Flyers
The schedule doesn’t get any easier for the Flyers, as a stretch of four games in six days begins with the defending Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins, who are starting to heat up at the right time again.
Now that the Flyers are comfortably in the playoff picture, it’s time to see where they stand up against tougher competition. This week will provide plenty of opportunity to prove they belong among the top teams in the conference and the league.
At 6’1″, 200 pounds and 21 years of age, Ivan Provorov is becoming the young stud the Flyers were hoping for and needed him to be in the traditional and non-traditional hockey sense.
Comcast Spectacor announced on Monday that the Wells Fargo Center, home to the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers and NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, will undergo an extensive, multi-year redesign as their next phase of renovations.
After dropping a wild, defense-optional game in Tampa, 7-6, in a shootout, the Flyers fell to the Panthers on Sunday, 4-1, to round out a forgettable weekend in Florida. Let’s jump right in with our Postgame Review.
By Kevin Durso, Sports Talk Philly editor When the Flyers 12-game points streak came to an end against Carolina on Thursday, the focus was on putting a bad game behind them quickly and getting back on track. The Flyers have done the opposite. One day after falling in a shootout, 7-6, to the Lightning, the […]
This is only the beginning on a very difficult month of March ahead, and that continues with one of the hottest teams in hockey looking to make an improbable run back into the playoff picture. The Flyers close out a weekend back-to-back against the Florida Panthers on Sunday afternoon.
For the Flyers, the chance for a new streak begins against the Eastern Conference’s best in the Tampa Bay Lightning, winners in five of their last six games. Game time is set for 1 p.m.
The Flyers were probably due for a game and result like this, but a new standard has been set for how the Flyers should approach a game and play and the team didn’t live up to it in front of the home crowd on this night.
The Flyers were 8-11-7 after a 10th straight loss on Dec. 3. They have gone 26-8-3 since to not only move comfortably in the playoff race, but also challenge for the Metropolitan Division title.
