NHL Coaching News: Vancouver Canucks Part Ways with Head Coach Rick Tocchet, Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins Potentially in the Running for His Services

As first reported by SportsNet’s Elliotte Friedman, Rick Tocchet will not return as the Vancouver Canucks head coach for the 2025-26 NHL season.  UPDATE: Vancouver Canucks Official Statement on the Departure of Rick Tocchet The Vancouver Canucks announced today that Rick Tocchet has decided not to return as Head Coach for the upcoming season. After […]

Mike Lipinski  •  29 Apr 2025
Flyers Postgame Report: Flyers Can’t Finish Rally, Fall to Penguins

The Flyers came away from this weekend with back-to-back regulation losses, falling to the Penguins, 7-6, on Sunday afternoon.

Kevin Durso  •  25 Feb 2024
Flyers vs. Penguins Preview: Opportunity Knocks

Following a loss in Saturday’s game, the Flyers are right back in action on Sunday afternoon, taking on the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Kevin Durso  •  25 Feb 2024
Flyers-Penguins: Postgame Perspective

Playoff-bound Flyers manage to complete run to the finish When the city of Philadelphia woke up on Saturday, the playoff were anything but a certainty. But with some help for the Ottawa Senators and New York Rangers and a win of their own over the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Philadelphia Flyers are indeed playoff bound. It may […]

Kevin Durso  •  09 Apr 2016
Phantoms win 5th Straight Fueled by Comrie, Ouellette

Nina Weiss/Flyerdelphia On a night where young guns Travis Sanheim and Nicolas Aube-Kubel made their pro debuts, it would be the veterans getting it done for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.  The Phantoms were able to fend off pressure and strike at opportune times to picks up a 4-0 win over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Friday night at the Mohegan […]

Flyerdelphia Staff  •  09 Apr 2016
MacDonald day-to-day with upper-body injury

Andrew MacDonald will miss at least one game after taking a hit along the boards from Tom Kuhnhackl in the Flyers 6-2 loss to the Penguins on Sunday. The Flyers defenseman was thrown awkwardly into the boards and remained down on the ice as the Penguins scored their fifth goal of the game on a […]

Kevin Durso  •  04 Apr 2016
Flyers-Penguins: Postgame Perspective

Flyers get wake-up call from cross-state rivals The Flyers just got a wake-up call. These are not the Penguins of the last two seasons. All the Penguins have done in their last four games is score 21 goals without Evgeni Malkin for all four and Marc-Andre Fleury for two. The Flyers and Penguins deserve a […]

Kevin Durso  •  03 Apr 2016
Injury to Insult for Flyers in Rough Loss to Penguins

Even in the years when the Flyers weren't looking like much of a playoff team, they always seemed to have the Penguins number. This season, that has hardly been the case. In what almost looked like a replay of their meeting from three weeks earlier, the Flyers looked outmatched against the surging Penguins, who continued their torrid […]

Kevin Durso  •  03 Apr 2016
Flyers-Penguins: Game 78 Preview

Embed from Getty Images   April has in a sense become the time for the Battle of Pennsylvania to take center stage.  The Philadelphia Flyers (39-25-13) will meet their cross-state rivals twice in the final week of the season, and each holds incredibly high stakes. The Pittsburgh Penguins (45-25-8) locked in their spot in the […]

Kevin Durso  •  03 Apr 2016