With the trade deadline looming, and all the rampant speculation that emerges in the days leading up to it, may we present another little interesting tidbit. Perhaps it’s nothing more than a coach and a player he coached last season catching up on life and family, but according to Vancouver Canucks insider and sports radio host Rick Dhaliwal, Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet and Canucks center Elias Pettersson had a rather lengthy discussion during the Olympics.
Tocchet, who was one of Team...
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Looking at the numbers and what they say about the potential offense for the Philadelphia Flyers. Are they bad or is the process just not there?
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The Philadelphia Flyers aren’t projected to be a team that will be very busy before the trade deadline next Friday — aside from potentially trading veteran defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen — but according to a recent report, there are teams sniffing around some players as long-term fits for their problems.
One of the main talking points surrounding absolute any trade rumor or trade chatter involving the Flyers is that this team just has so many wingers — too many wingers to even put on the t...
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The Flyers ended last season with an .879 team save percentage. This was nearly 10 points below the San Jose Sharks — a team who was openly tanking — for the worst team save percentage in the NHL. It’s comfortably the worst mark since the turn of the century, though this year’s Ottawa Senators (.873) are giving it a real run. The front office then came to the logical conclusion that the roster simply can’t be evaluated correctly if they’re spending their time fishing the puck out of their own ...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are approaching this trade deadline from a unique angle. While most other teams who are several points out of a playoff spot, are gearing up to sell off their pending free agents or possibly move on from some core pieces, the Flyers don’t really have much of that. No bounty of veterans who they can get a heaping pile of draft picks for to help their rebuild, it’s just going to largely be status quo.
That is except one specific player.
Rasmus Ristolainen is the...
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Flyers general manager Danny Briere finds himself somewhat in no man's land heading into the trade deadline. The club isn't good enough to make the playoffs, but not quite bad enough to bottom out.
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*Oooooh baby, we love a big Michkov game around here, and the Flyers marched up to the train station and delivered one. RECAP !
*Travis Konecny, who has seemed to be having a real bad time, emotionally, this season, had accurately diagnosed the Flyers’ problems. It’s good that they can see it from the inside, too. [ BSH ]
*The fine folks over at the Inky had a sit down with defense prospect Oliver Bonk about a whole mess of things, and it’s a solid read. Would be cool if we got to se...
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The Flyers closed out their pair of back-to-back road games with a trip up to New York to face off against a struggling Rangers team. Coming off of a disappointing loss to the Capitals in last night’s return to action, the Flyers were eager to regroup and find a more positive result to close out the trip. And while it wasn’t the smoothest of complete showings for them, they were able to gut this one out and come away with a big win in overtime.
The basics
First period: 9:56- Sam Carr...
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The Philadelphia Flyers are back, again! After restarting their season in Washington Wednesday night (and losing) the Flyers are now in New York City to face a Rangers team with an actually worse record. It’s going to be a, well, a game.
Puck drop: 8:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: ESPN 📻: 93.3 WMMR
Pregame reading
The Flyers have five games to play before the NHL trade deadline next Friday. What will those games tell us as to how general manager Danny Briere could ...
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The Philadelphia Flyers dropped their all-important return to action against the Washington Capitals and now conversations have started once again about how this team might just not be good enough to even think about the playoffs for a while.
Whether it is looking at a blue line that lacks a true top defenseman — with all the love to Travis Sanheim — or a forward group that has skill on the flank but the spine is severely lacking any scoring or drive; there just is not a whole lot going o...
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The Flyers started their 26-game gauntlet to wrap up the season Wednesday night against the Capitals. It’ was a four-point divisional game against a club who, like Philadelphia, are on the outside looking in regarding a playoff spot. And despite the fact the Flyers have three games in hand on Washington, the team has a batch of clubs they have catch if they want to get a wildcard spot. Or even back in the conversation. Perhaps the one saving grace is that Philadelphia might have a better but n...
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*Boy the Flyers sure are back, huh? Watching that exciting, fun hockey game last night it’s like they never left! RECAP !
*So how’d you all like that post-break lineup last night? Interesting, no? [ BSH ]
*Matvei Michkov remained on the left side, naturally. Would appear that the coach is fully committed to not playing him where he plays best. [ Inquirer ]
*Anyhoo how’s about a feel-good story? Like this one, about how Denver Barkey is inspired by his late grandfather, who was a...
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The Flyers returned from their post-Olympic break but fell to the Capitals 3-1. The loss puts the Flyers in a far deeper hole than they were before the break when it comes to their now-slimmer playoff hopes.
The basics
First period: No scoring Second period: 13:52 – Rasmus Sandin (Hendrix Lapierre, Jakob Chychrun) Third period: 0:29 – Noah Cates (Travis Sanheim, Bobby Brink), 14:08 – Trevor van Riemsdyk (Declan Chisholm, Aliaksei Protas), 19:34 – Aliaksei Protas (Unassisted) (SHG) (E...
