Claude Giroux
Photo courtesy of Kate Frese The Philadelphia Flyers (19-15-7) welcome Henrik Lundqvist and the New York Rangers (23-15-5) to the Wells Fargo Center Saturday afternoon. This is third of five meetings between the clubs this season. Game time is 1:00. The Flyers have won both games against the Rangers so far this season. Philadelphia picked up a 3-2 shootout […]
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 The Philadelphia Flyers came from behind Wednesday night for a crucial 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins. Jakub Voracek scored on a rebound to give the Flyers a 1-0 lead after a fast-paced, tight checking first period. The game see-sawed back the Bruins way in the second, with Boston utilizing […]
Embed from Getty Images Mark Streit, in just his sixth game back from an injury that sidelined him for six weeks, scored his first goal since the return with 8:28 remaining in the third. The race was on for the Flyers from there. In a third period that had a playoff feel to it, […]
Embed from Getty Images It's been a week since Ron Hextall completed his fifth trade on the path to freeing up cap space and starting to help the Flyers turn the corner from building the future to watching it progress to the NHL and form what is hoped to become a contender. But in […]
Embed from Getty Images The 2015-16 season did not start off any differently than the recent seasons of the past. Players were inconsistent and not producing and, as a result, frustration mounted. Once again each game was a contest to earn points just to stay out of the basement of the NHL standings. The addition of […]
For so much of the previous two seasons, so many of the Flyers players have talked about the things that need to get better, the things they need to do to be the playoff team they believe they are. On Saturday, they let their play do the talking. It was total domination for the Flyers […]
Embed from Getty Images The Flyers got off to a good start, putting 15 shots on goal in the first period. They ramped up the pressure even more in the second period, until the dam broke and they scored two goals in quick succession. Going into the third protecting a lead, the Flyers were […]
On any other night, the story of the game would have been how the Flyers survived the onslaught of shots by the Minnesota Wild in the third period and early stages of overtime. It would have been how at 4:23, with just 37 seconds separating them from a shootout, they got the game-winning goal from […]
Photo: Nina Weiss/Flyerdelphia One day after Claude Giroux was named to his fourth career NHL All-Star Game, the AHL announced the rosters for its All-Star Game being held in Syracuse on Feb. 1. Center Nick Cousins and goalie Anthony Stolarz will each make their first All-Star Game appearances, representing the Lehigh Valley Phantoms and the […]
