading into Game 4 at home on Saturday night.
Around the midway point of the third period on Wednesday night, with the Flyers leading 3-1, the Penguins were hoping to cut the deficit with pressure in the Flyers zone. The puck was...
We’re all dreaming of it. It would be too sweet. Maybe something that we don’t entirely deserve but something that is too good to not think about: Sweeping the Pittsburgh Penguins as they venture into a summer of unknowns and the Philadelphia Flyers of all teams killing this era of a team that we have despised forever.
Evgeni Malkin is a pending unrestricted free agent, Kris Letang looks worse than Keith Yandle did during his year in Philadelphia, and Sidney Crosby is about to be left alo...
The Philadelphia Flyers have avoided the worst-case scenario for goaltender Dan Vladar , but that doesn’t mean that he may not miss some time.
On Thursday, Rick Tocchet said that it was “more of a maintenance day” for Vladar as the netminder didn’t take the ice for practice with the team.
“He was going to probably be off anyway, but he is a little banged up. Feels better today,” the head coach told the media on Thursday . “That’s basically all the information I really have.”
Vla...
*Folks! The Flyers came away with the win in a thrilling Game 3, and the series win (and dare we say, sweep?) is within reach. [ BSH ]
*It was a huge win, and just about as perfect of a return of playoff hockey to Philadelphia as we might have hoped to see. [ NBCSP ]
*The vibes are so high around here. [ PHLY ]
*The current Flyers are also channelling the Flyers of the past by jamming an unbelievable number of players in the penalty box. [ The Athletic ]
*There’s one Pengui...
Last night’s Game 3 for the Flyers was little short of an event. Between some interesting penalty calling , a whole lot of brawling, and a host of different faces stepping up in meaningful ways on the way to that victory, the return of playoff hockey to South Philadelphia was something to remember.
The night was downright overflowing with storylines, but as far as the game itself goes, some of the very best of the game, and the very worst, unfolded for the Flyers on opposite sides of the ...
Fans of the Philadelphia Flyers held their collective breath when goaltender Dan Vladar appeared shaken up in Wednesday night’s Game 3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins at Xfinity Mobile Arena.
Vladar did not take part in Thursday’s practice at the Flyers Training Center. However, Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet revealed after practice that while Vladar is hurting, he was simply given the day off for maintenance.
Exhale.
“It’s more of a maintenance day,” Tocchet told the media...
The series isn’t over, and the Flyers still have one more win to get to the second round, but thus far Philadelphia has been perfect. They are shutting down one of the better offensive teams in 2025-26 while at times putting on a defensive clinic that hasn’t been seen in some time. Heading into the series, much was made of the fact how deep the Penguins were, with a dozen players scoring 13 or more goals. So even if the Flyers somehow stopped Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, they still had the...
The Philadelphia Flyers have had to deal with three different kinds of games in the playoffs, and they dealt with each one.
Fresh off the 5-2 drubbing of the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 3 on Wednesday night, the Flyers have grabbed a commanding 3-0 series lead. On account of strong performances up and down the lineup, and all players buying into their spot in this lineup, the Flyers are on the verge of the second round.
One player who is making an underrated impact in this series? Playoff Risto himself, Rasmus Ristolainen. It turns out, after years of waiting for Playoff Risto, that maybe there was truth behi...
*That — last night — that was a goddang HOCKEY GAME. A classic. A throwback. A fantastic effort from your Philadelphia Flyers. They’re doing it, fam. RECAP!
*This is a seriously wild fact to me: last night was the FIRST TIME in his ENTIRE CAREER that Sidney “Giant Whiny Pissbaby” Crosby was called for diving. Remarkable! [ RMNB ]
*Little bit of news yesterday as the Flyers called up a few more AHL guys to hang out with the Big Club doing cool Big Club things. [ BSH ]
*If Cam Yor...
