The Flyers found a way to lose again on Saturday in Montreal despite leading with seconds left to play. Carter Hart once again posted lackluster numbers in the defeat, though for those watching it was clear the Flyers’ netminder was not the issue. Christian Dvorak bullied Ivan Provorov to score from inside the Flyers’ crease before Mike Matheson ghosted through …
The Flyers have come crashing back to Earth from their brief vacation atop the Metropolitan Division. They have lost seven of their last nine contests, with five losses coming in regulation time. Ugly as their current skid is (4+ goals conceded in each of the past four games), few will be surprised that the top-heavy, injury-hit roster has not held …
The National Hockey League (NHL) is packed full of intense rivalries that span many decades. As new talent enters the league, new rivalries are continuously being born, and older ones are reignited every year on the quest to win the Stanley Cup. Although the Philadelphia Flyers vs the Pittsburgh Penguins may not be the longest rivalry in NHL history, it’s …
Few would have expected the Flyers to march into the last month of fall with a 5-3-2 record. Greater familiarity with the team would only have discouraged such optimism after an abysmal 2021-2022 campaign and lackluster offseason. Still, after 10 games, the Orange and Black remain in the thick of it in a loaded Metropolitan Division. Despite this encouraging start, …
The Flyers have gotten off to a strong start to the 2022-2023 season in John Torterela’s inaugural year with the team. If this success is going to continue throughout the season, the Flyers will have to lean on their young star goaltender, Carter Hart. Hart has played exceptionally well to start the year, and many consider him to be one …
The Flyers have gotten off to an impressive start to their 2022-23 campaign. Led by former Stanley Cup winner John Tortorella, the team, which won all of 26 games last season, has already notched four victories in six tries. Despite a lackluster home defeat to lowly San Jose in their most recent outing, none could deny that the Flyers have …
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 …
