The Flyers are at the 11-game mark, and already they have been looking pretty good at times. They’re 6-4-1 and had a 5-game winning streak at home, their first such streak since the pandemic. The goaltending thus far has been above what fans saw last year, but then again, could it get much lower? Outside of the Toronto performance, Dan Vladar is holding the Flyers in games and has been fantastic! Heading into Sunday’s games Vladar was sixth in goals-against average (2.11) and save percentage (...
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The Flyers and Leafs played hockey Saturday night. Or attempted to. But an extremely slow, choppy, and at times chippy contest resulted in a 5-2 win for Toronto, and the first subpar effort of the season from Philadelphia goaltender Dan Vladar.
The basics
First period: 1:09 – Christian Dvorak (Nikita Grebenkin, Travis Konecny), 6:16 – Auston Matthews (Morgan Rielly, Nick Robertson) Second period: 8:14 – Jake McCabe (Chris Tanev, Matias Maccelli), 17:34 – Nick Robertson (Matthew Knies...
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The Flyers are kicking off a weekend back-to-back this evening, as the first of their visitors from the Great White North visit, and the Maple Leafs come to town. It’s been a wild week already, but the Flyers will be looking to keep the good vibes rolling into this busy weekend.
Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
The saga of Where In The World Is Emil Andrae continues, as after getting in for one game on Thursday, ...
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The Philadelphia Flyers have made a roster move that not many fans will agree with and it involves young defenseman Emil Andrae.
Announced by the team on Friday afternoon, the Flyers have sent Andrae back down to the AHL’s Lehigh Valley Phantoms. Andrae played just one game since his recall a few days ago, where he played over 15 minutes against the Nashville Predators in a fairly solid win for the team.
In addition to the Andrae news, the Flyers have recalled center Jacob Gaucher fr...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are officially 10 games into the 2025-26 campaign. For those who enjoy numbers, that means about 12.2% of the regular season is already in the rearview.
With 10 games in the books, the Flyers have provided enough of a sample size for one to reasonably gauge what they are (and could become) as a hockey team.
So far, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is the Flyers still have a ways to go before becoming a legitimate Stanley Cup contender. The good new...
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It’s Halloween and you know what that means – horror movies! I thought it would be fun to assign a horror or Halloween movie to each Flyer. Well, most of the Philadelphia Flyers. It’s a lot to pick stuff for guys like Rodrigo Abols and Noah Juulsen!
Rick Tocchet – The Faculty
The 1998 sci-fi horror flick The Faculty is all about defying authority figures, as a group of high school students see their teachers replaced by aliens. Now I am not remotely accusing Rick Tocchet and his coh...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are riding high with a 6-3-1 record to start their season but that doesn’t prevent them from having eyes on the future and more specifically what is the future in the crease. According to a report, the Flyers are eyeing a certain disgruntled goalie prospect in the Buffalo Sabres organization.
Devon Levi was once the hottest goalie prospect in the world. The centerpiece of the return for the Sabres in the trade that sent Sam Reinhart to the Florida Panthers in 2021,...
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The Philadelphia Flyers might have won the game Thursday night’s showdown against the Nashville Predators, but they did lose something incredibly important to their season. In the middle of what ended up being a one-sided affair for the final two periods (on the score line anyways, maybe not the shot total), Flyers captain Sean Couturier went down with an injury.
Couturier did not return to the game as almost immediately after he went down the tunnel, the Flyers put out an announcement th...
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*The Flyers closed out their slate of games in the month of October last night with a matchup against the Predators, and it was a weird one. Decidedly less spirited than Tuesday’s against the Penguins, the Flyers failed to break 20 shots put on goal, but still managed to come away with a 4-1 win. Hockey is weird sometimes. [ BSH ]
*There was a lot of good coming out of that game, but there was one decidedly bad thing: Sean Couturier took a shot off the arm (friendly fire, even worse) in t...
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The Flyers closed out the first month of the season in a positive way, with their third straight victory, this time over the Nashville Predators. A lousy opening period that saw the Flyers outshot 10-3 would turn out not to be a sign to things to come, with Trevor Zegras stepping up in a big way, scoring twice and assisting on another tally.
The Basics
First period: No scoring Second period: 12:45 – Trevor Zegras (Matvei Michkov, Owen Tippett), 15:41 – Jamie Drysdale (Michkov, ...
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Philadelphia Flyers captain and center Sean Couturier appears to have gotten hurt during Thursday’s night game against visiting Nashville. Couturier got hit with a shot that looked like it hit him around the left elbow. He dropped to the ice but was able to skate off under his own steam.
Couturier sat on the bench not feeling the best. He appeared to have missed his next regular shift but returned to play a shift or two to end the first period, including being on the ice for the final sec...
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The Flyers are pressing on with their run of home games, and after picking up a massive and thrilling win over the Penguins on Tuesday, they’ll be hoping to keep that momentum rolling right into tonight’s matchup with the visiting Predators.
Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
It’s been a busy day around here, and the game hasn’t even kicked off yet. As we know, Jett Luchanko was sent back to Guelph earlier this week, and he’...
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Flyers winger Bobby Brink began his National Hockey League career as an offense-generating player. He wasn’t one known for getting into the dirty areas or simply outworking the opponent to win the puck. He wasn’t one to take the body and certainly didn’t look too keen to go to battle against a rival player who more than likely was bigger than Brink’s 5’8″, 170-pound frame.
