Ryan Smith As the holiday season nears, the bitter cold throughout North America (with complete disregard for Florida and California) makes hockey a naturally more common part of our lives. In Philadelphia,…
Danny Briere came to Philadelphia in July 0f 2007, and the pressure that followed him could be felt throughout the journey from Buffalo to the Flyers. The Flyers had just…
The Philadelphia Flyers’ season can probably best be described metaphorically with a playing of the classic television game show, “To Tell the Truth.” (Brief aside: as it turns out, Jean…
The Philadelphia Flyers’ lackluster 3-1 loss in Sunrise to the Panthers on Monday night not only ended a seven-game point-earning streak, but it also left the team and its fans…
Marc-Andre Fleury. Martin Brodeur. Henrik Lundqvist. Antti Niemi.
When you hear these goaltenders’ names, they are generally thought of as franchise players, perennial All-Stars, and in one of those cases, a first-ballot Hall-of-Famer. Yet, just over six weeks into the 2013-2014 NHL season, there is a goaltender that has a better save percentage than each of those stalwarts in between the pipes.
In the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Claude Giroux turned what had been, to that point, a magnificent young career into talks of him being included among the NHL’s elite. A…
It is often said that an embarrassing defeat can be just the fuel on the fire necessary to wake a team up from its slumber. If that is the case…
Until Saturday, the Philadelphia Flyers’ offensive woes had bordered on historical levels of futility. The team’s inability to score three goals in a game was as comical as it was…
Big surprise here: a bold and highly contentious acquisition made by the Philadelphia Flyers appears to be biting them, again. The culprit this time? 35-year-old defenseman Mark Streit. The sample…
It goes without saying: the Philadelphia Flyers are, for right now at least, a horrendous hockey team. Not much has gone right for the once-feared “Broad Street Bullies” (as tired…
In 1966, Ed Snider’s dream of making hockey a reality in Philadelphia came true. In the 47 years that have followed, he has transformed Philadelphia into one of the most…
The puck had not even dropped on the Philadelphia Flyers’ 2013-2014 campaign, and the rumor mill was already spinning. Bovada, the renowned sports betting company based out of Las Vegas,…