Philadelphia Flyers

  View image | gettyimages.com Let's be fair. Thursday's result was expected. After floundering, 4-0, to the lowly Avalanche — who didn't look so lowly on Tuesday — getting the Capitals and their scoring depth was a death wish. But when you watch this team for 60 minutes, you see exactly why the Flyers struggle. […]

  View image | gettyimages.com It all continued. The losing, the listlessness, the struggles at both ends of the ice. It was easily exploited by a talented opponent. The scale did not shift in its strange way on Thursday night. The Flyers did not come with their best for an opponent higher in the standings. […]

After another embarrassing loss, a team meeting and a physically demanding practice, the Flyers return to the ice for the real thing. And they get a very challenging opponent. The Washington Capitals come to town with a 10-4-0 record and 20 points in the standings. They are also 7-3-0 in their last 10 games, a […]

  View image | gettyimages.com After missing the last game and being held out of practice on “maintenance days,” the Flyers revealed Thursday what many had already inferred. Forward R.J. Umberger is out for one to two weeks with a lower-body injury. Umberger blocked a shot with his foot in his last game on Saturday […]

Photo: Nina Weiss/Flyerdelphia The previous weekend was rough for the Phantoms. Three-in-three weekends are common in the AHL. This was not a memorable one for Lehigh Valley, as they dropped all three games to Hershey, Syracuse and the Binghamton Senators, the team they were facing again on Wednesday night. This time, the Phantoms got the […]

  View image | gettyimages.com It might be the only consistent part of the Flyers play to this season: the most helpless person on the ice stands between the pipes. Michal Neuvirth was hardly the reason for the Flyers 4-0 loss on Tuesday, their seventh in the previous eight games. He faced 40 shots against […]

  View image | gettyimages.com The Philadelphia Flyers returned home Tuesday night after a rough road trip with some cause to believe they built some momentum coming out of the trip. It took all of 57 seconds to dispel that notion. The Colorado Avalanche immediately threw the Flyers onto their back foot with a lucky […]

  View image | gettyimages.com As the Flyers left the ice following a 4-0 shutout loss to the Colorado Avalanche, the team with the fewest points in the Western Conference and two wins in the previous 10 games, the boos rained down from the Wells Fargo Center crowd — or what was left of it […]

Photo Courtesy of Kate Frese The Philadelphia Flyers (5-6-3) return from a five game road to take on the Colorado Avalanche (4-9-1) at the Wells Fargo Center. Game time is 7:00. This is the first of two meetings between the two clubs and the lone game in Philadelphia. The two teams will meet in Colorado […]