We’re back again for a rare bit of Friday hockey for the Flyers, as they close out their road trip with a meeting with the high flying Colorado Avalanche. This trip has been a bit of a mixed bag for them, and the Avalanche will certainly not be an easy matchup for them, but the Flyers have a chance here to show some resilience and respond well after a pretty crushing overtime loss in Utah.
Puck drop: 9:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP+ 📻: 93.3 WMMR
Pregame reading
Headin...
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The Philadelphia Flyers close out their three-game road trip out west tonight in Colorado against an Avalanche team that is the best in the league — and it’s not particularly close. Nathan MacKinnon & Co. lead the league with 191 goals scored and 114 goals allowed for a staggering +77 goal differential. Mind you, the next best goal differential is the Tampa Bay Lightning at +49, and then the Carolina Hurricanes and Dallas Stars each at +27.
So it’s safe to say that the Flyers will face a ...
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We went through several metrics to determine just how the current Philadelphia Flyers stack up against recent Stanley Cup champions. Are the Flyers on the right path?
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The Philadelphia Flyers traded the longest tenured captain in franchise history, Claude Giroux, at the 2022 NHL trade deadline. In return, they received a first-round pick (eventually traded to draft Jack Nesbitt) as well as a third-round pick (Denver Barkey). Owen Tippett was the roster player sent to Philadelphia, having some of the biggest shoes any player could ever have to fill as a Flyer, and perhaps not an ideal developmental scenario given the turmoil in the front office in the followi...
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*Boys are in Colorado tonight to play the league’s best team, so this should go well. Honestly, just don’t embarrass yourselves again. That’s enough for this one. Anyhoo, here’s Charlie’s thoughts on Wednesday’s huge embarrassing failure ahead of tonight’s… very good game? [ PHLY ]
*Okay yeah so that loss in Utah was an ugly one and it is hard after seeing that kind of performance not to make a bunch of huge sweeping judgements about the state of the team. But if you think about it ration...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are not going to be giving up major assets for a rental, even if they are deeply embedded in a playoff spot come the NHL trade deadline on March 6. But, they could be eyeing to make a move more for the long-term and that could involve getting a forward from the Vancouver Canucks.
As the Canucks continue their teardown, having already moved world-class defenseman Quinn Hughes and the first rental forward of the season in winger Kiefer Sherwood, they are going to be ...
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It was the best of losses, it was the worst of losses. It was the age of power-play goals, it was the age of empty-net gaffes. It was an early lead, it was a late collapse. It was a game of hope, it was a game of despair.
The Philadelphia Flyers went through the wringer on Wednesday night in Salt Lake City. After ending their skid with a low-event win in Vegas on Monday night, it looked like they might be able to string two wins together after a hot start. However, after Bobby Brink’s pow...
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The Philadelphia Flyers crumbled under the slightest breeze of pressure Wednesday night as they succumbed to a late-game comeback by the Utah Mammoth and lost in overtime. Head coach Rick Tocchet wanted to see something happen in the game, though. Specifically, one of his players to take a punch in the mouth.
Fingers have been pointed at almost every single member of the organization, looking for someone to blame for the humiliating loss. Whether it is Garnet Hathaway on a breakaway for a...
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With the Philadelphia Flyers in a precarious spot as January comes to a close, it’s time to take a step back and consider exactly where they are in the rebuild and when they truly think that this team will be competitive enough to be taken seriously.
Since taking over the Flyers in 2023, general manager Danny Briere and president of hockey operations Keith Jones have leaned heavily on one familiar phrase: “the players will decide how we move ahead in the future.”
Over that time...
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*You might’ve thought the Flyers were out of whatever funk they’ve been stuck in but one win does not a turnaround make. And last night they could not make it two in a row. RECAP !
*Travis Konecny, much like all of us, was tired of losing when he hit the ice in Las Vegas Monday night. [ NBC Sports Philly ]
*Speaking of certified Grade A winners, Bobby Brink came back into the lineup and the losing immediately ceased. Coincidence?? PERHAPS. Perhaps not. [ Inquirer ]
*Ricky Tacos ...
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In their seemingly never-ending quest to torture their fan base in as many unique ways as possible, the Flyers may have hit a new low.
Despite leading 3-0 in the second period, and then 4-2 with eight minutes left in the third, the Flyers found a way to squander what seemed to be a sure-fire win late against Utah. Clayton Keller scored with 35 seconds remaining in regulation to tie it, and then again in overtime to win it, as the Mammoth completed the comeback in the extra frame.
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After a huge win over the Golden Knights on Monday to break their losing streak, the Flyers continued on to the next stop on their road trip, heading to Utah to face off against the Mammoth and hopefully keep their positive momentum rolling. And while this was something that worked initially for them, lapses and lack of attention to detail quickly allowed this game to get away from them, and instead the Flyers were stuck with a heartbreaker of a loss in overtime to cap this one off.
The B...
