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The Flyers finally have something to build on after their brutal start
The Philadelphia Flyers put up their best effort of the young season on Thursday night in Ottawa, but it still wasn’t enough as they fell 2-1 in the Senators’ home opener. While saying it was their best effort may not mean much given how poorly the first four games went, the Flyers were legitimately the better team at 5-on-5 for large portions of the loss. They killed off four penalties in the first period, controlled play in the second, but couldn’t get the forecheck going until late in ...
Friday Morning Fly By: Still winless
*The Flyers made some pretty major changes heading into last night’s game against the Senators, and they were… they were really something. [ BSH ] *And, if we’re being honest, we’re getting a little weary of all of this lineup juggling. [ BSH ] *Notably, too, it saw Trevor Zegras moved over to the wing, and we’d been kind of wondering how long it would be before they pulled the trigger on that move. [ BSH ] *Anyway, all of those changes did bring a bit more spark for the Flyers ...
David Jiricek showed more of what he could be for the Flyers
As we are quickly learning during the first five games of the 2026-27 Philadelphia Flyers, it was never going to be perfect. Whether we want to attribute that little notion to the team now owning a 0-3-2 record to start their season or some players not playing up to the same level we just saw them play last year, it’s all the same. But more specifically, we knew it was going to be an interesting journey with David Jiricek. The 22-year-old defender just played a game against the Senators i...
Takeaways: Flyers look better, but not good enough in tough 2-1 loss to Senators
The Flyers upped their compete level, scored a power play goal, and still ended up on the wrong side of the scoreboard Thursday night, losing a tough one 2-1 to the Ottawa Senators. Despite their improved efforts, the winless streak is now five games. The Basics First period: 10:14- Nick Cousins (Tyler Kleven, Warren Foegle) Second period: 7:46- Matvei Michkov (Trevor Zegras, Travis Konecny) (PPG) Third period: 13:01- Carter Yakemchuk (Claude Giroux, Shane Pinto) (PPG) SOG: 29 (PHI) ...
Flyers @ Senators: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
The Flyers are hitting the next stop on their road trip tonight, arriving in Ottawa for their first matchup of the season against some familiar faces on this Senators squad. They’ve made some more changes to their lineup ahead of this game, and they’ll be hoping that this finally, finally does the trick for them, as they still desperately push for their first win of the season. Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP 📻: 93.3 WMMR Pregame reading The lineup juggling...
Michael Bunting eager to make Flyers debut against Senators
Michael Bunting wasn’t expecting it would take this long to be back with a National Hockey League club this season. But tonight he suits up for the Philadelphia Flyers after signing a one-year contract with the team earlier this week . It might not be the solution a lot of Flyer fans are looking for as Philadelphia is still seeking its first victory. “Yeah it’s been a long summer to say the least, something I don’t ever want to go through again,” Bunting said Thursday after the game day s...
Moving Trevor Zegras back to wing is an unfortunate necessity of the Flyers’ slow start
Nothing is working right now for the Philadelphia Flyers. Rick Tocchet has the line blender out in full force, for better or worse (mostly worse), and that continued with the biggest shakeup of the season at Thursday’s morning skate. We dug into the Flyers’ lineup changes a bit earlier, and one of the most notable changes is moving Trevor Zegras back to wing. Zegras was effective late last season down the middle, even showing that he has the potential to be the Flyers’ first-line cen...
Rick Tocchet hits the panic button with the latest Flyers lineup changes
Philadelphia Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet has been searching the wilderness for some consistent lines that he could put out and lead to somewhat success. But with the team now with a 0-2-2 record to start the season, it appears that he is already hitting the panic button and going for the nuclear option when it comes to the lineup the Flyers will put on the ice. Ahead of Thursday night’s matchup against the Senators in Ottawa, Tocchet unveiled a lineup that provided honest-to-God shock....
Flyers’ constant line juggling is making a bad start even worse
The Philadelphia Flyers have had countless issues at the start of the season, and some of them started in training camp. Sure, if things continue to get worse, we’ll dig deeper into the potential foundational issues with this rebuild, but let’s not completely overreact to a four-game sample size in the span of six days against some pretty good teams. But for now, I’m going to look at a few things that have been a bit bothersome since the start of training camp. We started by looking ...
Thursday Night Fly By: Maybe tonight
*The Philadelphia Flyers are still looking for their first win of the season (we’re in misery). But one player who showed up during Monday night’s loss against the Tampa Bay Lightning was Porter Martone. The young rookie showed the rest of his team how they can flip a switch. He may have earned zero points (a goal was taken away from him) but he was certainly playing with an edge that is missing throughout the lineup. [NBCSP] *One player who could be adding a bit of that, and mainly becau...
What can be gained in Alex Bump’s assignment to Phantoms
Flyers rookie Alex Bump has a chance to refine game in AHL assignment with Phantoms.
One way the Flyers can get by without having a No. 1 center
The Philadelphia Flyers are on a desperate hunt to find a bona fide first-line center. But in the meantime, what is one way they could get by?
Why Michael Bunting could be exactly what the Flyers need
The Philadelphia Flyers are in a world of hurt right now so they reached out into the shining light of peeling a player off the pile of remaining free agents, shrugged, and signed him with a hope that maybe he can do some cool stuff. Michael Bunting has joined this Flyers team after a summer of not being able to find a home as an unrestricted free agent. Now, he has an opportunity to show that teams should have been banging his door down for an opportunity to sign him, all on a team that ...
