It’s been a relatively quiet week for the Flyers up to this point, but just as it was beginning to feel a little bit too quiet around here, the Flyers dropped a little bit of news on us, down to the wire before they rolling for tonight’s game in Nashville. Ahead of tonight’s game against the Predators, the Flyers announced that they’ve activated goaltender Samuel Ersson from IR, and loaned forward Jacob Gaucher back to Lehigh Valley to make room for that.
Transaction: We've activated goal...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are coming off one of the most exciting games of their young season after winning and losing and then winning again against the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre. And because of that powerful performance, head coach Rick Tocchet is going with the same lineup — an untouched roster to hopefully get another two points over the Nashville Predators.
The last time these two teams met in this season was just a week ago and the Flyers earned a 4-1 win thanks to two goa...
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The Flyers have one of the NHL's best penalty kills this season and it is a massive improvement from last year. Why is that?
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There is no other prospect in the Philadelphia Flyers system that needed to show that they belonged than Denver Barkey. The winger with all the motor in the world was able to play a prominent role on a dominant London Knights team in the OHL, but that was junior hockey. Barkey needed to make himself known within the first few weeks of turning pro and lacing up for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
There were questions coming into this year. We have seen it so often that a player with Barkey’s 5...
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*The boys will be in Nashville tonight to try and keep the momentum from Tuesday’s win over the Habs going. The team clearly heard what Rick Tocchet was saying and played accordingly (well, for the most part). [ Inquirer ]
*It was mostly The Trevor Zegras Show up in Montreal but the whole offense seemed to be waking up. Would be cool to see some other guys get going (looking at you, Small Travis). [ The Athletic ]
*Speaking of Zegras, you can tell he’s really feeling himself right no...
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Trevor Zegras once again played a big part in a Philadelphia Flyers victory on Tuesday night. He had two power-play assists in the first period to put the team up 3-0, and came through in the shootout to help secure the victory.
Zegras is now up to 15 points (4 goals, 11 assists) in his first 13 games with the Flyers, proving to be a great offseason addition for Danny Briere & Co.
The 24-year-old forward needed a change of scenery, and he’s making the most of it in Philadelphia.
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In the Flyers’ first 13 games, the goaltending generally hasn’t been the crux of the team’s woes. The tandem of Dan Vladar and Sam Ersson (and now Aleksei Kolosov) have been holding Philadelphia in games for the most part. There have been a few clunkers but, generally, they have held up their end of the bargain.
Prior to Wednesday’s slate of games, Vladar finds himself sixth in the league in goals against average (2.33) but has fallen to 15th now in terms of save percentage (.912), since ...
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*Hockey is a ridiculous game. Last night’s was a perfect example. You gotta love it. RECAP !
*You may have noticed that without Tyson Foerster available, Rick Tocchet got a little wacky with the lines last night. [ BSH ]
*It was a bit of a homecoming for Christian Dvorak last night, as he is apparently remembered fondly by his former teammates. That’s nice. [ Inquirer ]
*Back to Dvo’s current team, though… if Tyson Foerster is going to miss some real time these are three players...
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It was a great first period and a terrible second, but the Flyers rallied showed some character and defeated the host Montreal Canadiens 5-4 in a shootout Tuesday night.
The basics
First period: 1:56- Bobby Brink (Travis Sanheim, Cam York), 7:07- Cam York (Trevor Zegras, Travis Konecny) (PPG), 7:50- Bobby Brink (Noah Cates, Trevor Zegras) (PPG) Second period: 3:11- Kirby Dach (Noah Dobson, Brendan Gallagher), 4:15- Nick Suzuki (Ivan Demidov, Cole Caulfield) (PPG), 13:28- Kirby Dach (...
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The Flyers didn’t fare so well over their weekend back-to-back against the Leafs and the Flames, picking up a pair of pretty uninspiring losses (and looking, truly, perhaps the worst they have all season on Sunday). They’re in a bit of a spiral here, looking for answers as their process has broken down a bit, and they’re looking to stop the bleeding and get things back on track in short order, taking advantage of the opportunity for a reset that a trip up to Montreal can offer them.
Puck ...
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It is the most obvious hole on the Philadelphia Flyers lineup and it’s something that general manager Danny Briere clearly wants to address, and now might be the perfect time to do so.
Scrolling down the lineup for the Flyers, their third defensive pairing on the blue line sticks out like the sorest of sore thumbs. Glowing red with the word “Yee-ouch!” animated over it, a rotating cast of characters like Noah Juulsen, Adam Ginning, Egor Zamula, and not until recently Emil Andrae, gives li...
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The Philadelphia Flyers open up a quick two-game road trip up in Montreal on Tuesday night, and they’re doing so without Tyson Foerster. The Flyers placed the winger on injured reserve prior to Sunday night’s loss to the Calgary Flames.
Without Foerster, Rick Tocchet tried to keep the magic of the Noah Cates line together with Owen Tippett joining Bobby Brink on the wing, but that was short-lived as the lines were thrown into the blender for the third period.
Flyers lineup vs. Canadi...
