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Embed from Getty Images In the opening minutes of Sunday night's game between the Flyers and Red Wings, Ryan White laid a high hit on Tomas Jurco. White was given a five-minute major for targeting the head and ejected from the game. The Flyers went on to kill the penalty and win the game, […]
Embed from Getty Images The Eagles made the move official, hiring Doug Pederson as the next head coach of the team. Pederson will be introduced at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m.
Doug Pederson arrives in Philadelphia to take #Eagles job pic.twitter.com/R9kMMA9s57 — Jeff Skversky (@JeffSkversky) January 18, 2016 The official announcement of Doug Pederson's hiring as Eagles head coach is nearing. The former Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator, who was just eliminated from the playoffs on Saturday in New England, landed in Philadelphia on Monday morning.
On this Sunday night, the strange game of hockey threw everything and the kitchen sink at the Flyers. Once again, a resilient bunch proved why they are making a case for the playoffs. The Flyers had to overcome several controversial calls, an early challenge for the penalty kill and, last but not least, a shootout […]
Embed from Getty Images For the second straight day, the Flyers had to face the dreaded shootout and if they would have lost, there would have been at least three plays that would show they deserved a better fate. Call it poetic justice, but this time the shootout smiled on the Flyers. Jake Voracek […]
Embed from Getty Images With Kansas City's loss to the Patriots on Saturday, the Eagles can make the hiring of Doug Pederson official. That will likely come in another day or so. In the meantime, since revealing that Pederson was going to be the next head coach, work has already begun on constructing the […]
At this stage of the season, the Flyers really need wins, but in games like their Saturday afternoon affair with the Rangers, earning points on a regular basis is just as crucial. It may have been a shootout loss, but the Flyers are currently riding a five-game point streak. They take that streak on the […]
Embed from Getty Images With the Eagles making the decision to hire Doug Pederson, now comes the connecting of dots on how they reached that decision. Here's one surprising detail. Former Eagles quarterback Ron Jaworski was a part of the search committee that hired Pederson. 6ABC spoke exclusively with Jaworski, who showed off the binder […]
The first half of the season has come and gone for the Flyers and they are both in a good spot and still in some trouble. On the positive side, the Flyers do not have a steep climb to the final playoff spot, sitting just two points back of the Boston Bruins after Wednesday's win […]
Embed from Getty Images A wave of activity swept the NFL with coaches being hired left and right on Thursday. In all, four teams made new hires on Thursday, but no team had a more interesting day or week than the Eagles. The past 16 days of a coaching search that concluded on Thursday […]