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We’re back at last! It’s been almost three weeks since we’ve seen the Flyers on the ice for a game, but finally, they’re back at it for the first of two games on the road before they return home again this weekend.
It’s an uphill battle they’re facing, and in front of them tonight will be a tough divisional rival (and a team sitting between them and a playoff spot) in the Capitals, and the Flyers will have to find a way to hit the ground running quickly if they want to regain some of the ...
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It’s good to be back. The Philadelphia Flyers are actually playing hockey Wednesday night for the first time in 20 days thanks to the NHL’s pause for the 2026 Winter Olympics, as they visit the Washington Capitals. But, what has not been missed is Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet putting out some lineups that are largely questionable.
There are several reasons why the lineup that Tocchet unveiled at Wednesday’s morning skate makes almost every single Flyers fan tilt their head and go “Now, ...
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The Philadelphia Flyers season is continuing on. We’re pushing ourselves through the goo of what is likely yet another season without playoffs in Philadelphia and without completely bottoming out to then get excited about a potentially elite talent coming in the draft. But, there is thankfully still a couple things to be excited about.
Such as, college players graduating and deciding to start their professional hockey careers.
As soon as their season wraps up, college players are fre...
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Welcome to the Philadelphia Flyers Top 25 Under 25 ranking, Winter 2026 edition. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be putting out our ranking of the, well, top 25 players in the Flyers organization who are under 25 years old. A total of 13 writers at Broad Street Hockey submitted ballots and here is the consensus ranking.
This is really where the ranking picks up. In this batch are the clear-cut young NHLers who aren’t the most exciting players — either for reaching their ceiling very ...
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*The Flyers are back tonight, for real, as they head on down to Washington, D.C. to take on the Capitals. It’s probably Alex Ovechkin’s last year in the league (maybe, who knows, he could go Full Jagr) and he’s just four goals short of 1,000 for his career. Which is nuts. Here’s that and nine other stories to watch as the league gets back underway tonight. [ NHL ]
*You might have forgotten where things stand, playoffs-wise, so thankfully someone decided to give you a little refresher. [ E...
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The main storyline that has weaved its way through the entire Philadelphia Flyers season is what is going on with Matvei Michkov. After having a stellar rookie season, the 21-year-old winger has taken a step back in his second NHL season — the reasons why have been spoken about to death, but the main concern among the Flyers fan base is the relationship between the player and head coach Rick Tocchet.
Michkov showed up to training camp out of shape, that’s unfortunately a fact, but now the...
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The Philadelphia Flyers have found themselves once again in the middle of some trade rumors as we inch closer to the NHL trade deadline. This time it isn’t in a strict teardown with obvious pending free agents that they will likely move, but instead a defenseman who just doesn’t fit the long-term picture and is playing well enough to get attention.
Rasmus Ristolainen is riding a high after winning a bronze medal in Milan and after logging big minutes for Team Finland and looking good whil...
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*Let’s all enjoy today, friends. For tomorrow the Philadelphia Flyers will return to action and we will once again be forced to both perceive and contemplate them. Or not care at all; dealer’s choice, really. Anyhoo, Trevor Zegras had a real good time celebrating the Team USA gold from home. NHL players: they’re just like us! [ BSH ]
*As the Regular Hockey kicks back off, it presents an opportunity for two Flyers who have absolutely stunk this season to try and turn things around. [ The A...
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The Flyers practiced Sunday but had to stop for a few hours to watch (like everyone in Canada) the men’s gold medal game between Team Canada and Team USA. The States came out on top in a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory, but a few Flyers on both sides of the fence spoke about the game itself and their thoughts.
Trevor Zegras, who is a friend of the Hughes brothers, including game-winning goal scored Jack Hughes, was riveted to the screen like most people.
“Yeah, it was sweet,” Zegras s...
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With the gold medal awarded at the 2026 Winter Olympics and the NHL roster freeze lifted as of Sunday at midnight, the transactions are expected to really pick up ahead of the trade deadline just 12 days away. One name that could certainly be moved is Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen and according to recent reports, there are several teams interested in the hulking rearguard.
According to Daily Faceoff’s Anthony Di Marco, the Flyers are receiving trade interest from at le...
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Welcome to the Philadelphia Flyers Top 25 Under 25 ranking, Winter 2026 edition. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be putting out our ranking of the, well, top 25 players in the Flyers organization who are under 25 years old. A total of 13 writers at Broad Street Hockey submitted ballots and here is the consensus ranking.
As we continue down this ranking and now into the top 10, we’re getting into the very interesting prospects who should play a sizeable role for the Flyers going forwa...
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*We’re reveling in a lot of Olympic buzz right now, and on top of appreciating the highs that come from this most recent win for the USA, we’re taking a look back at some standout performances from Flyers players in tournaments past. [ BSH ]
*Members of the American team also made a really touching tribute to the Gaudreau brothers after their win. [ Inquirer ]
*Rasmus Ristolainen showed really well on the way to a bronze medal with Finland, and now it’s time to ask — might this be en...
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