Writer: Kevin Durso
Kyle Palmieri scores his second goal of the game in a 3-2 Flyers loss to the Ducks on Tuesday. Photo Courtesy of ESPN.com For the first 20 minutes, the Philadelphia Flyers played like a determined team, a team that had turned the corner on the worst start in franchise history. But as the energy disappeared, […]
Vincent Lecavalier netted a hat trick in the Flyers 5-2 win on Saturday and now leads the team with four goals this season. Photo Courtesy of ESPN.com The Flyers just followed a week off with wins on Thursday and Saturday. On Saturday, in their 10th game of the season, they broke the trend of scoring […]
Matt Barkley fumbles in the second quarter of the Eagles 15-7 loss to the Giants on Sunday. Photo Courtesy of ESPN.com Everyone got so caught up in the comments. Phil Simms ranked the Eagles’ offense as 60th of 64 offenses and defenses combined among the 32 teams. Merril Hoge called it the “most vanilla” offense […]
Michael Vick will start for the first time in two weeks on Sunday against the Giants. Photo Courtesy of ESPN.com Nine straight home games have ended in defeat for the Philadelphia Eagles. Eight straight road games have ended in defeat for the New York Giants. One of those streaks will end when the two teams […]
Matt Read scored his first goal and picked up his first two points of the season in a 2-1 win over the Rangers on Thursday. Photo Courtesy of ESPN.com With their second win under their belts, the Flyers get the second of two injured forwards back. Though it had no bearing in the Flyers 2-1 […]
The Flyers celebrate after Braydon Coburn's game-winning goal in the third period of a 2-1 win over the New York Rangers. Photo Courtesy of ESPN.com Perhaps all the Flyers needed was for a struggling team to come knocking. That team, the 2-5-0 New York Rangers, desimated by injury, were just what the doctor ordered for […]
Wayne Simmonds scored the lone Flyers goal in a 4-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins last Thursday. The Flyers have lost four straight games and have scored just 11 goals in eight games this season. Photo Courtesy of ESPN.com If there is one team that the Flyers may welcome more than any to Wells Fargo […]
Jakub Voracek has yet to score a goal in eight games this season. He scored a career-high 22 goals last season. Photo Courtesy of ESPN.com The Flyers locker room on Monday was full of quotable moments: from Steve Mason’s comments about playing in Philadelphia to Claude Giroux’s bold prediction. If there’s one thing the Flyers […]
Flyers captain Claude Giroux guaranteed the Flyers will make the playoffs on Monday. (Kevin Durso/Flyerdelphia) When you’re the captain of any team, especially in a city like Philadelphia, a start like the one the Flyers are off to demands strong explanation and serious correction. Claude Giroux went pretty far with his. He guaranteed a turnaround […]
Steve Mason has a 2.37 GAA and .923 save percentage in six starts this season. (Kevin Durso/Flyerdelphia) The lone bright spot for the Philadelphia Flyers in a dismal 1-7-0 start has ironically been the one area that has plagued them most in the last decade. It is the goalie. Steve Mason may only have a […]
