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At the 25-game mark of the season, how do the Flyers stack up against the rest of the league?
The Flyers blueliners added five more points in Thursday’s 5-2 win over Winnipeg to their league-best total, bringing them to 54 points. They are on pace to chip in 246 points on the season. That would be up 110 points from last season for an increase of 81 percent.
The Flyers currently are third in the league in scoring, averaging 3.28 goals per game. That is up significantly from 2015-16, where they averaged 2.53 goals per game. You would think the incremental .75 goals per game would lead to a much better winning percentage.
One of the biggest surprises of the early season for the Flyers has been the play of 26-year-old blueliner Brandon Manning.
While the numbers haven’t changed much yet, the Flyers are slowly showing signs of improvement in both special teams departments as the season’s first month comes to a close.
It was a challenging week for Flyers general manager Ron Hextall, shuffling players and optimizing salary cap implications, but he has the roster he wanted and avoided going over the salary cap.
The Philadelphia Flyers are one week into their annual preseason training camp and it would appear that they are well on their way to formalizing their roster from forwards to defense.
Flyers prospects Travis Konecny and Ivan Provorov are trying to make decisions difficult for the Flyers as training camp begins on Friday.
Embed from Getty Images By Kevin Fortier, Sports Talk Philly staff writer Praise the hockey gods, September is finally here and Flyers hockey is just around the corner. It has been a long, hot, dry summer for Flyers fans. Exiting in the first round against the Washington Capitals only added to the longevity of […]