Articles by Rob Riches (464)
Kate Frese/Flyerdelphia The Flyers are set to take the ice in Raleigh, N.C. tonight for their first matchup of the season against the Carolina Hurricanes, and will do so without two cogs of their lineup — including their second-leading point scorer. Mark Streit on Saturday was placed on IR for six weeks, while R.J. Umberger was […]
View image | gettyimages.com Chris Pronger became one of the latest to achieve hockey's ultimate honor on Monday, as he, Nicklas Lidstrom, Angela Riggiero, Sergei Federov, Phil Housley, Bill Hay and Peter Karmanos Jr. were inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Pronger, of course, spent parts of three seasons as a Flyer in […]
The Flyers' recent six-game losing streak was something that they had experienced for the first time this season — the opportunity for them to experience a longer stretch of adversity. Previously, the most adversity they had faced all season came in Game 2, when they were outclassed 7-1 by a young Florida Panthers team. One […]
3-on-3 play was required in Calgary, but not too much, as Mikael Backlund scored on a controversial redirection just 35 seconds into overtime to give the Calgary Flames a 2-1 win over the Flyers on Thursday. Despite Michael Raffl's first goal of the season, offense still continued to come at a premium for the Flyers, […]
View image | gettyimages.com The Flyers head to Calgary tonight for a matchup with the Flames, and have two objectives in mind — snapping their five-game losing streak, and showing up to play against a lesser team. One of the league's surprising upstart teams heading into last spring's Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Flames have […]
Following their 3-2 shootout win over the New York Rangers on Oct. 24, the Philadelphia Flyers were presented with an interesting opportunity. Their record stood at 4-2-1, and they were set to close out their October slate of games with three matchups against the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils. Surely, three matchups against those […]
Happy Halloween! Unfortunately, I don't have anything for those who came to this site looking for candy. I do have something better, though — several links about the Flyers and happenings around the NHL.
For the second time this week, the Flyers fell to the lowly Buffalo Sabres (see recap), essentially assuring that the Sabres will win at least one season series this year. We all know of the Flyers' perpetual issues with playing against lesser teams. They've toppled teams such as Chicago and the New York Rangers with […]
For the Flyers, the five-game road trip that they started on Friday was a chance to regroup and generate positivity, following a pair of largely-unspectacular losses earlier in the week. Dave Hakstol changed his lines up — most notably, splitting the top pairing of Claude Giroux, Jakub Voracek and Michael Raffl — in order to […]
View image | gettyimages.com Following their sluggish 4-1 loss to New Jersey on Thursday, the Flyers (4-3-2) will immediately take the ice again tonight, as they head to Buffalo to close out a three-game-in-four-night stretch. The Flyers will continue their season series with the Sabres (3-7-0), which began Tuesday night. In a game that saw […]