Flyers send Alex Bump down to the Phantoms after disappointing start
The Philadelphia Flyers have made the call. After an unfortunate training camp where the player never really showed what made us hopeful of his potential and a start to the season where he was already a healthy scratch, Alex Bump has been sent down to the AHL. Announced by the team on Wednesday morning, Bump is going to now be with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms and it could be for a little bit. Transaction: We have loaned forward Alex Bump to the @LVPhantoms (AHL). — Philadelphi...
The Flyers’ biggest training camp mistake is already coming back to haunt them
Going into training camp, you always want there to be some healthy competition. The Philadelphia Flyers didn’t have that this year. Sure, there were battles among players to see where they’d slot into the lineup, but there weren’t really any questions heading into training camp. If you took a look at the Flyers roster on July 1 after they signed Noel Acciari, the 20-plus players on the opening night roster would’ve been the ones you predicted. Part of that was due to a league-mandate...
Wednesday Morning Fly By: Shaking things up
*Folks, the Flyers are still losing. We have a nice little bonus off day today for regroup after their last ugly loss, and boy was it ever still ugly. [ PHLY ] *And that loss has contributed to the worst start we’ve seen from the Flyers in a long time. [ NBCSP ] *There’s more than enough blame to go around for this start, but it is making us wonder specifically how much blame can be rested at the feet of head coach Rick Tocchet. [ BSH ] *It’s a good amount, but as we said, there...
How Michael Bunting’s arrival changes the Flyers’ lineup
It wasn’t an earth-shattering move. It is extremely low-risk. And it could actually help Philadelphia. Hence, when Flyers general manager (and master tinkerer) Danny Briere signed unrestricted free agent Michael Bunting to a one-year, $1.2 million contract on Tuesday, it answered a few questions fans might have had. For one, Briere isn’t about to stand pat and let the current four-game winless streak continue without trying something. As well, Bunting was one of the better unrestricted fr...
Flyers sign Michael Bunting in free agency to shake up roster
After four terrible losses to start the season that has put a damper on everything, the Philadelphia Flyers are trying something. They have signed one of the remaining unrestricted free agents who has extensive NHL experience. According to multiple reports, the Flyers have signed free agent forward Michael Bunting to a one-year, $1.2-million AAV deal. It is a lever that has been pulled as general manager Danny Briere looks to find something to turn this early-season skid around. Th...
How much runway does Rick Tocchet really have as the Flyers’ skid continues?
After Monday night’s 4-1 loss to Tampa Bay , Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet said a lot in 63 seconds, both in terms of his vocabulary and his body language. He looked royally pissed off, lost for words regarding how inept, passive and just outclassed Philadelphia was once again for the fourth time in four games this year. Tocchet alluded to the fact the team didn’t compete , and outside of a decent effort from the line of Porter Martone, Noah Cates, and Tyson Foerster, nobody really did a...
3 panic trades Danny Briere could make after Flyers’ frightening start
Nothing is going right for the Philadelphia Flyers. Four games into the season and we’re here left wondering if they will ever outshoot an opponent ever again. They are setting historic records for how poorly they have played and the outlook right now is bleak. Without a potential star to drag them out of this rut, it’s going to be increasingly more difficult the longer it goes on and no one really has answers. So, what is the first thing that most NHL general managers do when their team ...
Tuesday Morning Fly By: Another brutal loss
*Well, the Philadelphia Flyers once again lost a hockey game. And once again they lost one where they were heavily outplayed in just about every single category. The Tampa Bay Lightning hosted our Flyers to start this road trip and proceeded to beat them by a score of 4-1. The Flyers were a miserable watch but just in case you want to really dive deep into that terrible game, here are some takeaways: [BSH] *David Jiricek had highlight reel of brutal mistakes and the best one was when he w...
David Jiricek may be on thin ice after latest mistake
Patience is a virtue. In the NHL, it can certainly be seen as a positive — some players just take longer to develop and the real patient teams who want to carve a player into someone who makes an impact on the ice most shifts, can sometimes be rewarded for their patience. But it gets to a point. And even though he is still just 22 years old, the Philadelphia Flyers’ patience for David Jiricek to play at an adequate level might already be running thin. It might not result in him getting pl...
Takeaways: Flyers fall to Lightning as season-opening skid continues
The Philadelphia Flyers’ start to the 2026-27 season hasn’t exactly inspired much confidence. Not only did they lose their first three games of the campaign, but they also looked completely lifeless in the process, being outscored 13-4 and outshot 122-62 in those outings. Monday night presented an opportunity to stop the bleeding. But against a star-studded Tampa Bay Lightning squad, the outcome was easy to predict before the puck was even dropped. The Flyers are an instructor at the loca...
Flyers @ Lightning: How to watch, lineups, and gamethread
All we know right now when it comes to the Philadelphia Flyers is pain. They have started the season about as bad defensively as you could realistically be in the NHL and the offense is having a miserable time trying to create absolutely anything. Nothing is working except Joseph Woll stealing two loser points so the Flyers aren’t 0-3-0. Now, they’re starting a road trip in Tampa, Florida of all hellish places, and facing a Lightning team that will surely give them a big test yet again. ...
Elliotte Friedman links the Flyers to a potential Simon Edvinsson trade
The Philadelphia Flyers are in a whirlwind of misery to start their season and need some sort of good news to truly get going. So, how about trading for the hottest young defenseman on the trade market? Simon Edvinsson is fed up with not being signed to a long-term contract by the Detroit Red Wings and as the current restricted free agent is back home in Sweden training with his old team Frolunda, he has made it clear that he’s done with the team that drafted him sixth overall at the 2021...
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