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The Philadelphia Flyers were riding high and off to a better-than-expected start to their 2025-26 season. They were winning hockey games, some key players were scoring timely goals, and everything seemed fine. Then a double dose of misfortunes hit Philadelphia: A weekend with two big losses that sunk them down to the bottom of the Eastern Conference, and winger Tyson Foerster going down with a fluke lower-body injury thanks to him blocking a shot.
Foerster was placed on injured reserve ba...
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Dating back to February of last season, Konecny's level has significantly dropped off from where it was at the time of his extension.
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The Philadelphia Flyers’ power play were comically inept in the previous three seasons before 2025-26. John Tortorella stood by Rocky Thompson, and Thompson stood by what was nothing short of a gong show with the man advantage. It was surprising officials didn’t call gross misconducts on Philadelphia as the power play was that ugly to watch. But with a new coach in Rick Tocchet, and a new acquisition in Trevor Zegras, the Flyers power play has been decent 12 games into the season. It still nee...
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*The Flyers wrapped up at home this weekend and kick off a little two-game road trip tonight up in Montreal. They will not have Tyson Foerster. But they WILL have Emil Andrae. [ BSH ]
*After that stinker against the Flames, Rick Tocchet (and I, and also probably you, dear reader) wants to see his team shooting the puck more. A lot more, preferably. [ Inquirer ]
*Ricky Taco had quite a lot to say about his team’s lackluster performance on Sunday night, actually. [ BSH ]
*You get ...
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The Philadelphia Flyers made a pair of transactions that should leave fans completely neutral — one player that they will gladly see on the ice again, while also receiving news that it might be a little bit longer until we see one of the best players on this team.
On Monday afternoon, the team announced that they have recalled defenseman Emil Andrae up from the AHL’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms after a brief visit down in the minors due to some roster re-construction. Additionally, they have p...
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Last night’s game against the Flames was for the Flyers, in many ways, a doozy. An uninspired effort from the skaters, which amounted to a meager 18 shots generated (and only nine between the first two periods) on the way to a 2-1 loss and resulted in some largely measured but still pretty pointed criticism from their head coach, the Flyers put together a game which was, it feels fair to say, probably their worst of the season. And on the other side of that, they had Aleksei Kolosov, up from t...
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You can only try to come up with so many different ways to say the same thing, but maybe it’s the best to make it extremely simple: The Philadelphia Flyers had a very bad weekend and head coach Rick Tocchet is asking some questions of his roster.
After losing a disheartening game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, the very next day the Flyers hosted the NHL’s worst team in the Calgary Flames. And they applied almost zero offensive pressure in the 2-1 loss — a performance that is...
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The last week was something of a roller coaster for the Philadelphia Flyers. It started off with a thrilling shootout win over the stupid and dumb Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday, followed by a 4-1 victory over the Nashville Predators Thursday night to secure their third consecutive win.
Since then, though, the vibes have not been immaculate. The Flyers have dropped two straight games, including 5-2 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs Saturday night and a 2-1 loss to the Calgary Flames on Sund...
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*That sure was a weekend of Flyers hockey, huh? The way it wrapped up last night with the world’s most boring loss to the worst team in the league? Classic. Loved it. Great times all around. RECAP !
*Head over to Charlie’s website to ask yourself, what if the players on my hockey team took shots? On goal? [ PHLY ]
*We got to see our old pals Morgan and Joel! Good time to revisit what ended up being a nice little trade for Danny Briere. [ Inquirer ]
*Found out ahead of last night...
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In what was the worst performance of the season so far, the Flyers closed out their five game homestand with a sleepy 2-1 loss to the league-worst Calgary Flames at the Xfinity Mobile Center.
The basics
First period: No scoring
Second period: 2:15 – Jonathan Huberdeau (Yegor Sharangovich, Brayden Pachal)
Third period: 7:06 – Huberdeau (Joel Hanley, MacKenzie Weegar), 14:20 – Travis Konecny (Noah Cates)
SOG: 21 (CGY) – 18 (PHI)
Lines jumbled x2&n...
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After Tyson Foerster blocked an Auston Matthews shot in Saturday night’s loss to the Maple Leafs, he hobbled down the tunnel, but returned back a few shifts later and played the remainder of the game, and it looked like the Flyers might have just averted a crisis.
Well, it appears Foerster might have felt the effects of the blocked shot more than initially thought. Prior to Sunday’s game against Calgary, the Flyers announced that Foerster would miss some time with a lower-body injury and ...
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The Philadelphia Flyers face another Canadian team for their second game of a back-to-back. A loss against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night and now, facing the NHL-worst Calgary Flames. Maybe, there’s some hope to bounce back quickly.
Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP+ 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
Alex Bump might just have five points in his first 10 AHL games this season, but he’s making an impact to the overall team’s offense in a ...
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Coming into Philadelphia Flyers training camp there was an underlying excitement beyond the typical feeling of finally having hockey back. One of the reasons for that feeling might not be with the Flyers right now, but he’s making a loud enough noise down in the AHL that is starting to draw some attention.
Alex Bump was projected as one of the few young players that could end up making the Flyers out of camp. He had an impressive showing with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms after his collegiat...
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