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Photo: Kate Frese/Flyerdelphia Jake Voracek is almost back. It seems like a certainty that the Czech winger will return for the Flyers critical Saturday matchup with their bitter rivals, the Pittsburgh Penguins. With Voracek’s reappearance, this leaves head coach Dave Hakstol with a very interesting choice. Who will he take out to fit in his star […]
No Philadelphia Flyers rookie has ever won the Calder Trophy. It is not that they have not had their share of viable candidates over the years. They've had a few top-end finishers in the balloting and their fair share who've earned NHL All-Rookie Team selection honors after the season but never an NHL rookie of […]
Embed from Getty Images There has been much talk of Radko Gudas these days and this time, it has shifted to the good he is doing on the ice. The Flyers defenseman has faced a season of ups and downs, overcoming the odds early — he was among the first to be on the […]
Embed from Getty Images The Flyers will be without Michal Neuvirth for Saturday. Flyers GM Ron Hextall announced on Saturday that Neuvirth is dealing with a stomach virus and will be unavailable for Saturday's game in Florida. Anthony Stolarz was recalled from Lehigh Valley as an emergency backup. Neuvirth is 16-8-4 with a 2.29 GAA […]
Embed from Getty Images Brayden Schenn and Sam Gagner have definitely had their ups and downs as Philadelphia Flyers. For Schenn, that means a slow development curve since being acquired in the Mike Richards trade with Los Angeles several years ago. Coming over as a very hot prospect, his offensive growth at the NHL […]
Photo: Kate Frese/Flyerdelphia This could have been a very different season for Flyers forward Brayden Schenn. A player whose potential made general managers around the league fawn couldn’t get in his own boss' good graces. It seemed from the start of general manager Ron Hextall’s tenure that Schenn was a marked man. In his very […]
Monday was a tense day for the Flyers. When you're a team hovering the line between playoff contention and playing the role of seller again, any amount of players can be up for grabs. The Flyers had their share of candidates, but ultimately decided to hold onto everyone and were quiet at the deadline. GM […]
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Flyers top line heeds Hextall's call Embed from Getty Images Even in the best case scenario, the news was not welcome. Jake Voracek would be out for two weeks with a lower-body injury. Ron Hextall spoke prior to Monday's game of the team playing without Voracek in the same sense as when they were […]
Embed from Getty Images In addition to awaiting the Flyers pending trade deadline moves, of which there weren't any, Monday was an important day to Jake Voracek's future for this season as well. The Flyers forward, who has 10 goals and 38 assists for 48 points this season, will miss his second straight game […]