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It’s no secret that the Flyers have taken their fair share of penalties. Heading into Wednesday’s game against host Utah, Philadelphia sits sixth in the league with 520 minutes in penalties. It’s a strain on the team’s penalty kill, and a strain that has caused more than a few leaks in that particular special teams sector. Sure some penalties are unavoidable, sometimes even good, but the Flyers are taking a bevy of just dumb, brain-cramping infractions. And during Wednesday’s post-practice pre...
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The Philadelphia Flyers continue their road trip and so far, it’s been pretty successful. We would assume that three straight games against the Vegas Golden Knights, the Utah Mammoth, and Colorado Avalanche would be three straight losses, but the Flyers have started on the right foot with a 2-1 win in Nevada on Monday.
Now, how will they respond as they face the Mammoth tonight?
Puck drop: 9:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
Sam Er...
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Maybe the most controversial thing the Philadelphia Flyers have done under general manager Danny Briere has been their decision at the draft table the last two years. Mostly, the choice to opt for center Jett Luchanko over defenseman Zeev Buium, who is carving out a nice start to his NHL career after dominating college hockey.
That’s boring though. Yawn — oh, the Flyers made their choice based on position and possibly based on Buium sharing an agent with the prospect who told them to f–k ...
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The 2026 World Juniors have come and gone and all six Flyers prospects who took part in the winter tournament up there in Minnesota, have now returned to their leagues around the world. Finishing off the second half of their seasons as they aim for brighter and bigger futures and potentially even moving up a division or maybe even signing an NHL contract to start that whole new journey.
There were a variety of outcomes at the World Juniors for the Flyers’ prospects. Some excelled on the b...
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*The boys are in Utah tonight to try and keep the good vibes from Monday’s win over the Golden Knights going. Before this next game you can check out Charlie’s thoughts on the last one, in case you missed them. [ PHLY ]
*Speaking of that last game, it was easily Sam Ersson’s best of the season. He delivered the performance he needed to deliver to hold off the rumors of his demise. [ BSH ]
*And even with the good from that game in Vegas — namely Ersson remembering how to goalie and Tr...
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The Flyers picked up a huge win on the road last night in Vegas, taking down the best in the Pacific Golden Knights to snap their losing streak at six games and jolt themselves back to life. And while there were certainly a number of elements which were working well for the Flyers on the way to that win — the penalty kill righted the ship in a big way, and Travis Konecny’s effort was quite singular — none was more meaningful than the bounce back performance goaltender Sam Ersson was able to st...
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When former Flyers general manager Chuck Fletcher signed Nic Deslauriers to a four-year, $7 million deal ($1.75 million AAV) on July 13, 2022, many didn’t see the logic behind the deal. Deslauriers had a 10-goal season for Montreal in 2017-18 in just 58 games. But he wasn’t a playmaker, nor a sniper. In short, he was an enforcer. A fighter. Somebody who was the Flyers’ policeman on the ice, and tried to deter liberties being taken on star players or smaller players by the opposition. Deslaurie...
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Tyson Foerster was injured in early December. And while the Flyers didn't appear to miss a step, was his injury actually the turning point of Philadelphia's season?
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*The Flyers won a hockey game and our long national nightmare is over. Thank the gods. RECAP !
*Alright surely everyone is tired of relitigating the Christian Dvorak contract but here’s the thing… they probably could’ve done something else. Just spitballing. [ BSH ]
*Related, the Flyers’ lack of center depth has lead to Sean Couturier getting a bit more minutes than is probably ideal for him at this stage of the game. [ BSH ]
*While we’re talking Organizational Choices™, Kurz sa...
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Our long national nightmare is over. The Flyers’ losing streak is over. After hitting the season-high six consecutive losses mark on Saturday against the Rangers, a still-depleted Flyers team went into Vegas to face off against the top team in the Pacific, looking for a reset, and they came out on top. It wasn’t the highest flying of showings, but it was a resilient one, as the Flyers managed to eke out a 2-1 win over the Golden Knights.
The Basics
First period: 3:46 – Travis Konecny...
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After a truly brutal showing against a struggling Rangers team on home ice on Saturday afternoon, and seeing their losing streak stretch on to six games, the Flyers are still looking around for answers and hoping that a trip out West will see their luck change. They have quite a steep hill to climb here — not only have they dug themselves quite a deep hole with their own play, but their first stop is Vegas to face off against the Golden Knights, who sit at the top of the standings in the Pacif...
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The Philadelphia Flyers really could have cooked something up that so many fans have been begging to see all season long but instead kept more of the status quo as they are spiraling down the standings with loss after loss.
It is extremely unfortunate that center Rodrigo Abols suffered a devastating injury on Saturday that has killed his chances to represent Latvia at the Olympics next month. It is something you just never want to see and a story you never want to hear about — a player’s ...
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What a week, huh? The Philadelphia Flyers played four games and lost all of them in regulation, extending the losing streak to six games. Now they’re headed on a road trip against some of the toughest teams in the Western Conference, and it’s easy to envision the losing streak hitting nine by week’s end. If we could award stars to you, dear reader, we would, because that was a miserable week of hockey to witness.
But! Before we get to all that, we have to reflect on last week’s games and ...
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