5 Forgotten Flyers Goalies
During this millennium, the Philadelphia Flyers have become a goaltender’s graveyard. Since Ron Hextall’s retirement after the 1998-99 season, the Flyers have gone through a bizarre and fairly unlucky shuffle…
Brian Boucher
THW’s Goalie News: MacLellan Backs Holtby, Boucher’s Historic Night
In today’s goalie news, we’ll talk about a general manager backing his netminder. Plus, we’ll revisit an incredibly historic night in the career of a journeyman goaltender. MacLellan Backs Holtby…
Roman Turek: Where Is He Now?
This article was originally published in February, 2013. During his time in the NHL, Roman Turek was a man of many masks and roles, but the Czech netminder never failed…
History of Flyers’ Ineptitude in Net
Twenty years ago, during Flyers’ legend Ron Hextall’s second stint with the team, the Flyers advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals but were swept by the Detroit Red Wings. Hextall’s…
Flyers Announce January Alumni Game Roster
The Philadelphia Flyers have announced the roster for their Alumni Game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on January 14. The game will celebrate the club’s 50th anniversary by pitting an alumni…
Silver Linings in Arizona’s Worst Years
With seven games left, the Coyotes sit last in the Western Conference and 29th overall in the NHL. One more regulation loss will ensure that 2014-15 goes down as the…
Ilya Bryzgalov Over Sergei Bobrovsky: Flyers Chose Poorly
In the bizarro-NHL, Lindy Ruff is unemployed, Martin Brodeur has more goals than Ryane Clowe and most notably, the Columbus Blue Jackets are playing better hockey than the Philadelphia Flyers.
The universe must have flipped sometime this season.
Brian Boucher Back With Flyers’ Organization
Earlier this morning, the Philadelphia Flyers announced that the organization had once again acquired goaltender Brian Boucher, this time from Carolina – along with defenseman Mark Alt – for minor…
Open for Business: Teams Back to the Ice, GMs Back to the Phones
At long last, the sound of skates carving into fresh ice and pucks slamming into boards from rusty shooters fill practice arenas all over North America. Team offices are not…
Hurricanes Goaltender Competition Set to Heat Up
While Cam Ward is Carolina’s clear-cut starter in net, the backup goalie position remains up for grabs with three candidates to fill that role.
Flyers Acquire Pavel Kubina, Could Rick Nash be Next?
After a brutal third period in a 6-4 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Philadelphia Flyers acquired defenseman Pavel Kubina from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for forward Jon…
History Won’t Be Made: Bruins’ 3-0 series lead is different this year
By Mike Miccoli, Boston Bruins correspondent
As I type this, the Boston Bruins are about to take a 3-0 series lead against the Philadelphia Flyers.
Again.
For the next two days leading up to game 4 in Boston, I’ll ignore pretty much all sports radio, television programs and fair-weathered friends who’ll no doubt text me something that includes the words “just like last season” based on the reasoning that really, this is not last season.
The Bruins have now officially beaten the Flyers 5-1 in game 3, displaying what could almost be determined as a damn near-perfect game, all topped off with a power-play goal, their first in 30 attempts this postseason. Thomas was brilliant, yet again, as all four lines played effectively, developing chances in the offensive zone and dominating the puck through center ice. Boston was remarkable on the face-off dot winning 43 of 55 draws and landing 24 hits in what seemed like one of their most physical games of the postseason.
This is not last season.