Broad Street Hockey

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A Lehigh Valley Phantoms blog. We talk about the AHL. That's it.

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Flyers’ Travis Konecny sassily shrugs off early scoring woes: ‘It’s four games’

The Philadelphia Flyers have just one win in their first four games, and they’ve been struggling to score. They’ve been held to three goals or fewer against manned nets thus far, and barely got a second goal on the board while taking just 17 shots against the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night. Sean Couturier, Bobby Brink, and Owen Tippett are the only players with multiple goals so far this season, while Travis Sanheim, Tyson Foerster, Noah Cates, Christian Dvorak, and Matvei Michkov all ha...

NHL Flyers Jets

3 months ago | 4 reads

4 notable differences between Rick Tocchet and John Tortorella so far

The Philadelphia Flyers had nearly three full seasons of John Tortorella behind the bench, and for a good portion of that time, the Flyers were a hockey team surrounded by an ongoing soap opera. What was the fiery Tortorella going to do next? Who would he put in the doghouse? Who would he scratch? Who would find themselves benched? What would he do with his goaltenders not just from game-to-game, but period-to-period? All kinds of questions that didn’t deter Flyers general manager Danny Briere...

NHL Flyers

3 months ago | 2 reads

Flyers offer brief glimpse of potentially elite first line

The Philadelphia Flyers might have played one of the most visually off-putting games of hockey as they lost 5-2 against the Winnipeg Jets Thursday night, but there was a small glimmer of hope for some excitement in the future. For a brief 58 seconds, Rick Tocchet threw out a forward line combination that could be seen as putting all his eggs in one basket but it went beyond that. The trio was dominating possession — doing everything that Tocchet has preached all preseason long about what ...

NHL Flyers Jets

3 months ago | 2 reads