Pittsburgh center Sidney Crosby torched the Philadelphia Flyers for the better part of the last two decades. However, he did something on Wednesday night that was a first for him: he was called for an embellishment penalty. And after the Penguins lost 5-2 in Game 3 to the Flyers, and found themselves behind 3-0 in the series, Pittsburgh coach Dan Muse took the time to address the embellishment minor. As did Crosby.
Late in the first period, with the faceoff to the right of goaltender Dan ...
In the first Philadelphia Flyers home playoff game – with fans – since 2018, the Flyers gave the home crowd plenty to cheer about as they defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in a physical 5-2 victory.
The Basics
First period: 4:18 – Evgeni Malkin (Bryan Rust, Sidney Crosby) (PPG)
Second period: 5:18 – Trevor Zegras (Jamie Drysdale, Porter Martone) (PPG), 9:06 – Rasmus Ristolainen (Noah Juulsen, Sean Couturier), 11:18 – Nick Seeler (Noah Juulsen, Sean Couturier)
Third period: 9...
Travis Konecny has not been showing up on the score sheet in this first round against the Pittsburgh Penguins, but he is doing exactly what he needs to do. The Philadelphia Flyers still live and breathe in rhythm with Konecny on the ice and he is a major reason why they have now earned a 3-0 series lead over their archrivals.
If you just looked at a bunch of numbers from Wednesday night’s 5-2 Flyers win in Game 3, and saw that Konecny finished the game with zero goals, zero assists, four ...
The Philadelphia Flyers are up 2-0 in their first-round series against the Pittsburgh Penguins and we feel, oh, we feel so good. Now is the opportunity to take a dominating lead in this series.
Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP/ESPN+ 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
The Penguins are desperate. They made sweeping changes to their lineup with a hope that it will make a difference. Let’s hope that it doesn’t. [BSH]
One key thing is that the Fly...
The Pittsburgh Penguins are desperate and it’s wonderful to see. Ahead of Game 3 against the Philadelphia Flyers, as we head into the Xfinity Mobile Arena feeling better than we ever thought we would after the first two playoff games in six years, Penguins head coach Dan Muse has shuffled his forward lines in an attempt to find an answer.
The Penguins have been dead in the water for two straight games and their coaching staff can sense something needs to change. Too bad it’s not “get bett...
The Philadelphia Flyers are back in the playoffs, and the NHL gave them a primetime slot for their first postseason game since 2020 on Saturday night.
While some complained that there could be better matchups in that slot, the television ratings are in, and Game 1 between the Flyers and Penguins set some new records on ESPN.
According to ESPN , 2.1 million viewers tuned in to watch the Flyers take down the Penguins 3-2 on Saturday night. That was a 173% increase over ESPN’s first-rou...
The Philadelphia Flyers can't let the Pittsburgh Penguins get an advantage while up 2-0 in the series.
After calling up David Jiricek and Oliver Bonk two days ago, the Philadelphia Flyers called up five players from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League. With the Phantoms season over and now playoffs for the club on the horizon, the Flyers decided this quintet would get the nod to join the big club.
Announced by the team on Wednesday morning, the Flyers have recalled goaltender Carson Bjarnason, forwards Oscar Eklind and Jacob Gaucher, and defensemen Hunter McDonald and ...
*The boys are home, friends! The first Flyers home playoff game in what feels like 84 years will happen tonight and I sincerely hope you are as hype as I am for this experience. If you’re not yet hype, please allow yourself to become hype by drinking the tears of Penguins fans. [ BSH ]
*And if you’re a subscriber over at Charlie’s website, you can get hype by checking out his Thoughts on Game 2. [ PHLY ]
*Or perhaps Owen Tippett turning the entire Penguins roster into a bunch of usel...
The Philadelphia Flyers are defying the odds and have an emphatic 2-0 series lead over the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. And, they just so happen to be impressing a whole lot of people around the NHL, including a star player.
Coming into this series, the Penguins were the major favorite. Whether you went by the sportsbooks, or virtually every hockey analytics site pumping out a projection in the Penguins’ favor, or even national media members choosing...