But for Philadelphia head coach Rick Tocchet, it’s the size of the fight in the dog, not necessarily the size of the ...
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The Philadelphia Flyers have made the first significant trade of the season and it involves a once highly thought of prospect going to the Dallas Stars organization.
Announced by the team on Thursday morning, the Flyers have traded 22-year-old winger Samu Tuomaala to the Stars in exchange for fellow-22-year-old defenseman Christian Kyrou. The deal is one for one.
TRADE ALERT: We’ve acquired defenseman Christian Kyrou from Dallas in exchange for forward Samu Tuomaala. https://t.co/89I...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are riding high after their shootout win against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night, and they’ll look to keep that going against the Nashville Predators.
There will be a few changes to the roster, though, as Rick Tocchet realigns things on defense for Thursday night’s showdown with the Predators.
Emil Andrae gets his second NHL game of the season
Emil Andrae will return to the lineup after being recalled from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Tuesday. H...
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Jett Luchanko has seen his time in pro hockey cut short for a second year in a row. In an unsurprising decision, the Philadelphia Flyers have chosen to send the center prospect back to the Guelph Storm for another year of OHL seasoning.
The 19-year-old showed some promise and speed at the pro level, but failed to register a point in his four NHL games, while primarily playing bottom-six minutes. It was a story that mirrored Luchanko’s cup of coffee in Philadelphia last season: the little...
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*It’s almost time to turn the page and move on to the next Flyers game, but for now, we’re still basking in the glow of that exciting win over the Penguins on Tuesday. We already broke down our main takeaways yesterday, but if you’re looking for a little more, Charlie has his here. [ PHLY ]
*And it really was an exciting game, seeing some more bite added into a sort of cooling rivalry, and the Flyers coming together even more in the face of it. [ BSH ]
*There was a lot to like in tha...
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Last night’s matchup between the Flyers and the Penguins was, for a whole host of reasons, an exciting one. A tightly played game through the regulation frame, with a bit of physical engagement already built in, the overtime period brought things to a completely new level. With two disallowed goals and frustration mounting, a bit of chippiness tacked on at the end of the period boiled over into something truly chaotic.
There was a full SCRAP between the Penguins and Flyers after overtime ...
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Noah Cates is the quintessential player that the grown hockey men are talking about when it comes to “putting on your hard hat and getting to work”. The Philadelphia Flyers centerman is rarely even spoken about on the national stage but every single night, every single shift, he does what is necessary to have his team have the advantage and win more hockey games.
The 26-year-old forward has been under the radar when it comes to people who either aren’t Flyers fans or are complete sickos a...
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It’s that time of year again where I (like many others) dedicated the month of October to watching scary movies. Why do we do this when we can choose to watch them all year-round? I’m not quite sure, but it has turned into a fun tradition, nonetheless.
Last year I was only able to watch 12 films , but this year I tackled 22! Not sure what this says about me and how I allot my free time, but an accomplishment I guess? Anyway, the same rules apply as any other year I’ve done this. I will on...
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*As we may recall, Jett Luchanko was sent back to Guelph on Monday, and we still have a lot of thoughts about all of that. First, perhaps a bit of a silver lining, him being out of the mix for a spot on that fourth line could give the remaining players a chance to build a bit more continuity. [ BSH ]
*It’s a bit of a bummer, but it’s important to remember that we’re still so early in his career, and a bright future still lies ahead for Luchanko. [ NBCSP ]
*But also… the way the Flyer...
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When the Philadelphia Flyers acquired Trevor Zegras from the Anaheim Ducks last summer, there was concern if he would really fit in. If he could truly be someone that gels with what they’re trying to do here and wear the Orange and Black as well as some other forwards have. And in one single game, he proved that not only can he led this team’s offense but also be as pesky as needed to be a perfect example of a Flyer.
During Tuesday night’s game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the first g...
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On the second game of a five-game homestand, the Flyers beat the Penguins by a score of 3-2 in the shootout. For the first time in quite some time, the Flyers and Penguins matchup had some juice to it, with one of the messier overtime periods in recent memory.
The basics
First period: 10:19 – Justin Brazeau (Anthony Mantha, Matt Dumba), 17:25 – Bobby Brink (Noah Cates, Trevor Zegras) (PPG) Second period: 2:46 – Travis Konecny (Sean Couturier, Brink) Third period: 11:57 – Sidn...
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Travis Konency scored his second goal of the season tonight against the Penguins, and it was a milestone goal as it was the 200th of his career as a Flyer. Konecny, who became the seventeenth Flyer to hit that achievement, scored the tally early in the second on a nice shot that beat Penguins goalie Arturs Silovs clean and low on the stick side. Sean Couturier and Bobby Brink had the assists. Konecny nearly potted his 200th minutes earlier on a shorthanded attempt but Silovs just got enough of...
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The Pittsburgh Penguins are coming to town. Gross! Our Philadelphia Flyers will be hosting the other Pennsylvanian NHL team as they try to make their homestand full of wins and embarrass those Pens.
Puck drop: 6:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: ESPN 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
Emil Andrae is back! He most likely won’t be playing tonight but he’s officially on the roster and the reason why is basically head coach Rick Tocchet likes to have a certain number of defensemen...
3 months ago
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