Most summers, free agency and the entry draft are the marked and bolded dates on the NHL calendar. This summer, those events may take second and third place in anticipation of the Expansion Draft less than a month away. Like the 29 other teams that will have one player selected by the Vegas Golden Knights, […]

In 2017, the United States has won the men’s World Junior Championship, the men’s and women’s U18 tournaments and the women’s World Championship. For two weeks, it looked like the Americans were on the road to adding another gold medal at the men’s World Championships. After a tournament-opening loss to Germany, the U.S. rebounded, winning […]

The NHL will welcome an expansion team for the first time since 2000 when the Vegas Golden Knights play next year, but the league won’t be content with just one new addition. For one, the league now has an odd number of teams at 31 and with a $500 million price tag to join the NHL […]

There’s just one thing on the mind of hockey fans in Philadelphia these days and that’s the draft lottery, in which the Philadelphia Flyers made a seismic and shocking jump from the expected 13th overall pick to the second. The luck will pay off in a cornerstone player for years to come and is the […]

This May will mark the third anniversary of Ron Hextall’s promotion to general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers. In those three seasons at the helm of the organization, Hextall has led the team to just a single playoff berth. But those three seasons were the re-tooling phase. He made a coaching change, eight influential free-agent signings […]

For the past two days, Jack Eichel’s name has been around all the news in the hockey world. On Wednesday, reports stated that the 2015 second overall pick wouldn’t sign an extension with the Buffalo Sabres if coach Dan Bylsma was still there. He and his agent later refuted those reports, but Thursday, Eichel was […]

This summer there seems to be no secrecy in the Philadelphia Flyers organization. Michael Del Zotto and Nick Schultz will be gone, against fans’ wishes it appears coach Dave Hakstol will be back and the goalie tandem for next year will not be Michal Neuvirth and Anthony Stolarz. Very clear Hextall is not comfortable with a […]

The 2016-17 season was supposed to be a growing one for the Philadelphia Flyers. A surprising, yet short, playoff run in 2016, offseason signings like Dale Weise and the influx of rookies in Travis Konecny and Ivan Provorov increased expectations for the Flyers before the season started. In season, a 10-game winning streak in December […]

About three weeks ago, the WHL’s Brandon Wheat Kings named six players to their All Time Team Roster. Five of them have ties to the Philadelphia Flyers franchise—and they aren’t run-of-the-mill players in the Flyers’ past, present and future. General Manager Ron Hextall made the roster in the goalie position, while Ray Allison, Brian Propp and […]

Pierre-Edouard Bellemare is one of the most polarizing players on the Philadelphia Flyers — and there’s plenty of competition in that regard. From Steve Mason to Brandon Manning to stars like Claude Giroux, Flyers fans have often been infuriated by their play while at other times they’ve been content. Bellemare could be the leader of the […]

Due to a bad start to 2017, followed by hard losses in early March, playoffs are no longer in the Philadelphia Flyers‘ outlook. Although not officially eliminated, the Flyers would need to win nearly all of their last 11 games and get a lot of help from other teams. Despite no postseason to play for, the […]

Last Thursday morning, the playoffs didn’t seem like an unrealistic goal for the Philadelphia Flyers. Five days and three losses later, the postseason is out of view. The Flyers were a measly three points out of the last Wild Card spot heading into Thursday’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, who were two points ahead of the […]

While the Philadelphia Flyers continue to make a playoff push, many of their prospects have had excellent seasons this year. For the Flyers, and in the case of many NHL teams, those prospects are contributing all over the globe and in different leagues. From Russia to Canada and from the Swedish Hockey League to the […]

The Philadelphia Flyers entered the season with a question in net – who would last past this season? It was supposed to be a battle of who can win the most games, make the most saves and lead the team to the playoffs for the second straight season between pending free agents Steve Mason and Michal […]

While most jokes about the Philadelphia Flyers are aimed at the guys who play between the pipes, the Flyers actually have a rich history of goalies. Unfortunately, for recent teams — or even the teams of the ’90s — those goalies played, for the most part, in the ’70s and ’80s. The three best goalies […]

Looking into the future, age disparity is a major cause of concern for the Philadelphia Flyers. The gap between the key forwards and defensemen feels almost as large as the years since the Flyers last won the Stanley Cup. Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but the age gap is still an issue that is worrying […]

If there was any doubt about what the Philadelphia Flyers should do at the trade deadline, things got much easier Tuesday afternoon when the team announced Travis Konecny would miss four to six weeks with a “lower-body” injury. Per #Flyers GM Ron Hextall, forward Travis Konecny will be out 4-6 weeks with a lower-body injury ? […]

If you stuck 50 Philadelphia Flyers fans in a room and needed them to agree on one thing, it would be that defenseman Andrew MacDonald is overplayed and overused. Flyers fans have a history of despising players, usually defensemen, going back to Chris Therien or Randy Jones or Matt Carle, but none of those players hold […]

On Thursday night, the Philadelphia Flyers matched Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and his line against burgeoning superstar Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers in an attempt to contain the NHL’s points leader. Usually that assignment would go to Sean Couturier, but the center is still on injured reserve while recovering from a sprained MCL. Almost surprisingly, Bellemare was […]

For the first time since 2014, when Craig Berube was still the Philadelphia Flyers’ coach and Kimmo Timonen was an alternate captain, the team is on a five-game winning streak. After an inconsistent start to the first month-and-a-half of the season, the Flyers have turned a corner. Up to this current stretch, their only win […]