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Prospects. The path to hope for even the most depressing franchises. No matter how good or bad an NHL team's season may be going, better days are ahead when their top youngsters are ready to take the ice (or at least that's what fans tell themselves). Fortunately, the Flyers have a lot of great prospects that make this potential scenario seem less like a dream and more like a potential reality. Ron Hextall's GM tenure did not end well, to say the least, but he did an outstand

Prospects. The path to hope for even the most depressing franchises. No matter how good or bad an NHL team's season may be going, better days are ahead when their top youngsters are ready to take the ice (or at least that's what fans tell themselves). Fortunately, the Flyers have a lot of great prospects that make this potential scenario seem less like a dream and more like a potential reality. Ron Hextall's GM tenure did not end well, to say the least, but he did an outstand

Talk about a keystone win! In their final game before the bye week and All Star Break, the Philadelphia Flyers WIN, 3-0, shutting out the rival Pittsburgh Penguins thanks to a suffocating defensive performance, a total 180 from the first time these two teams met three months ago. Previously in the Battle of Pennsylvania, the Penguins nearly ruined my birthday with a 7-1 thrashing of the Flyers in Pittsburgh, leading 4-0 after 20 minutes and never taking their foot off the gas

Never gonna give you up as long as you wanna score on somebody! The Philadelphia Flyers throw back the clocks to the 80s and throw down the Los Angeles Kings by a 4-1 final tally in their penultimate game before the All Star Break. Just 48 hours after losing 4-1 to the flailing Canadiens, the Flyers were able to flip the script and send almost the same exact loss the LA Kings way. This was a game the Flyers absolutely had to win. The playoff race in the Eastern Conference is

Eleven seconds. That's all it took for the Philadelphia Flyers to fall out of Thursday night's game against the flailing Montreal Canadiens. Two goals in that span took the Flyers from tied 1-1 to trailing 3-1 in an eventual 4-1 defeat. Less than 24 hours after beating the best team in the NHL, the Flyers lose to a team that had lost eight of their previous ten, and fall out of a playoff spot. Again. We're forty-eight games into this season now. That's a large enough sample s

Even after knocking off the Blues Wednesday night, it appears not all is well in Philadelphia. Particularly between the pipes. Carter Hart, the Flyers outstanding 21-year old starting goaltender, felt he tweaked something in Tuesday's practice and wound up leaving early. Prior to Wednesday's game, the Flyers announced he has a right abdominal strain and will be out 2-3 weeks. Obviously, it's a tough blow for the Flyers, or any team, to lose their starting goaltender. Hart has

We won't be singing the Blues tonight! The Philadelphia Flyers WIN against the best team in the NHL for the third time in the last week, defeating the St. Louis Blues 4-3, in overtime, for their first road victory of 2020. The Flyers last three victories have come against Washington, Boston, and St. Louis, all of whom either began or ended the game first place in the ENTIRE NHL. And all three could not defeat the Orange and the Black. Once again, the Flyers were outplayed in

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OK, do I even need to write about this game or should I just put a bunch of Brad Marchand memes and call it a day? What a game to give me for my TWO-HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH article! The Philadelphia Flyers WIN, 6-5, shootout style, over the big, bad, Boston Bruins, overcoming a 5-2 deficit only (OK, not only, but basically only) because Brad Marchand forgot how to play hockey at the worst poss

The first power rankings of the twelfth decade of NHL hockey are going to begin a little bit different than the ten or so I've done before. Rather than focus on the last month of performance for the 31 NHL teams, I wanted to look back and where we've come from the beginning the season. We are now firmly in the second half of the season, and groups of legitimate contenders and floundering bottom-feeders have officially taken shape. Obviously, there's still a lot of time for th

If the Flyers play a game but they do not score a goal, does it really even matter? Yes, the standings harshly respond. The Philadelphia Flyers lose, shutout for the first time since March 31, 2019, falling 1-0 to the red-hot Tampa Bay Lightning. Of course the Flyers run into the Bolts just after they break out of their first-half mediocrity and transition into the juggernaut they look like on paper. This game was a wasted opportunity. The Tampa Bay Lightning are an absolutel