With the end of summer comes October and the start of the NHL season. What ended up being a disappointing 2021-2022 season saw the Flyers finish last in the Metropolitan division. The new season will likely be a rebuilding year for the Flyers, so it’s important to manage expectations. Long-time NHL coach John Tortorella will inherit the team and see …

The Flyers of 2021-2022 were not just bad because they won a total of 26 games. Bad implies bad luck, bad on-ice performance, and bad coaching. The Flyers had all three, but bad does not do enough to describe their woes. They could more aptly be called hopeless. GM Chuck Fletcher loaded the roster with second-liners and top-four defensemen to …

The Philadelphia Flyers are in a frustrating situation after a puzzling offseason during which they neither definitively began a rebuild nor landed franchise-changing star Johnny Gaudreau.  The franchise is badly stuck in limbo, too bad to dream about the Stanley Cup but too talented to realistically contend with Montreal, Chicago, and Seattle in the sweepstakes for presumptive number one pick …

All indications going into the NHL’s 2022 free agency period suggested that the Flyers would take a swing at Johnny Gaudreau, the top player hitting the market.  Gaudreau, a native of New Jersey and a Flyers fan, notched 115 points during 2021-2022.  Though it would probably take a player in the MacKinnon/McDavid tier to give the Flyers the juice to …

It was all going so well for the Flyers during their unofficial start to the 2022-2023 season at the NHL Entry Draft.  Though their lottery bad luck cost them a chance at top-OHL prospect Shane Wright, they seemed to strike gold at 5th overall with Cutter Gauthier.  The future BC Eagle has been compared to Mark Scheifele and Max Pacioretty …

After weeks if not months of courtship, the Philadelphia Flyers and John Tortorella made things official this week with a four-year contract. Tortorella will leave a television gig with ESPN to helm the NHL’s winningest expansion team. The notoriously feisty coach is undoubtedly the most inspiring Flyers hire since Peter Laviolette took the reins. In the interim, future Stanley Cup …

Keep an eye on these three positional battles for the Eagles in 2022.

As the first round of the NHL Playoffs is being resolved, Flyers fans watching as neutrals could be forgiven for not recognizing the sport being played. After all, the back-and-forth action on display in series like Carolina vs. Boston or Dallas vs. Calgary is far beyond anything they saw from their home team this season. The Flyers of 2021-2022 were …

The Flyers are in a sad state and indeed have been for some time.  While the 2021-2022 season has represented a unique nadir for the historically successful franchise, it has been a decade since a consistent, balanced roster took the ice at the Wells Fargo Center.  Alain Vigneault’s successful debut season was an outlier rather than a trendsetter, and Dave …

When the Claude Giroux sweepstakes ended in a deal with the Florida Panthers, the Flyers wrapped up an era that spanned nearly a decade. “G,” despite logging 1000 games with the Orange and Black and at times being one of the league’s most effective forwards, saw his tenure as captain defined by stop-start playoff runs and ending in an organizational …