Articles by Rob Riches (464)
Photo Courtesy of Nina Weiss A steady performance in goal from Jason LaBarbera on Sunday helped the Phantoms hang on to a 2-1 win against the Portland Pirates. LaBarbera turned away a season-high 37 shots — a staggering 17 of which came in the third period as the Phantoms' lead shifted from 2-0 to 2-1 […]
Photo: Nina Weiss/Flyerdelphia Thanks to a pair of goals in a 47-second span in the second period from Mark Alt and Aaron Palushaj on Saturday, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms were able to dig themselves out of a 3-1 hole against the Portland Pirates. They could not get the job done, however, as Kyle Rau's second […]
Canada's bid for a second-consecutive gold medal and sixth in 10 years fell short on Saturday, meaning that Travis Sanheim and Travis Konecny will return to Calgary and Ottawa without gold medals. With the Czech Republic's 7-0 whitewashing at the hands of Team USA, David Kase will go home medal-less as well. Four Flyers — […]
Seven Flyers prospects headed to Helsinki for this year's World Juniors tournament, and as the preliminary round comes to a close, all seven will be playing in this weekend's quarterfinal round. All prospects were active on Thursday, in a day that included a thrilling matchup between four Flyers prospects.
Three Flyers prospects were active in today's World Juniors action — a day that was more highlighted by USA's 10-1 laugher over Switzerland and Finland's 8-3 romp of Slovakia (on a day that saw them retire the legendary Teemu Selanne's number from international competition). Let's take a quick look at how your Future Flyers performed:
The World Juniors tournament continued on Tuesday, and all but three of the Flyers' prospects were active. Some guaranteed that their tournament will extend past the end of the qualifying round on Thursday. Here's how the future Flyers fared on Tuesday:
Embed from Getty Images As Mark Streit gets set to return to the lineup, the Flyers on Tuesday placed Sam Gagner and his $3.2 million cap hit on waivers. Neither R.J. Umberger nor Nick Schultz was demoted, as speculated. Assuming no other teams pick Gagner up off the waiver wire, he will be sent to the […]
Photo Courtesy of Kate Frese It's safe to say that through the month of December, the Flyers were picking some momentum up. Since Black Friday — a 3-2 win over Nashville — the Flyers went 8-2-2 and looked like a completely new team. They were spirited, they were playing a more complete game, they were […]
A pair of Corey Perry goals — including the go-ahead goal just 58 seconds into the third period — lifted the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday to a 4-2 win over the Flyers. Ryan Getzlaf opened the scoring for the Ducks, and snapped a 15-game goalless drought in the process. The power-play goal was his second […]
Photo Courtesy of Nina Weiss Jason LaBarbera has struggled mightily in a backup role for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms for much of this season, but he was flawless on Sunday in a 3-0 win over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. LaBarbera's shutout did not come easy, as he turned away 35 shots from an active Penguins (21-7-0-1) […]