Flyers
After a 6-3 loss to Boston on Saturday and a 5-0 loss to Washington on Sunday, a few days without Flyers hockey may actually be a good thing. As said yesterday, you tend to notice things even more in an embarrassing loss, so let’s hit it again. Here are 10 Postgame Points from Flyers-Capitals.
To have a little fun and quiz our loyal and knowledgeable fans of the Flyers and Flyerdelphia, these 10 Flyer greats who either played or were honored at the Alumni Game were traded by the Flyers at some point. Match the team they were traded away to. The answers will be posted here after the Flyers-Capitals game later today.
It was a 3-3 final between the Flyers and Penguins in front of a sellout crowd of 19,727 at Wells Fargo Center for a celebration of 50 years of Flyers hockey.
The Flyers were embarrassed by the Bruins in a 6-3 loss. Losses like this make the negatives all the more present and easier to identify. So let’s get to it. Here are 10 Postgame Points from Flyers-Bruins.
Second periods have been a problem of late for the Flyers. On Tuesday in Buffalo, they allowed three goals. On Thursday against Vancouver, they allowed three more. Saturday’s game they did one better, allowing four to the Bruins in a 5-3 loss to Boston on Saturday afternoon at TD Garden.
In honor of the 50th anniversary season for both franchises, the Flyers and Penguins alumni will take the ice at Wells Fargo Center on Saturday night. The Flyers have had alumni games in the past, notably the 2012 Winter Classic and last year’s game in Reading, but this is truly a once-in-a-lifetime game.
It seems like every season, and every meeting, between the Flyers and Bruins holds some sort of meaning, and the same holds true on Saturday afternoon, when the two teams, clinging to playoff spots at the moment, meet for their second of three games this season. The opening face-off is set for 1 p.m.
It wasn’t a pretty game, but it was a crucial two points the Flyers needed. After going 2-6-3 in their previous 11 games, the Flyers picked up points in the standings for the third time in the last four games, finished strong and conquering the shootout for a 5-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks. Here are 10 Postgame Points from Flyers-Canucks.
With so many playoff appearances, memories that are born in pursuit of the Stanley Cup often become the most memorable. And over the years, the Flyers had many players deliver standout moments from the earliest days of franchise history to the modern day team. Here’s a list of the some of the Flyers playoff heroes and their defining moments.
It was 41 years ago today that one of the lasting memories in Flyers history took place. The “Red Army Game” as it has come to be known put the Broad Street Bullies against the best hockey team in the world in the Soviet Union on Jan. 11, 1976.