Flyers
In examining the Flyers roster from top to bottom, we analyze the core players as well as secondary players needed to fill in the gaps on the roster, look at current restricted and unrestricted free agents to determine who may be re-signed and how that fits into the cap and also detail players who might not be returning.
The Phantoms locked up home ice in the first round of the Calder Cup Playoffs with Friday’s comeback win. But with the victory brought some bad news regarding their goaltending tandem for the playoffs. Help is on the way however, in the form of another top prospect goalie.
Following Sunday’s game, the Flyers were beginning an early offseason, having missed the playoffs for the third time in five seasons. In those five seasons there has been one constant: Claude Giroux has been the team’s captain. It looks like it’s time for that to change.
The most important player to the Flyers future may actually be the longest-tenured Flyer, captain Claude Giroux. Giroux is facing some scrutiny, as pundits wonder if the Flyers need to move on from the current captain, who will enter his 10th season in 2017-18. It’s not the most absurd idea in the world.
For many of the Flyers junior prospects, the playoffs are either over or hanging by a thread. But for the two top minor leagues of hockey, the playoffs are just around the corner.
It was one year ago today, April 11, that many awoke to the news that Flyers founder and chairman Ed Snider had passed away at age 83. That day will live forever in Flyers history.
Positives and negatives are always a part of the game, but a season that ends like the Flyers did with the conclusion of the regular season on Sunday makes the negatives outweigh the positives. Here are six areas where the Flyers season went wrong.
The Flyers feverishly looked for the winning goal in the final minutes of regulation and overtime, but ultimately could not find it as they fell to the Carolina Hurricanes in the final game of the 2016-17 season, 4-3, in a shootout on Sunday night at Wells Fargo Center.
And then there was one. The Flyers take the ice for one final time in the 2016-17 season on Sunday night. They will face the Carolina Hurricanes, a team they have managed to beat three times already this season.
As the Philadelphia Flyers close their 50th season in the NHL, it is obviously disappointing without a coveted playoff spot. However, we take a look back and celebrate the entire body of work over five decades and have a little fun with some of the faces and names who have made up 50 seasons of everything that is Flyers hockey.
